One of the big problems with ignorance these days is that our journalistic and foreign policy elites are so eager to infect each other with it that it innevitably spills over into the general population.
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June 25, 2005
WB: Getting the Boot
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Watch how these neo-cons spin the march of democracy in Iran, the election of a hard line religious conservative as President; or in Iraq, control by Shiite religious parties. The religious poor will vote for fundamentalist religious parties which scapegoat outsiders for their plight. Just the same as the Red States in the USA
Sixteen American Women killed and wounded in the middle of a destroyed Muslim city trying to stop the infiltration of weapons and bombs. Just the same as Israeli Palestine checkpoints. Deadly futility!
Posted by: Jim S | Jun 25 2005 16:22 utc | 1
Walter Winchell redux. tiny footnote in the history of human stupidity. Important fellows anyway, for without them, humanity would not be so stupid.
Really, the only bunch of rightwing intellectuals worthy of consideration are the old City College curmudgeons: himmelfarb, kristol, bell, podheretz…though in the end they’re combined output=”aristocratic radicalism,” they at least tried to accommodate evil, godless liberalism with their sweet bourgeois values. The fact they failed should be enough to explain why they have no intellectual heirs who will have value, other than examples of bad conscience, in the history of ideas.
Posted by: slothrop | Jun 25 2005 17:05 utc | 2
Washington supports 35,000 registered lobbyists. Do we have a similar statistic for flacks funded by foundations and think-tanks? Would it amount to 35,000? There might be a measure of overlap, I suppose…..
Posted by: alabama | Jun 25 2005 19:43 utc | 3