September
27th 2009
Posted under Political Correctness
Meanwhile, Neocon Victor Davis Hanson defends Charles Johnson in his smear attacks on Robert McCain. And what a coincidence that Johnson cites the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center as “proof” of his accusations against McCain.
Bede on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:09 pm #
It’s official: Little Green Footballs is now a left-wing site (as if it were ever otherwise!):
http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/hot-air-re-classifies-lgf/
HarrisonBergeron2 on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:27 pm #
Bede,
Thing is, Johnson has long admitted he came from the left side of the political spectrum. As Neoconservatism gelled in the public consciousness after 9/11, it was inevitable he identified with it. His ideological mentors are Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer. In other words, Israel First, globalism, hatred of the South, and Lincoln idolatry.
Bede on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:58 pm #
I know…I was just needling
Apparently McCain is on the warpath, having sworn the ancient Gaelic war oath of Clan Cameron: Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil! (”Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh!”)
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/09/21/ongoing-self-destruction-of-lgfs-charles-johnson/
S.L. Toddard on 28 Sep 2009 at 7:56 pm #
I’ve never been a fan of Robert Stacy McCain. After sporadically reading his AmSpec pieces and – very seldomly – his blog, I had no idea there was more to him than his trite, supremely conventional cliche-spouting and obnoxious, dated, real-men-don’t-eat-quiche chest-beating. The man reveres “conservative” talk show celebrities and other Fox News Right media stars of the sort who believe “conservatism” and “GOP platform” are synonymous. I was dismayed that he was writing his conventional, boring dreck for Takimag, and wrote to the editor more than once to protest.
If it weren’t for this LGF dust-up (which I only know about from this site), I’d never have known he was a southern patriot, a League of the South partisan, and someone who’d written pieces so challenging to the PC Thought Police that they drew fire from their elite guard, the SPLC.
It would be enough to make me a fan, if only he’d stop writing the sort of hackneyed, parochial hogwash that would be more at home at NRO than Takimag.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 28 Sep 2009 at 8:17 pm #
S.L. Toddard,
Well, I’ve heard he’s actually a decent fellow, and a committed Christian. I believe a lot of what you’re seeing on his site is part of the character he’s created for his blog.
RedPhillips on 29 Sep 2009 at 1:04 am #
I let RSM know via Facebook that we are talking about him. Maybe he will chime in here.
Based on a few things he has written and hunch, I think RSM recognizes the two sides of the foreign policy debate are pretty much incompatible. So he attempts to downplay it. I think he see the primary division as being between true believers and RINOs, not paleo vs. neo.
Personally, I don’t mind defenses of Limbaugh or Levin from a true believer vs. RINO perspective as long as they come with a big caveat on foreign policy and the other things that distinguish us. Some have done this, but I think it is a mistake to consider the RINO critics closer to being our friends because they are criticizing our common enemy. IMO, we have more in common with Limbaugh, all things considered, than we do Frum and Brooks.
S.L. Toddard on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:34 am #
“we have more in common with Limbaugh, all things considered, than we do Frum and Brooks.”
While that may be true. Frum and Limbaugh have more in common with each other, I think – despite Frum’s anti-populism and criticism of Limbaugh – than either do with us.
Tom Piatak on 29 Sep 2009 at 6:58 pm #
Charles Johnson has been a left-wing smear artist obsessed with “fascism” for a long time. The question is, how does this in anyway distinguish him from the conventional conservative movement, which has convinced itself, of all things, that Obama and Hillary are “fascists?”
RedPhillips on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:18 pm #
“While that may be true. Frum and Limbaugh have more in common with each other, I think – despite Frum’s anti-populism and criticism of Limbaugh – than either do with us.”
On policy this is correct, but I think there is more to the true-believer vs. moderate distinction than policy. It is a temperamental disposition. A state of mind. So it is in our best interest to foster “true-believerism”, so to speak, vs. moderation as a good unto itself. We just need the true-believers to believe the right thing.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Sep 2009 at 9:24 pm #
Red Phillips said, “I let RSM know via Facebook that we are talking about him. Maybe he will chime in here.”
Or maybe McCain chimed in by deleting American Power from his blogroll.
Some folks just can’t stand backstabbers.