You’ve gotta wonder if he’s been asleep for the past 16 years, or on another planet, or in an alternate reality.
Because I remember plenty of Republican outrage during that period, as I’m sure most everyone here does. Outrage at Bill Clinton, with gays in the military, Travelgate, Haircutgate, killing Vince Foster (and a busload of others back during his Arkansas days), all the way up through the year-long wingnutfest of Blowjobgate.
Outrage at Hillary, enough to quite literally fill a decent-sized shelf full of books.
Outrage at the left in the post-9/11 world, because we’re traitors and we’re giving comfort to the enemy, and our hearts bleed for Islamofascists, and we hate America.
So I’ve got to hand it to Thomas Sowell. It’s hard to be that detached from reality, and still be able to form sentences, turn them into paragraphs, and get the National Review to post them on its website.
“The home run records that made Babe Ruth famous have been broken but one of his records will probably never be broken — pitching the longest shutout in World Series history, 14 innings. Few pitchers go even nine innings these days…I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.”
You gotta admit he has a point. With the military in charge, that pitcher goddam better go more than nine innings, or face a firing squad.
“I’m probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.” – Senator James Inhofe, [R] - Oklahoma, Senate Armed Services committee hearings on Abu Ghraib abuses.
I mean, let’s keep these things in perspective, people.
Deadline was approaching and no ideas were forthcoming for Mr. Sowell. If you don’t have a thesis, don’t write anything at all. Really. This reads like those Larry King columns in USA Today, and that is not intended as a compliment.
He’s obviously not even trying to make a serious point, suggesting that only three Republicans in 50 years have expressed outrage. I don’t think Sowell spent much time writing this, and as a general rule, I won’t put much more effort into analyzing someone’s thoughts than they could be bothered to put into formulating them.
Word. What flabbergasts me most about that Sowell piece is the fact that, AFAICT, since he’s a syndicated columnist he actually got PAID for writing it. Of all the lazy, off-the-cuff random soundbites that ever attempted to masquerade as reasoned opinion, that column has to be pretty near the top of the list.
By the way, Sowell’s column also appears in the Orange County Register. Do you think he intended his headline to appear like this in Tuesday’s issue, or was the headline writer just having a little sly fun at Sowell’s expense?
I just learned of him through another means…we both have children who are non-autistic late talkers. My wife just bought and read this book from Sowell. I won’t say he walks on water or just drowns in it, but we are somewhat enlightened by his efforts in dealing with his child’s issues, which in turn, helps us…and I respect him for that.
That’s beside the point. Sowell claims that he hasn’t seen a Republican express outrage since 1991: the obvious conclusion is that he hasn’t looked at a Republican since 1991. They may not all be white, but he has no way of knowing that.
There’s a grain of wisdom here, though: *Do not look directly at a Republican for any reason. * They will suck your soul straight out through your eyeballs. Thomas Sowell looked at a Republican in 1991, and he hasn’t been right since.
20 years ago, maybe. He was beginning to make a name as the black George Will. Other than maybe knowing something about baseball, he can’t be compared to George Will anymore.
Hey, the military are just as American as the rest of us, only more male, more conservative, and more authoritarian. Who better to undo the excesses of weak subversive moral relativists like reporters and schoolteachers?
