Anti-Anti-American Reflux
Here's a response by Barbara Amiel to last week's anti-American rant by Margaret Drabble:
In your deliberate obtuseness, you become blind to the most self-evident conclusions and an apologist for the appalling regimes that are so far removed from your ostensible values… Are you too sophisticated for Coca-Cola and Disneyfication but not for Saddam's garish palaces and his giant posters on every street corner?
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yeah what a sleeze, how dare he point out that iraqis are better under oppresive coca-cola than under benevelent saddam! sloppy laziness indeed!
Two wrongs don't make a right.
(but three lefts do)
Ech... I'd turn her over to Saddam just for producing prose like that.
What a sleaze. You think Bush's war set a bad predendent? I guess you want to see thousands of Iraqis killed by the secret police. Sloppy, lazy, corrupt thinking.
I am always amazed that Brit intellectuals can
complain about the vulgarity of American popular
culture with a straight face. I'll offer just
four of the large number of possible bits of
evidence:
1) Worship of the airhead Princess Diana. I
once had a long argument with a British
woman who argued that Diana was a major
intellectual force in world affairs.
2) Anything to do with soccer. Even putting
aside the hooliganism, I once watched a
half hour of skynews (Britain's analogue
to Headline News) that consisted entirely
of coverage of soccer (er, football) star
David Beckham's marriage to one of the
spice girls. This vastly important event
counted as both "news" and "sports".
3) A currently popular reality TV show in
Britain features the adventures of drunken
working class British tourists in Greece
as they try to get laid.
4) Another British TV show is a version of the
"People's Court" that features as judge a
flaming gay guy called Julian who makes
statements such as "I feel a verdict coming
on!" The side that wins the case gets jam
made by Julians kindly old aunt, who also
appears on the show.
'Nuff said.
There's nothing like the British left to make
you appreciate the American left.