“Ship of Fools”
Do you ever get curious about the mental meanderings of that remaining 30% or so who still support Bush? Here’s your chance to be a fly on the wall on a National Review cruise. I can’t do it justice; suffice it to say I’m still prying my jaw off the floor. Here’s a snippet:
They rush through the Rush-list of liberals who hate America, who want her to fail, and I ask them – why are liberals like this? What’s their motivation? They stutter to a halt and there is a long, puzzled silence. ” It’s a good question,” one of them, Martha, says finally. I have asked them to peer into the minds of cartoons and they are suddenly, reluctantly confronted with the hollowness of their creation. “There have always been intellectuals who want to tell people how to live,” Martha adds, to an almost visible sense of relief. That’s it – the intellectuals! They are not like us. Dave changes the subject, to wash away this moment of cognitive dissonance. “The liberals don’t believe in the constitution. They don’t believe in what the founders wanted – a strong executive,” he announces, to nods. A Filipino waiter offers him a top-up of his wine, and he mock-whispers to me, “They all look the same! Can you tell them apart?” I stare out to sea. How long would it take me to drown?
Go read the whole thing.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Oh. My. God!
July 16th, 2007 at 11:33 am
It’s pretty darn incredible to read that these people really talk this way. The article could just as easily be an Onion caricature of neocons.