I think it is a very offensive crock and highly insulting to be psychoanalysed and told you're following or shadowing someone in your beliefs. That is just as much a neocon ploy or rhetorical maneuver, i.e., leftists have such and such opinions because of some psychological defect. I don't understand why it can't be that people are pyschologically okay but simply have the wrong opinions.
>Peter K. wrote:
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>>Well I have actually seen the film and it is very good. The Counterpunch
>>review on the other hand was rather lame.
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>This is suppoesed to be "provocative" in the sense that neocons do
>when they think by using a bigoted turn of phrase they're
>transgressing the hegemony of PC and being fresh and bold. It was
>annoying when Hilton Kramer and the gang did it in the 80s. It's
>really a crock in 2003. A very offensive crock too.
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>Must dig out some of Hitch's rants about David Horowitz and the
>Second Thoughts moment. You guys are belated neocons, as Harold Bloom
>might say. Do you have a Trot past?
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>Doug
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