Re: The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing By Lee Harris

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Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 19:58:48 GMT

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    > From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    >
    > > > ...except that it's rancorous to itself as it never really
    > > > finds its way
    > > > into public discourse.
    > >
    > > Well, here in the People's Republik of Cambridge, it is quite
    > > literally the entire course of a political evening.
    > >
    > > What never finds it's way into public here is the left-bashing. In
    > > fact, I had to look up a few references to learn about it.
    >
    > you must be looking in obscure places and ignoring the major ones :)
    >
    > at any given moment, one can easily find:
    > O'Reilly Report
    > Rush Limbaugh
    > Andrew Sullivan
    > Regular opinion columns on large websites such as Slate, Salon, even
    > Yahoo News Almost anything examining the current "ant-war movement"
    >
    > hit the bookstore and find the latest book by Anne Coulter being
    > prominently featured
    >
    > and this is just the stuff that i've even paid attention to...there's
    > lots more. a better way to look at it would be to find where the
    > non-left is being bashed? apparently, one cannot even criticize the
    > president of the US without having to resign their post for doing so.
    >
    > alfred
    >
    Edward Said, Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky are equally ubiquitous. And, BTW, Andrew Sullivan is about as 'hard right' as Christopher Hitchens is 'hard left'; both extremes consider these figures to be to some degree centrist-leaning turncoats. After all, since Andrew Sullivan is openly and unapologetically gay, he cannot be accused of being a member of the 'homophobic right' (another right-bashing term commonly employed by the left).
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