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Jewish World Review
Sept. 28, 2011
/ 29 Elul, 5771
Leftist bugbears on the march
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Jay Ambrose
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The New York Review of Books is more treat than trick in offering up penetrating articles on virtually any subject you can name except politics. Then, some writer will ordinarily put on a bugbear mask to scare the sanity out of us, as a journalist named Michael Tomasky recently did.
His is a piece worth mentioning because it's so typical of his tribe fretting about extremism when the world tries to escape leftist clutches.
He reviews two books, including one by popular conservative commentator Ann Coulter, calling her a hater and thereby sounding vicious himself. He says you won't find many mainstream readers of liberal authors who overreach the bounds as he thinks she does. Maybe that's because reading is not their forte and they watch TV instead, zeroing in on the fortifying likes of Chris Matthews and Bill Maher.
Referring to the killing of a character in a James Bond movie, Matthews once said that someday someone will "jam a CO2 pellet gun" into the head of Rush Limbaugh "and he's going to explode like a giant blimp," adding, "we'll be there to watch."
If viewers missed that good-natured humor, maybe they caught comedian Maher falsely kidding about Pope Benedict XVI having been a Nazi and calling the Catholic Church a "child-abusing religious cult." Any new material out there? The left's spiteful digs at religion are getting old.
Consider Bill Keller, a New York Times columnist who compared Christians to people who believe space aliens live among us. I myself believe only one does -- Keller -- though I could be wrong. I am much more confident that his ideological suppositions are a mud puddle next to the oceanic depths of the Christian faith.
The left is unrestrained in its Tea Party abuse. Tomasky thinks members are dastardly yokels, even though some top-drawer intellectuals share many of their worries.
Maher and others call them racist. Some call them terrorists. Is this hate? It certainly is if you're going to call Coulter a hater. Though I have not read, "Demonic," the book under review, I do know her work and find that in her satirical moods she is funny where Maher is merely bigoted. Her special gift is seeing through shibboleths in a mini-second, mostly upsetting the left by making sense.
That thought brings us to another Tomasky heart attack, the debt deal, which was "a moral low point" for Obama apparently because of no certainty of higher taxes that would be ruinous during this recession.
Tomasky, who says there was a time when Republicans would not demand budget cuts to vote for a higher debt limit, neglects to mention that Obama did that very thing as a Democratic senator -- and when we did not face the debt peril we do today. The columnist George F. Will -- a conservative intellect of the kind Tomasky seems to think is now neutered -- has pointed out that the deal could mean the government would have to "scrape by on $43.7 trillion rather than $46.1 trillion" over the next decade.
There's lots more here, such as Tomasky apparently not knowing that Fox News has liberal staffers and always has liberal rebuttals on its commentary shows, but let's let him sum up his chief points.
"The conservative rhetoric factory has persuaded millions of Americans that Democrats and liberals are evil, that the poor are lazy, that government is incapable of any good, and that the press, television and Internet are in on the conspiracy to make sure they all triumph at the expense of everyone else."
The nearer truth is that the liberal rhetoric factory has persuaded millions that Republicans and conservatives are stupid and lack compassion, that near-limitless government is incapable of harm unless George W. Bush is president, that radio should be censored because Limbaugh is on it and that most conservative causes, even including fights for liberty, are manipulated by the greedy.
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Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers and the editor of dailies in El Paso, Texas, and Denver, is a columnist living in Colorado.
Previously:
• 09/23/11: Still hope for coal to help us
• 09/21/11: Obama's Madoff ploy
• 09/19/11: U.S. can't afford to wait until it happens
• 09/14/11: Defending -- and strengthening -- gung ho collectivism
• 09/12/11: A pipeline to better times
• 09/08/11: Obama just keeps destroying jobs
• 09/06/11: Ultra-feminists thwarting justice
• 08/31/11: Corporations are people? Yes, Count the ways
• 08/26/11: What an earthquake tells us about debt
• 08/25/11: The tyranny of scientific consensus
• 08/23/11: Fracking hardly a public health threat
• 08/17/11: Why Obamacare won't control births
• 08/15/11: Balanced budget amendment unbalanced idea
• 08/10/11: Kerry's war on citizen speech
• 08/05/11: Upside to the compromise leaving the door open for obnoxious maneuvers
• 08/03/11: The people who may save America
• 07/29/11: On making deals, Obama is no LBJ
• 07/27/11: The threat behind the debt
• 07/23/11: Mean opposition to means-testing
• 07/20/11: Leftist babble makes debt crisis even worse
• 07/18/11: Time to raise demagoguery ceiling
• 07/13/11: Obama treating treaties badly
• 07/08/11: Is decline of U.S. exaggerated?
• 07/05/11: Not math deficiency, but demagoguery
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