Oh, well, that's too bad.
For some perspective, this is the woman who said, of the 9/11 hijackers "...In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards." In effect, suggesting we got what we deserved.
Her career is chock full of same similar bullspit commentary praising despots, and tyrants ...
Oh gee whiz, that's too bad...
While I certainly don't celebrate her passing... I won't lie and claim to mourn it, either.
I try not to speak ill of the dead, so I won't.
Why not? Where does this come from?
I have the same instinct as well. I'm just wondering where it comes from and is it really necessary with public figures being discussed publicly.
I don't mean nasty personal things such as "it's great they died" etc...
When Stalin died, for example, were people to not say anything bad?
So that's where Bill Maher came up with it.
Susan Sontag was the keynote speaker at my son's graduation from Vassar College in 2002. I had never been so disgusted by a speech in my life. Fortunately there were many parents who stood and booed her rant and the college president had to interrupt and settle folks down. I hate to say it, but I won't miss her.
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Does she get 72 virgins for her infamous 9/11 quotes?
"I've always thought one should speak good of the dead.... Joan Crawford's dead: Good...."
Who?
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.
Are you thinking of Susan Sarandon?
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.
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.
Maybe she'll go to that great communist utopia, otherwise known as HELL.
Isn't she the one who said white people were the cancer of the human race, or something like that?