Comments on: I don’t know any American liberals who wanted George W. Bush to be overthrown or assassinated

By: Is Victor Davis Hanson a man, or a machine? - Michael Roston - Newsbroke - True/Slant

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:36:23 +0000

[...] I’ve actually brought up Hanson’s invocation of Booker once before which proves my ‘column/blog post written by a machine, not a human being’ point. Could it be possible that Victor Davis Hanson fell victim to an incapacitating stroke in the latter years of the Bush White House, and now a computer algorithm is generating all of his output for the National Review? Perhaps the new Aol. should contact the National Review Online and see if they want to feed any content into Aol.’s new auto-news. [...]

By: Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:55:28 +0000

If anything, the progressive side runs from people who show a semblance of a spine too quickly.

By: iskid2astop

iskid2astop — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:24:11 +0000

Zaid,
That is exactly the problem. I think endorsed is even too weak of a word. Right-wing leadership embraces it, and the left-wing leaders realize that the nuts, are exactly that, not a valuable voting demographic. Absurdity.

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:03:41 +0000

Righties are for more likely to be packing heat and deluded themselves that they are doing god’s work!

By: Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:55:21 +0000

I think the big difference between left-right radicalism in this country is that the right radicalism seems to be a lot more endorsed by its leadership.

By: Michael Roston

Michael Roston — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:34:35 +0000

Or in this case, because they’re both very literary men, they just disregard the irony because it’s useful for their political purposes.

By: Scott Bowen

Scott Bowen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:28:09 +0000

“‘I’m Gonna Kill the President’ was an ironic play in the tradition of the Italian Dario Fo that doesn’t name President Bush as its target.”

The problem word in that sentence? “Ironic.” Irony does not penetrate the minds of right-wingers and social conservatives. Either they don’t understand it, or simply refuse it as an unnecessary sophistication.

Name one right-wing pundit who can spin ironic rhetoric the way a Stewart or Colbert can.

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:59:54 +0000

“I don’t know any American liberals who wanted George W. Bush to be overthrown or assassinated”

Of course not, that would have put Cheney in the Oval Office, more than he already was!