http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601624.html?referrer=emailarticleSomeone call this guy a "Waaaahmbulance". The below article appeared in the VA Pilot on Sunday under the heading "Hate". Seems this guy, that I had never heard of before Sunday wrote some piece of crap book blaming liberals for everything from 9/11 to the Lindberg kidnapping, then can't quite understand why people might be a tad angry with him. I tell you, I'm convinced that no-one does righteous indignation, or plays the "victim" like a right-winger can. I'm tempted to urge Mr D'Souza to listen to a few hours of talk radio, or read a book written by Hannity or Coulter if he wants to see what hate is.
Anyway, I'm drafting my letter to the editor in response to this dribble. Wanted to share this with DU'ers who may have seen the same article in your Sunday papers, and urge you to write to the editors of papers where this whiny little article occurred. This little "pissant" needs to get smacked senseless. Hope that's not too "hateful" for you Mr D'Souza.
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"As a conservative author, I'm used to a little controversy. Even so, the reaction to my new book, "The Enemy at Home," has felt, well, a little hysterical.
"Ratfink writes new book," James Wolcott, cultural critic for Vanity Fair, declares in his blog. He goes on to call my book a "sleazy, shameless, ignorant, ahistorical, tendentious, meretricious lie."
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It goes on. The Washington Post's Warren Bass writes that I think Jerry Falwell was "on to something" when he blamed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on pagans, gays and the ACLU. Slate's Timothy Noah diagnoses me with "Mullah envy," while the Nation's Katha Pollitt calls me a "surrender monkey" and the headline to her article brands me "Ayatollah D'Souza." And in my recent appearance on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," I had to fend off the insistent host. "But you agree with the Islamic radicals, don't you?" Stephen Colbert asked again and again.
Why the onslaught? Just this: In my book, published this month, I argue that the American left bears a measure of responsibility for the volcano of anger from the Muslim world that produced the 9/11 attacks. President Jimmy Carter's withdrawal of support for the shah of Iran, for example, helped Ayatollah Khomeini's regime come to power in Iran, thus giving radical Islamists control of a major state; and President Bill Clinton's failure to respond to Islamic attacks confirmed bin Laden's perceptions of U.S. weakness and emboldened him to strike on 9/11. I also argue that the policies that U.S. "progressives" promote around the world -- including abortion rights, contraception for teenagers and gay rights -- are viewed as an assault on traditional values by many cultures, and have contributed to the blowback of Islamic rage."
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This guy could probably go on for days blaming Clinton and Carter for every evil under the sun. It's as if the Reagan and Bush I/II Presidencie had never occurred. Not one mention of St Ronnie arming Bin Laden to the teeth. Not one mention of GHWB providing comprehensive training to Bin Laden on weapons, tactics, terror and covert operations. Not one mention of Royal Saudi family's ownership of George the elder and George the younger.
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