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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

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[Freee-dame]

We are still a great people.......at least outside the D.C. Swamp.

[trebb]

A LOT of the rescuers are the sorts that the LSM/Left likes to call "hicks", "rednecks", "morons", "bible thumpers" and the Truth is that they are salt-of-the-Earth folks who outshine the average liberal by many many watts.

Liberals moan and ask others to help them and to "empathize" with them while real folks roll up their sleeves and git 'er dun....

[Tax-chick]

Excellent article. I disagree with his point about literature. The idea of the Great American Novel was an aspect of the power of New York critics. New York critics don’t have the power they once did - not with cheap publishing and distribution and electronic communications allowing anyone to publish a review.

More books published means more garbage, of course, but it also means that one can read many good novels every year and many good nonfiction books.

His complaint about movies also runs up against technological change. Yes, comic-book and action spectacles lack depth, but television allows for the kind of development that is very difficult to accomplish in the two hours of a feature film. The proliferation of distribution channels and the disappearance of gatekeepers/bottlenecks means a lot of good “film” (I date myself ...) finds an audience, as does a lot of garbage.

[kabar]

Brilliant piece. Thanks for posting it.

[Jacquerie]

Leftists are responsible for every deviancy in our culture. In the name of social justice they destroyed the foundation of all republics, the civil society.

[Altura Ct.]

We are still a great people.

Depends on who you mean by 'we'.

[binreadin]

So what do you think the Europeans, the Russians and the Chinese think when they look at our cadres of men who are not only willing, but able to mobilize to save their fellow compatriots? These citizen armies aren't waiting for permission and they aren't waiting for the government. I'm willing to bet a lot of them are armed as well. This mixture of compassion and ability on the part of our “ordinary” people is a very powerful image.

[Biggirl]

What has been going on in regards to the rescuing of both people and animals in the Houston area “ silences “ once and for all the nonsense of the protesters.

[arthurus]

But it doesn't need to it.

Do what???

[semaj]

An excellent and extraordinary article. Mr Greenfield’s writing unearth’s the truth of things. Thanks for posting.

[golux]

Thank you.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for the excellent article.

[justa-hairyape]

Another home run by the Sultan. Divide and conquer is the principal governing post modernism. It will eventually lead to another world war.

[Billthedrill]

I must disagree. A great people is not one that celebrates such things, it is one that does such things. It is interesting that this one does those things in the presence not of celebration, but derision, but that is a cultural problem of a very different order. What we are reminded of in scenes such as those in Houston is that when the media are forced by the very magnitude of those events to make the heroism public we see it despite the mockery, the condescension. The deeds endure, the derision does not.

This is both dangerous and redemptive from a cultural perspective. Ours has fallen into a deep well of celebrity worship, and that is the coin with which the media have become corrupted and the one in which they pay the cooperative. The heroes aren't after it. They can't and won't be reached. They don't care about it. And that is half of the media's power.

The other half is their ability to hold individuals up to public scorn, which is all they really have left in this situation, and that is a very dangerous tool to use because it so easily rebounds on the user. One can sneer at a redneck in a flat-bottomed boat for not knowing the proper fork to use at a DC self-love dinner, but not after he's saved twenty lives. And to attempt to shape the focus of those events into a political weapon to wield against someone a world away is only effective if the suckers are buying it, and we're not.

[Chgogal]

Excellent Post. Thanks.