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2006-07-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2006-07-12 06:52|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Funny, but what flag is never stated. I get the feeling Joel would've been comfortable if it had been a simple white flag with no markings on his lawn.

Posted by Gravirong Angarong2242 2006-07-12 07:34|| 2006-07-12 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Shining through was his attitude that being an American is his self centered right and he can distain it all he wants. It was clear he does not understand the responsibility associated this nation and democracy.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-07-12 07:49|| 2006-07-12 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Nah, he'd never think about the responsibility part. That implies he'd have to, you know, do something, and that would just totally cut into his time listening to NPR. Can't have that.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-12 08:35|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-07-12 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Plus it's so TACKY.

Posted by lotp 2006-07-12 08:36|| 2006-07-12 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I think Hugh Hewitt did interview Stein last year. A righteous flaying, as I recall. Gerard Van der Leun did a number on him not long ago with a title something like "The Cry Of The Neuter".

And now James Lileks ... oh, the humanity!

Posted by mrp 2006-07-12 08:58|| 2006-07-12 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Hewitt had him on after Stein wrote a column declaring that he doesn't support the troops.

Transcript here.

Rantburg writeups here and here.

More here.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-12 09:53|| 2006-07-12 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Still more on the "patented Hugh Hewitt death-by-literal-interpretation radio interrogation" here.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-12 10:01|| 2006-07-12 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 What a tool.

Posted by Glomosh Jinesing1688 2006-07-12 10:22|| 2006-07-12 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Put up a Rainbow Flag, Joel. Then you and your wife can head inside and flush all the thorazine, you flitty bitch.

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-12 10:25|| 2006-07-12 10:25|| Front Page Top

#10 what we used to call a bunch of old "sourpusses". Bet the neighborhood kids love putting cherry bombs in their mailbox. Of course, times have changed. Now the muslims put c4 and antrhax in them. Much as things change, they stay the same.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-12 10:40|| 2006-07-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#11 That's the next horror film for Snakes on a Plane director David Ellis: Eek! There's a Flag on my Lawn!*

* Rated R for scenes of naked Patriotism and implied Jingoism. Eek!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-12 11:03|| 2006-07-12 11:03|| Front Page Top

#12 One thing you gotta say about ol' Joel. He doesn't even try to qualify his elitism and tranziism. In a strange sort of way, it's refreshing after reading and hearing the holier-than-thou "how dare you question my patriotism" whine of the NY Times set.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-07-12 12:54|| 2006-07-12 12:54|| Front Page Top

#13 I got to spend my 4th with my wifes family in Omaha, Nebraska. My sister-in-laws husband always bragged about how conservative Omaha was and I got a taste as I drove to their house. A Real Estate company had bought and placed a small American Flag in front of every house. They had done that days before my arrival and I could not see one that was removed.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-07-12 13:49|| 2006-07-12 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 'tis a shining example of the Art of the Fisking

James Lileks is the Grand Master of Fisking

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-07-12 15:48|| 2006-07-12 15:48|| Front Page Top

#15 If I knew where he lived, I would have put a white flag w/a yellow stripe down the middle on his lawn.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-07-12 17:55|| 2006-07-12 17:55|| Front Page Top

#16 He'd fly that one proudly.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-12 20:16|| 2006-07-12 20:16|| Front Page Top

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