Mustang
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Here's my addition:
I'll comment on those people.
Glenn Beck is a conspiracy theorist who seems unable to find a conspiracy theory he won't embrace in one form or another. The problem comes when Glenn tries to tie them all together because all Glenn seems to be able to do is tie himself in knots. Admittedly, he has enriched himself, but he doesn't appear to be able to discern fact from fantasy which would be perfectly fine, even laudable, in a high end escort, but it's laughable if credibility is what you seek. Consequently, I laugh at him and anyone who takes him seriously.
Ann Coulter was trained as a lawyer which is hard to believe given a lawyer's tendency for dry dispassionate writing which contrasts sharply with Ann's natural gift for incendiary red meat rhetoric. Yes, she's the mean HS girl who found new adult victims like the Jersey Girls to torture as they reeled from their post 9-11 devastation and loss. No, just like Ann thinks there's no such thing as a victim you shouldn't kick when they're down, Ann seems to believe that there's no conservative reprobate she can't rehabilitate with a book and a few carefully chosen words to show that a man like Joe McCarthy was really a swell guy, after all. I await Ann's next book where she regales the world with the fun-filled days of Menachem Begin's youth when he was a terrorist killer who bombed and hanged people to further his political agenda. She's may be a natural born polemicist, but her judgment on right versus wrong, or good versus evil is severely clouded to the point of opaqueness by her political leanings. Therefore, her objectivity is flawed to the point of resembling the ravings of a mad woman.
William Bennett is a man who once had the temerity to write a book entitled "The Book of Virtues: A Treasure of Great Moral Stories" in order to instruct everyone else on morality despite the fact that he had a very serious gambling problem at the time. But it was okay because he didn't mention gambling as a moral shortcoming in the book. See how that works? I've had the opportunity to listen to Bennett's early morning talk radio show a couple of hundred times (at least), and all I can say is that he's one unapologetic propagandist who will shamelessly put any liar on the air to spread any rumor in order to discredit the political opposition. Don't believe me? I once heard him put a guest on his show who accused Democrats of essentially being terrorist coconspirators, and Bennett, a former Reagan cabinet officer never uttered one syllable of protest at such an outrageous charge. All I can say is his book on morality must be based on Machiavellian morality because his behavior isn't something I would want any child to emulate let alone learn from someone who used to be the education secretary of the United States of America. But undoubtedly, Bennett would have no trouble squaring that moral circle as long as the ends justified the means. In my opinion, when any lie, any falsehood that furthers your goals is considered wholly acceptable, that's an example of rhetorical terrorism, and perhaps future copies of his book should be retitled "The Book of Bullshit" in order to comply with the truth in advertising laws.
So we can assume, by your unbiased reviews of these authors, that you aren't a fan. Big news there.
You know, I recall, back in the dark ages, being fed a steady diet of Nietzsche. I was young and impressionable and fell for his crap hook, line and sinker. Then, over a drunken, pot-filled weekend, I tackled "Thus Spake Zarathustra".
When I finally came to my senses on Monday morning, I realized what the term "pseudo-intellectual" actually meant.
Stop "analyzing" everything you encounter. It will give you a headache.
it is not even HIS views. It is a copy&paste of some blogger, because that is all he can do - copy & paste, not lay out his own views - in order to have ones he should be able to THINK, which is not the key feature of a leftard
Wrong again. They're my words from beginning to end. I wrote them in Word since my laptop has a tendency to delete some of what I'm typing and I knew I was only going to attempt something that close to an editorial once in this thread. But you can do a search for it if you want to. You won't find it anywhere else. But it wouldn't surprise me one bit if someone else takes it and put's THEIR name on it.
See, YOUR problem is that conservatives are such shitty writers and spellers that you automatically think everyone else must be too. But some people actually paid attention in school instead of daydreaming while forming their opinions on subjects they never studied.
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