IS EVERYONE NUTS?….Sometimes there’s just so much stuff going on that you end up sort of frozen. You can’t blog about all of it, so you just give up. For example:
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Why is the South Carolina Democratic Party thinking about selling advertising space on their primary ballot? Are they nuts?
Apparently not. A bit panicked, perhaps, but not completely loony. Sheesh.
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Why do we have a deputy undersecretary of defense who says about defeating a Muslim warlord in 1993, “I knew my god was bigger than his. I knew that my god was a real god and his was an idol”? Is he nuts?
Apparently so. And his boss says it’s no biggie.
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Why, during a screed about movie violence, did Gregg Easterbrook decide to blame greedy Jews?
Disney’s CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence?
Is he nuts?
I guess not. His apology today, even if it did take too long in coming, seemed genuine enough. But don’t let it happen again. (And put a link to the apology in your original post, OK?)
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Madeline Albright is in France promoting her new book and gave an interview on French radio that was critical of U.S. foreign policy. Tacitus (the blog, not the person) thinks she’s nuts. Is she?
Actually, I don’t know. Since she’s already said all this stuff in her book, what’s she supposed to say when she’s interviewed in a foreign country? I didn’t really mean it? Or is she never supposed to leave the United States?
I’m a little confused about this business of former administration officials who aren’t supposed to criticize the current administration, especially when overseas. I’m not sure if this tradition has ever really been followed all that closely, and I certainly have my doubts that anyone has paid serious attention to it in the past two decades. Comments?
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad recently made some anti-semitic remarks. Yawn. Dog bites man. But when the EU decided to formally condemn the statement, French President Jacques Chirac blocked it.
Is he nuts? Or what? Jacques, baby, you sure make it hard for your friends to denounce mindless France bashing when you pull stuff like this. Get a grip.
So is everyone nuts? Apparently the answer is no; yes; not really; maybe; and yes.
Why am I not reassured?
