It’s a slow news season. The election is seven months away, summer has yet to bestow its blockbusters and the possibility that John Kerry will do something as exciting as have an affair with an intern are as slim as the chances he’ll name John McCain his running-mate. It is at times like these that a feature writer’s thoughts turn to… return to article
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Reader Comments (5)Page 1 of 1 pagesOne problem with this article. VICE hates bush. We are proud members of dowtownfordemocracy.org.
Sure I have said some right wing things and talked about what a genius Pat Buchanan is but the guy is a genius. You baby boomers spoiled the left with your spoiled brat whining. However, we are neither right nor left. You just start to cry whenever we say anything right because you’re scared we’ve strayed from your peacenik ideals.By the way. The most glaring mistake in this article is assuming anyone likes Bush. Conservatives are voting Democrat this year because of Bush. Go to amconmag.com and see for yourself. Bush is pro-immigration and pro-USA as an empire. That isn’t conservatism.
Anyhoo, the point isn’t really is it cool to be right or left. The real message here is the baby boomer left is finally old enough not to understand youth cultre.
Bye!
Posted by Gavin McInnes on Apr 9, 2004 at 10:45 PM Blurred images of: thesis, antithesis, synthesis whirling faster and faster through my line of sight; and vaguely reminiscent of radical chic of ‘60s & ‘70s. Reminded also of movies that are so bad they’re “good.” People trying so hard to be different they end looking the same. And on and on.
Posted by peter harty on Apr 12, 2004 at 4:06 AM Gavin,
The statement “Pat Buchanan is a genius” requires more evidence than you provide here. (although for a second there, the tautology almost had me convinced.) It is also somewhat disheartening to read an editor of a widely circulated magazine throw around the word “genius” so flippantly.
That point is not without meaning. You may be correct that “conservatives” will not be voting for Bush, but as someone who works around words all day, don’t you find it troubling that “conservative” no longer means what it once did? From Reagan through Gingrich to our current leading knave, Republicans have exploded budgets in order to subsidize our insanely expensive fishing expeditions for Empire, all the while portraying themselves wrapped in the sober banner of “conservatism.” (of course now they’ve added “compassion” to their mantle, which cheers things up a little). To think that all of the people who identify themselves as “conservative” actually hold true to (and vote consistently with) what were once conservative principles seems a little naive in light of the Republicans’ 25 year onslaught against language and meaning.
As to this article’s “glaring mistake” in assuming anyone likes Bush, there are quite a few people in Wall Street, the energy industry, corporate law firms, the real estate biz and the mass media (praying for further deregulation) who would like nothing more than to see Bush reelected. Maybe we should be focusing our energy on defeating them, as opposed to shocking and confusing the whiny baby boomers.
Posted by Stephen Dedalus on Apr 13, 2004 at 4:24 PM Bush loves the idea of mass immigration and he wants to take over the world. Neither of those “conserve” anything. Our generation is the first to glean the best of the right and the left. We admire the left’s socialist policies and respect for the environment as much as we admire the right’s ability to tell the truth and not pander to some magical multicultural agenda.
You baby boomers have to come to terms with the fact that you’re not relevant anymore. Stop trying to figure out what’s “cool” and stop it with the naive hippy crap.
The love fest is over.
Posted by Gavin on Apr 14, 2004 at 5:10 AM wonkette! amazing response, gavin the mcinnes himself writing! and the poor man upset for being dragged into the same lifestyles section muck as mr. rizzuto, who anyway seemed like a big douche bad his own self… and baby boomer sentimentalism aside, this is an idea so good even stephen glass got a hold of it back in the day.
anyway, we love you wonkette, here on the farm, and read you everyday. please please have a contest for straightest democrat, so i can finally nominate janet reno for the prize she so sorely deserves…
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