A Report on Mark Steyn's tour of New Zealand and Australia.
1 posted on
08/21/2006 8:19:36 PM PDT by
WarrenC
To: Pokey78
2 posted on
08/21/2006 8:24:52 PM PDT by
WarrenC
To: WarrenC
Great post! I adore Mark Steyn. I had no idea he was originally a music critic. Makes me adore him even more, for his love of music and musical comedies.
This was a great line: "we've devalued language to the point where 'courage' means saying something rude about George W Bush rather than having the real courage to identify the real threat to the world we live in"."
3 posted on
08/21/2006 8:36:35 PM PDT by
Theresawithanh
(Every time I hear the word "exercise", I wash my mouth out with chocolate.)
To: WarrenC
I am absolutely sure that Mark Steyn has a great following in New Zealand - personally, I am his devoted fan.
The text in the NBR is somewhat light and a little bit messy, they're emphasizing mainly his puns and jokes, but he's actually one of the deepest analysts of the international affairs I've ever read.
4 posted on
08/21/2006 8:58:18 PM PDT by
Neophyte
(Nazis, Communists, Islamists... what the heck is the difference?)
To: WarrenC
Mr Steyn also threw up more than 150 references to his ideologically opposite number, the Independent''s Middle East correspondent, Robert Fisk. Fisk is not an ideological opposite of Fisk. That implies that Steyn is as far "right" as Fisk is left. Fisk is psychologically imbalanced, a lunatic, off the charts anti-American. Steyn is mainstream in American political life, part of what we would call normal. His opposite number might be someone like Jon Stewart, if Jon Stewart could write well. Fisk is opposite Himmler, so far opposite that the meet on the backside.
5 posted on
08/21/2006 8:59:45 PM PDT by
Defiant
(Let the Muzzies travel on their own airlines so they don't endanger the rest of us.)
To: WarrenC
"Jokes aside, it's a task to which he brings the same ruthless intelligence that Karl Marx brought to critiquing capitalism; but there any similarity probably ends, for this occasional Baptist laypreacher with the tony English accent has yet
to construct a sentence that would cause a reader pain on account of its arrangement."
Well, to be fairer than K. Marx deserves, he WAS German.
And did anyone know Mr. Steyn was a laypreacher? I don't remember his mentioning it anywhere...
6 posted on
08/21/2006 9:52:52 PM PDT by
decal
(The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
To: The Electrician
Self ping (is that permitted? am I logged in?)
7 posted on
08/21/2006 10:44:48 PM PDT by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: WarrenC
...A Report on Mark Steyn's tour of New Zealand and Australia......and a marvellous tour it's been. Mark (and co-speaker Owen Harries) spoke brilliantly here in Sydney, skilfully dealing with a Muslim interjector. For the transcript press here and scroll 1/3 down the page, to the panel with the black background.
8 posted on
08/22/2006 12:28:50 AM PDT by
Byron_the_Aussie
(http://www.iwo.com/heroes.htm)
To: All; Fair Go; Aussie Dasher
11 posted on
08/22/2006 2:39:42 AM PDT by
NZerFromHK
(The languages may be dialects, but America is different from the Anglo world due to US Founding.)
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