Ahh, that’s better. You just got that in uder the wire.
I’m wondering: Why is “evil” considered the same as “bad”? I’m proud of being evil, dammit. Darth Vader was evil. Emperor Palpatine was evil. Don Knots was evil. I think we evil Conservatives are in good company… we’ll be the guys running the show with an iron fist while all the weenie lil’ Liberals are screaming in terror and clutching their bongs in a fit of panic.
Beware our stormtroopers, Liberal bastards! Soon, our conquest of the globe will be complete, and we’ll require EVERYONE to own a gun! Bwahahahahahaha!!!
Now, hold on a goddamned minute.
Don Knotts was not evil.
He was merely misguided.
(Did anyone else see the Entertainment Weekly interview with him shortly after Pleasantville was released? He was wearing a black suit and a camel hair coat, and the article was titled, “The Last Don.” The image was priceless.)
Point of order - Giuliani is definitely not a conservative according to American usage of the term. He is distinctly moderate to liberal on most social issues. Heck, he even ran for Mayor both times on both the Republican and the Liberal ticket. As their is a Conservative Party in NYC, Hizzoner is actually the large “L” Liberal Mayor of New York. 
Of course, the extraordinary work he has done this past week has nothing to do with either his party affiliation or his political views.
Sua
Liar. He’s very evil. He kicks puppies, farts and chews gum at the same time, and never, ever, EVER flushes the toilet. He’s EVIL!
You’re going to require everyone to own a gun? I think you need to retake that World Domination 101 course, you may have missed a few points…
Aha, but I didn’t tell you the OTHER brilliant aspect of my plan… I’m going to keep the populace pacified by providing them all with free broadband Internet access! They’ll want to set me up as a god after that!
See, I’m evil. Oh-so-evil.
Nope, no godood, if half of the bandwidth is hogged by your ads.
Does affiliation with the Democratic party back in the 1940s (or even today, for that matter) make someone a liberal? As I recall, a sizable portion of the party at that time was the Strom Thurmond contingent of “Dixiecrats”.
Thus, any inference that Ronald Reagan was a “lefty” is a stretch.
Andros inquired if I was being facetious when I said the Unabomber’s manifesto would not be out of place in “The Nation” or a Greenpeace pamphlet, or in any standard, mainstream left-wing publication.
No, I was not being facetious. Have you ever READ the Unabomber’s manifesto? It’s NOT the kind of foaming-at-the-mouth, “let’s blow people up” screed many people expected it to be.
Rather, it’s a long-winded, pompous, tedious, tiresome collection of left-wing and environmentalist cliches. It’s the work of an Ivy League academic hack (which, incidentally, Ted Kaczynski was)… and if the same article had been published in, say, “The New York Review of Books,” under the name of Garry Wills (or any other boring, predictable, left-wing hack), nobody would have raised an eyebrow.
Now, does that mean that all environmentalists are wacko killers? Of course not! But if I’M to be held responsible when a fellow right-to-lifer shoots an abortionist, why shouldn’t liberals and environmentalists have to answer for Ted Kaczynski?
What he said.
Even Chuck Heston is in SAG. You don’t work in Hollywood otherwise. And President of SAG has traditionally been a very political position, and not necessarily a generally pro-union one.
From jackmanii’s much-appreciated link:
That doesn’t strike me as being particularly “lefty,” and is in keeping with my previous mention of his affection for Tailgunner.
Anyone have anything more solid?
Errr, what philosophocles said, that is.
Astorian, I have read it, a couple times, and it was IMHO very obviously written by a nutjob. While you’re welcome to paint all liberals with that brush, I disagree that it wouldn’t be out of place in a mainstream left-wing publication. Or even a Greenpeace publication.
andros:
From Man Of The House by Tip O’Neill.
Reagan was, in fact, a liberal Democrat (not a Dixiecrat, or even a conservative Democrat) up until the '50’s, when he had a change of heart. Sorry- some people do change their beliefs about the world based upon their experiences. I don’t see that as a flaw- I see that as realistic.
When I was 14, I was a conservative Republican. When I was 16, I was a Socialist. When I was 20, I was a conservative Democrat. Now I’m a liberal Republican. Things learned, new points of view listened to, various changes in the political circumstances. These things happen.
But Don Knotts is still merely misguided. It was Don Martin who was evil incarnate. Fwoomba.
[Edited by John Corrado on 09-20-2001 at 10:43 PM]
Reagan was not a Strom Thurmond type of Democrat, but a New Dealer lefty. Nor would he have been considered a racist by moderates at any time during his public life, which Thurmond certainly was and is, that being what the Dixicrats were all about. He wasn’t particularly pro-civil rights, but he wasn’t much in their way either. The closest he came to racism was his constant bashing of “welfare queens”, done more to drum up support than out of conviction. Now, I know that those on the left consider this a coded appeal to racism, but I think that Reagan did it cynically rather than from baser motives.
He was SAG president once, although so was Charleton Heston, but I don’t think that makes him a liberal. It was more his support for FDR. I haven’t read the biographies (and probably won’t), but after he divorced Jane Wyman and married Nancy Davis, his politics changed.
Conservativism has no correlation to either evil or stupidity (well I really can’t say that as I have no citations), but I have any number of conservative friends who are clearly not evil or stupid. Same with liberals.
Thanks JMCJ and dpwhite.
But John, come on:
You should know me better than that. I’m not complaining about it, or surprised, or see it as a flaw. I simply didn’t know. I do know, thank Cecil.
floosh, fwang
I stand by my assertion that Don Knotts is evil. I once saw him watch a Pauly Shore/Adam Sandler marathon, and he enjoyed it.
Really? Without getting high or drunk??
The woman’s name is ANN, not Susen Coulter.
In his book, “From Beiruit to Baghdad,” NY Times columnist explained how American newsmen stationed in the Middle East distinguished between political parties, when their differences had nothing to do with our ideas of liberism and conservatism. He wrote, the good guys were called the “left” and the bad guys were called the “right.”
I found out how general this rule was, when my daughter insisted that the Russian Communists were the right and the more free-market reformers were the left.
That is, NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman