It’s good to see that the Guardian’s CiF has a sense of humour. This spoof CiF article by “Rebecca Solnit” manages to take the piss beautifully out of that smug type of leftist Bush=Hitler thinking.
I mean, that absolute belief in ones own moral superiority – nobody could be that self-righteous, could they? Wonderfully well done.
My guess is, it’s really Craig Brown.
Nope, not a spoof.
http://www.alternet.org/authors/5857
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Well, George Soros upped the ante when he called for the ‘de-nazification’ of America. Where else can the Rococo Leftists go but up up up into total hyperbolic meaninglessness?
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The beautiful irony of the comments, first demonising Bush’s Iraq warmongering strategy, and then suggesting they use random violence to enforce regime change.
Realisation that the liberal democracy these people so cherish can only be got via the barrel of a gun is enough to send their little pacifist brains popping out of their ears, without even stopping to consider the contradiction in abusing established democracies via gun which they propose.
Surely if they are willing to actively defy democractic principles and resort to violence to realise political change, then Bush and his military endeavours to bring democracy to the Middle East must be in line with that, he should be praised not demonised by these people.
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As Tim says, it’s not a spoof. But an acquaintance of mine, “Schroeder”, posted a comment this morning on CiF asking whether it was a spoof, and it didn’t take long for the comment to disappear.
Today was the first time I’d looked at CiF in weeks, and it’s all your fault, Mick.
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I thought denazification was a Chomsky original.
Also, was I the only person thinking that Solnit was channeling Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler? This pin. Two webvideos on MoveOn.org. This is gold. Two more videos. They would have given me two for it, at least one. One more Bush=Hitler picture. A vote. For this. [sobbing] I could have gotten one more vote… and I didn’t! And I… I didn’t!
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Soros used the “de-nazification” remark, but lately backed away from it when Podhoretz gave a little bit of Soros’ own background. I always suspected he picked it up from Chomsky. There is nothing very original in Soros anyway.
Chomsky seems to have backed away from the remark too, but in a very clumsy sort of way, just like he claimed the “silent genocide in Afghanistan” remark was misunderstood. Oliver Kamm has several posts on all this. Chomsky turns up looking pretty bad.
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