[Cicero]

And the strange thing is that, although the left certainly loved Stalin, and wanted to live in the perfect Communist state of the future, they obviously don't love Islamic fundamentalists and wouldn't want to live under Islamic law. The only possible explanation for their blind irrationality in this instance is that they hate Jews and Americans so much that they prefer to back a bunch of crazy religious fanatics and woman haters--the kind of people they would normally deplore.

[KSCITYBOY]

Hell the left supports bin laden's ideals.

[Bush2000]

Shaw illustrated not only the worst aspects of Soviet propaganda but also the Left's inability to come to terms with the fact that Communism has been a failure everywhere that it has been tried.

[yooper]

Here's a blast from the past which appeared in the National Lampoon in the early 80's (and I'm going on memory here):

THE CHURCHILL WIT

Winston Churchill once received a pair of passes to the latest popular play then being performed in London. To the passes was attached a note which read, "Bring a friend, if you have one."

The note was signed George Bernard Shaw.

Churchill responded with his own note:

"Why don't you go F*#& yourself."

[Clinton's a rapist]

At least Shaw and the Western sympathisers for Stalin believed in something: for all their folly, they had a kind of intellectual grandeur about them, a coherent philosophy to defend.

Shaw, however deluded, was genuinely brilliant: his plays still sparkle, challenge and delight. Who could say the same for today's dour crop of leftist non-entities? This is the trajectory by which movements rise, wither and vanish into well-deserved oblivion.