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Jane Smiley, Idiot
Vodkapundit —
... on 04 Oct 2008 at 12:16 pm Here’s Jane Smiley, idiot : Every time I think of William Ayers, I also think of John McCain, because they are of the same era, and they both believed in the efficacy of violence. That was Jane Smiley, idiot. Tagged as: ...
SATURDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... Off Gloves - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air [image] If You Want Something Done Right… - J. Rubin, Contentions [image] NYT's Obama-Ayers Whitewash - Stanley Kurtz, The Corner [image] NYT on Ayers-Obama: Nothing to See Here - E. Morrissey, Hot Air [image] Obama and Some Guy He Barely Knows - S. Benen, Political Animal [image] America to be Reintroduced to Rev. Wright - J. Cole, Balloon Juice [image] Ayers and McCain - Jane Smiley, Huffington Post [image] I Suspect It Won't Work - ...
Jane Smiley: John McCain Is The Same As William Ayers Because They Both Used Violence
Say Anything —
Of course, McCain was in the US Military and used violence against valid military targets within a movement of murderous totalitarians. Ayers used violence against the American public in order to intimidate them into bending to his political agenda.
But according to Jane Smiley at the Huffington Post, that’s the same thing.
Every time I think of William Ayers, I also think of John McCain, because they are of the same era, and they both believed in the efficacy of violence. According to an ...
Hard landings
The Sideshow —
... the thesis is evidence of a profound lack of rigor on McArdle's part that can only be motivated by an underlying moral and intellectual abyss. People who go on the record to seriously propose policy decisions without supporting their proposals with any substantive evidence of their validity are intellectually lazy at their very best, but to persist in doing so without ever even looking for the evidence or absorbing the known contraindications is morally bankrupt. Jane Smiley says William Ayres makes her think of McCain, because we know which one spent lots of time bombing ...
