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Jonah Goldberg: The magnifying trick of liberal paranoia

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Posted by Mike 2006-10-11 07:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Would the neo-cons who are just tools of Isreal force people to become Christians? Methinks the conscipiracies are a bit tangled at times.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-10-11 10:55|| 2006-10-11 10:55|| Front Page Top

#2 And we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for these meddling writers!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-10-11 11:26|| 2006-10-11 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Good article, really.
What's crack me up is that the very same people who wishes to (and often have successfully done so) limit free expression, want the All-Powerful State to regulate society (for its own good, of course, nanny is here to protect you against yourself), enforce essentially racist laws (in the name of affirmative action, diversity),... are the same who cry "wolf" about freedom in the USA.

And what's even more funny is those pundits, here at the heart of Tranziland, who say that the USa have de facto become fascist... while in fact this is in Europe that freedom of speech and opinion is truly in danger, that the actual european laws concerning terror are much more severe than the US ones, than the oprressing nany-State has gone haywire,...
Weird.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-11 11:44|| 2006-10-11 11:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Leave it to a moonbat never to let facts and history get in the way of his opinion.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-11 12:29|| 2006-10-11 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmmm. Change a few words and it sounds like one of them "Islamic republics"...

Posted by tu3031 2006-10-11 12:37|| 2006-10-11 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 tu - I thought that was where it was going too.

Posted by anon 2006-10-11 13:33|| 2006-10-11 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Yet Orwell's point is still relevant. Intellectuals look at the world through literary prisms of theory. They come up with a vision of the world - one that usually magnifies their importance - and then select facts accordingly. Arendt herself was so convinced a Goldwater presidency would usher in an age of storm troopers, she looked for an apartment in Switzerland after he was nominated.

The waves of paranoia currently sweeping through America could be seen as the democratization of intellectual dementia. Criticisms of President Bush, Christians, the right wing, the Patriot Act, whatever: These are all fine. But presumably, such large claims against America should come with ample evidence to back them up. Instead, we get the opposite. The smaller the example, the greater its significance. And that trick is the intellectual class's gift to America.

Posted by anon 2006-10-11 13:36|| 2006-10-11 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 above is a quote from the article.

Posted by anon 2006-10-11 13:56|| 2006-10-11 13:56|| Front Page Top

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