Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a blog entry (with a follow-up) about how the CBS of the north (as I called it), the Globe and Mail, wrote an op/ed which slighted National Post columnist and best-selling author George Jonas, whom I described in my blog entry as one of the best writers in Canada. The Globe and Mail had acted with a callous disregard to “fact” and the “truth”—carelessly, CBS-style (hi Dan!).
Unfortunately, nobody aside from me made a stink about it. But at that time, even fewer people in this country cared what I had to say as the blogosphere was in its infancy, and conservative bloggers were few; and they were roundly ignored (now they’re ubiquitous and roundly ignored only by liberals).
I’m glad that George Jonas has come out with another new book now, and Barbara Kay, a member of our Columnist team, decided to write about it this week. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Globe and Mail won’t review it, and if they do, they’ll get it all wrong.
It doesn’t surprise me that Barbara Kay shares my appreciation for George Jonas and his qualities—she’s another of Canada’s best writers (let’s be clear: Jonas is one, she’s another). Here’s a snippet of George Jonas’ book via Barbara Kay’s column:
[…] Jonas considers himself a “classic liberal,” which most people today read as “neo-conservative.” If he were an American—and he very nearly was—he’d enjoy the company of a critical mass of like-minded peers and a sizeable target market for his views. Amongst Canada’s overwhelmingly leftish media and academic elites, though, he is an intellectual outlier. Herewith a sampler from Beethoven’s Mask as to why he will offend many Canadians:
– On Europhobia in the universities: “… seats of higher learning, whatever they may do for enlightenment and knowledge, are ever-reliable instruments for spreading darkness and ignorance”;
– “whether or not religion was the opiate of the masses, as Marx had it, in the 20th century Marxism took over as the opiate of the intellectuals”;
– On the Vietnam War: “I would have volunteered”;
– “The European Union mimics a nation like a homosexual union mimics a marriage”; […]
Meanwhile today, Ann Coulter writes that President Bush should really be appealing to his What Would Reagan Do wristband (thereinafter referred to as WWRD), because she’s wearing hers, and by her reading, Bush’s actions aren’t always on the mark. I dare to agree.
[…] Even if Roberts turns out to be another Rehnquist (too much to hope for another Scalia!), we don’t know that, Bush doesn’t know that, and Bush has blown a golden opportunity to make Chuck Schumer the public face of the Democratic Party. A few weeks of Schumer as their spokesman, and normal Democrats would be clamoring for Howard Dean to get back on the stick. Teddy Kennedy would start showing up at hearings actually holding a double scotch.
Inasmuch as Bush must still choose a replacement for O’Connor, it’s important to remember the “Sandra Day O’Connor bylaw” to the WWRD guidelines: Never appoint anyone like Sandra Day O’Connor to any court at any level. […]
In his latest column, Mike Adams is reminiscing about a trip with a hippie and what he learned about liberals during it. As I read it, I mentally nodded my head up and down and said yup, uh-huh a lot. But one critical commenter here has already slammed it as an example of closed-mindedness and mean-spiritedness and that it was “ridiculous” and “juvenile”. I respectfully dare to disagree.
[…] My weekend in the mountains reminded me that liberalism is not really a political philosophy. Instead, it is a state of arrested emotional development. It is a way of thinking, which leads to no place in the real world. It is a place existing only in the imagination. […]
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