Huffington Post calls for military takeover of US
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Tags: people who think muslims are coming over and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, strawmen
Tags: people who think muslims are coming over and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, strawmen
...or so says Mark Steyn, the Canadian conservative who blogs for National Review and appears on right-wing talk shows to call the Vietnamese "gooks" from time to time:
The obvious problem here is that everyone and their mother writes for Huffington Post (though some of those writing for HuffPo are smarter than others), and that it's generally silly, even in the context of a joke, to argue that one opinion columnist represents a given media outlet (much less "the American left") as a whole. One might as well argue that all right-wingers are "gook"-spouting Canadian paranoids who genuinely fear a radical Islamic takeover of the West in the coming years and think it prudent to bomb Iran as soon as possible.
The American left completes its long strange trip of the last 40 years. The Huffington Post is now calling for military usurpation of civil authority and has volunteered General Peter Pace for the Musharraf/Pinochet/Master Sergeant Sam Doe role:
The obvious problem here is that everyone and their mother writes for Huffington Post (though some of those writing for HuffPo are smarter than others), and that it's generally silly, even in the context of a joke, to argue that one opinion columnist represents a given media outlet (much less "the American left") as a whole. One might as well argue that all right-wingers are "gook"-spouting Canadian paranoids who genuinely fear a radical Islamic takeover of the West in the coming years and think it prudent to bomb Iran as soon as possible.
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