Thursday, June 05, 2003

Kard Kaptors

Newsmax.com is hyping a " card deck of weasels" composed of various alleged domestic anti-war activists. Some of the targeted personalities include Natalie Maines, Bill Clinton, a host of Hollywood celebs, and of course Jimmy Carter (they couldn't have the backlash without him).
Chris Ruddy the "journalist" who is Newsmax's paramount leader has this to say about his card-deck " I mean what does George Clooney know about foreign policy?".
What indeed?
Now, leaving aside the morbid if veiled threat against two former U.S. Presidents, I think Mr. Ruddy has raised an interesting and even suggestive question.
After all what do any of these ever so shrill rightical chic polemicists know about foreign policy?
Any of them?
Howard Stern he is a big mark out for Bush, his communications degree is from Boston University....I doubt if classes in western diplomacy or political economy are part of the core curriculum in his department.
And while we are on the subject, just what are Debbie Schlussel's qualifications for the job of public intellectual and pundit?
Sure she claims to be a polymath and a pedagogue, but that is a role she'd been groomed for as far back as her days a publicity seeking teenaged Reagan apologist.
She largely doesn't seem to do anything other than emit a daily keening obnoxious wail of adolescent disgust at liberals and liberalism.
For that fact, what do Ann Coulter, Tim Russert, or Laura Ingraham really know about international relations?
So far as I can see they are all a bunch of hungry shyster lawyers who made the arduous trek to D.C. in search of easy money and easy prey.
I mean frankly given the shallow vituperative nature of their analysis I'd call the whole damn lot no more qualified to opine on the subject of diplomacy than was Abbie Hoffman or Donald "Cinque" DeFreeze.
Sick
Demented
Typical

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