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It’s not that easy to get Greenwald and Chait to agree on a foreign policy issue, but the genocidal ravings of Little Rambo Carlson seem to have done the trick.
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I believe P. J. O’Rourke’s first foray into conservatism (beyond generic Kennedy hatred) was a piece in National Lampoon promoting the Pants-Down Republican Party. One plank of their platform was “A firm stand on Iran (level the cities, kill the men, sell the women and children into slavery, sow the fields with salt).” At least that could have been a joke.
An awful lot of what PJ intended as humour seems to have been taken up in latter days as serious policy pronouncements (except alas the more-drugs-and-hot-sex bits)
Well when there’s so little there to indicate that his words are supposed to be humor, that’s bound to happen eventually.
Being written in National Lampoon won’t clue people in?
Being published in National Lampoon is the clue that little humor is involved.
Oh, hell, I thought you were exaggerating about genocide, but he really did say exactly that. Backed off it in an email exchange with Greenwald, though–and oddly (his head must be spinning so much, it’s a wonder it doesn’t fly away) claimed to have been trying to express concern about, and opposition to, a potential attack on Iran by the Obama Adminstration.
Yes, nothing says “moral authority” more than the annihilation of another country. Especially one who hasn’t attacked you.
MotherTucker, will you grant that I have the “moral authority” to annihilate you because I think you’re evil and stupid and ignorant, and bent on getting the US into another pointless war (in which you won’t serve)?
I didn’t think so.
Paul Bibeau just made the same point in his blog, although he was a bit more tongue-in-cheek (http://paulbibeau.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-letter-to-rick-santorum-from-satan.html).
“[The United States] will become such an ugly portrait of hypocrisy and cruelty that people will reject these ideas you had the good fortune to discover.”
it isnt already?
I thought the sentence right before that (“[The U.S. is] the only country that doesn’t seek hegemony in the world.”) was even more ridiculous. The ONLY country.
Unless, of course, you read it as a case of the US not seeking what it already has.
We seek no wider hegemony.
This is the only world that the US seeks to rule.
Except the moon.
Oh and maybe Mars
there are lots of good minerals in the asteroid belt, although that is more of a failed world than a world in good international standing
” in good intrastellar standing”
+1 Hogan
Quite. That might be the most ridiculous sentence ever constructed. Whether the U.S. seeks hegemony over the world is, perhaps, disputable, but that no other country is in a position to even consider seeking such hegemony is about as absolute as truth gets.
I don’t know. Perhaps the Prince of Liechtenstein is constructing a doomsday weather controlling device deep in the heart of the Alps?
He rather looks like he could be a Bond villain, no?
With the right suit of armor he could be Dr. Doom.
the photo cut off before displaying his white cat, Schnitzi!
I stand corrected.
Grand Fenwick is definitely up to something.
OK, fine, the Bond villains have infiltrated Lichtenstein.
At least we know the American intelligence community hasn’t been compromised.
Carlson is clearly working on padding the ol’ CV.
Bill Kristol is 59. Carlson must figure Bill’s going to be hanging up his shit-eating grin in another couple of years, and there’s going to be an opening for the Village’s next go-to warmongering sociopath who’s always wrong about everything (aka “Washington’s Most Punchable Face”).
The only problem with Washington’s Most Punchable Face is that you never actually get an opportunity to punch them in the face.
Oh, come on, people. You need to reed the NY Mag comment thread to be set straight. The only alternative to pre-emptively murdering every man, woman, and child in Iran with nuclear fire is to turn the other cheek as they use their still-hypothetical atom bomb to destroy Israel and the United States. You surrender monkeys make me sick. If you had your way, the flag of hegemonic Luxembourg would already be flying over our land.
What is the deal with the awfulness of Chait’s comment threads? 75% of them are horrible. And it’s not just that there’s a lot of right wing nutters. There’s also a lot of people who think it’s interesting to constantly talk about how this is New York magazine, not some partisan rag,* and they don’t understand how such an elite publication could hire someone like Chait to dirty it up.
*Note: They also seem to have confused New York with the New Yorker.
Funny thing is, Carlson, despite his genocidal rhetoric, is actually opposed to a military strike on Iran and became a critic of the Iraq War. Say what you will about him — and there are few pundits I loathe more — he’s a relatively mild imperialist next to neocons like, say, Joe Lieberman, who actually has a bill designed to start a war with Iran.
despite his genocidal rhetoric, is actually opposed to a military strike on Iran
OK, wait, despite the fact that he wants to wipe Iran off the map, he actually opposes wiping Iran off the map? Sorry, does not compute.
The only way that statement makes any sense is that he was lying when he went on Fox News, and he’s telling the truth when he tells Greenwald that he’s actually against war with Iran.
He’s willing to say either, depending on the situation. That puts him ahead of people who are only willing to call for annihilation, right?
Say what you like about genocidal racism, at least it’s an ethos.
Glenn Reynolds in a bowtie? Perish the thought. Glenn Reynolds has an audience of law students who have paid good money to sit through his classes (well, somebody’s classes anyways)Carlson ceased to hold any sway over the national conversation about ten seconds after Jon Stewart went on Tucker’s show and, in one of the finest moments in broadcast history, called him a dick to his face.
This is just another example of a faded, marginal right-wing attention whore flashing his metaphorical tits at the crowd in the bar in the hopes of finding a paying trick.
Watch and wait and in due time you’ll see Ann Coulter try to top him to get some free publicity by saying we should nuke Syria first, as an object lesson to Iran, then demand that Iraq attack Iran for the U.S.
That aside, Tucker did remind me of a great German word I learned in the George W. Bush era.
metaphorical tits….
They attract metaphorical sailors to have metaphorical sex, which is the only kind of which Senator Savonarola approves.
I did not think it possible, but I do believe that you have just insulted Reynolds.