Ron Rosenbaum Leaves the Left

Conversations with Trentino ^ | 10/11/02 | Trentino

[Davis]

Hooray. Break out the barbecue sauce and slather it on a fatted calf. Ron Rosenbaum declares he has left the Left.

Who? Who the hell is Ron Rosenbaum, and why should I give a damn?

Mr. Rosenbaum is a scribbler. After umpty-eight years on the Left, many of which were spent, he says, "...believing that the evils of Soviet Communism were a figment of J. Edgar Hoover's imagination," he has confessed error on the front page of the weekly New York Observer and it's been republished atop Ann Coulter in Frontpage magazine where it bears the engaging headline, Goodbye to Left Wing Idiocy.

But hold that sauce, send that calf back to pasture. Mr. Rosenbaum's conversion is more than a little confused...more

[hrhdave]

Yes, but has this guy Rosenbaum ever written anything worth reading?

From the looks of it, he would have trouble finding his a$$ with both hands. He doesn't know the first thing about Conservatism and can't be bothered to learn. Let him hang with his Lefty buddies--who are going to shun him for discovering enemies on the Left.

[JohnGalt]

His Explaining Hitler is an intellectual tour de force.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yet he will STILL pull the lever for any DemocRat that runs in his precinct.

[HAL9000]

Yes, but has this guy Rosenbaum ever written anything worth reading?

Secrets of the Little Blue Box - Esquire Magazine - October 1971

[Mr. Thorne]

See, now, if I made the obvious joke, I'd get pulled or shut the thread down.

Probably just get pulled.

= )

[hrhdave]

Thanks for that piece of information, friend. Have you read the book, Explaining Hitler? Can you tell us its thesis in 25 words or less?

I read the Blue Box piece posted. It's far too long for its content. I dread being sentenced to read Rosenbaum's major works.

[weikel]

No these Jewish converts from the far left can be really great like Horowitz wohoo.

[hrhdave]

Yes, I welcome converts from the Left, Jewish and other flavors, too. But when you read his goodbye piece, you see that, Rosenbaum is not a convert at all.

Though Rosenbaum is Jewish by birth, he declares himself a "secular-humanist"--which prolly means he thinks professing and practicing Christians and Jews are stoopid and not worth spit.

Rosenbaum says that Consevatives are allies of racists and we won't cuddle up to homosexuals and lessbeans, so we're no good, unkosher, so to speak.

He's confused and incoherent. He's still clueless amd prides himself on his ignorance of and contempt for Conservatism.. Goodbye to him.

[demkicker]

"Ron Rosenbaum Leaves the Left"

After reading the article, it appears that Rosenbaum has left his mind. He's definitely in LaLa Land.

[hosepipe]

Let him bunk with David Horowitz for a few years as a half way house first. BECAUSE:

"It's not easy to take the democrat out of the party BUT it is damned near impossible to take the democrat out of the democrat. All you end up with is a RINO{Republican in NAME only}"- Himself

[JohnGalt]

It was not a history book, but a journalists study of current themes and studies of Hitler in acadamia. Chapters ranged from David Irving's historical 'point of view' to one gentleman who was attempting place to the moment when Hitler decided on the 'Final Solution'- on a train ride in the Summer of 1941.

Clearly, ideology plays a major role in each historians account and theory (nothing groundbreaking there), however, as a piece of work, being introduced to so many intellectual point of views as it relates to an emotionally charged historical period, made it a fascinating read.

I specialized in World War One and Two studies in college, and yet I had never considered the task of trying to prove the exact moment Hitler decided on the Final Solution.