Lib's Lost-Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

Conversations With Trentino ^ | Sept. 3, 2002 | Trentino

[Davis]

John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..."

Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." More

[DUMBGRUNT]

"Thus he asserts that the Right has the good funny people, such as "Lee Atwater [who has been dead for eleven years] "grooving the blues," Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter. And the funny writers, too"... the likes of P.J. O'Rourke (who reminds us that reactionaries make better humorists than liberals)." Reactionaries, you hear that? How quaint!"