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2005-12-29 Fifth Column

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Posted by ryuge 2005-12-29 11:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In the end this supercilious fop is going to lose, and the blogosphere is going to win.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-12-29 15:03|| 2005-12-29 15:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey ryuge: If a drunk driver is going to careen down the road and kill someone - does it make me a bad person to hope that he only kills himself?

Just wondering.

Posted by 2b 2005-12-29 16:19|| 2005-12-29 16:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought Anna Benson wa a lusty nut....turns out she's got some redeeming qualities after all. People who, by their deliberate or ignorant actions increase the amount of risk to me and my family, are due a spit of mucous in the face and a bitchslap of reality, not civilitty. Moore is just such a pig, and he does it for profit

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 16:29|| 2005-12-29 16:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Who is this self-important, overly urbane twit? Iâve never heard of him.... and I certainly donât spend a great deal of my valuable time contemplating the proper torturing or snuffing of liberals. Well, not physically anyhow.

Let me get this straight Mr. Effete Yankee Author:

1) âIt bugs the hell out of them that those of us who opposed the war have turned out to be right.â

Are you insane? You havenât been âprovenâ to be right. Far from it. Oh, right, youâre the author of Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror, currently #94,760 on the Amazon sales list. Which doesnât exactly make you Gore Vidal, does it?

2) âBut many of the warbloggers are not civilized people. It is clear that despite their sincere protestations of horror, rage, and pity, the execution of Daniel Pearl aroused them on some primitive, subconscious level.â

You sir are confusing what you WANT your political enemies to be with what they actually ARE, which is pretty disappointing coming from a self-professed intellectual. Of course, so is calling other intellectuals âpatronizing little shits,â but lets not split your thinning hair(s).

3) âThe Islamic terrorists serve as proxies and stand-ins in this imaginary theater of cruelty, enacting what they (the warbloggers) would like to mete out to us (their domestic adversaries).â

We prefer to beat you in elections, actually. So far weâve been rather good at it too. There will (naturally) be setbacks at some point in the future, but itâs likely we will continue to win in the long run. If you dislike us so much, why not outwit us politically rather than boring us with your condescending, impotent prose?

Oh, thatâs right: itâs all you can do.

4) âI dread to think of the imaginary punishments they'll devise for us appeasers, turncoats, and traitors; I'm sure they'll be quite vivid.â

Iâve got one: I cruelly condemn you to read the Constitution (with out closing your eyes and skipping over the first two amendments of the Bill of Rights), The Federalist Papers, and Professors Allen and Schweikartâs A Patriot's History of the United States. Or would that compromise your âserene disposition?â

Posted by Secret Master 2005-12-29 16:46|| 2005-12-29 16:46|| Front Page Top

#5 It's really nice to have the likes of a Jimmy Wolcott drawing attention to himself. All you do is shoot a back azimuth from any position he takes and you can't be too far off morally.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-12-29 16:59|| 2005-12-29 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Daniel Pearl was not executed. He was murdered. Murder most foul. And yes, that did reach a deep chord within me. Did it not touch Mr. Wolcott at all? He allegedly shares an avocation with the late Mr. Pearl. They are authors, writers, reporters. If Mr. Wolcott had decided to report on events first-hand in Pakistan, had arranged for an interview, and then found himself abducted, humiliated and slaughtered like a sheep on video for thousands of jihadiwannabees to cackle over, would he wish his death to be ignored and tut-tutted over with a knowing glance at cocktail parties?

Christopher Hitchens also writes for Vanity Fair. He harbors no great affection for President Bush. But he is honest enough to open his eyes and understand that America's choices are limited right now. We must fight this battle NOW, or try to explain two generations from now that we didn't want to hurt the Islamists' self-esteem.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-29 17:02|| 2005-12-29 17:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Daniel Pearl was not executed.

Exactly right, Sea.

Calling Pearl's slaughter an "execution" in an article on terrorism is what finally convinced me to cancel my decades-long subscription to National Geographic. I miss the photography and archaeology articles, but I won't support that sort of vile "objectivity" any more (not to mention their Chicken Little global warming litany).

Posted by xbalanke 2005-12-29 17:41|| 2005-12-29 17:41|| Front Page Top

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