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Only if you sent him your check.
I was in an auto long enough today to hear this and commentary magazine’s podcasts back to back. Interesting contrast between David Limbaugh and Podhoretz. I side with Limbaugh in describing the far left and their supporters in the media as the enemy that must be defeated. Podhoretz uses the term “delicate” time and again. Delicate doesn’t work except in surgery and on these subjects when writing sophisticated commentary articles about complex subjects. Government and politics are’t like that. The left has taken over the government, our universities, secondary schools, foundations and the media. Were they delicate accomplishing that? No they were persistent, unrelenting, aggressive and never apologetic. It is not conservative to leave total rot in place, to approach the status quo with a scalpel, that’s the conservatism of the European inherited elite. That approach cannot work here. The current system is corrupt, self replicating and the default position, the status quo, strengthens the centralizers, the rent takers, the parasites and always has. In commentary podcast the response to some ham handedness or ineptitude by the new President who has none of the secondary people in place is to pick up on the same hysterical language the left uses. Save your criticism for substantive issues when real damage has been done to the spirit and language of the constitution, or when policy is really wrong headed, which is almost certain to happen. Keep your powder dry for god’s sake.
I too was surprised to hear the John Oliver ad, then I saw this, “John Oliver to run political ads during Trump’s favorite news shows”: hill.cm/WH1PBRp
It is an interesting strategy, but I doubt it will work – doubling down on sanctimonious bullheadedness is rarely persuasive.
You did indeed! I was there with my parents. You should have stopped and said hello — they still think I’m basically a homeless bum.
(Not that I’m not….)
I would have, but for three reasons: (1) I’m English, and am still uncomfortable with the idea of imposing myself onto other people’s private conversations; (2) I didn’t have the script with me for my sitcom pilot; and (3) I hadn’t figured out how I was going to explain myself to my liberal companions.
Next time, however, I shall certainly do so.