Posted on 03/10/2023 8:38:45 AM PST by TigerClaws
I agree with your take. IMO she’s showing some real character here, especially in the humility and bravery departments. I say bravo to this lady.
I think she is a conniving little witch.
She is out of favor with her feminist hardliners these days, and is craving to get back in the public eye.
She yearns to be on the talk shows again, and this scheme of false repentance and conversion might really work.
Didn’t I just see her on Tucker recently?
That is a great post!
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Is Ellsberg in the same realm as Snowden? Is Snowden a Traitor or a hero for telling fellow Americans how the government spies on them—Did Ellsberg give away real secrets or expose how the Vietnam war was concocted from the begining?
Better said than I have said. Some on this board will accept the “everyone else was doing it” even up to the point of the cattle car doors slamming shut.
Thank you for saying so, RB.
I know very little about her personally except for some recent opinions on the COVID issue and what feminist junk I read from her over the years which was not very much.
My impression was a feminist woman with some writing skills who was wealthy and contemptuous of conservatives and their values, and lived an insulated life in Manhattan on the cocktail circuit, at all the “right” parties with the “right” people, someone who would appear as a face in the crowd at the Oscars, etc.
In short, not someone whose opinions meant anything at all to me. I had read a piece here, an article there, over the years, but I stopped doing even that some time ago.
I find that is the way with a lot of Leftists. I mean, I have gotten to the point over the years that I can read an article and discern in the first sentence, if not first few words of a sentence just exactly what a Leftist is going to say. And I have been spot on 90%+ of the time.
I have often said that the transparency of Leftists is something I actually am quite grateful for, as their predictability has saved me literally weeks or even months of my life by being able to grasp their shallow stupidity seconds into their works, rather than burrowing 10 minutes into it to realize it is another vapid intellectual dead end.
I have read a lot of their “work”, so this is something I thank them for, oddly enough.
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Heh — I know just what you mean about the transparency. They are as predictable as clockwork. Of course they would say the same thing about conservatives but they’re wrong. There’s a profound asymmetry in our politics because of the way our media and culture are structured. Whereas conservatives have near total insight into what makes liberals tick, liberals are clueless about conservatives and truly don’t know what they don’t know. You said it well earlier that conservatives are forced by the environment into a deeper level of examination.
As for Naomi Wolf, I’ve never followed her or read her beyond a piece here or there, but I know she’s a pretty big name and I know that she’s representative of a lot of people on the left. So if she’s having these thoughts, then a bunch more of them are probably having them too. Plus just a high profile change of heart like hers is going to stun some folks and get their attention. I see it has very significant and a good sign.
The "moral equivalencists" among both the Left and right would say we are mirror images of each other. (I know you aren't saying that, but that those people I refer to say that.
We aren't.
The more I write, the more I realize I could go on and on, but you get the point. It isn't because this is what I think they support. It is what I know they support from their actions, elections, and deeds.
I am a huge fan of Bill Whittle, but for some reason, I just don't think he gets the appreciation he deserves on our side. I became a member of his website, and they sent me a CD "What We Believe". It outlines...well, what we as Conservatives believe, if we really are conservatives.
I was so impressed by it, I set aside money to buy twenty copies at $25 each to give to people as presents. I very nearly pulled the trigger on it, but found out that he has posted them online where they can be watched for free.
If you haven't seen these, you may find them as uplifting and positive as I did. They aren't long, about 10-15 minutes each, but in watching them, I felt they conveyed nearly perfectly how I view myself as a Conservative. I highly recommend these:
Bill Whittle's Seven Part Series: What We Believe
Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise
There is no way for anyone thoughtful, even if he or she is a lifelong Democrat, not to notice that Sen Chuck Schumer did not say to the world that the footage that Mr Carlson aired was not real. Rather, he warned that it was “shameful” for Fox to allow us to see it. The Guardian characterized Mr Carlson’s and Fox News’ sin, weirdly, as “Over-Use” of Jan 6 footage. Isn’t the press supposed to want full transparency for all public interest events?
Actually, there is no "job of 'journalists'" in the Constitution.
The "free press" is the right of the people to a free press, that is, the right to publish. The "press" literally meant the machine, the printing press. The people had the right to publish freely to expand the reach of their speech beyond the town square soapbox.
The term "the press" to refer to newspapers and periodicals didn't begin until the 1820s, and referring to journalists didn't begin until the 1920s.
-PJ
It’s part of our right to know so we can monitor the govt
-PJ
*Bump* and thanks for the recommendation~
You got that right! Feds will ignore defendants’ rights and the laws supposedly controlling their actions, but their precious secrets are sacrosanct.
You bet!
I’m very delighted to see that at the end she apologized for believing the things she did about Trump.
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