Maybe the Spoon is the A-Bomb

Summer movie smashes provide life-giving sustenance not just to Hollywood, but to pop-referencing political columnists the world over. So it was probably inevitable that Arianna Huffington would take the early Oscar lead in the race for Most Ambitious Matrix Metaphor:

Maybe Hollywood's Wachowski brothers are auditioning for the role of Ari Fleischer's replacement. Maybe Karl Rove has moved his office into the "Matrix." Maybe it's all just a bad dream: "The White House Reloaded."

Maybe! Huffington, whose thesis is that "we are being governed by a gang of out-and-out fanatics," also goes on to note, apparently without irony, that "A popular definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Comments

[Anonymous]

maybe, maybe we can take this little catfight someplace else, bitch.

[david f]

arianna vs. ann coulter:

this time for conservative bragging rights! $19.95 on PPV.

caution: there could be violence here....

[Warren]

OH YEAH BABY, that's the celebrity death match I want to see. LET'S GET IT ON!

[Jim Treacher]

"I know kong voo!"

Apparently nobody told Arianna: "The body cannot live without the mind."

[david f]

hey lefty and Jim T.:

i read the article, and it really was one of the sillier articles i've read recently. however, she does have a good one that maureen dowd would wish she thought of: oopso facto. cute.

the current foreign policy is anything but that. the 1998 letter to bill "yanky my wanky" clinton urging the change of regime in iraq was never altered by the bush white house.(newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm)

it's a clear statement of policy on iraq, pre 9/11. it focuses on the WMD and the destabilizing nature of a military power named iraq. also, many of the arguments used in that paper were updated in the context of post 9/11 in the white house's case for war. you may disagree, but the signees certainly have been consistent.

kristol (http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/foreignaffairs.asp?from=pubauthor) wrote something in 1996 that also does a good job in highlighting the framework of the current foreign policy.

so, i disagree with air-rianna that there's an oopso-facto nature -- not at all. while the dividend tax cut is on the sillier sides, cutting taxes and cutting govt spending might be a good idea. (although the current congress doesn't know the break pedal from the accelerator when it comes to pork spending)

even though i'm skeptical of this administration's foreign policy, it certainly is more clear than the absolute horror clintonian foreign policy......

cheers,
drf

[joe]

"the absolute horror clintonian foreign policy"

Northern Ireland Assembly, six(?) years without a terror attack in Israel, expanded free trade, prying open Vietnam, eventually doing the right thing in Bosnia...

Not exactly a titan, I'll grant you. But "the horror?" C'mon.

[david f]

bosnia -- bombing? i don't think that was the right thing. coddling up to the un and europe? i agree on israel, but that's the opposite of what's going on now. he had both sides sit and yap at each other. now with the tit-for-tat going on, there's just more killing.

his wagging of the dog all those times, including blowing up the tent and favorite mistress of osama... err, a camel. that was probably the first time osama was mentioned. bullshitting around in iraq.

but particularly giving the europeans feeling that they actually matter in world events without having them solve anything or having them actually DO something (not doing anything to stop yugoslavia, rwanda, zaire (congo/zaire/congo), whining about the US, getting all hot and bothered about the eu). that's my least favorite part... kyoto. (what about talking with the north koreans?). haiti. the changed mission in somalia. not lifting the embargo on cuba so he could have used a cuban cigar on monica, you know... 🙂

good calls, however!
drf

[Lefty]

Anybody want to actually discuss Arrianna's arguments? You can't see it without registering from the link provided but you can read it here:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0521-08.htm

[Robert Speirs]

What argument does Arianna put forward? That we're not safer in the USA because Al Qaeda has been forced to bomb soft targets in the Arab world? Bush's job is not to protect Saudi Arabia or Morocco. It's to protect the USA and he's doing a remarkable job so far. The reaction of the Norwegians to being mentioned by Osama's second in command is typical. They had no idea that Islamonazis would advocate bombing appeaser nations just because they weren't Islamic!! Norway has tried its hardest not to make the wackos mad. Must be Bush's fault. What a bunch of cowardly fools.

[Jim Treacher]

"Anybody want to actually discuss Arrianna's arguments?"

Who's stopping you?

[Siskel]

Matt Welch, our host, disappoints us again, when he writes "Summer movie smashes" (plural) -- but the link only covers ONE summer movie smash.

[Gene 6-Pack]

While I am ambivalent about homosexuality, I can see where being married to Arianna might make the lifestyle appealing to some.

[Neo]

But Morpheus, if we humans all live underground in The Matrix, why do we have to wear these stupid sunglasses?

[mayostard]

Argghhh... she is like one of those lame moms who would try to talk about rock bands or skateboarding with you. Or a perfect Jay Leno guest

[Siegel Zoe]

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