Chuck Blow, New York Times
Warner Todd Huston , Bio and Archives--April 6, 2009
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All this talk of revolution is revolting, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.He then cites Bill Maher, of all people, as an antidote to this troublesome sentiment. Remember, it was Bill Maher that wished for Vice President Dick Cheney to be blown up by terrorists! Apparently, Blow was safely in his bubble when Maher made that murderous wish out loud. Yeah, Maher is a great person to turn to as the calming, sensible and grown-up influence to counter hate-speak! In any case, Blow is all a’twitter that so many Americans are upset at the direction of the country with some espousing a desire to “take back our country.”
But it all gives me a really bad feeling.Like I said, apparently our lefty friend Blow is in a Kael-like bubble. It was New York theater critic Pauline Kael that was shocked back in the 70s that Richard Nixon could ever win the presidency. After all, she didn’t know but one person that was for the man. So, since she didn’t know any such Americans existed, how could he possibly have won an election? Such is the bubble the left enclose themselves in womb-like and safe from all opposing opinion. So, Mr. Blow is all exasperated and a’feared of all this “revolution” talk, upset that any American might express dissatisfaction over a president’s actions, shocked… SHOCKED I tell you… that anyone could possibly want to “take back our country.” One can only laugh at his blindness. After all, for the last eight years lefty website after lefty newspaper after lefty Congressman and community leader have been outspoken in their hatred of Bush, Cheney and Palin. Any number of lefty writers and web postings can be found wishing for them to be killed or at the very least jailed. The DailyKos and the DemocraticUnderground is filled with leftists arguing to “take back our country” by installing their kind of anti-American, far left, Eurocentric ilk. We even had an ex-vice president screaming out in fake alarm that Bush “played on our fers” and that “he betrayed this country.” Apparently, Mr. Blow never noticed such talk before? So, why don’t you give Chuckie an email to let him know that you’re here and you think he is a bit silly for his inability to have noticed the past eight years of hatred from HIS side: chblow@nytimes.com. Tell him I said hey.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.