Living with Quotes

Let me just say, I find nothing more amusing than denizens of the intersection of Banality Street & Idiocy Avenue try to use quotes against people. It is, as they say, a pitch right down the center of the plate:

Richard Brookheiser, one of the more sane, if irrelevant and ignored, members of the Wankhole notices Jim Webb quote Theodore Roosevelt in his rebuttal and says this:

What can he thinks of this?
"Jefferson Davis was an unhung traitor. He did not, like Benedict Arnold, receive money for his treachery, but he received office instead. The difference is one of degree, not of kind. The two men stand on an evil eminence of infamy in our history." Roosevelt to George McClellan Harvey, Sept. 19, 1904

Golly, I don't know Dicky-poo (I'll lay off the usage error, I've made my share), but what do you think of drawing a paycheck contributing to a publication that has said stuff like this?

The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.
- Unsigned National Review Editorial 1957

And, of course, of more recent vintage (August 2005) when you were drawing that paycheck:

Attn: Superdome Residents [Jonah Goldberg]


I think it's time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you're working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when he's not expecting it beat him senseless. Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen. It's never too soon to be prepared.

08/29 10:05 AM

Mmmmmmmm, that wingnut welfare money so nice, so enabling of writing books about long-dead white dudes. Not that writing books about long-dead white dudes doesn't have its place (myself, I just cannot get enough of reading about dead white dudes) but that's a mighty fine glass house you are living in there Dick.