Posted on 01/22/2006 7:43:17 AM PST by paulat
The Author Who Got A Big Boost From bin Laden Historian 'Glad' of Mention As Sales of Book Skyrocket
By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 21, 2006; Page C01
Twenty-four hours after Osama bin Laden told the world that the American people should read the work of a little-known Washington historian, William Blum was still adjusting.
Blum, who at 72 is accustomed to laboring in relative left-wing obscurity, checked his emotions and pronounced himself shocked and, well, pleased.
"This is almost as good as being an Oprah book," he said yesterday between telephone calls from the world media and bites of a bagel. "I'm glad." Overnight, his 2000 work, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," had become an Osama book.
In gray slacks, plaid shirt and black slippers, Blum padded around his one-bedroom apartment on Connecticut Avenue. A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '50s hung on his kitchen wall. Bookshelves bowed under the weight of secret histories of the CIA. The cord on his prehistoric phone let him roam across the living room. He'd already done CNN and MSNBC. A guy from the New York Post knocked on the door to take pictures. The BBC rang, then Reuters and Pacifica Radio stations on both coasts.
From Blum's end of the conversations, you could tell the reporters were expecting him to express some kind of discomfort, remorse, maybe even shame. Blum refused to acknowledge feelings he did not have.
"I was not turned off by such an endorsement," he informed a New York radio station. "I'm not repulsed, and I'm not going to pretend I am." He patiently reiterated the thesis of his foreign-policy critique -- that American interventions abroad create enemies.
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"If he would contact me," said Blum, "then I would be scared.""
Of course you would, you stupid weasel!!! And you'd want George Bush to protect your sorry a$$....
Exactly!
Remember, Bush caused the problem in the first place. /sarc
If only Marshall McClulan were alive to see this.
This flake wrote his America-hating book before Bush was even in office. He is truly a Moonbat's Moonbat!
Also, we're hardly the sole target of terrorists. What does he think Israelis and Europeans should do?
Another thing which is interesting is how closely Islamists follow Western writings which support their positions; Holocaust deniers and people like Blum.
I never thought I'd see the day that I'd support Chirac...but he's right...nuke 'em.
In the meantime, he lives on toney Connecticut Avenue in comfortable Washington, DC.
(At least injuring the beast)
Remember that we can't challenge the patriotism of these people. It is time that someone from any side of the political spectrum starts to take on these moonbats to task openly and publicly.
Yes, among all the other lefty moonbats. I suggest that he be required to go live out his days in mooslimland.
The hypocracy of Mr. Blum living comfortably in the capital of the very country that he characterizes as a "beast", and which he feels is responsible for terrorising the world is, well, simply monumental (pun intended). Have you ever driven along Connecticut Avenue? It just does not fit with the "poor scholar" and/or moralist image he's portraying.
The list of Amazon purchasers will come in handy during CW2.
R O T F L M A O !
Indeed!
Love it.
72 years old, huh? Proving once again that age brings wisdom only to the illiterate, while merely exposing the stupidity of the stupid.
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