the thing is so good it is almost not American.
And this bit of smug, preening bullshit from TNR’s Leon Wieseltier is precisely what is wrong with the American academy today.
Consider what Wieseltier is actually saying here: If something reaches a pinnacle of quality, then it cannot be American. It must be un-American because, as everybody he knows, reads, or speaks with is aware, America can only produce crap. So a fictional television “study” of a mob of neurotics clustered around sociopaths and psychopaths engaged in a murderous criminal enterprise is “art” so “good,” it must be “not American.”
But never question their love for America. That would be evil.
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Almost not American?! That’s pretty offensive.
But it’s also the most stupid critical remark I’ve ever seen. The writing, which is what LW loves, decends straight from DAVID FUCKING MAMET! “American Buffalo” David Fucking Mamet; “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” DFM; All American DFM. Stupid Fuck!!
In the 60s one of the most famous quotes from the then-relevant ‘Peanuts” cartoon strip was one when of the characters said, “I love humanity; it’s people I can’t stand.” The Left of today says, “I love America; it’s Americans and everything they do, say or stand for that I can’t stand.”
It’s pretentious to represent this type of view/humor/satire/”get it?” as “men’s rights.”
That’s OK, you can stop representing this man’s rights, making neanderthals out of us.
Fred Thompson doesn’t need endorsement like yours, MS. H.
Wow, is this a woman saying that porn is OK….who needs enemies when your own endorses porn? I guess you endorse perverts’ expression of lust for boys, for child porn while you are at it…not a crime, really? FYI, Miss America just participated in a successful sting arresting internet child sex solicitors - THAT EXPRESSION, MY FRIEND, IS A CRIME…what do you do for a living?
Based on the FBI sting, expression in interest in PORN is obviously a crime, Fat head
Probably is a porn user soliciting on the internet, masquerading as “Helen.” Should put a sting on her.
Hey look, crazy people.
Too ambiguous. Arer you pointing at something, or addressing us?
Maybe I’m missing something, but pretty much everything from Anon on down reads like it came from a contextless text generator (except for the quoted parts).
The long post from Anon is a cut and paste from Insty’s wife Dr. Helen. The rest is troll spam.
Yeah, Dan, but why did the Instawife thing end up here?
Maybe they got Daily Pundit confused with Instapundit?
Or maybe somebody got an extra hour of leave from the booby hatch?