German Award For Anti-American Symbol Susan Sontag

Davids Medienkritik ^ | March12, 2004 | David Kaspar

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sunday morning Susan Sontag received the prestigious "Peace Award of the German Book Trade" in a nationally televised ceremony in Frankfurt. Sontag - no stranger to awards - was honored as an "intellectual ambassador between the two continents": "In a world of forged pictures and mutilated truth she engaged herself in free thinking."

Sontag didn't mince her anti-American feelings during her stay in Germany. As a warm-up to Sunday's ceremony Sontag on saturday called the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Californian governor a "bad joke". She said she'd feel sorry for the Californians. In her acceptance speech for the "Peace Award of the German Book Trade" Sontag accused the US ambassador in Germany, Daniel Coats, for not attending her award ceremony (as if it were one of the foremost duties of an ambassador to be a witness of an attack on his own country and his own government).

While her speech didn't openly attack the US government - other than containing a few thinly veiled demeaning remarks aimed at President Bush - the whole climate of her visit and of the ceremony clearly displayed anti-American feelings and anti-Bush vocabulary. Berlin art Professor Ivan Nagel in his laudatio of Sontag warned in a biting attack on President Bush of the "increasing danger" that the fate of peoples, armees and companies will be decided by men "not knowing wars".

Bill and Marim Lau have some additional insight on Sontag's anti-Americanism...

If you can stand it: Sontag's site.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LINKS at source.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Susan Sontag received the prestigious "Peace Award of the German Book Trade"

Previous winners include Cpl. A. Schickelgrubber, J. Goebbels, RsF. Hermann Göring....

[Steve_Seattle]

President Bush has liberation 15 million people from a brutal dictatorship; how many has Susan Sontag freed? Zip.

[Steve_Seattle]

It is interesting that that forged Internet photograph - even though it did not originate with the RNC or the Bush campaign - has now moved front-and-center as defining the Republicans.

[ChuckShick]

Cpl. A. Schickelgrubber

Hmmm, he's just a harmless little fellow.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

An underappreciated literary genius. I still maintain his opus major is indistinguishable from Gephardt campaign rhetoric, if one substitutes "the rich" for "ze Juice", "America" for "Shermany" and "working families" for "Die deutsche Volk" . ["ze Juice" as in: "It's ze Juice vats causing all ze problems in Shermany for ze deutsche folks."]

[Dallas59]

Pure Spew. I would love to see her stand in front of the Spanish right now and vomit all that tripe.

[Berliner Baer]

FYI: The award was given on 10/12/2003, not *this* Sunday.

Old, old, news.

[Skooz]

Who or what is a "Susan Sontag?"