No, and Yet . . .
Bad books fall into a few categories, with Jerry Bowyer's The Bush Boom fitting well into the "so transparently stupid it wouldn't even be amusing to scan through looking for the funny parts" section of my catalogue of recent American political commentary. This opinion piece for Fox News, by contrast, belongs firmly on the "not sure whether to laugh or cry" shelf.
"Do I blame Islam for Cho Seung-Hui?" Bowyer asks, before wisely replying "No." He does, however, note a certainly dhimmitude to Cho's approach. "he took a Muslim name to register his discontent — Ismail, the preferred Arab spelling of 'Ishmael,' Abraham’s first son, the disinherited son who took second place to the wealthy Isaac." Robert Farley wonders if the objectively pro terror Herman Melville might be to blame. Bowyer goes on, however, to note the role of liberal tax raisers in prompting this spree killing:
There is a rising tide of resentment in our country against the so-called “rich,” and Christianity, and a Big Mac with fries. Talk-show hosts, op-ed writers, documentarians, and authors of all stripes take part in it. They speak to psychologically healthy audiences, although the bent and wicked are listening in too.
Classy!
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With apologies to Atrios- Oh, the stupid, it hurts!
The so-called “rich".
Normally yglesias' hands are stained by cheeto's, today they are stained with blood. Arent you the least bit concerned that an excert from any part of that pyschopath's ramblings could easily pass for a post of yours on this blog?
If we're playing the "so-called" game, we should change that sentence to read "so-called Christianity."
My guess is that he finally learned what English majors earn after graduation.
Pimp hand seems a little confused -- for him, a step up.
Don't speak too soon Squeaky. It's very possible that Bowyer is a psychopath. Perhaps pimphand has the gift of long-distance psychoanalysis.
Wow, the thoughts and sentences in that essay didn't even connect. At least when Hitchens does that, you can smell the scotch wreaking off the page.
The 'so-called' '"rich"'?! Not just 'so-called', but scare quotes around the 'rich', too? What, are the rich not actually rich? Shouldn't this be a matter of objective fact, or is it now class warf-mongering to observe that some people have a lot more than others, and that the good old-fashioned (admittedly, latinate) word for that is "rich"?
I say fuck the so-called rich, with their Jesus and their Big Macs!
Haha, the wingnuts all gave this review, the very first one, mad love:
37 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
Through the Looking Glass, October 24, 2003
Reviewer: Alice (Wonderland) - See all my reviews
Finally! A book that proves the existence of an alternate universe. Obviously, a rip in the space/time continuum between this universe and the other universe where Bush is presiding over a 'boom economy opened up and this book fell through. Can there be ANY other explanation?
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Apparently, their click finger impulses are a bit quicker than their comprehension skillz.
Bowyer may indirectly have a point.
If Cho Seung-Hui had whacked the whores of the rich -- if he had wiped out the news rooms at Fox News, National Review, the Weekly Standard, Ann Coulter, or Rich Limbaugh, for example -- how many of us here would be crying in our cereal and convulsing with grief? Show of hands, anyone?
On the other hand, I find it kinda bizarre to glance to the left at this site and see an ad for "America Task Force Argentina" bitching about how Argentina President Kirchner repudiated debt held by US bond holders. For those who don't know, Argentina has been in a deep depression since 2001, triggered by predatory attacks from US capitalists and the IMF. Children and elderly people have literally been starving down there.
So posting ads with the whining of those capitalists hardly ranks up there with singing the "Internationale". Ah, but as Bill O'Reilly would note, one has to make a buck.
"If Cho Seung-Hui had whacked the whores of the rich..."
I initially misunderstood what "whacking" means (a kind of bang-bang job, presumably, but which kind exactly), and I was wondering: would it relieve him of sexual tensions or sent over the deep that much faster?
By the way, Poland has some historical tradition that may be a cross between Wild West and samurai. Correspondingly, one a fired township clerk went "postal" by buying a katana, and then she returned to her former office, scared shit out of everyone and hacked some furniture. Popularizing the use of swords, sabers, axes, halberds etc. could steer the crazy away from mass murder to more human scale of mayhem. Department of Homeland Security should back a series of scripts with appropriate plots.
Piotr,
Whacking is Mafia speak for killing.
Here in Philly, we don't say "Mafia".
Re: and that the good old-fashioned (admittedly, latinate) word for that is "rich"?
Huh? "Rich" is a good old Germannic word. (German: "reich" Dutch "rijk"). The classical Latin word was "dives". The presence of some form of "rich" (rico, riche etc.) in the romance language today is in fact a borrowing from the Germannic tribes who invaded Rome.
And by the way, some of the posters here are more bitter than a vat of gall. Get over it folks. By all means, act where possible for greater justice, but why let any of this political crap come within miles of your spirit? It's not worth toxifying your life with.
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