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Susan Sontag, author and activist, dies at 71
AP ^ | 12/28/4

Posted on 12/28/2004 10:01:32 AM PST by SmithL

NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.

Sontag died Tuesday morning, officials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. She had been treated for breast cancer in the 1970s.

Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete," an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness."

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To: SmithL
She describes the President as "that scary man from Texas" who has destroyed decades of multilateralism. She accuses the right wing of taking advantage of September 11th "to change the rules." Here is the final paragraph of the article:
The election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the governor of California is not only a "bad joke" but also "another step towards the end of politics," judges Sontag. Schwarzenegger, like Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, is a man who was elected because of his wealth and success. The two are also so dumb that people make jokes about them.
Susan Sontag, of course, is no dummy. Obviously, however, she finds the Italian and the Californian commoner to be quite stupid. It is interesting that the leftist intellectuals -- who pretend to be the protectors of the weak and disadvantaged -- are the people who are most likely to publically suggest that their intelligence is far above the common man's.

--- Dawson's Danube

She is was an idiot.

21 posted on 12/28/2004 10:16:36 AM PST by samtheman
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To: denydenydeny
Somehow I think there will be some Bull Durham quotes on this thread.

Are you thinking of Susan Sarandon?

22 posted on 12/28/2004 10:16:51 AM PST by SmithL (People who are willing to accept everything, don't believe in anything.)
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To: dfwgator
What exactly did she do anyway?

Author, activist, cancer survivor. I was subjected to many of her works while I was in college. Watch me dab those tears away. My invisible tears. With my make believe hanky. APf

23 posted on 12/28/2004 10:17:07 AM PST by APFel (Humanity has a poor track record of predicting its own future.)
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To: SmithL

I saw the word "activist"... that's all I need to know.


24 posted on 12/28/2004 10:17:07 AM PST by RushCrush ("Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." Reagan)
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To: SmithL

Sontag's record is atrocious.
Not only did she travel to Nicaragua to butter up the Sandinistas, she has praised Cuba and Fidel Castro as superior to the USA.
She also traveled to Vietnam- to dubious motivation.
In a moment of frightening candor, she offered the following gem: "Vietnam offered the key to a systematic criticism to America."
No doubt the New York Times will pen a nauseating obituary for this traitor.


25 posted on 12/28/2004 10:17:41 AM PST by srm913
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To: samtheman

I see. Did she ever write anything commenting on the election of porn stars (plural) in Italy?


26 posted on 12/28/2004 10:18:04 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: SmithL

As we say in the Corps to P.O.S.

"A.M.F."

Adios
M*****
F*****

No loss here. Well, actually, the worms and other lower life forms will make out at the banquet.


27 posted on 12/28/2004 10:18:18 AM PST by HMFIC (US Marines, you yell, we shell.)
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To: APFel

I only got hit with one of those class assignments and the copy of the book that I bought NEW at the school bookstore was a ripoff. Several chapters were duplicated while some others were missing.

It was a printer's binding error.

It was the only assigned work I did not read for the class (and the professor was aware that many students did not get a decent copy of the book).


28 posted on 12/28/2004 10:20:59 AM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: tallhappy

Every time someone dies, we have the same discussions on FR, usually starts out with someone saying something nasty about the dead, then someone chastising them, then someone defending them. And on and on. It's par for the course around here.


29 posted on 12/28/2004 10:21:44 AM PST by RushCrush ("Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." Reagan)
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To: SmithL

Maybe she'll go to that great communist utopia, otherwise known as HELL.


31 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:29 AM PST by pissant
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To: SmithL

Isn't she the one who said white people were the cancer of the human race, or something like that?


32 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:30 AM PST by wizardoz (Some days I hate Euro-twits more than others. Today is SOME DAY!)
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To: SmithL

I just read some of the Bill Moyers interview you posted a link to. She was absolutely hideous. I'm sure Bill Moyers was enthralled with her.


33 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:35 AM PST by samtheman
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To: HMFIC

My thoughts exactly. She will not be missed on my account.
Semper Fi.


34 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:40 AM PST by srm913
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To: churchillbuff

Yup...that is so true. I never knew much about her although I think somewhere in the back of my mind I knew her as some leftist till the day I saw her on an interview on C-SPAN. I was expecting some kind of wacko leftism and instead she talked about the evils of Saddam Hussein and that of communism. That let me know that she may be a type of leftist. But at least she was a reasonable sane one.


35 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:49 AM PST by David1
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To: denydenydeny
Somehow I think there will be some Bull Durham quotes on this thread.

Of course there will. Because the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap.

36 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:53 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: mgc1122

Heh! And my brother gets mad when I called her, "Snotrag."


37 posted on 12/28/2004 10:22:58 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: churchillbuff

Some of the intellectual elites in the west ride high on the freedoms bought for them by the blood of many, all the while despising their naivete and their backwardness. Sontag was one of them. She was a hippie who never grew up, unlike Oriana Fallaci.


38 posted on 12/28/2004 10:23:16 AM PST by risk
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To: Lancey Howard

So...is it Maher or Sontag who will ultimately be remembered for that quote? I remember when Maher said it. Didn't know about Sontag.


39 posted on 12/28/2004 10:24:11 AM PST by NautiNurse
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To: samtheman

Bill Moyers makes Sontag appear to be an intellectual giant. But then again my 12 year old newspaper carrier is a MENSA compared to Moyers.


40 posted on 12/28/2004 10:25:32 AM PST by pissant
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