Despising America (MUST READ!)

February 06, 2003 | Greg Sheridan

[ONA-ASIS]

This is an outstanding article.

[AntiGuv]

The broad and not very intelligent satire of The New York Times's Maureen Dowd – who as The New Republic's Martin Peretz recently commented, has never said a single interesting thing about any serious policy issue...

This just bears repeating - over and over and ov....

[LayoutGuru2]

Yes, thank you for your support. Good to have you on our side! It's a dirty job, but somebody has to have the b%lls (kiwis) to do it.

[RLJVet]

The broad and not very intelligent satire of The New York Times's Maureen Dowd – who as The New Republic's Martin Peretz recently commented, has never said a single interesting thing about any serious policy issue...

I am sure this is true, yet the Times runs two columns of hers every week.

[moodyskeptic]

Yes, some great phrases here, I'm committing some to memory. Thank God some writers out there see what we silent majority see in here: despite what the global hand-wringing lamestream media insists, America stands strong against ideological weakness and comfortable slavery. We don't pretend to police the world, but if asked we will kick your regional bully's a$$ and move on. But spare the histrionics, because only our pathetic Hollywood stars are listening.

[Rytwyng]

Anti-Americanism should be studied as a serious psychological affliction, a pathological condition which paralyses the mind's analytical capacity

If we're going to call it a disease, we might as well give it a name: AMERICAPHOBIA

Now... how shall we cure these Americaphobic bigots?

[agitator]

Maybe we should convene a committee to study the problem. Then let's hold some televised town meetings with a hand picked studio audience from Berkeley and Cambridge hosted by Babwa. Then legislation should be introduced mandating compulsory sensitivity training...

[Cacique]

aussie ping.

[visualops]

BTTT

[happygrl]

Yes, some great phrases here, I'm committing some to memory.

Like this one:

Many of the commentators ostensibly on Iraq hardly mention Iraq at all, because analysing Iraq requires some intellectual work, whereas sounding off about the US requires only attitude.

[The Raven]

Great!

[happygrl]

Here's another:

Condescension is the preserve of the impotent everywhere.

[happygrl]

He devoted a lot of words to this dea, however:

There is also, in the special hatred of the chattering classes for Bush, a virulent anti-Christian quality. That this is echoed in the official church bureaucracies here, all of them now wholly owned subsidiaries of the Left, is not surprising. The US is the most church-going of modern Western societies. George W. Bush is an avowed orthodox Christian.

So, oddly enough, was Bill Clinton, but that was a kind of elaborate in-joke. He didn't take it seriously so his admirers didn't hold it against him.

But, especially in devotedly secular Australia, the fact that Bush thanks the merciful God who is behind all history sends the Phillip Adams-style mind into something like the heebie-jeebies. Anti-Catholicism used to be the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. Now that Catholics are indistinguishable from Protestants, it's anti-conservative Christian sentiment generally.

BOOKMARKED!

[happygrl]

Outstanding!

[Jim Noble]

>>The broad and not very intelligent satire of The New York Times's Maureen Dowd ? who as The New Republic's Martin Peretz recently commented, has never said a single interesting thing about any serious policy issue...<<

And, by the way,

Did you know Catherine Zeta-Jones is pregnant again?

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping -- will read =^)

[fporretto]

A brilliant piece. Can we get this gentleman syndicated here in the States?

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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http://palaceofreason.com

[PJ-Comix]

Maybe you should have included the LINK and source of this article. When I first started reading it I was scratching my head as to who this "Howard government" was.