Only the Right
Only the Right is Listening to the Left
By Daniel G. Jennings
The leftist elite in this country seems to be louder and more obnoxious than ever but only group seems to be listening to it: the Right or right wing intellectuals.
Don’t believe me pay a visit to a right wing website such as www.frontpagemagazine.com run by David Horowitz, a 60s radical turned modern day right wing scourge of the left. On January 11, the site featured such articles as “The Terrorists’ Leftist PR Machine.” This brilliant piece of journalism exposed Robert Jensen a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin who wrote an op-ed piece for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram calling on Americans to dismantle the American Empire.
Guess what, the first time I ever heard of Robert Jensen was in this article. The only reason I’ve ever heard of this idiot and his moronic writings is from this article. In other words, David Horowitz is promoting a left wing extremist on his website. Obviously The Fort Worth Star-Telegram isn’t a major newspaper and Robert Jensen isn’t an influential public figure, he’s a two bit crank who has scammed his way into an academic position with a good pension. The only attention being paid to the idiot is by the right.
In another article “The Ivory Tower on Display” the goings on at the American History Association were exposed. The antics of such silly groups as Historians Against the War and other collections of leftist extremists who consider America the Evil Empire were exposed. Even though Front Page’s man in Seattle Rick Shenkman reported that most of the meetings were virtually empty. In other words nobody but Mr. Shenkman and his employers cared about this conference. Not even its supposed audience of left wing intellectuals bothered to show up and pay attention.
This whole episode is a good example of how the far left feeds off the right. Left wing idiots who should be bagging groceries at Wal-Mart for a living but have academic degrees (courtesy of hardworking parents or grandparents who would roll over in their graves if they saw what their descendants were doing with the educations they paid for) make ludicrous statements. The mainstream media ignores them, but the alternative right wing media picks up on them and broadcasts them to the masses with the claim that an evil left wing elite is selling out the country to terrorism or some such balderdash. That way the right wingers can feel important by exposing the left wingers, the left wingers feel important because they’re being attacked by the fascist thugs.
This means right wing fear mongers can frighten their public with claims of an evil left wing elite. Even though the left wing elite is a collection of aging cranks who failing to make a living at real jobs have found refuge in academia and the media.
So I have to wonder, are the modern American left and right real political movements or simply groups of loudmouthed nuts feeding off of each others’ hot air?
By Daniel G. Jennings
The leftist elite in this country seems to be louder and more obnoxious than ever but only group seems to be listening to it: the Right or right wing intellectuals.
Don’t believe me pay a visit to a right wing website such as www.frontpagemagazine.com run by David Horowitz, a 60s radical turned modern day right wing scourge of the left. On January 11, the site featured such articles as “The Terrorists’ Leftist PR Machine.” This brilliant piece of journalism exposed Robert Jensen a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin who wrote an op-ed piece for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram calling on Americans to dismantle the American Empire.
Guess what, the first time I ever heard of Robert Jensen was in this article. The only reason I’ve ever heard of this idiot and his moronic writings is from this article. In other words, David Horowitz is promoting a left wing extremist on his website. Obviously The Fort Worth Star-Telegram isn’t a major newspaper and Robert Jensen isn’t an influential public figure, he’s a two bit crank who has scammed his way into an academic position with a good pension. The only attention being paid to the idiot is by the right.
In another article “The Ivory Tower on Display” the goings on at the American History Association were exposed. The antics of such silly groups as Historians Against the War and other collections of leftist extremists who consider America the Evil Empire were exposed. Even though Front Page’s man in Seattle Rick Shenkman reported that most of the meetings were virtually empty. In other words nobody but Mr. Shenkman and his employers cared about this conference. Not even its supposed audience of left wing intellectuals bothered to show up and pay attention.
This whole episode is a good example of how the far left feeds off the right. Left wing idiots who should be bagging groceries at Wal-Mart for a living but have academic degrees (courtesy of hardworking parents or grandparents who would roll over in their graves if they saw what their descendants were doing with the educations they paid for) make ludicrous statements. The mainstream media ignores them, but the alternative right wing media picks up on them and broadcasts them to the masses with the claim that an evil left wing elite is selling out the country to terrorism or some such balderdash. That way the right wingers can feel important by exposing the left wingers, the left wingers feel important because they’re being attacked by the fascist thugs.
This means right wing fear mongers can frighten their public with claims of an evil left wing elite. Even though the left wing elite is a collection of aging cranks who failing to make a living at real jobs have found refuge in academia and the media.
So I have to wonder, are the modern American left and right real political movements or simply groups of loudmouthed nuts feeding off of each others’ hot air?
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