NORMAN MAILER DECLARES: 'AMERICA IS SO VAIN' (yep...it's a BARF ALERT)

Drudge Report ^ | 9/6/02

[beckett]

Lifelong communist Norman Mailer is a senile, sour old man who has never had a single political insight that came to fruition in the real world. He's a perfect example of why an ability to write good prose should never be mistaken for true political acumen.

[Pompah]

Norman Mailer.!! Oh please. Our little literary fairy said what.?
Does Gore Vidal know about this.? Oh My.

[genefromjersey]

Ah, Norman !

Ever a legend in his own mind !!

[Richard Kimball]

Yup, that's right folks. I've been Carly-Simonized...

But the song WAS about me, so how could I be vain for thinking that?

[Skooz]

Third-rate, has been hack. Wrote a brilliant novel, oh, FIFTY years ago and has been living off of it for this long. He can never attain his former glory, so he spends his time spewing hatred for the nation which made him rich.

Yawn.

[Cicero5]

We are such a terrible country... that we defend his right to publish garbage like this in a foreign newspaper. Where else in the world could you get away with it Norman?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

'Am I ready to die for my ideas?'"

Which brings up the next question, how many countries have the freedom to give you this choice? (Hint. It's not many and certainly none of those that we are going to fight)

[Sally II]

Ever notice that the foreign press is constantly giving a platform to American has-beens?

Oh, so it's not just me? It's also really bugging me that the press is constantly giving exposure to voices of descent (especially the ones who keep complaining that they feel unable to express descent). For example, remmeber the big Palestinians protest and march in Washington earlier this year, the one that attracted the whole Free Mumia, Enviro-cults, anti-globalization, anti-whatevers, etc. Every major and local news station gave daily coverage, even announced planned marches days in advance. But the pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-war marches and opinions got very, very little time. The sqeaky wheels get all the oil. Conservatives need to start shaking things up.

[M Kehoe]

Norman Mailer is a symptom of the disease that infects our body politic. It's call liberalism.

5.56mm

[SoothingDave]

But deep down their patriotism is deep.

This is a writer?

SD

[Freemyland]

"Clinton made a point of surrounding himself with people who might be 90% as intelligent as himself, but never his equal."

Ever so often, I find myself asking the same question: "From where did the idea that Bill Clinton is so friggin' intelligent spring?"

[js1138]

Am I ready to die for my ideas?

Isn't that the attitude that made us free in the first place?

[jz638]

He doesn't get it that the sunny-day flag-waving he's talking about is all on his side of the aisle - for some of us it isn't a recent acquisition.

BINGO!

Many Americans are vain and self centered enough to believe that tiny plastic flags will win this war, just not anyone around here.

[evad]

Boy .. does Ann have these guys nailed.

Liberals HATE America..pure and simple.

[evad]

Ever so often, I find myself asking the same question: "From where did the idea that Bill Clinton is so friggin' intelligent spring?"

You have hear of the liberal, mainscream media of course.

[Smile-n-Win]

Smile-n-Win declares: Normal Mailer is so vain he needs to be taken to a mental asylum.

[GoreIsLove]

Jack Tripper is the greatest character ever conceived in the history of television. The fact that you dare to disparage John Ritter shows your ignorance on the matter.

[TheBigB]

"Norman Mailer sounds what he hopes to be a "wake up call for America"

Now, how does he expect to wake up America when NOBODY LISTENS TO HIM??

[PhilipFreneau]

Normal Mailer is so vain he needs to be taken to a mental asylum.

Actually, Wacky Norman was placed in a Psychiatric Institution after he stabbed one of his many wives in the back with a pair of scissors (barely missed her heart). Women dumb enough to marry him get smart quickly. He has been married six times.