Mark Steyn: On Sept. 11, the world became unspun

National Post Online ^ | 12th October 2001 | Mark Steyn

[Sophie]

Refreshing! Totally refreshing, isn't it?

[d14truth]

"It won't wash now: it's not about campaigning now, but about governing, in the most basic sense -- about protecting our people, securing our borders, eliminating our enemies. It's primal now. Hillary Clinton and friends have tried to argue that September 11th makes the case for "big government." Almost right: it makes the case for grown-up government."

[Guillam]

Another pearl on the Steyn string.

[537 Votes]

Hillary Clinton and friends have tried to argue that September 11th makes the case for "big government." Almost right: it makes the case for grown-up government.

I like that line. Democrats are about adult movies. Republicans are about adult government.

[Guillam]

I worry about things. I worry about why The Left does not have any writers the quality of Steyn and Will, and Noonan and Krauthammer. Not what they write but how they write. Writers of obvious intelligence who write with great style. Well OK, Hitchens is good, but who else?

Why is that?

[fporretto]

Mark Steyn is the man. How I wish we had more like him!

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Francis W. Porretto
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[litany_of_lies]

"I worry about why The Left does not have any writers the quality of Steyn and Will, and Noonan and Krauthammer."

That's easy. Liberals are more likely to have gone to public schools, to have learned using whole language, to have been told any drivel they wrote was "just fine," to never have learned basic logic, to have been socially promoted.......

Conservatives are more likely to have gone to private schools (at least grade and/or high schools), learned phonics, were corrected when wrong, learned and practiced logic, weren't promoted until they mastered the current year's material......

You catch my drift. I'll bet Hitchens went to a quite demanding set of schools.

[The Right Stuff]

Why is that?***

Because all the truly intelligent writers eventually see through liberal leftist lies, spin and deception - and they become conservatives ala John Podheretz, and the guy who wrote the book, "How I became a member of the VRWC"!

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[Askel5]

I worry about why The Left does not have any writers the quality of Steyn and Will, and Noonan and Krauthammer. Not what they write but how they write

The left's best writers stick to FICTION and -- if they must call themselves "journalists" -- clean up in the "Features" section of the newspapers.

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[Servant of the Nine]

Steyn is right.
People like Paul Begalla, and Chris Lehane and James Carville are unfit to be in government, and so are any politicians that employ them

So9

[okie01]

"Well OK, Hitchens is good, but who else?"

Hitchens, plus Nat Hentoff and Michael Kelly. All are on the left, but they are not of the left.

The distinction that you are searching for is "respect for the truth". The good writers, whether from the right or the left, possess it. Intelligence and style begin with a respect for the truth. It allows them to discern right from wrong and limn the truth about each.

The leftist writers you rightly dismiss aren't writers at all; being propagandists and no longer able to even discern the truth, much less respect it.

[Amelia]

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