Apparently, it's the Globe and Mail's turn to weigh in on Mark Steyn:
Mark Steyn is a wonderful and prolific journalist, Canadian by birth, American by residence. I first encountered his writings in Britain's The Spectator, one of the most elegant political and literary magazines published in English. An urbane, witty, insightful observer of U.S. politics, he shared the magazine's moderate conservative point of view.
How, then, could he write America Alone? It is quite possibly the most crass and vulgar book about the West's relationship with the Islamic world I have ever encountered.
Fucking liberal media, right?
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"How, then, could he write America Alone? It is quite possibly the most crass and vulgar book about the West's relationship with the Islamic world I have ever encountered."
Hmmm, a right wing guy with a Afrikaans name demonizes an entire ethnic group with a gross generalization? I wonder?
How, then, could he write America Alone?
If William Christian is being sincere here, then I'm a little shocked at his naïveté. There have always been clues in the writings of people like Mark Steyn that show what they are capable of that manifest themselves more crudely eventually. Arrogance, judgementality, lack of empathy, humour that is rarely self-deprecating, faux-erudition and dilletantism (especially with regard to history and philosophy) and, most gravely, absence of self-awareness. Guys like this (P.J. O'Rourke after 2000, Dennis Miller) eventually reveal themselves to be the sneering frat-boys they've always been. When the fashion starts turning against them, they become snarly and sullen.
Fresh stain:
"I love Kathy Shaidle up in Canada. I had the pleasure of introducing her to the editor of the National Post up there and that guy is wasting his time trying to re-hire me every day of the week and I said to him, "Man, that Kathy is the wave of the future. You should hire Kathy," but I don't think he took her phone number as he should have done."
Ouch. He's really cruel, isn't he?
Gotta love this:
The reason there are no Canadian troops in Iraq is because French-speaking Quebec took a different view from English speaking Canada on that and the French speakers prevailed.
Really? That's what it was? The French speakers?
Amazing, just speaking French is now enough to make one a cut-and-runner. While speaking English, apparently, makes you susceptible to quagmires. I'd better look out.
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