March
24th 2010
Posted under Media
PCR is signing off. I don’t always agree with PCR, and I think his rhetoric is sometimes so overheated that it becomes counterproductive. He often gives the uninformed the ammunition they need to too easily mischaracterize him as a leftist instead of the rightist critic of the current regime that he is. But that said, he will be greatly missed.
As an aside, if you have ever heard PCR on the radio, he has a very pleasant, old school, upper class southern accent, a distinctive kind of intra-Southern accent that you rarely hear in these modern days of amalgamation.
Bruce on 24 Mar 2010 at 8:27 pm #
My concern has always been that someone stumbling upon VDARE, Chronicles, etc. for the first time would find his hyperbolic, over-the-top style so troubling that they’d think we’re all nuts.
That said, he’s been inside the beltway more than any of us and I’m sure he’s right about how bad the pols really are.
Weaver on 25 Mar 2010 at 11:21 am #
He’s off on some conspiracies I fear, but he’s one of the few who grasps economics.
Sean Scallon on 25 Mar 2010 at 10:00 pm #
I suspect some of his hyperbole comes from sense of loss, of what was and what will never be again and trying to get people as outraged as he was. You don’t write columns like this unless you’ve pretty much given up hope.
It seems long ago there was some nirvana that was inhabited by older writers and gentlemen that has disappeared for good and thus results in melancholy and despair. That some still carry on must amaze even them. Since I’m not sure what this nirvana was or what it was supposed to be about, I can’t say “We’re all screwed, good-bye!”
Perhaps that’s our best defense, knowing there’s something better rather bemoaning the lost Golden Age.
Matt Weber on 26 Mar 2010 at 2:23 pm #
If PCR didn’t want to be mischaracterized as a leftist, he probably should have refrained from publishing his articles at leftist sites. It seems to be a common problem with paleos; they get so agitated over war and empire that they end up downplaying their conservatism to blend in with the anti-war leftists.