tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734864.post8226552702199940074..comments2024-01-04T08:02:29.500-05:00Comments on Attempts: What We Have to FearStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16524368948187746248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734864.post-80866700292127898662008-09-12T11:20:00.000-04:002008-09-12T11:20:00.000-04:00Saying can make it so.I don't think this is true, ...<I>Saying can make it so.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't think this is true, any more than saying "George W. Bush is a great American and a warrior-king out of the opium dreams of John Norman" makes that true.<BR/><BR/>The populist power of the mass media has made people unusually sensitive to, and inclined to parse the daylights out of, every utterance, whether out of the mouth of Sarah Palin on CNN or Terrell Owens on ESPN, but such sensitivies are more than half disingenuous adaptations to the economy of offendedness that makes up the part of the American mind that isn't too drunk and stupid to function.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734864.post-2357947813607300342008-09-09T16:11:00.000-04:002008-09-09T16:11:00.000-04:00Much simpler to suggest more preemption, more war,...<I>Much simpler to suggest more preemption, more war, more deaths of other people, far away, where we won't have to look at them.</I><BR/><BR/>Far away from the US populace, but not far away from Goldberg, given that his main concern in life seems to be the continuation of Jewish apartheid policy in Israel. <BR/><BR/>Now that I've said that, by Goldberg's standards, I'm a raging anti-Semite. Yay!goetheanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15719480062271188223noreply@blogger.com