When Formerly Sane People Attack
Charles Johnson
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 7:40 pm PDT • Views: 434
Another night, another traffic surge; we seem to be back online now.
Here’s Andrew Sullivan’s entirely predictable attack on bloggers who question the anti-military creative writing of “Scott Thomas:”: The Scott Thomas Fooferaw.
I don’t know why Sullivan (a writer I used to respect, in the Pleistocene era of blogs) compares the TNR controversy to the Weimar Republic. The Germanic ring must sound good to the Nutroots.
It combines all the usual Weimar themes out there: treasonous MSM journalists, treasonous soldiers, stories of atrocities that undermine morale (regardless of whether they’re true or not), and blanket ideological denial. We have to understand that some people still do not believe that the U.S. is torturing or has tortured detainees, still do not believe that torture or murder or rape occurred at Abu Ghraib, still believe that everyone at Gitmo is a dangerous terrorist captured by US forces, and still believe we’re winning in Iraq. If you believe all this and face the mountains of evidence against you, you have to act ever more decisively and emphatically to refute any evidence that might undermine this worldview.
Frank says: