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2007-10-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 ...her penchant for hysteria.

I read The Beauty Myth. I believe I pronounced it "the biggest pile of tripe since Chariots of the Gods." (Actually, I kind of liked Chariots of the Gods.)

I expected The Beauty Myth to say something along the lines of "Gals, you're being played for saps." Instead it was more, "Oh, you poor dears! You weak, helpless, mindless creatures are being lied to by Big Beauty! What ever will we do??" Phooey.

"Another one, Schultz! Get me my truncheon!"
The everyday truncheon, Herr Oberst, or the double-wide?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-10-05 00:36|| 2007-10-05 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I suspect Naomi's book is a paen to her personal narcissism.

Hagged out and washed out...

Posted by badanov 2007-10-05 00:42|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-10-05 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 I think she was the one who would not allow her daughter to fly an American flag from her window after 9/11. Or was that Katha Politt?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-10-05 00:44|| 2007-10-05 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 REDDIT.com > WE HAVE WAR CRIMINALS IN THE WHITE HOUSE - WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 00:57|| 2007-10-05 00:57|| Front Page Top

#5 What a rag.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-10-05 01:14|| 2007-10-05 01:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Stalin studied Hitler.

IIUC, it's exactly the reverse; not only had uncle joe an hand in propping up uncle adolf, but the nazis modelled their early concentration camps on the gulag, which was up and running long before them, and ditto for the political police. Like it or not, but stalin was the first and the worst of the two, ultimately, when hitler barely got to power, the ruskie already had something like 10-12 millions deaths on his resume.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-05 04:38|| 2007-10-05 04:38|| Front Page Top

#7 stalin was the first and the worst of the two

Not that I am fond of Uncle Joe but you have to correlate with time in power and population (it is difficult to kill lots of people when you are dictator of, say, the Fiji Islands or Luxembourg°; Stalmin had much more of both.

Also there is a a special horror in Hitler's crimes: no matter what you did good or bad, you were going to Auschwitz for the mere fact of being born from the wrong race. No escape. With Stalin you could at least try to cheer at his speeches and feign to believe that Soviet Union was a parsdise. And new borns weren't sent to Gulag.

Now Stalin killed more people but Hitler was the Antechrist incarnated.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-10-05 04:54|| 2007-10-05 04:54|| Front Page Top

#8 "What was clear is that there is a blueprint for closing down a democracy and that Hitler studied Mussolini, Stalin studied Hitler. These guys all learned from each other."

Translation: I always resented older generations for having the cache of victimhood more so than me, and now's my chance to claim equal victim status and the street cred that goes with it.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-10-05 05:38|| 2007-10-05 05:38|| Front Page Top

#9 "Help! Help! It's Charles XII!"

Best laugh of the morning--and a righteous fisking, to boot!

Posted by Mike 2007-10-05 06:06|| 2007-10-05 06:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Wolf is calling for American citizens to rise up in a ~~bloggers~~' .....cloggers revolution to push back what she calls "a fascist shift" in her homeland

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-05 06:16|| 2007-10-05 06:16|| Front Page Top

#11 It should also be pointed out that this may be simply a continuation of Ms Wolf's embarrassingly public midlife crisis/mini-breakdown from a couple of years back.

In a span of a few weeks, she was seen groping a disgusted David Horowitz on a cable panel discussion, and writing a bizarre article in which she claimed that young men's preference for sexual variety and women with trimmed/coiffed nether regions was some type of oppression and that all men should just get down on their knees, be supremely arounsed, and thank G*d for the sight of a naked woman (read, Naomi's nakedness) regardless of her state of hygiene, hirsuteness, or sexual adventurousness.

Insecure much?

I guess if women in general and Naomi in particular aren't in absolute control and making the rules in every situation, that's the same as fascism (/sarcasm off).

Posted by no mo uro 2007-10-05 06:16|| 2007-10-05 06:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred, as usual, brilliant comments.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-05 06:55|| 2007-10-05 06:55|| Front Page Top

#13 At first, it was Muslim men boarding planes who encountered problems.

It's interesting that Ms. Wolf picks this as evidence of creeping fascism. I flew on a lot of planes not long after 9/11, and I've never seen finer evidence of participatory democracy than the looks exchanged among passengers on those flights: 7A: You see him? 7D: Yeah, I see him. 8D: If this sumbitch twitches he's taking the emergency exit. Nobody said a word out loud, but George Washington would have been proud.

Posted by Matt 2007-10-05 08:07|| 2007-10-05 08:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Why do so many on the left suffer from such deep Freudian projection?

"Mommy, Tommy hit me."
"No fair, you hit me first."

Still haven't "progressed" much beyond that, have they.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-05 08:48|| 2007-10-05 08:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Wow. That woman needs some serious meds.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-05 09:38|| 2007-10-05 09:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, if I can say something in her defense, she did have one clear and shining moment of mostly-sanity in "Fire with Fire", in which she argued that doctrinaire hard-line capital "F" feminism had turned into something ugly.man-hating and controlling of other womens' lives in the name of so-called female solidarity.

She argued that women should stop the hell thinking of themselves as poor widdle abused victims - that we are strong, confident and pretty damned diverse (in political views, religon, economic outlooks, etc) and should start acting like grownups.

It was a bit of fresh air, actually. I don't know what happened to her after that; changed meds, maybe. Or perhaps the minions of doctrinaire Feminism put a horse head in her bed.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-10-05 09:44|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com] 2007-10-05 09:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Wasn't she here a few weeks back declaring that Tazered Boy in Florida was the start of the Revolution?
Quick, Naomi! What was his name?

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-05 09:55|| 2007-10-05 09:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Not that I am fond of Uncle Joe but you have to correlate with time in power and population (it is difficult to kill lots of people when you are dictator of, say, the Fiji Islands or Luxembourg°; Stalmin had much more of both.

Yah, but the only big difference there is that Stalin was a successful imperialist while Hitler was a failed one. It's not like Stalin woke up one morning and said "All these millions of people! What will I do with them?!?" He worked to gain and keep control of that large population.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-10-05 10:15|| 2007-10-05 10:15|| Front Page Top

#19 WHO'S afraid of ~~Virginia Woof~~ Naomi Wolf?

All of us who recognize that she is amongst those comparatively few "citizens" who feel Dead Set Entitled to Run America.

Fred: I think most of us vaguely remember her, the gal who told Al Gore to wear earth tones and to be macho.

Color her Bozo.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-10-05 10:26|| 2007-10-05 10:26|| Front Page Top

#20 So why hasn't Naomi been picked up yet by Bush's Blackwater goons and sent to some kinda camp in the all new facist America for letting everybody in on "the secret"?
Not a bad looking woman. But, then again, the crazy ones never looked it...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-05 10:35|| 2007-10-05 10:35|| Front Page Top

#21 Apparently the dark night of fascism is always fdescending on America and landing on Naomi Klein.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-05 10:39|| 2007-10-05 10:39|| Front Page Top

#22 What amazes me is how easy it would be for the Federal Government, or even some rogue element in the government to mess with her and have it look like an accident. I'm not even talking assassination, books are often published in Singapore and replacing pages to make her look the fool would seem fairly easy if you ask me.

Yet the proto-fascist state sits back and watches her book go up the best seller list. Well if we're fascists, or fascist wanna-bes we're not very freaking good at it I can tell you that.

I think the left has real trouble understanding that their message is unacceptable to most people and thus they don't always win elections.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-05 12:08|| 2007-10-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

#23 China in the '80s.

I call BS on this one. China was well on it's way to DOOOM long before the 80's. Maybe she's trying to correlate the "rise" of communism there to Tiannamen Square???

Posted by BA 2007-10-05 14:11|| 2007-10-05 14:11|| Front Page Top

#24 Oh, and another thing:

Also there is a a special horror in Hitler's crimes: no matter what you did good or bad, you were going to Auschwitz for the mere fact of being born from the wrong race. No escape. With Stalin you could at least try to cheer at his speeches and feign to believe that Soviet Union was a parsdise. And new borns weren't sent to Gulag.

A lot of what Stalin did (oh, for instance, the artificial famines in Ukraine, or the deportation to Siberian camps of the entire population of Chechnya) looks racially motivated if you ask me.

BTW, about half the population of Chechnya survived the experience.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-10-05 14:50|| 2007-10-05 14:50|| Front Page Top

#25 "Apparently the dark night of fascism is always descending on America and landing on Naomi Klein."

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember the dark night of fascism descending several times over the decades, strangely coinciding with every time a Republican was elected president. It's a little like that clock that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists had. They were always pushing it a little closer to midnight, since Armageddon was always just around the corner. But Armageddon never came and eventually it got so close to midnight they couldn't show it moving any closer, so they had to back it up some.

Posted by moody blues 2007-10-05 15:32|| 2007-10-05 15:32|| Front Page Top

#26

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-05 17:21|| 2007-10-05 17:21|| Front Page Top

#27 China in the '80s

The hell?

This is just more cheerleading for the left. They're working themselves up for the Rage(tm) next year.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-10-05 18:21|| 2007-10-05 18:21|| Front Page Top

#28 Fascism? What's her working definition? In Mussolini's infamous definition of the ideological concept in the Enciclopedia Italiana he wrote, "The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing, outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole of a people."

Fascism is secular islam. The President verbally attacked "Islamofascism" only once, then bowed to CAIR/ISNA correctitude. I don't treat Islamofascism as invective; it is the ideology of the worst menace ever to threaten Western Civilization. And the menace is compounded when the enemy has Fifth Columnists like Wolf-Bitch.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-05 19:13|| 2007-10-05 19:13|| Front Page Top

#29 Hey! Didn't the REAL fascists wear earth tones? Hmmmm.

Posted by WTF 2007-10-05 21:50|| 2007-10-05 21:50|| Front Page Top

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