Wednesday, August 27, 2003
David Horowitz is pissed that Joe Conason describes him as having been, back in the 1960s, an "ultraleftist" (on page 195 of Conason's book, BIG LIES). David insists that this adjective "utterly distorts" what he was back then. He was, au contraire, just a "leftist," a "mainstream New Leftist -- anti-Stalinist, anti-Maoist, anti-Weatherman, anti-vanguard party."
OK, on the one hand, I'm willing to see the differences between a leftist, a mainstream New Leftist, and an ultraleftist. So what are they? Of course, on the other hand, nobody (except David, Joe, and I) really gives a shit.
OK, on the one hand, I'm willing to see the differences between a leftist, a mainstream New Leftist, and an ultraleftist. So what are they? Of course, on the other hand, nobody (except David, Joe, and I) really gives a shit.
P. J. O'Rourke says "Grover Norquist is Tom Paine crossed with Lee Atwater plus just a soupcon of Madame Defarge." In other words, Grover is what you get when you hybridize one live person with three dead persons.
Today's Harry Palm Award goes to Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, for saying yesterday: "I get up every day and try to do what's right for the people of Texas."
Monday, August 25, 2003
Washingtonian Online reports that Ari Fleischer has gone into the fertilizer business and will deliver bullshit for $50,000 a load.
