Mark Steyn: Nice Goin’, Guys [Newsweek is much easier to flush]

National Review Online ^ | June 6, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[Lurker]

Another winner from Mr. Stein. Thanks for posting it in its entirety CD.

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[lainde]

Wonderful post...Thank you. Steyn always makes my day!

[Logophile]

As a rule, if you’re going to be “provocative,” it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.

Good advice for cowardly leftists everywhere.

[highlander_UW]

The problem with Newsweek is that the paper is too slick to wipe with.

[Valin]

Newsweek: America is dead (U.S. Flag Shown in Trashcan on Cover!)
Riding Sun Blog ^ | 5/23/2005 01:17:00 | GaijinBiker

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408214/posts
Posted on 05/22/2005 1:12:32 PM CDT by FreedomCalls

[GOPJ]

Come on, Newsweek, time to come clean.

And Isikoff’s book is only 416 pages. My copy of the Q’u’r’an is 950 pages, though if you reduce the apostrophes you can get it down under 800. The suras-down-the-septic story was an obvious crock. All it had going for it was that the magazine wanted it to be true.

[bootless]

AWESOME.

[bootless]

And a Lileks ping, too - he's brilliant.

[Brian Allen]

<< I sure am glad that Mark is on our side. >>

Well, of course he's on our side.

He is an intact Man and has a brain.

There's nowhere else for him to be!

Thank God.

[Pokey78]

Thanks CD!

Steyn ping!

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[maryz]

As a rule, if you’re going to be “provocative,” it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.
Good advice for cowardly leftists everywhere.

Or get someone else to take the brunt of it! Remember when Salman Rushdie incurred a fatwa and proclaimed -- from an undisclosed location -- that bookstores were being cowardly in taking his book off display? Those minimum-wage clerks should be willing to stand up for freedom of expression!

[Aquinasfan]

. When Christians get hot and bothered about a horny Jesus (The Last Temptation of Christ), a gay Jesus (Terrence McNally’s Broadway play Corpus Christi), or a Jesus floating in the artist’s urine (Piss Christ), columnists take to the barricades to champion the cause of free speech. When Muslim groups closed down a play in Cleveland because its revolting apologia for a Palestinian suicide bomber was insufficiently pro-Muslim, the silence of the media lambs was deafening.

Go Mark go!

[redgolum]

And happily, crazy as they are, these Christian fundamentalist types don’t tend to be waiting for you at the stage door. Whereas, if you write, “We’re Sending You a Schoolgirl Bomb from Allah,” you attract a somewhat livelier crowd, and it’s hard to pick up showbiz awards for your boldness, courage, transgressiveness, etc., when you’re six feet under. Ask Theo van Gogh. As a rule, if you’re going to be “provocative,” it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.

I think that is why we here people from the left screaming the evil Christians are going to Dominate the country. If they said the same thing about the islamists, well the authors would face more than mild protests and letters to the editor.

[COUNTrecount]

Thanks.

[TChris]

Wow. Have I mentioned that Steyn is -- what's the word -- great? :-)

[Stultis]

This is merely typical Steyn, which is to say devastating, perspicuous and near perfect.

[lawgirl]

WOW SO good. This one's getting bookmarked.

[Feiny]

I got an offer in the mail yesterday to get a whole year of Newsweek for $20.

I am returning the postage paid reply envelope full of other junk mail.

[Constitution Day]

I am returning the postage paid reply envelope full of other junk mail.

HA! I did that to the New Yorker a couple of years ago.
I think they got the message.