Ship of Fools: Setting Sail With ‘The National Review’
by Johann Hari
The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth - and as for Guantanamo Bay, it’s practically a holiday camp… The annual cruise organized by the ‘National Review’, mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.
I am standing waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean, both chilling and burning, indulging in the polite chit-chat beloved by vacationing Americans. A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the rocks nearby, telling me dreamily about her son. “Is he your only child?” I ask. “Yes,” she says. “Do you have a child back in England?” she asks. No, I say. Her face darkens. “You’d better start,” she says. “The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they’ll have the whole of Europe.”
I am getting used to these moments - when gentle holiday geniality bleeds into… what? I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, ” Of course, we need to execute some of these people,” I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. “A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralize the country,” she says. “Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that’s what you’ll get.” She squints at the sun and smiles. ” Then things’ll change.”
I am traveling on a bright white cruise ship with two restaurants, five bars, a casino - and 500 readers of the National Review. Here, the Iraq war has been “an amazing success”. Global warming is not happening. The solitary black person claims, “If the Ku Klux Klan supports equal rights, then God bless them.” And I have nowhere to run.
more at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2766040.ece
romantico, drink.... drink a lot. While you are at it have one for me!
This sounds like the perfect cruise for the Anti-Rosies. What better way to spend your vacation time than plotting the execution of liberals. HD, have you made your reservations for next year?
LOL!
Well, "not unsurprising" springs to mind.
The Ward Connerly part is truly frightening. He really has no problem cozying up to the freaking Ku Klux Klan and, rather, finds them justified in their hatred.
Drink could mean water, juice or soda. As far as the article goes; it is the National Review
I know I am opeing a can of worms here, but didn't the Nazi's do this exact same thing? Kill those who disagreed with them? Of course, they would rationalize it by saying they are doing it to protect their country and the filthy liberals are trying to bring down our country. They will say we want the terrorist to win and anything to make liberals look as threatning as possible.I think Conservatives need to speak out against this sort of talk. The more they do so the better. They also can't wait a few weeks, they need to have a statement once the story breaks!
It just doesn't seem like we as a soceity are moving forward.
Remember about learning from history....
"Hey, that cruise sounds great. God Bless 'em all!!!!!!!!!!! "
Have you booked for next year HD?
Yeah, most likely.
Papa, just because your post was deleted don't think I didn't see it.
Do you think I'm at the top of the list? I've never been at the top of anyone's list before. Damn, how exciting. Will you be leading them, or will they send their stooges from Ohio? I hope it's you, Papa.
hell, jag, i can't even think about posting here. the all powerful national socialists at the helm will wipe my mind.
Give it up Papa, we are victorious!
never. you'll stop me when you pry my keyboard from my cold dead fingers, mister!
I never leave home without it!
That sounds like something one of my students would say...
Oh wait, no they just want to kill the homeless and the poor, get rid of welfare, and walk right by anyone who is starving and laugh at them because that persons parents haven't given them everything they ever wanted.
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Hillary-Ann definitely sounds "scatty" to me.
I wonder if Hillary Ann worships at the altar of Ann Coulter?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
Remember the comic strip "Outland," which was Berk Breathed's in-between Bloom County and Opus strip? He had this little black girl in it named Ronald-Ann, whose Buppie parents named her that in a fit of Reagan-worship. Whenever I hear of anybody-Ann, I think of that hilarious character.
I bet Hillary-Ann would happily trade Ronald for the "H" word.
Only senior citizens would remember that
I loved Outland, Still here HD?
The GOP Boat, soon will be making another round.
Rush as Captain Stubing
Ann as cruise director Julie McCoy
HD as Gopher "Your Yoeman Purser"
Or should HD play Julie in a perky blonde wig and Ann play Doc?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
An indirect question to no one in particular: Isn't it funny to hear one make age jokes when coming from a party whose biggest hero was a senile old coot who fell asleep at his desk, ate jellybeans and every once in a while remembered a glib quip his handlers told him to say?
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