Those who doubt the existence or power of Satan should read the first paragraph here: http://is.gd/bHedg
The first paragraph:
Reply to Jim Manzi [Andy McCarthy]
I was happily out of pocket yesterday, traveling to beautiful Santa Barbara for a weekend retreat organized by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center — and a panel this morning with John Yoo and my fellow Cornerite Marc Thiessen.
I LOL’d.
Brian J
Those aren’t the only winners who will be at that conference. From the site:
Where are noted national security experts Rudy! Giuliani and Dick Cheney and economics experts Larry Kudlow and Don Luskin? And if that much insanity and stupidity is in the same room, does it naturally go up in flames?
Also, why do some people think Pat Caddell is a Democrat?
Ash Can
Now that’s a death panel.
sbjules
OMG they’ve invaded my hometown!
Brian J
@sbjules:
The swarms of locusts and the faucets running blood didn’t tip you off?
Josie
Satan would indeed be involved, since being at that meeting and having to listen to those speakers would totally be my idea of Hell.
SGEW
Let them have their sunny get together; let them become used to traveling to warm climates to meet and greet each other.
So in a couple of years we can chip in and get them an all-expenses paid junket to Madrid, and nail ’em under universal jurisdiction.
[I can haz dreams?]
SiubhanDuinne
I wonder how long my ill-regulated brain has been conflating Victor Davis Hanson and Mark Victor Hansen. Oops.
Honus
A group of “thinkers” who believe the path to freedom is torturing and killing people, getting together to discuss the most effective means of bringing pain and death to those who do not share their ideology. No wonder their constituents pay lip service to the founders but actually worship the Confederacy.
Fergus Wooster
@Honus:
A bunch of Trotskyite lickspittles turned counter-revolutionaries. Their belief in violence, propaganda and historical dialectic hasn’t changed, just their vision of the end goal.
JGabriel
Andy McCarthy, responding to Jim Manzi:
Oh NOEZ! The Atom Bomb of Derision!
That is some quality pearl-clutching.
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GregB
Waterboarded quail’s wings anyone?
MattF
But it is bipartisan. Because, um… every participant has a top part and a bottom part.
timb
@Brian J:
Because Sean Hannity and Fox News says it
SiubhanDuinne
@JGabriel:
“Atom Bomb of Derision” would be a fine new tag, I’m thinkin’
tim
Greenwald’s tweet is funny in its dry wit and style, but I DO believe that folks such as those he refers to here epitomize EVIL in its classic, most banal and therefore effective state.
Zach
I’ve seen some fairly circle jerkish panels, but that takes the cake.
And, the existence of Santa Barbara is truly evidence of Satan’s residence on Earth.
tc125231
Well, I don’t believe in Satan. But anybody who doubts the human predilection towards crappy behavior under the guise of “getting bidness” done, should read up on the history of the Papacy in Avignon.
pointer
Can somebody force Greenwald to write his blog posts as short as tweets? Please?
JG
#18 – Methinks that would require people to stop reading him? His readership remains high so he’ll continue to write like that. For the topics he writes about, I think longer is more appropriate than shorter. And I’m sure many here will strongly disagree with that last point. I think he still does good work.
chrome agnomen
@MattF:
those guys are all bottom part.
Quiddity
Sorry to see that Michael Ledeen isn’t at that retreat. He’ll be missed.
Martin
Wow, in Santa Barbara? That’s like putting pure matter and antimatter together. I hope the city survives this.
Lupin
Is this a Buffy reunion where all the old villains (The Master, the Mayor, ADAM, Dick Cheney, etc.) gather near the Hellmouth to destroy all oreo cookies or something?
Martin
Nope, no epistemic closure there. I’m sure most of those guys are meeting each other for the first time.
DonkeyKong
“Some say” not one of them can get a natural erection. Coincidence I think not!
bootsy
What would they possibly open their mouths for? Blowjob chain?
I mean, lying all the time is a pretty easy instruction that they’ve received from the Oil companies, Halliburton, Australian media moguls, and Wall Street. It doesn’t require much discussion.
Ecks
@Martin: And naturally they are going to spend their time at the meeting engaging deeply with all the major liberal thinkers and independent experts they can Skype out to, for enriching debate and exchange of viewpoints that will open up the epistemic system wide to as many new ideas as they can find. How could they not with a cast of such enlightened thinkers. Oh epistemic closure, how we’ll miss you.
jake the snake
I would say that is close to critical mass for the Wingularity.
Or maybe it is just the banality of evil, or the evil of banality.
Where is Hannah Arendt when we need her.
licensed to kill time
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What does that mean? Was he referring to his Tweetermachine?
ETA: I see it’s some newfangled (incorrect) expression for unreachable or out of communication. My image is funnier, to me.
asiangrrlMN
@Lupin: Lupin, FTW! Gotta love a Buffy reference.
tenkindsofgrumpy
@JG: Considering the ground he covers and the bases he touches ,I think his posts are models of concise.
tenkindsofgrumpy
@licensed to kill time: I’m pretty sure it means he wasn’t playing with himself