Check out this piece of tripe in the NY Times. It's on that tired old workhorse, "anti-Americanism." James Traub's argument here is that you have no mind if you listen to Pinter, Comsky, Fo, Vidal, etc., but then he also manages to pin the irrationality on the "elite," putting Nobel Prize winning writers in the same category as all of us flaming left-wing academics. Traub should have gone to school -- he would have seen how many of us actually do teach.
"You are not rational. Go to de-irrationalization chamber now."
While you may not buy into the rhetoric of Vidal, Pinter, Chomsky, et al., and you might get tired of dumbasses conflating any criticism at all with "hating America," this piece in the NY Times is a hack job, pure hackery, drawn from the pages of a poorly written right-wing blog. I'm just wondering how it got there.
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One reason I am furious w/ this madministration is that their cabalistic activity is so ubiquitous that I have now become a conspiracy theorist myself. Whereas before I would have chalked Traub's piece up to intellecutal laziness or a specious editorialism sneaking through, now I do (and did) wonder how that piece, which was utter tripe, made it into the NYT. It ain't no accident that "anti-Murkanism" rears its predictable head just now when criticisms of the empire are (re)surfacing.
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