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2004-07-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Whiny liberal egghead on why they hate us!

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Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-07-29 3:36:50 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In the immediate aftermath of September 11, an outpouring of genuine, if temporary, solidarity from countries and peoples across the globe swathed America in an aura of magnificent victimhood.

Magnificent victimhood? No fuckin' thanks, lady. You want to wallow in it, feel free. Count me out, looney tune.

Posted by tu3031 2004-07-29 8:30:31 PM|| 2004-07-29 8:30:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Truly a classic rant, Fred.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-07-29 8:30:45 PM|| 2004-07-29 8:30:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "In the years since I stood on my rooftop in Brooklyn watching the World Trade Center towers burn so apocalyptically, I have spent at least a part of every day wrestling with a host of existential questions. "

How about this one, existentialist: how can the overwhelming solidarity the rest of the world felt for us on September 11th have been so easily dissolved?

I got your answer for you: it wasn't genuine solidarity in the first place. It was a show you put on for each other to convince each other how advanced, how sympathetic, how humane you were, concerned with the tragedy of others, while in your hearts, as the author has exposed, you secretly had the "craving to see America... humbled". I would go further-you wanted to see it suffer.

Don't imagine we don't see through you.

Posted by jules 2 2004-07-29 8:43:49 PM|| 2004-07-29 8:43:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Never forget. Reject appeasement. Get mad. Get seriously pissed off. Stay that way until everyone who wants us dead is dead.

Posted by .com 2004-07-29 8:50:59 PM|| 2004-07-29 8:50:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 No question in my mind, the writer is correct about one thing, the 21st century will be about bringing America down.

Posted by virginian 2004-07-29 8:53:05 PM|| 2004-07-29 8:53:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, truly one our your best rants ever.

To these loons, for a few glorious days in 2001 our nation reached the exalted status of 'victim.' The left was on board and the Euros loved us.

Then we started kicking and just plain ruined it.

Posted by JAB 2004-07-29 11:06:38 PM|| 2004-07-29 11:06:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Whomever did the FINE fisking, thank you! I just can't seem to get Safari (OS X) to allow me to format text.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-07-29 11:38:47 PM|| 2004-07-29 11:38:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Fine, fine fisking, Fred. A work of art.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-07-29 11:46:09 PM|| 2004-07-29 11:46:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 She wants sympathy? She can find it in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphillis."

As for Nelson, maybe he should think about his wife's "necklaces." Those were atrocities.

Posted by growler 2004-07-30 12:19:32 PM|| 2004-07-30 12:19:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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