re: #17 freetoken

VDH markets himself to the wingnut crowd, in order to re-sell, over and over, certain memes that allows him to push his books and cruises, etc.

As such, anything VDH writes I take as something I would find at WND. Now and then something factual might leak through, but for the most part everything should not be taken on face value.

For example, I note that Economist changed the title of article:

Far be it for VDH to acknowledge this.

Oh, and the “empire” thing? The blog entry is explicitly reference Gorenberg’s The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 , something that VDH ignores, because then he’d have to actually deal with what was meant, and that the term was used by a Jew living in Israel.

Far be it for VDH to actually inform his audience.

VDH is selling outrage to the outrage-consumers of wingnut-ville.

Sure, the Economist changed it. How much credit would any of us give a wingnut publication for doing the same? So they backed off. Is anyone really supposed to give a flying fuck?

He’s probably deliberately misrepresenting the Gorenberg phrasing. It IS Hanson.

Overall, his analysis, while not particularly original, new, or well-executed, is hardly outrageous.

Believe me, this won’t even register with the outrage consumers of Wingnutville. They have stronger meat to feast on daily.