Why I no longer read Harper's Magazine
It used to be good -- fair and balanced but San Francisco libtard Lewis Lapham, as Senior Editor, has made it a cess-pit of non-critical thinking and calumny.
Hat tip to
Instapundit for this link to
Jammie Wearing Fool:
'Why a Requiem Mass for a Pet Canary?'
Wow, this guy sounds like a real Class A douchebag. Was probably just jealous Tim Russert achieved fame and respect far beyond anything he could imagine.Friends and family of Tim Russert are saddened by a piece in Harper's magazine by Lewis Lapham, who characterizes the late host of NBC's "Meet the Press" as a toady of the establishment and asks, "Why a requiem Mass for a pet canary?"
Russert died June 13 of a heart attack at age 58, and soon "the story was being wrapped up in the ribbons of a national tragedy, up there in lights with the death of President Ronald Reagan and the loss of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer on the field at the Little Bighorn," Lapham writes in the September issue.
The article about Lapham's post goes on for a while and then JammieWearingFool closes with these three wonderful links:
A search for this dope turned up this paean to the odious Molly Ivins, so you have an idea where the old coot is coming from. And if you want the true essence of moonbattery, check out this interview with the psychotic Bill Moyers.
His crowning journalistic achievement was traveling ahead in time to witness the 2004 GOP Convention.
Classy guy.
The Bill Moyers interview was an eye-opener. Moyer was perfect in every way for the Joseph Campbell interviews but the one with Lewis Lapham at the above link is jaw-droppingly brain-dead.
These two people talk about the Oligarchy of the rich when they themselves are the oligarchy of the willfully deluded and the cabal of the morally and intellectually weak.
The joke is that they seriously think that they are seeing things as they actually are and that they are correct in their assumptions and conclusions.
Posted by DaveH at August 17, 2008 6:53 PM