Comments on: Charles Johnson’s Reasons For Leaving the Right

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Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:23:52 +0000

[...] month Charles Johnson gave his reasons for parting with the right wing, which I discussed here. The Los Angeles Times was a bit slower than I was in discussing this. They noted how his parting [...]

By: Eclectic Radical

Eclectic Radical — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:32:39 +0000

‘There is a fine (and not very meaningful) line between a politician who does this and who personally has racist or anti-Semitic views.’

Well, this is why I parsed my words so very carefully about whether or not Buchanan was a racist but not at all about whether he is a moron.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:55:00 +0000

I wasn’t suggesting that he wasn’t rejecting Maher’s views. I was just acknowledging that while anti-science views have become disturbingly common on the right, there are also some examples on the left.

By: whitehouse

whitehouse — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:47:54 +0000

Charles Johnson also rejects te views of Bill Maher. He’s a nut in his eyes too but in this case his beef was with the right., in particular since LGF is (or was) viewed as a rightwing blog.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:16:32 +0000

We can’t tell for sure if Buchanan is a racist or anti-Semite. I’ve seen quotes from people who know him claiming he isn’t. Regardless of what he thinks, the problem is that during his political career he would use code words and make other statements to attract racists and anti-Semites. There is a fine (and not very meaningful) line between a politician who does this and who personally has racist or anti-Semitic views.

By: Eclectic Radical

Eclectic Radical — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:26:03 +0000

Pat Buchanan is a populist isolationist whose views on history and foreign policy have led him into Nazi apologia on several occasions. Whether or not he is truly a racist (and I doubt he believes that he is, though I’m not so sure he’s right), he subscribes to an ethnological view of nationalism based on the lessons he believes he has learned from history. It could be due to outright racism on his part, or it could be because he believes racism is just too much of a natural part of the human character to allow multi-ethnic and multi-culturalism.

His economic views, on the other hand, are much the opposite of today’s fascism. He has a strongly anti-corporate market ideology.

R.S. McCain comes a little closer to being a fascist. He has said a lot of things that come close to that line. I hadn’t necessarily seen him that way before, but it’s hard for me to come out with the same detailed explanation of why he is not a fascist than I can manage with Buchanan.

By: Captin Sarcastic

Captin Sarcastic — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:36:06 +0000

And they called us moonbats.

If some liberals can be shrill, we’ll need a new word to describe the pitch that the right has gone to so early in Obama’s term.

It seems that every right winger talker, blogger, pol is trying to one up each of high pitched warnings of doom and communist catastrophe. Then on the other side, try to ourdo each other on how far they will go to ignore rights of Americans and others in order to be tough on terra. It is mind boggling to me that among things, Obama is unliked because he WON’T torture people… WTF?

I don’t think most Americans will fall for this doomsaying, but my bigger concern is that it will put off enough sane Americans from particpating and the real moonbats will choose our leaders for the next couple of elections.