Useful Fools

Posted By John Moore on January 24, 2004

Elizabeth Nickson has written a fine article in Canada’s National Post. Normally I don’t pay much attention to Canada, as it turned itself into an irrelevancy in almost every way… a pleasant one to visit… but about as important as Luxembourg.

But this was a fun piece of writing… and I recommend it.

A few quotes:

The Americans can have a war of ideas and we can’t discuss anything. Because anything not out of the Bigger Government playbook is called right-wing extremism, and worse Christian, and thus demonized. Meanwhile, the sleepiest country in the world, which lives next door to the most vibrant country in the world, continues to tumble into the wormhole of complete irrelevance.

and this gem:

And on Tuesday, the State of the Union. You’d have to go back to the Greeks to find theatre like that. There was the scarlet-faced Ted Kennedy stuffed into his $2,500 suit, and the harridan Hillary, her selfish little ferret face looking punched and puffy, like the schoolyard bully she is. As every policy initiative slipped from their grasp, the Democratic side of the aisle, visibly shrank. It was bliss, bliss, bliss.

and this:

Meanwhile, in the States, everyone is talking ideas. What’s working, what is not. Yes, it sounds vulgar and loud. And some of it is egregious. There are flagrant lies on the left and the right. A lot of it is bonkers. Most people in the entertainment left, for instance, firmly believe that Bush is part of some infernal conspiracy that aims to strip the planet of oil, and control its price forever. With the next breath, they charge he’s so stupid, he can’t find his feet. Some think the CIA planned 9/11 so that we would support Israel. The rhetoric is astonishing, even from the so-called sane. George Soros announced that “America under Bush is a danger to the world.” Excuse me? Does he need lithium? Columbia professor Nicholas de Genova called for “a million Mogadishus.” A Berkeley professor claims that the U.S. planned the Bali bombing. The entertainment elites specialize in using their soft power to insult their government whenever they get a microphone in their hands and don’t have a script.

At least they’re alive. Up here, with the exception of the Post, most of our press is so conciliatory and so boring, no one bothers to read or watch it.

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