Mark Steyn -- How about a little diversity of thought?

National Post ^ | August 7, 2002 | Mark Steyn

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As always, thanks for the ping!

The New York Times is rarely so explicit, at least in its "news" pages…

My only point of contention in the whole brilliant article.

I’d challenge Steyn to find a single day where the NY Times leftist extremism doesn’t splatter all over their “news” articles.

[RAT Patrol]

My auto-mode always kicks in after reading a Steyn column. "I love Mark Steyn." It's just my reflexive response. LOL! He's awesome!

[foreshadowed at waco]

In the newsrooms of America, they celebrate diversity of race, diversity of gender, diversity of orientation, diversity of everything except the only diversity that matters: diversity of thought.

Sounds like an extension of the college classroom.

[xJones]

Louie, ever since you have moved to the South, you have been trying to act uppity. Read the following: redneck definitions.

Are you speaking the word "redneck" like it wuz a nasty taste in yur mouth???? If un is, I will git in my pickup with my old Dawg Leroy and come bust yall in the nose.

Since I and all of my most intimately related relatives (don't ask about it) have lived in the South much longer than you carpetbaggers, it would *behoofed* you Yankees to hush up. (LOL, Louie!)

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Mark Steyn Bump.

The last paragraph is especially point on. I almost never use the word liberal when I headbutt with them lefties - and God knows how many skirmishes I get myself into. They are NOT liberals - not classical, neo, paleo, wholeo, etc, etc - They are lefties, socialists, Democrats and whatnot.

[beckett]

This is somewhat cruder, as befits Da Liddle Guy's style of government, but is in line with the general trend -- different tactics but the same aim: to rule certain issues beyond debate, and thus render the conservative position if not illegal than at any rate unmentionable.

Is this a usage error by Steyn? Has one of the top two or three most accomplished wordsmiths writing today made a mistake? Seems to me the word should be "then."

Steyn is such a virtuoso with words that, for me, a minor error like this sticks out because it is such a rarity.

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Wow. I actually beat Pokey to a Steyn thread!

It is really quite an achievement. I always get Steyn from Pokey. Thank you, Pokey and Clive.

[gcruse]

Gasp. As sloppy as word use is any more, then & than, farther & further, flammable $ inflammable, are as intertwined as ghostly split photons. But to me, Steyn should have used 'then' then, than 'than.'

[Forgiven_Sinner]

This is somewhat cruder, as befits Da Liddle Guy's style of government, but is in line with the general trend -- different tactics but the same aim: to rule certain issues beyond debate, and thus render the conservative position if not illegal than at any rate unmentionable.

Is this a usage error by Steyn? Has one of the top two or three most accomplished wordsmiths writing today made a mistake? Seems to me the word should be "then."

More likely a typo that got past the copy editor.

[Twodees]

The role of the conservative movement in all this is totally irrelevant, though from time to time some obscure western backbencher will sportingly offer some off-the-cuff soundbite enabling him to be denounced as a homophobic cross-burning Holocaust denier.

Seems there's little difference between some aspects of Canadian politics and that of the US. Steyn does have a way of making me start chuckling under my breath at the start of one of these sentences. I'm usually well into a full belly laugh as I read the final words.

Steyn's a genius.

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Thanks much for the pings. I've been away a while. I have a lot of catching up to do.

[Capriole]

The New York Times is rarely so explicit, at least in its "news" pages…

My only point of contention in the whole brilliant article. I’d challenge Steyn to find a single day where the NY Times leftist extremism doesn’t splatter all over their “news” articles.

Sugar, I think you're missing his point. He installed the quotes around the word "news" to indicate skepticism, to show that what they term news isn't really news, but is, rather, just leftist editorializing. It's simply a way of showing contempt for them.

[stands2reason]

Howell Raines is the reason. He used to be the editorial pages editor, now he's the top editor.