Michelle Malkin: HOW TO WRITE A SUSAN SONTAG OBITUARY

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HOW TO WRITE A SUSAN SONTAG OBITUARY

 

By Michelle Malkin   ·   December 29, 2004 11:25 AM

Washington Times editor Stacy McCain sends along his newspaper's Susan Sontag obit, which begins:

Novelist, radical Susan Sontag, 71, dies in New York

From combined dispatches

Susan Sontag, a critic, novelist and essayist who blamed America for the September 11 terror attacks and once declared that "the white race is the cancer of human history," died in New York yesterday at age 71.

 

Read the rest here. And then compare it with the rest of the mainstream media's deifications:

A Rigorous Intellectual Dressed in Glamour

Feminist fighter, dies aged 71

The Intellectual Risk-Taker Died in NY

Indomitable critic silenced by cancer

Liberal bias? What liberal bias?

Update: Dave Huber points to another slavering obit from the Philly Inquirer titled "A celebrity intellectual who provoked, inspired"

And Josh Trevino has an excellent, uh, tribute at Red State.

[KimmyJaye]

Last I had read, she and Annie Leibovitz were a couple and were raising an adoopted child together.

[Thebaddog]

My mistake. And now it's a guess as to who was Frank.

[Frank_2001]

For an "intellectual", that's a trifecta!;)

[RockyTop4GOP]

Since he was from the NYT, I wonder if he feels the same way about Susan.

Actually, Reggie White was from Chattanooga and played for U. of Tennessee.

[Madstrider]

With Susan Sontag, no one is mentioned. I guess she was a lesbian.

BINGO!

However, if you follow the link to The Washington Times, you will find it includes this:

At age 17, she married social psychologist Philip Rieff, then 28, just 10 days after meeting him at the University of Chicago. The couple had a son, David, born in 1952, but divorced in the 1960s. In later years, she described her lesbian relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz as "an open secret."

[cyborg]

Yeah really talk about self fulfilling prophecies.

[cyborg]

I know what happens when I eat spicy beans. Same thing that happens when I eat boerewors too *LOL*

[cyborg]

LOL

[thathamiltonwoman]

Does anyone remember the amazing obituary William Buckley wrote when Bella Abzug died? It was something like: She was a horrible person and will not be missed. Maybe someone from National Review will do a similar one for Sontag.

[rcocean]

I love the Tom Wolfe quote:

..Mrs. Sontag is "just another scribbler who spent her life signing up for protest meetings and lumbering to the podium encumbered by her prose style, which had a handicapped parking sticker valid at Partisan Review."

I never thought Sontag was handicapped, I always assumed she was a German who learned english as a second language.

[rcocean]

On our side:

[LibertarianInExile]

Nah, she died of leukemia, which is a blood cancer.

If the white race had got her in the end, she'd have died of colon cancer. :)

[rcocean]

Used to be on their side:

[TET1968]

Gee Susan was a real looker huh? Did she play the king who hated his # 2 son in Lord of the Rings, Return of the King?

[durasell]

She was a babe when she was young. She also wrote a semi-decent book on "camp." But that was four decades ago.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I'll tell you what, just looking at their nasty faces and their puny, fabricated rage makes me want to go to war with them. Let's get it over with.

[rcocean]

Susan in her younger days:

Guess if you pulled the camera back and shot her head on she wasn't too bad.

[durasell]

Not a bad shot of her. In most pictures she affects the deadly seriousness of a bi-polar academic. Like I said, she wrote a decent book on one aspect of pop culture -- camp in the early 60s -- and then kind of went off the deep end.

[cyborg]

I'm trying not to laugh but you're making it hard on me.