The Left’s Extras: For a myopic media, everything’s about Bush. [Mark Steyn]

National Review Online ^ | August 29, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

[Tax-chick]

bttt

[NeoCaveman]

and spent a couple of days sipping mint tea with former big shots from the regime of retired strongman Major Wanke. (I’ve suggested “Wankegate” as a name for the “scandal” to the New York Times, but they’re oddly unenthusiastic.)

You'd think the strongman would have atleast promoted himself to General. General Wanke.

[Constitution Day]

Steyn ping, please?

[Lurker]

Man on man. How can one guy be this good.

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[Constitution Day]

LOL!

Love the tagline, BTW.

[untenured]

Great events are taking place around the globe, and the Left has no interest in them except as twists in a dreary soap opera of neocon Beltway bogeymen most Americans have never even heard of.

IIRC he has written on this theme before - multiculturalism as a mask for utter leftist ignorance about the world. These folks can tell you where the newest Malaysian restaurant is and what's good on the menu, but they have no idea what the country's capital is or what its primary exports are. Multiculturalism is a sort of Potemkin cosmopolitanism, a way of showing that you care without having to bother to know.

Immigration, Then and Now.

[Grampa Dave]

Wilson is up to his stained BVDs in the all out effort to electronically coup GW.

Just look at the A$$hole Wilson in the Kangaroo Impeachment Court hosted by the communist/America Hater Conyers.

Picture of Joseph Wilson with Cindy Sheenan at Conyer's Kanagroo Court.

[federal]

I take great umbrage at the lie that I’ve lied about Joe Wilson’s lies about what he found in Niger when he lied about the administration’s lying about what he found before he started lying about it — or I would take great umbrage, if I could keep a straight face.

Is he talking about Joe Wilson or Cindy Sheehan?

LOL ! If that sentence doesn't sum up the lunacy of the democrats and their comrades in the media, nothing does......

[hombre_sincero]

1-866-DHS-2ICE to report illegal aliens?

Is that real? ICE stopped their last project where a business could call in and have a SS# verified - they were too scared of the ACLU!

It worked so good, they had to stop it.

[Lurker]

That number is still good.

Use it often.

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[NeoCaveman]

LOL!

Gadaffi has the same problem, he runs an entire country and is only a Colonel. You'd think he'd promote himself by now

Love the tagline, BTW.

Thanks. I cracked up when I heard Lileks say it on Hugh's show.

[atomicpossum]

If Steyn was a good-lookin' woman, I'd marry him.

[hombre_sincero]

It's a shame the MATRIX Project was scrubbed.

[headsonpikes]

In this case, whatever happens around the world, These Geopolitical Things Remind Me of Bush. Great events are taking place around the globe, and the Left has no interest in them except as twists in a dreary soap opera of neocon Beltway bogeymen most Americans have never even heard of. The hapless citizenry of Niger — or Iraq or Afghanistan — fulfills the same function as the natives in a British Empire yarn or the Injuns in an old western: They’re mere extras filling out the background in a story about competing factions of A-list white guys.

Absolutely spot on!

The Left, with the merest handful of exceptions, are parochial narcissists, pure and simple. Perched on their little manure piles of self-regard, they demand that all the world be props in their personal movie.

For the trenchantly witty Steyn, this shooting fish in a barrel must get a mite tedious, after a while.

[George Smiley]

Your para starting with IIRC is very, very well put.

[sinanju]

"Multiculturalism is a sort of Potemkin cosmopolitanism, a way of showing that you care without having to bother to know."
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Ament to that. I have heard this stated quite a few times recently. The PC multiculturalists are always the most shockingly ignorant about the little brown people they hold so dear. The big problem about actually learning about those charming third-world cultures is the more you learn about them, the less charming they become.

[Constitution Day]

Gadaffi has the same problem, he runs an entire country and is only a Colonel.
You'd think he'd promote himself by now.

The ever-fashionable Colonel is too busy figuring out how to spell his name.
Is it:

Gadhafi?
Khadafi?
Qadafi?
Kaddafi?

The world may never know.

[freema]

good points that translate quite well for me in the Sheehan debacle. I notice in the photo that she covers her name (self) with her departed son, as if she has become him.

Forgive me for going off (topic : )
It's all your fault. (Just kidding!)

She does not speak for Casey.
Casey speaks for himself.

[tnlibertarian]

Man on man. How can one guy be this good.

Um, is there something you need to tell us? :)