MAILER BLASTS BACK AT COMIC

NY Post: Page Six ^ | Richard Johnson

[LocalT]

The word gullible is not in the dictionary, if you don't believe me look it up.

[aristeides]

Byrd worked in the defense-related job of welding warships. I believe his time doing that coincided with the time he was in the Klan.

[Moby Grape]

It is true that many on the left can, as Miller said of Mailer, "arrange words so beautifully", yet they so often say such stupid things with them.

[albee]

Re: Post #18

"Good Lord - Vonnegut, Mailer and Vidal? Geriatric ex-trendoids whose talent is decades past its "sell-by" date. Love to have the Metamucil concession at that party. "

Great post!

You do have a way with words!

[Centurion2000]

"[Mailer's] basic contention is that we went to war with Iraq because with the dominance of white American men in the boxing ring, the office, and the home front eroded, George W. Bush thought they needed to know they were still good at something.

Now this is funny .... funny but true ... no one is better at mass warfare than white people.

[ChadGore]

Re:Just about everyone in their 80's is a WWII veteran.

Robert Byrd is not.

He "served" in the KKK, the ignorant noob.

[Howlin]

Mailer may have drawn some comfort yesterday from two fellow World War II veterans - Kurt Vonnegut and Gore Vidal.

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA

[Howlin]

ow ow ow ow OW! That's gotta hurt :-))

Not as much as this one must have:

Other than a vague recollection that Mr. Mailer once played Boswell to Jack Henry Abbott's Samuel Johnson...

From the original article:

Dennis Miller: 'Why Are We in Iraq?'

[Howlin]

Apparently some members of FR support this pacifist.

You are kidding, right?

[Catspaw]

Other than a vague recollection that Mr. Mailer once played Boswell to Jack Henry Abbott's Samuel Johnson...

Now THAT'S like getting a sliver of metal in your eye.

I love it :-))

[Buckwheats]

You've gone way over my head, T..."Naive and easily deceived"...no? Is this a riddle? I'm feeling gullible.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for posting a link to the original Miller piece.

[FreedomPoster]

I second the nomination, though I think there's someone other than the Admin Mod to whom you send your nomination.

Dear admins - I'd also suggest a link to "quote of the day" on the FR home page.

[arm958]

Mailer's response wasn't a blast, but a desperate bleat. Miller bested him.

[GOPJ]

bump

[Goodlife]

That story was Harrison Bergeron. And you're right-- it's a good story.

I reserve most of my Vonnegut ire for Breastfast of Champions, a novel which can, in essence, be reduced to one sentence: "The writer stamped his foot, screamed 'life isn't fair!' and stomped off to his room to sulk."

Of the examples I listed here:

Player Piano: One of the most wrongheaded predictions on future society... ever. The premise was that automation puts almost everyone out of work. Again, this is a viable premise if you assume that all 'work' is handed out from a central point-- for instance, if the government needed a certain amount of workers, and found automation to do the job. Player Piano is a possible situation in a communist society, maybe, but it's a hopelessly off-base prediction for a free society and puts no faith in man.

Cat's Cradle: Here's a conundrum... a novel expressing both the knowledge that there is a God, and the oblique hopelessness that we are just chess pieces on his board. Though it's my favorite novel by Vonnegut, (well, maybe tied with Galapogos) it also demonstrates a totalitarian society as moral-- see the 'religious leader' versus the 'political leader' theme within. Again, a novel about man, with no hope or regard for man's finer points. It truly expresses the thoughts of a good philosopher who just doesn't meet any people, and bases his ideas about people on abstactions, not actuality.