Are They All Mad?
Charles Johnson
Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 10:38 am PST • Views: 345
Here’s a great piece at Australia’s Herald Sun by Andrew Bolt, on that self-loathing icon of the idiotarian left, Robert Fisk … appropriately titled: Are they all mad? (Hat tip: Simon.)
Many of Tony Blair’s former comrades defend not democracy but mass-murdering fascists and head-lopping Islamists.
Yes, Tony Blair did sound good when he spoke to our Parliament on Monday about Iraq.
No wonder the commentators were awed. But here’s his trick: it’s easy for the British Labour Prime Minister to sound so sane, because much of the rest of the Left sounds so mad.I mean, did you hear writer Robert Fisk, in a special ABC broadcast of his speech just the night before, suggest the September 11 attacks may have been the work of … Americans?
What on earth has happened to the Left when it has made a conspiracy monger like Fisk one of the hottest speakers on our literary and activist circuit, and a best-selling author and much-petted guest on the ABC?
To contrast him here to Blair is to see that the true icon of the Left is now not the red flag but the white coat.
Poor Blair, who thought he was of the Left himself, has trouble understanding why many of his former comrades now defend not democracy, but mass-murdering fascists and head-lopping Islamists.
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