Posted Monday, October 25, 2010 9:37 AM | By Tom Scocca
Prankster and humorist P..J. O'Rourke has fooled the Weekly Standard
into printing a savage takedown of the conservative movement,
masquerading as a takedown of liberalism. Democrats, O'Rourke writes,
are nihilists with no interest in passing good legislation.
They don't just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict
constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody's guts. And
they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks,
whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle
class.
That's the tell: O'Rourke is rallying the readers of the Weekly
Standard on behalf of women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, the poor, and
the middle class? Sure. And Jonathan Swift was in favor of eating
babies.
No, O'Rourke's message is that Democrats ("Democrats") are obsessed
with nothing but power. They don't care how much damage they do to the
country or even to themselves, as long as they can seize and use
power. Resentment and jealousy are their only motives.
By the time O'Rourke declares that Democrats support gay marriage
because it allows them to bring "domestic private life" under
"domination," the joke is clear. The writer is spoofing the voice of a
movement so drunk on self-righteousness it's slurring its words. He's
taken Dinesh D'Souza's embarrassing little stunt of blaming every
Obama administration policy on radical Kenyan anticolonialism and made
it even dumber, blowing it out from self-parody into full-on parody:
here is what happens if you take one simpleminded theory and apply it
to anything, for cheap polemical effect, because all you care about is
scoring points. You end up praising illegal immigrants as
anti-Democratic Party insurgents who are evading the "legal monopoly
on force." In the Weekly Standard, yet.
It's an elegant warning against the Republican obsession with winning
at all costs. The party that marches back into command behind the
banner of Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle, O'Rourke is warning
his readers, is on a suicide mission. Anger and the will to power are
corrupting—unexamined and unchecked, they turn politicians into
tyrants, and they turn a humorist into a screeching blowhard.
--
Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
--
Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.
For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
* Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/
* It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls.
* Read the latest breaking news, and more.
No comments:
Post a Comment