August 21, 2008
Intellectual Insanity in Our Time. Failed author and weird historian Allen Lichtman says McCain sparked the Georgia War. Maybe. Sort of."If this information is correct, then, by inference, John McCain emerges as the most likely suspect as agent provocateur." -John McCain as Agent Provocateur in the Georgia/Russia Crisis? Allen LichtmanI just love it when they punch in that little question mark right at the end, don't you? That way when the lunacy is revealed the claim is, "Who me? I was just asking a question." Lichtman's "questions" are of course followed at the end by a host of demands: "McCain must explain... must explain...." McCain must reveal...." "The American people deserve no less...." We're sure Senator McCain will be getting right back to you on that, Professor. Stay by your phone. Sadly, this heap of Pecksniffian innuendo is brought to you via "The Britannica Blog - Where Ideas Matter." Another example of runaway brand deflation. Lichtman is more at home on the odious Counterpunch.org where conspiracies go to die. There he also brings you When General Petraeus Speaks, Don't Listen ... and explains why he's just like Martin Luther King except that he's white, Allan Lichtman: Letter from the Baltimore County Jail. Lichtman, for whom it will always be 1968, has also committed a book to showcase his deeper obsession, “White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement,” which is ably eviscerated by David Frum HERE. All of which proves once again that the groves of academe now contain vast forests of petrified wood.
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Wow, what a radical notion, a "White Protestant Nation." Is that what "conservatives" are up to?
Gee, I wonder what we were when the Founding Fathers first got the ball rolling? Ethiopean Coptic? And what about that 50% or so who are "White Protesttant" now?
Posted by: Roderick Reilly at August 21, 2008 10:30 AM
Uhh, Roderick? Did you read the links? Or are you being sarcastic and it just flew past me?
Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 21, 2008 5:39 PM
Thanks Mickey. Savin' me keystrokes.
Posted by: vanderleun at August 21, 2008 6:08 PM
Hey, myself included, there are some Orthodox (maybe not Copts, but still) Christians as well. We are anything BUT Protestant...
Most people on the exterior of conservatism think that because the Left leaves its guts all over the park the conservatives do too.
Posted by: RiverC at August 22, 2008 7:10 AM