The American Spectator

home
ADVERTISEMENT
Print Email
Text Size

Another Perspective

Waiting for Lefty

The Nation magazine hosts a lame event -- good thing John Ashcroft is still around to keep what's left of the left's juices flowing.

(Page 2 of 2)

Ivins, for example, described September 11 as the horrific consequences of "insane people with box cutters." Well, lots of crazies have access to box cutters. But only certain crazies from certain countries have demonstrated the ability to make box cutters a tool of mass murder.

Still, the evening did have one distinct bright spot. After the panel discussion, Donahue took questions from the audience because "We care about how you feel."

Alas, nobody put in a good word for the Rosenbergs. But Mario Savio, '60s free speech guru, was praised to the hilt, the war on terrorism was somehow connected to an assault on abortion rights, and "Zionist fundamentalists" were denounced, along with "Christian fundamentalists." (They're the real threat to our freedoms, in case we'd forgotten.) Actor Danny Glover, seated unobtrusively in the audience, rambled about multi-national corporations.

For the most part, the panelists used these "inquiries" to re-state their own views. However, Arthur Schlesinger took issue with an audience member's contention that U.S. bombing of Afghanistan was immoral. Schlesinger, who had been relatively quiet up to that point, responded that even if the bombing was "excessive" it made possible the liberation from the Taliban which many Afghans, especially the women, welcomed.

In response, audience members cheered. This may very well have been the first "Nation" conference where discussion of a United States military offensive overseas elicited applause.

Page:   12

topics:
Education, Trade, Abortion, Law, Military, Iraq, Energy

Letter to the Editor View all comments (1) | Leave a comment

jennifer| 3.15.10 @ 5:11AM

iPhone fans can backup their iPhone video, music, ringtone, podcast, photo and playlist to Mac hard drive with the most powerful iPhone to Mac Transfer . Easy to use, Transfer all your things on iPhone to Mac. If you want to make your own iPhone ringtone. You can create the ringtones by iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac . Enjoy.

Leave a Comment

N.B. We encourage readers to share and discuss their thoughtful and relevant comments about this Spectator article. Comments are routinely monitored and will be deleted if profane, bigoted, or grossly impolite. Please be respectful. (And don't feed the trolls!) Thank you.

Related Articles

More Articles From Another Perspective

http://spectator.org/archives/2002/03/07/waiting-for-lefty
ADVERTISEMENT

Clip of the Day

Most Popular Articles

Who Castrated Ann Coulter?

David Catron | 2.6.12

Bigoted Barack, Red in Tooth and Clause

George Neumayr | 2.10.12

Unsafe at Any Smoke

Eric Peters | 2.10.12

Access This

Ross Kaminsky | 2.10.12

The Delousing of a Movement

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.9.12

The Show Me State's No Show Primary

Andrew B. Wilson | 2.10.12

Justice Ginsburg Should Resign

William Tucker | 2.8.12

No Double Play

Peter Hannaford | 2.10.12

ADVERTISEMENT