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2004-12-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-09 04:05|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm a big fan of Dawkin's work, but what comes clearly through the article is he is also a good old-fashioned Brit snob.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-09 6:21:35 AM|| 2004-12-09 6:21:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Anti-Americanism keeps intruding in the new book. There is a very irrational paragraph on nuclear strategy that stoops to lampooning Bushâs pronunciation â ânucularâ

âIâm not particularly proud of being visceral, but I am admitting it. My attacks on George Bush have nothing to do with science or the scientific method. I just canât stand the manâs style, the way he swaggers and struts and smirks and the way he looks sly and deceitful and the way Americans canât see it. Iâm irritated by the way they think heâs just a regular guy you can have a drink with.â

As Orwell said, "Only an intellectual can say such things. No one else would be so stupid."

Posted by lex 2004-12-09 10:47:00 AM|| 2004-12-09 10:47:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the jackass who wrote a letter to Clark County OH voters urging them not to vote for Bush because his foreign policy was the equivalent of shooting an intruder in your house.

nb Clark County was the only OH county to shift sides between 2000 and 2004, moving from pro-Gore to pro-Bush.

Dawkins: a brilliant shithead.

Posted by lex 2004-12-09 10:49:20 AM|| 2004-12-09 10:49:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Idiot savant?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-09 3:33:08 PM|| 2004-12-09 3:33:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Amusing that our Darwin apostle's haute disdain for Bush stems from a rather atavistic, pre-evolutionary reaction to Bush's facial movements and physical characteristics.

Dawkins is so over the top, I find it hard to believe he's not getting kickbacks from the RNC.

Posted by lex 2004-12-09 3:38:39 PM|| 2004-12-09 3:38:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Amusing that our Darwin apostle's haute disdain for Bush stems from a rather atavistic, pre-evolutionary reaction to Bush's facial movements and physical characteristics.

Dawkins is so over the top, I find it hard to believe he's not getting kickbacks from the RNC.

Posted by lex 2004-12-09 3:38:43 PM|| 2004-12-09 3:38:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ..because his foreign policy was the equivalent of shooting an intruder in your house.

Sounds like a pretty reasonable foreign policy to me...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-09 4:33:35 PM|| 2004-12-09 4:33:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dawkin's problem with Bush is that he is low class, or even worse Bush can succesfully fake being low class.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-09 4:51:50 PM|| 2004-12-09 4:51:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, B-a-R, that's my point. This man is so obtuse that he in his infinite smugness thought his analogy was witty, wise and utterly convincing. As I say, an intellectual moron.

Posted by lex 2004-12-09 7:44:10 PM|| 2004-12-09 7:44:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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