A Letter to the American Left

The Nation ^ | 2/27/06 | Bernard-Henri Lévy

[Leatherneck_MT]

An article written by an idiot, to an entire party of idiots.

[RoadTest]

Hey! Ho! The wicked Left is dead!

[gr8eman]

Everywhere, in the innermost reaches of America, you can meet men and women who hope for great voices capable of echoing their impatience in a momentous way.

Paging Howard Dean...please pick up the red courtesy phone!

[sergeantdave]

The title of this should be: "Vapid! Vapid! Vapid! Ministrating Homolies to Al Gore Zombies"

[Leo Carpathian]

Hhhhhuuuuhhh????

[Kenton]

For an outside observer it is passing strange, for instance, that a number of progressives needed, by their own admission, to wait for Hurricane Katrina before they got indignant about, or even learned about, the sheer scale of the outrageous poverty blighting American cities.

I wonder if this guy got some comeuppance during the recent riots in France? It doesn't sound like they have much to feel superior about.

[vastrightwc]

Poor left is even getting dissed by the French now.

[.cnI redruM]

So European lefties are contemptuous of our lefties, because our lefties lack the pedigree of Madame LaFarge? BFD! What a self-satisfied jerk off in prose.

[UncleSamUSA]

Maybe the French creep hasnt heard from Susan Sontag (the execrable anti-Western anti-American female version of Noam Chomsky) because she recently died.

Or is he too busy fondling what remains of the American "left" to check the obituaries???

[bill1952]

Much flurry, signifying nothing.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I agree with you :)

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"Nothing made a more lasting impression during my journey through America than the semi-comatose state in which I found the American left."

Semi-Comatose American Left...

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Will someone post the picture of the frog wearing a beret and puffing on a Gauloise?

[roses of sharon]

Leftists are Americans? Who knew.

[Kingosaurus]

What this Euro-idiot doesn't seem to grasp is that if the "American left" really told people what they believed and what their goals were, they would never win another important election, including Lord Dog Catcher.

Their timidity and vacuousness is not a result of their having no values, but is actually the result of having to hide their real values while still attacking their opponents, lest they be found out. Unlike Europeans, a majority of Americans DON'T LIKE LEFTISTS, and WON'T VOTE FOR THEM. It's really no more complicated than that. The Euro-leftists are "braver" than their American counterparts simply because they can often win elections by telling people what they really think. The Dems don't have that luxury, and haven't since Vietnam.

[Valin]

How low the mighty have fallen.

[DOGEY]

I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that a large part of the country is waiting for this.

I believe he is mistaken and the last few elections demonstrate this. But I hope the American left continues on.

[Panzerlied]

"And how could one not yearn for a petition that would address our common nausea when faced with the spectacle of a diabetic, blind, nearly deaf old man, pushed in his wheelchair to the San Quentin execution chamber in California?"

And in typical leftist fashion, ignore the victim he brutally murdered.