Conor mans the battlements re: my post on Douthat.
the umpire strikes back
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Borat, Art, and the Eye of the Beholder
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I am just listening with sadness…sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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Unimpressed. It’s just the usual splutter: “But but but… George Bush wasn’t really one of us!!” Cry me a river.
Nice that you completely anticipated his response, though. If there are two things we can all count on with Conor, they’re a) pearl-clutching and b) boring predictability. “Thoughtful” conservatism sure is wasting a lot of otherwise remarkable minds.
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