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| The Right Way to Write a Susan Sontag Obit |
| 2004-12-29 |
| EFL. From Michelle Malkin's blog via Country Store. Susan Sontag, a critic, novelist and essayist who blamed America for the September 11 terror attacks and once declared that "the white race is the cancer of human history," died in New York yesterday at age 71. Yikes! Honesty in reporting? Must be the Washington Times. *snip* "The white race is the cancer of human history," she wrote in a 1967 essay in Partisan Review. "It is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself." Such comments led novelist Tom Wolfe to dismiss Mrs. Sontag as "just another scribbler who spent her life signing up for protest meetings and lumbering to the podium encumbered by her prose style, which had a handicapped parking sticker valid at Partisan Review." Ol' Tom sure knows how to turn a phrase. :-D *snip* Born Susan Rosenblatt in New York in 1933, she later described her childhood as "one long prison sentence." Her father died when she was 5, and her mother later married an Army officer, Capt. Nathan Sontag. That may well explain a lot. Or maybe she was just born a bitch. At age 17, she married social psychologist Philip Rieff, then 28, just 10 days after meeting him at the University of Chicago. Showed complete lack of judgement early in life, I see. Why wait? Get stupid early so you can perfect it while you're still relatively young. The couple had a son, David, born in 1952, but divorced in the 1960s. In later years, she described her lesbian relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz as "an open secret." If it's open, it ain't a secret. How old was this aged teenager? Ex-radical author David Horowitz noted yesterday that in 1969, he published the Sontag essay, "On the Right Way (For Us) to Love the Cuban Revolution" in Ramparts magazine. "There is no right way to love the Cuban Revolution. That was my second thought. It's a pity [Mrs. Sontag] never had second thoughts, too," Mr. Horowitz said. Ouch! Of course, I don't think she had any first thoughts, either. Rest in pieces, moonbat. Say hello to your terrorist and commie buddies in Hell for me. (Though I do offer my condolences to her son. It's hard to lose your mother, even if she is a moonbat.) |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #6 Lol - Credit where due, my dear... Translation: Wish I'd written it! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-29 9:33:50 PM |
| #5 Why, thankew, .com. You sure know how to turn a girl's head. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-29 9:25:43 PM |
| #4 interns? Grad Students..... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-29 9:22:05 PM |
| #3 The Arizona Repugnant did a front-page and full inside page on the idiot. They must've had interns slaving for decades over it. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-12-29 9:20:33 PM |
| #2 Dead Sontag. Good Riddance to Bad rubbish! Now we just need to insure the disappearance of Michael Moore (as he contines to drown in blubber) and Susan Sarandon (while she drowns in her own bile). |
| Posted by: leaddog2 2004-12-29 8:39:46 PM |
| #1 Lol! Barbara! Awesome smackdown and awesome commentary! *applause* |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-29 8:17:36 PM |