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If you have received the vague impression that more and more liberals have lost their minds, you are not imagining things. In a rollicking, two-fisted new book, Michelle Malkin proves that to be the case. You probably have no idea just how loony the left has become. Malkin is a fearless polemicist, and just her extensive examples of hate-filled emails from her foes will make your hair stand on end. Unfortunately, most are unprintable. Democrats seem to have a PhD in paranoia. Still smarting from defeat in the 2000 presidential election, Democrats like Hillary Clinton and John Conyers still peddle the canard that there were "peculiar voting patterns" in Florida. A joint MIT-Caltech study that proved the contrary makes no impression on these determined paranoids. No one really needs to be told that Hollywood is ground zero for leftist insanity, but the sheer amount of data assembled by Malkin will take away the breath of even veteran culture warriors. She details a recent award ceremony where Whoopi Goldberg delivered an obscene rant on President Bush to the crazed delight of the assembled glitterati. Malkin cites case after case of leftist actors and actresses spewing out diatribes that all feature their favorite four-letter word, which seems to make up roughly one-third of their entire vocabulary.. One particularly appalling chapter details the many celebrities and writers who seem obsessed with the hope that President Bush will be assassinated. Sarah Vowell, who has written op-eds for the New York Times and who is a much-praised commentator for National Public Radio, talks and writes incessantly about the assassination of Republican presidents. And don't miss the bouncy Stephen Sondheim musical named "Assassins." It's so chic and edgy. Can the crazies be cured? Maybe, if they can first accept the fact that they are very, very sick. The problem is that they don't seem to accept that fact. Paul Krugman, for example, worries in the New York Times that soon liberal politicians will fear assassination by that favorite leftist bugbear, crazed radical right-wing extremists. He hasn't been following the news that it's right wingers who get shouted down, "pied," and threatened by radical audiences all over the country. Malkin's book is scary, funny and enormously entertaining. It's also heartening and uplifting to see an independent-minded woman facing down outrageous attacks with a boxer's skill. She hits back, and retains her sense of humor while doing it. Read this book to keep your head while all those to the left of you seem to be losing theirs. (Regnery, 2005, 172 pp., $27.95) |
Madeline Albright, while waiting to go on Fox News in late 2004, opined that perhaps Karl Rove had Osama bin Laden under wraps, to be trotted out just before the presidential election. Howard ("The Scream") Dean, head of the Democratic Party, remarked that Bush may have known about 9/11 beforehand. Walter Cronkite thoughtfully speculated that Rove was behind bin Laden's release of a tape in October 2004.
