Posted on 07/20/2007 9:57:53 AM PDT by Contentions
A few months ago, before Nicholas Kristof’s appearance in the Tufts University Hillel’s “Moral Voices” lecture series, a Tufts student asked him to define his own “guiding moral doctrine.” The New York Times columnist was able to articulate only this in response: “I don’t think I have any sort of, you know, particularly unusual or even sophisticated moral doctrine.” Kristof proves this, abundantly, in his column today: “Cheney’s Long-Lost Twin.”
Kristof ponders: “Could Dick Cheney and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be twins separated at birth?” The suggestion that Cheney and Ahmadinejad are “jingoistic twins” is fatuous, absurd on its face, whatever you may think of the Vice President. But the real damage that rhetoric of this kind does is to obscure the evil that Ahmadinejad represents. Suppose that the very worst accusations—cronyism, power-grabbing, even the subversion of the Constitution—leveled against Cheney by his fieriest critics were true. It’s hard to see how they would rank alongside the actions of which Ahmadinejad makes no secret: plans for genocide, a millenarian nuclearization program, proud sponsorship of Hizballah, interference in Iraq, scoffing at the IAEA. (David Billet exposes more of Kristof’s fatuities here.)
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Somebody must be poisoning the global tofu supply.
They’re writing for themselves. No one reads or buys that rag anymore. They just had to increase the price to make up for their losses. Where will the Kristoffs, Riches, Krugmans and Dowds of the world go when it’s all over? Do they think Pinch is going to support them?
America's realtors are fixing to stick it to the NYT and other fishwrap to the tune of 2 billion dollars a year.
How about the ethics and politics of German idealism
irrationalism
altruism
collectivism
statism
socialism
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