John Podhoretz, in "The Daily Dearborn Independent Dish," responds to Andrew Sullivan's anti-neocon hysteria:
Andrew Sullivan no longer is interested in winning in Iraq, in fact is probably quietly eager for a defeat there, doubtless out of a combination of a certain degree of conviction, a ravenous hunger for leftist Web traffic, and because having decided a few years ago he’d picked the wrong horse in supporting it, he finds it unbearable to imagine that the wrong horse may prove to be the right horse after all.The Ford reference is to the car manufacturer's anti-Semitic journal, "The Dearborn Independent," which published the English version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
So he must hold the neoconservatives to blame, first, for gulling him into support — you know, we Jews are fiendishly clever, with our Svengali hypnotic powers overcoming the will of poor, weak-minded Catholic bloggers — and must now be held to account for holding views about Israel and Iraq and democracy we never held and have, in fact, been attacked by some of our oldest friends who do hold them. But of course, those attacks by our old friends aren’t real, nor are the divisions among neoconservatives real. Because we Jews are all in it together.
At least Henry Ford knew how to make a car.
Sullivan long ago went over to the dark side, so I don't have a lot to add to Podhoretz. What's interesting is that Sullivan's post starts with a quote from E.D. Kain at the Ordinary Gentlemen, "The Democracy Fallacy."
E.D.'s current writing is of the kind that generates a lot of heat but little light, and that's too bad, considering his estimable talents.
Things didn't have to turn out this way, however. It's turns out that E.D.'s an intellectual hanger-on. He's joined up with the progressive nihilists at Ordinary Gentlemen for some fun and exposure, or so it seems. Up until a couple of weeks ago E.D. was the publisher of NeoConstant, which was originally an online magazine of neoconservative commentary and opinion. He had solicited essays from American Power for publication there, but E.D.'s apparently caught some strain of neoconservative derangement, with a special affliction of antiwar ideological recoil, so he deleted the entire blog a few days back. The domain name has remained the same (neoconstant.com), but the blog's new incarnation is the lame "New Constantine," whatever that's supposed to mean. I guess the name's a reference to the Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great (306–337), who relocated the heart of the empire to the "Second Rome" at Constantinople in 330 a.d. I think E.D.'s historical analogies are less precise than his single-minded effort to eradicate any evidence of his former neoconservative identification.
Note that E.D. deleted NeoConstant without a word of notification to those he had approached for syndication at the site, so his actions are not just unprofessional, but immature as well.
That's to be expected for someone who's been completley hoodwinked by folks like Freddie de Boer and the Young Turks of the Culture 11 fiasco.
I hadn't planned on engaging E.D. He's a nice guy, but like Sullivan, he too has gone over to the dark side. And now that he's instigating such supreme flame wars, well, the blogging gloves are coming off.
More later ...
Ah, time for a good old-fashioned knock-down drag-out! Good for you Donald! I'd say that with the verbal assaults you've had to contend with here, you are well conditioned for it. May the best man win, and I think I know who that will be.
ReplyDeleteYep, I wasn't real pleased with Erik's decision much less his actions in deleting the entire website. A lot of people took time and effort to publish decent stuff there. I can understand his logic in wanting to tighten up the tone a bit, but to just dump it all without so much as thank you really put a bad taste in my mouth. I enjoyed my time there. There were better ways to handle the whole situation.
ReplyDeleteHe is a good writer and seems like a pleasant guy. Needless to say, I was a bit disappointed.
Thanks AA: It's really more about a lack of consultation on where E.D. was going with his website. But I like the debates too.
ReplyDeleteE.D. was proud to have you aboard at NeoConstant, Jason, which makes it all the more strange that he dumped the whole thing without talking to anyone about it before. That's hubris, as well as insecurity.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Sullivan found out that he is a "goyim", and the agenda of the Podhoretz crowd is at odds with the survival of the "goyim".
ReplyDeleteAs a gay Andrew Sullivan could find himself quite comfortable with the ideology shared with swarthy cubanoids like Donevez Douglasbaum, Raza Exploscion, and Phillipe Onbergwitz, in the technocolor neocon/librul American Dream. But there is still something clinging to him: white identity, a conscience, respect for America 1587- to about 1965, Western Civilization even longer. Good for Andrew Sullivan I say, at least you are less a buttpirate spiritually then tanning bed Castro St. queen Douglas.
Neoconservatism is not of the West. It is not of Christianity. It is of the jews and the devil.
What you call "Leftist Nihilism" is a scepticism toward faggot utopianism and an understanding of plain simple human nature.
ReplyDeleteSillivan the Gay finally gets it. Someone like Mike Tuggle got it a long time ago. It's called conservatism, something you will never understand. Sullivan may be flawed person, but you are the last of the worse cultural sodomites, the neocons.