Comments on: Hitchens is almost right

By: Jeremayakovka

Jeremayakovka — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:34:59 +0000

(I can’t think of it’s name, but the essay is in her collection, “How To Talk To A LIberal….”

By: Jeremayakovka

Jeremayakovka — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:32:50 +0000

One Ann Coulter essay that made a strong impression on me is the one where she writes appreciatively of he Southern military tradition. She affirms American fighting spirit - generations of heroes coming from the Deep South (Sgt. York, e.g.) - as being especially, even disproportionately, Southern, and allows a necessary link between mroe recent Southern military men today and their (dare I say?) “roots” sources in the Confederacy.

It’s one of the least bilious pieces she’s ever written.

By: swampacreage

swampacreage — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:52:59 +0000

Stick a pole up your butt.(could be a Freudian slip on his part ) Huckabee .Some Christians and others as well to be fair just want to reach and hurt you with all that love (not that there is anything wrong with that. . . the love not the hurtin ) !

By: Trimegistus

Trimegistus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:38:51 +0000

Racism aside, it’s about judgement. A significant proportion of the people in this country find the Confederate battle flag offensive. A national leader should be aware of that and, as a matter of sheer politeness, accomodate them. Doing otherwise shows poor judgement or a stunning ignorance.

By: Earl

Earl — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:22:38 +0000

Just wait until Huckabee (and to a lesser extent this goes for McCain, as well) is the Republican nominee — guess just how long the “free pass” for all KINDS of things will last…..

Mike and John, being pretty well convinced that it’s something about their personal warmth, charisma, or “non-GW” personalities that has the media fawning on them, are in for a HUGE surprise, if (God forbid) they win enough votes to be the candidate from the “right wing”……..

By: Synova

Synova — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:49:50 +0000

“I don’t know that it’s any more “inextricably” entwined with the KKK and Jim Crow than it is with Scarlett O’Hara, dogs named Blue, or fast orange cars;”

Agree.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:43:02 +0000

Sparrow, I wasn’t saying Huck’s racist because he gives political speeches in churches. I was saying that the MSM tends to have a problem when conservatives give speeches from pulpits, but no problem — indeed, they’re boastful — when liberals do the same.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:16:29 +0000

Inevitably a defense of things such as the Confederate flag can be made to seem racist - it can be made to seem almost whatever anybody wants. I don’t know that it’s any more “inextricably” entwined with the KKK and Jim Crow than it is with Scarlett O’Hara, dogs named Blue, or fast orange cars; but it is a state issue that doesn’t have any place in a presidential campaign.

It isn’t fodder for anyone wishing to head up the Confederation; which is what the job of president translates to. (Isn’t it interesting that the old South had the precise, identical governmental model that Jefferson, Adams, et al did, only they even went so far as to actually call it a confederation, which Jefferson, Adams et al did not.)

But political “racism?” I think not - what would be the point? I don’t know what Huckabee actually said, and I don’t much like him; but I don’t find him “vulgar” or “stupid,” and I don’t know enough about him to know if he’s sunk in the depths of “bigotry.”

Christopher Hitchens, who to my eye always seems to be extraordinarily satisfied with himself and his own general brilliance when I see him on the tube, evidently knows Huckabee quite well, and can speak to these things. We are fortunate to have his incisive mind available to us to allow us to see through that “slick cover” to the underlying racism. (Though Christopher doesn’t explain where this s***kicker ever acquired a “slick cover,” I notice.)

I don’t think that’s the case, either. The media would love to have Huckabee, or McCain as the GOP nominee, because neither is a danger to win. McCain is so widely disliked he would’nt get all the republican voters even in the face of Hillary.

By: sparrow

sparrow — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:07:43 +0000

You lost me at the end of this post. I can’t think of any presidential candidate from either party that hasn’t given a stump speech from a pulpit. That has nothing to do with Huckabee being a racist.