Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
On Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald makes some brilliant points about Mark Steyn’s column that appeared Saturday.
To make those points, Greenwald has to assert Steyn said a whole lot of stuff, that Steyn didn’t really say.
So, to recap: The West is like a 16-year old girl assaulted by aggressive Middle Eastern men – weak, vulnerable, humiliated, and in submission. Gay hedonist Andrew Sullivan, along with the bound and submissive Fox journalists, are the symbols of the weak, decadent West which Steyn so despises — devoid of any manly values and courage. Each week, Steyn screeches that we must wage war — aggressive, unrestrained, manly glorious war against our Enemies — because the alternative, which he fears so deeply, is to be a 16-year-old submissive girl or a gay Andrew Sullivan — the men without chests, as Warren put it. You can find this transparent dynamic in most warmongering screeds these days.
Go read up; Steyn didn’t say any of that. In fact, it would appear Steyn referred to Andrew Sullivan as “Time magazine’s gay Tory” and that really set Greenwald off, so now he’s calling Steyn, and everybody who agrees with Steyn, a bunch of big sissies.
Interestingly, if you do something Greenwald clearly doesn’t want you to do…which is to go get Steyn’s column and actually read it…you see he’s actually doing something pretty interesting. Remember how the anti-war folks were clamoring for us to understand those who wanted to attack us? Get inside the heads of the jihadist Islamo-fascists, and find out what motivates them, with an objective of perhaps finding a way to stop further violence? Steyn, it turns out, was doing exactly that thing.
Why did Greenwald choose to put an entirely different spin on it? Does this whole pro-war/anti-war thing have something to do with being gay? Is there some bizarre brotherhood at work, where one gay guy says he’s opposed to the war, and if he’s engaged in discussion by a pro-war straight guy, all homosexuals are honor-bound to dispense baseless propaganda to help the gay guy “win”? If Greenwald sees it that way, I wonder how many homosexuals support him in that vision.
Like I said, Greenwald’s points are brilliant. They’re also very insightful…a little bit too much so, it turns out. He sees things that aren’t there.
Once again, I’m left with the disturbing feeling that Greenwald intends for people to read his own comments — skipping past the link he provided to Steyn’s piece — and just take his word for what Mark Steyn said, and/or intended to say. I can’t prove it, but all the evidence is there supporting this, and this seems to be a pattern with Mr. Greenwald. In truth, I have yet to see a Greenwald piece that colored outside of these lines. It’s almost like a signature.
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