Wingnuts in the Attics?
I have ventured into the Wingnuttia once again, though just barely, into the Instapundit land where left is full of hate and still stuck in the 1960’s haircuts, whereas the right is all cool and logical and coiffed in the latest fashions. Glenn Reynolds feels very sorry for all us liberals and lefties, so sorry that I can almost see his sage sighs of pity:
HATE-FILLED STUPIDITY FROM LEFT-LEANING ACADEMICS ISN’T NEWS anymore, which is why I haven’t been paying much attention to the story of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s comparison of 9/11 victims to Eichmann. But go here and look at the picture.Isn’t he exactly what you imagined? Shoulder-length hair, grimly self-righteous expression, black turtleneck, Abbie Hoffman sunglasses. A man whose look, like his rhetoric, is frozen in the amber of 1969.
The same kind of guys, looking the same way, were saying the same kinds of things when I was younger than my daughter is now. When will the Left catch up with the times?
I wonder what Glenn would regard as catching up with the times? Freedom marching in black boots?
He gives us lots of advice on how to do better, which mostly consists of trying to be just like him. But he also says something quite interesting about the way the right and left control their exteme characters:
Heh. And for those who email saying “what about Falwell on the right,” well, it’s worth remembering that the term “idiotarian” was coined with Falwell in mind. It’s just that the right has done a better job of muzzling and marginalizing its idiots, while the Left has embraced them. And if the “backlash” theory set out above is true, it will only get worse, which is bad for the Left, and bad for America.
“The right has done a better job of muzzling and marginalizing its idiots”? Ann Coulter is marginalized? Rush Limbaugh is muzzled? The “idiots” are not found in the Bush administration? Even in some very high places? And what about Rick Santorum?
Or maybe Glenn is right. Maybe the wingnuts have even more extreme and frightening people locked up somewhere in their attics. Now that gives me nightmares.
January 29th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
goddess…your cajones are bigger than mine….I can’t read that idiot’s rants……look no further than what passes as the leader of the house re-pubics…Hassert and that French fry, er, I mean guy, DeLay. If the French fry, damn, guy ain’t a ravin’ lunatic, then I’m not with Toto and Dorothy!
peace
January 29th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
Rush Limbaugh is muzzled?
Well, he hasn’t interviewed Dick Cheney in the last couple of months . . .
January 29th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
When it comes to Bush haters I wonder if he has checked out places on the right like LewRockwell.com and the The American Conservative lately.
January 29th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Or maybe Glenn is right. Maybe the wingnuts have even more extreme and frightening people locked up somewhere in their attics. Now that gives me nightmares.
You just scared the crap out of me with that statement. There are some rabid righties that are right out there. Glen sounds like a real jerk. I’m glad I don’t feel the need to amble over to his homepage.
January 29th, 2005 at 5:29 pm
HATE-FILLED STUPIDITY FROM LEFT-LEANING ACADEMICS ISN�€™T NEWS
At first I thought it odd to be lectured to about hate by the Wingnutty Professor, but then it came to me in a flash: He’s concerned about trademark infringement. Well, relax, professor. We could never compete with you wingnuts in the arena of hate-filled stupidity.
January 29th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
If anyone should keep his big mouth shut about the way someone looks, it’s übernerd Reynolds.
January 29th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
Instafuckface is also completely mistaken in implying that left-wing extremists are not marginalized.
How often is Noam Chomsky on CNN? When was last time Howard Zinn wrote an op-ed for the NYT?
If the Democratic Party is so dominated by radical leftists, why have their last three nominees for Pres. been Clinton, Gore, and Kerry, and not Jerry Brown, Bill Bradley, and Dennis Kucinich?
Meanwhile, the extremists on the Right are in the fucking white house.
January 29th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Also, Instawanker shouldn’t be making fun of the way anybody looks. Not when he looks like this.
January 29th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
Maybe the wingnuts have even more extreme and frightening people locked up somewhere in their attics…
http://www.addamsfamily.com/addams02/addams/addjpeg1.jpg
January 29th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
I saw Glenn’s rant, and posted on it over at Kos.
-Dave
January 30th, 2005 at 4:04 am
I don’t have a problem saying Ward Churchill is whacked. There’s always been wackjobs that I fail to see any association with the Left, or with reality. Glen just lobs bombs in general directions to provoke reactions, and because he can’t defend the Righty wackos, it’s easier to divert attention to a nut I never even heard of (and if I haven’t heard of a lefty extremist, he’s gotta be pretty obscure, at the margin of a margin).
Does Glen really believe what he says? Sure. Everyone’s gotta believe in something. He believes Bush is God.
I’m more upset at the shot at Abbie Hoffman, an American patriot I admired, and a genius activist.
January 30th, 2005 at 5:07 am
Hey, what’s your problem with Ward Churchill? He’s been a fearless reminder that genocide is America’s birthright since at least 1980. I teach his essay Crimes Against Humanity every year to my community college students, and it never fails to ignite them.
January 30th, 2005 at 7:54 am
I�€™m more upset at the shot at Abbie Hoffman, an American patriot I admired, and a genius activist…
Did you steal his book ?
January 30th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
Freespeech, it says that accessing the site you linked to is forbidden to me. Sniff.
January 30th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Sorry. It was just a shot of the Addams Family…without the Gomez 2008 banners.