Twenty-five years ago yesterday, Wayne Allyn Root was sitting in a political science class when the door of the lecture hall swung open;
That day at Columbia University, over 20 years ago, I got physically sick. I ran out of class, the CHEERS of my classmates at the possible death of Ronald Reagan reverberating in the halls behind me. I ran into the bathroom, got on my knees and vomited.I cried and shook violently for what seemed like an eternity.
And I felt sick for America, for the people I had just watched cheer and celebrate the shooting of our president were undoubtedly the future leaders of America.
Wonderfull set of articles. It also confirms why the MSM is dying.
Blogs like this one & others have more than filled the gaps left by these zelots & idealogical pod puppets. Indeed i believe there the future untill an even more intimate form of communication is developed. Seems thats what life works towards. Even on the cellular level. Greater communication that is.
Some Who feel the God like impulse to think there all knowing, & should under there own divine mandate, believe its there duty to force us all to there measure. That there beliefs are as firm as some Natural law.
Liberal hubris never wains.
When I went to the U of A I remember one big wig teacher coming up to me in the cafateria while I was reading the Bible. His words to me where : Forget that bunk, soon you will realise that book is just myths & so are morals. That told me all I need to know about there preconceptions & what there form of education was all about. Materialism = all reality.
This of course does not include the many horrors & demeaning attitudes sufferd by many who hold to Faith, in Public schools. Particularly those so called “advanced ” schools.
Aunt Mame would have been proud.
The Media are just begining to understand this is there eleventh hour. There sins have come back to harrow them.
I say . Its about freakin time.
While I certainly agree with the general thrust of Root’s essay, I do find him a bit over the top in a couple of areas. First, I’m astonished that anyone would get physically ill at the news of an assassination attempt on a politician or students’ reaction thereto — chin up and all that. Second, he seems to complain about the US military not being in a position to carpet bomb Baghdad. Given the objectives of the war, carpet bombing Baghdad would hardly have been a reasonable undertaking from either a military/tactical, strategic/objective or certainly humanitarian perspective.
That being said, Root’s impressions reiterate Bernard Goldberg’s as outlined in his book “Bias” — a good read and an intriguing insight into CBS, Dan Rather and the MSM generally.
O/T: As for the World Trade Centre collapse, there was an interesting program on TV last year (Discovery Channel?) outlining the reasons for it — had to do with the innovative “shell” construction which allowed the WTC to be built as high as it was with the materials of the day but contained an inherent vulnerability which was not exposed until the attack. It made perfect sense to me.
Davie’s on the right track. Wayne Allyn Root goes too far lumping the whole left together. Sure, the left has myriads of extreme pomo wackos, and they do dominate the media in destructive ways, but they also have respectable, intelligent folks on their side like, say, Christopher Hitchens. I do think that at this time in history the left in general is more out of touch with reality than the right, but if the right does not recognize that sane human beings can be lefties, then I shudder to think of our political future.
DrD. I suppose the Planes that flew into the WTC, had a fatal flaw as well. Also the other planes hijacked.It seems the only aircraft without one. Is the one who’s passengers tried to rid themselves of the fatal flaw & ddied hero’s trying. Make as many excuses for the murdering Jihadists as you please . Just don’t insult us all on here with weak appologetics.
To Revnant Dream: you’ve missed my point. The WTC collapse was most certainly caused by the aircraft slamming into the towers with the subsequent ignition of avgas. However, as some of the previous commentors have questioned how the “pancaking” effect could have occurred without preset demolitions I’ve tried to point out that this effect was due to a vulnerability, not a “flaw” per se, which was subsequently well defined i.e. the fact that the external shell was stronger than the internal flooring/bracing. The result was that once the high temperature burn had melted and weakened the structure on one floor, the debris pile hitting the floor below caused its braces to pull the outer shell inward and downward with a domino effect. The WTC apparently was in fact designed to withstand an impact by a low speed 707 (the largest airliner at the time). The designers could not have been expected to foresee a deliberate high speed impact by a much larger aircraft, the 747, which did not exist at the time.
Most socialists today are Keynesian. That is we believe in a mixed economy. Just like Canada is today. Some things government can do better than private Corporations. Governments are better at handling things like defence, road building, health care. Other things are more naturally Corporate. That would be most other things.
We democratic socialists agree with Reagonomics in part. The thing that made the economy take off was his raising taxes on corporations and closing the many loopholes in the tax code. He raised billions in taxes that prevented him from having Bush-like deficits. Reagonomics was Keynesian.
My appologies DrD . I reread your post & to be honest I am a might embarresed. I apparently just seen the theory about the WTC buildings, & seen red.
Tust me ,even where i work you have nuts trying to say it was the CIA who caused 911.Or it was some kind of Jewish conspiracy. Its unbelievable but its a sad reality that some people truly think these lies are truth.
I speak out about this all the time. So please forgive me, my twitchy attitude towards this subject. Its burned me in the past.
Revnant Dream: apology accepted; I sympathise with your frustration in dealing with some of the knee-jerk moonbats. I can remember watching coverage of the Challenger disaster and a Liberal co-worker immediately, without even a glimmer of evidence and all reason to the contrary, offering his sincere opinion that this must be the CIA disguising a spy satellite launch!!!!
jacobin blathered: “The strangest part of the whole piece is that Kate had to dig up something that happened 20 years ago, and then proceed to spin it so the left is vilified. slow news day?”
How about something a little more recent? Royal Canadian Air Farce ran a clip spoofing Cheney’s accidental shooting of a fellow hunter. The spoof first showed “Cheney” getting ready to shoot. Then it cuts to the footage of the shooting of Reagan, a shooting where a policeman was shot in the stomach, the press secretary was shot in the head, and Reagan was shot and almost died.
I complained to the CBC Ombudsman, who in turn sent it to Roger Abbot, producer of the show (and one of the actors), who sent me a “heartfelt” apology, saying that sometimes they step over the line in their quest for cutting edge humour. That seemed to settle it – until I saw the re-run repeating the offensive sketch.