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Antony Loewenstein—journalist, author, token Jew—sometimes struggles to convey his intended meaning, particularly when describing himself:
It’s not always easy being an Australian trapped in a universalist’s body, especially when you’ve got a penchant for dissent.
He meant to indicate the opposite; that he was a universalist trapped in an Australian’s body. Not that either formulation makes a great deal of sense. Lately, Loewy has been excited by Venezuelan dingbat Hugo Chavez; or, as Antony calls him …
Venezuela’s President Hugh Chavez tells Washington that its time is nearly up.
You tell ’em, Hugh! Loorbenstool continues:
Chavez is a “threat” because he dares ridicule US arrogance and has the oil-wealth to talk the talk.
The notion Antony grasps for more likely involves Chavez walking the walk. In possibly related news, the publication of Loewenstein’s book—having already been pushed back from May to July—has now been bumped to August.
UPDATE. Credit to one Anty reader for inventing an excellent new word:
You have missed the Pilger link, you dublicated Ken’s.
Waiter! Please dublicate this scotch!
UPDATE II. Leftoid commenter Addamo:
The left prides itself on being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Well, congratulations to the left on reaching toddler-level functioning. Pride!
One man’s dictator is another man’s freedom fighter.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 05 15 at 11:34 PM • permalink”...A former friend of Chavez, Lt. Colonel Luis Pineda Castellanos, describes him during his cadet years as a very correct and obedient student, but with a propensity for lying and an extreme phobia of swimming...”
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 05 15 at 11:39 PM • permalink""More on Chavez’s London tour here, London mayor Ken Livingstone here and John Pilger here."”
From loies site. Blairs law strikes again.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 15 at 11:39 PM • permalinkSome of us are being too judgmental. We need to remember that one man’s fuckwit is another man’s wanktard.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 05 15 at 11:41 PM • permalinkHow funny!
If you didn’t notice, there is no dissent allowed at all on Ant’s site despite his official blog rules that encourages debate. He is a complete hypocrite.
I think he is a unrequited despot who fantasises about being a universalist but must settle for his mediocrity inside his under-published Australian carcass.
Can someone please tell MUP, protect the environment from even more remainders.
The left loves dissent, so much so that they all dissent in exactly the same way, chant exactly the same slogans and hold exactly the same views. But their love of dissent doesn’t actually extend to any form of disagreement with people with whom conflict might entail any form of remote risk, such as, say, muslims. Then they instantly develop an overwhelming urge to surrender to the agressor, no matter how weak, and cave to the slightest threat, real or imagined.
THE most contemptible, spineless trash on Earth- the modern leftist. An entire ideology, more like a cult, devoted to zero-cost masturbation of the ego.
Anthony Loewenstein, just another fucking wanker.
the publication of Loewenstein’s book—having already been pushed back from May to July—has now been bumped to August.
I’m not an anti-semite, but i fucking hate jews… DAMN. Writers block!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 05 15 at 11:46 PM • permalinkIf Venezuela has so much oil, why are they buying oil from the Russians to fulfill their own supply contracts? got decline?
Perhaps he misspoke and meant he was an Australian trapped in a MR UNIVERSALIST body, you running dog lackey girly man.
Posted by Go Canucks on 2006 05 16 at 12:39 AM • permalinkthere’s a perfectly good airport with a fully functioning runway at Mascot. You are free to use it.
But can he waddle fast enough to cross it between take-offs and landings? “I was doing fine ‘til I tried to cross it the long way...”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 16 at 12:39 AM • permalink#13 True Amos, maybe it is ironic that Ant advocates allowing suicide bombers into Israel, but he is the one taking the risks.
His brutal occupation of Aboriginal land is another of his wonderful contradictions.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 05 16 at 12:43 AM • permalink#9
If you didn’t notice, there is no dissent allowed at all on Ant’s site despite his official blog rules that encourages debate. He is a complete hypocrite.
Yeah, and as a result he now gets less than half the comments he used to.
I just read through his last dozen or so posts (resulting in a desire for voluminous quantities of hard liquor) and found about half had no comments at all, with the rest only getting between one and four each. Maybe his readers are realising that his repetitive garbage ain’t worth looking at.
Posted by HisHineness on 2006 05 16 at 01:19 AM • permalinkI used to be a regular agitator at Loewy’s blog - however I no longer waste my time with that halfwit and his ridiculous, unread output. It’s quite amusing - since he left his old blogspot blog and upgraded to fancier premises, no one seems to have updated their bookmarks. Perhaps they keep going back to his old site to be outraged at Anty’s lastest ruminations over whatever was bugging Green Left Weekly at the time. Short memory and all. Although maybe I’m being unfair, because it’s not such a difficult mistake to make - all his stuff reads the same.
Re. Ant’s dissent-crushing comments policy, I left a brief (and wholly polite) comment mentioning the Fisk meltdown on Lateline and it was deleted expeditiously. Hilarious.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 05 16 at 01:25 AM • permalink#20 Tex,
Lowenstein is a slightly less deranged version of Joe Vialls: everything bad that happens is caused by ‘Zionists’
Only slightly. To his credit though, nobody mangles metaphors quite like Loewy.
BTW, have you heard any more from the Greenie von Munchausen, Thom Lyons?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 05 16 at 01:30 AM • permalinkOh, and how’s this for stunningly intelligent commentary :
Expect Washington to order his (Chavez’s) assassination.
He’s also getting in on the Google Trends fun. Who’da thunkit, the word “Zionism” is most frequently Googled from Israel.
In other earth shattering Google Trends upsets, “haggis” is most likely Googled by Scots, “Budweiser” by Yanks and “sheep” by Kiwis.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 05 16 at 01:35 AM • permalinkFirst of all before Loewenstein is described as an “academic “ or an intellectual” we really do need to ascertain his bonafide credentials otherwise he remains like Norman Finkelstein a false academic who uses his Jewsishness to gain prominence with the antisemutic left.
does any one know about these “credential’ cause i would love to be informed.
I guess i am still of the old school that believe that true academics to not embrace conspiracy theory and rabid anti american/israeli hatred, but should embrace scholarship and the pursuit of truth.I left a missive at his Chavez link. Doubt he’ll pass it.
I don’t know why I even look at his site(s). It’s like a road accident or a train wreck—some perverse impulse draws your attention and you stare in horror.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 16 at 02:38 AM • permalinkHere’s the type of Asinine comments made by the Loewenstein, which in fact could have been written by Finkelstein, though possibly not Chomsky
‘Zionists get as Nazi-like as they like and tacitly accuse objectors of being Nazi-like, because they have the holocaust, and nothing but the holocaust, for political clout. ‘ Loewy rant
A perfidious inversion , since it is the loewy left that equates through its traumatised amorality the Nazis with Zionists.
Anyone who has viewed Alain Resnais’Night and Fog’ would be deeply outraged at such comparisons, -Jewish or non Jewish.
The claims by Loewenstein that Jews use the Holocaust to further their causes and greedily profit from it are stolen from Norman Finkelstein, a deeply disturbed individual whose mother cooperated with the Nazis in Maidjanec concentration camp.
Such trauma often causes Jews to turn against their own, i know because my uncle did the same when he returned from Auschwitz.
transforming the State of Israel into a Nazi state is the way that the liberal left minimize the Holocaust, which is a deep stain on secular western civilisation. Unlike previous genocides it cannot be blamed on “religion” because if anything it was made possible by the abandonment of faith in the moralities of religion.
This decline of religion which began in the late 1800s was promoted by hosts of leftist new philosophers who aided the replacement of “absurd” faith held morality , with weak secular arguments which could easily be overturned by propagandists.
The Idea that these propagandists were in fact secular right wing fascists and not leftists is also false. Since there are extraordinary simalirities between Mein Kampf and the writings of Karl Marx. Fascism is a mutant strain of socialism but it must never be admitted.
The leftist secularistthinkers were culpable in laying down the foundations that made the Holocaust possible by tearing away the firm roots of religious morality. and replacing them with loosely held opinions.Actually they tore down the basis of religious morality and placed man at the centre of the world. With no moral authority higher than man, and no man higher than the one with the most power, there was only the will of the dictator, deciding what was good for society and which elements were to be purged for reasons of social hygiene.
Nazism was just socialism with a fixation on racial Darwinism. But basically just socialism.
Nice piece by Ian Buruma about the long tradition of leftie ‘intellectual’ affection for thugs who advertise themselves as champions of ‘the common man’.
Dictators have the best of both worlds for these types. An infinite capacity to patronise, bully and enforce without the inconvenience of things which might clutter the road to utopia, like party systems, elections and democratic stuff ‘n’ all.
#1: I don’t think that Antony is a fuckwit. I think that he is just a young man trying to make sense out of a complicated world.
He can’t make sense out of it. He’s a fuckwit.
-Big Al
Posted by TheRealBigAl on 2006 05 16 at 06:11 AM • permalinkI left a brief (and wholly polite) comment mentioning the Fisk meltdown on Lateline and it was deleted expeditiously. Hilarious.
I’ve noticed that they are all experiencing a melt down simoultanously. For one, Antony’s own blog postings are getting more and more irrational, by the day. Something is not quite right with the central moonbat server…
since he left his old blogspot blog and upgraded to fancier premises, no one seems to have updated their bookmarks.
But, I suspect he updated on additional sock puppets to make up for the losses.
First of all before Loewenstein is described as an “academic “ or an intellectual” we really do need to ascertain his bonafide credentials
There is nothing to ascertain - hence the term “token Jew.”
B/thw, where is Dan Lewis? I want to see some more graphic artwork…
To highlight just how irrational Lowy is getting,check out his response to the following:
I also criticise your decision to place a dilettante like Antony Loewenstein on the board of your Middle East studies centre. Loewenstein’s knowledge of the region is so superficial that he can’t even correctly cite the gender of Israel’s foreign minister. Would you take seriously a commentator on Australian politics who referred to Kim Beazley as “she?” Thus I argue that your appointment of Loewenstein is part tokenism (your quote from the Australian Jewish News) and combined with a desire to bring on to the board someone you found ideologically congenial. And, of course, both you and Loewenstein undeniably share a mutual distaste for Zionism.
Lowenstein replies - The obedient, little Zionist. Read the whole thing - it’s fucking hilarious.
The obedient, little ZionistAny Jew could make a handy living attacking Jews and Israel. Look at the maths. 12 million Jews? 6.5 billion people? 1.6 billion Muslims? Total population of US/Europe/Aust/Can etc, say 1.5 billion? Percentage of those who are nazi/ratbag leftie/nutcase religious etc types(excluding Muslims) say (very very conservatively),2%, or 30 million.
Therefore rabid Jew-hating types = approximately 2.5 per Jew.
And that’s before you get to the Africans, South Americans and Asians. Let alone the Muslims.
The truly remarkable thing is not that there are so many Finkelsteins and Louensteins.
It is that there are so few.
Talking of re-writes, Ray is referring to himself as a man, and has only two nipples. I fear he may be starting down the cartoon character’s dangerous path to anthropmorphism. Please remind him, and Chris, that he is a cat.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 05 16 at 09:00 AM • permalink“The left loves dissent, so much so that they all dissent in exactly the same way, chant exactly the same slogans and hold exactly the same views.”
Yes, the left are the Borg. Sensing a disturbance in the force are we?
“But their love of dissent doesn’t actually extend to any form of disagreement with people with whom conflict might entail any form of remote risk, such as, say, muslims.”
Gee, getting your talking points confused aren’t we? Didn’t one of your fellow travelers just suggest that nazims supposed to be one step to the left of socialism?
“Then they instantly develop an overwhelming urge to surrender to the agressor, no matter how weak, and cave to the slightest threat, real or imagined.”
Isn’t imagining and inventing threats the art form perfected by the right? How often do we hear jingoistic charges aimed at foreign nations/threats that are constantly seeking to undermine the United States? The entire right is hung up on the belief that there are terrible dangers everywhere, and it’s essential for the West to go out and attack here and attack those “dangers” before they come to shore. Carl von Clausewitz, had a great phrase for this. He called it, “suicide for fear of death.” You are so afraid of what’s happening to you in the world or what might happen to you that you, go out and launch operations, which actually produce the result that you were afraid might happen if you didn’t do these things (e.g. terrorism and Iraq).
“If Venezuela has so much oil, why are they buying oil from the Russians to fulfill their own supply contracts? got decline?”
Pretty simplistic comment don’t you think? Volume of oil reserves does not equal oil wells. Is the refining capacity not the bottleneck in bringing oil into the US?
“Nice piece by Ian Buruma about the long tradition of leftie ‘intellectual’ affection for thugs who advertise themselves as champions of ‘the common man’.”
Chavez and Castro and held up by the right as examples of the lefts obsession with strong men, while conveniently ignoring that it is the West that has a penchant for overthrowing governments and supplanting them with tyrants.
The US has overthrown 14 governments in the last century and it is widely accepted that authoritarian regimes in the Middle East would fall over like a pack of cards if the US the minute the US withdrew their support.
Buruma’s article begins with the favorite premise of the right; that Chavez is a democratically elected leaders is irrelevant, because as we all know, he is a dictator-in-waiting. This seems to be driving the right bat-shit with frustration. In spite of all the bravado and noise, Chavez has not actually put a foot wrong, so they are reduced to creating impeding dangers our of whole cloth.Just as farcical is the suggestion that opposition to the US encourages authoritarianism. I suppose Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala and Iran wer just blips on the radar.
Nazism was just socialism with a fixation on racial Darwinism. But basically just socialism.
Always beware any European with a Big New Idea that can’t be tested in a laboratory.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 16 at 09:30 AM • permalinkYes, the left are the Borg. Sensing a disturbance in the force are we?
Conflating science fiction series, are we?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 16 at 09:31 AM • permalinkThe left prides itself on being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Well, ya gotta aim high when you’re (barely) functional morons.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 16 at 09:44 AM • permalinkFrom the Brilliant Addamo™:
“But their love of dissent doesn’t actually extend to any form of disagreement with people with whom conflict might entail any form of remote risk, such as, say, muslims.”
Gee, getting your talking points confused aren’t we? Didn’t one of your fellow travelers just suggest that nazims supposed to be one step to the left of socialism?
Someone is being obtuse. Not that your response makes any sense; to understand it, I have to assume you assume socialists to be different from Nazis in some major aspect. I’m guessing that you think that difference is violence, although that is a laugh unto itself.
Or is the difference actually courage? Are you saying that socialists are braver than Nazis, and do stand up to muslim aggression?
Heh, talk about inserting a foot into an open mouth......
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 16 at 09:47 AM • permalinkOn the right, that woul be considered that flip-flopping.
Yup, best personified by Senator John Effing Kerry.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 16 at 09:48 AM • permalinkBuruma’s article begins with the favorite premise of the right; that Chavez is a democratically elected leaders is irrelevant, because as we all know, he is a dictator-in-waiting.
The coup he attempted might have something to do with that. Not to mention his current attempts to be declared (essentially) president-for-life.
Funny how you ignored all that.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 16 at 09:51 AM • permalinkOne silly point from your silly post, then I will go back to pulling the wings of butterflies…
“and it is widely accepted that authoritarian regimes in the Middle East would fall over like a pack of cards if the US the minute the US withdrew their support.”
Bollocks! Big sweaty pendulous, never been used bollocks.
What would happen would be an inital increase in repression followed by a desperate search around for a “sugar daddy” to help them. This would involve probably both the Chinese and Russians becoming involved for exactly the same reason the US does. To maintain a secure energy supply. Only The Russians and Chinese would have fewer moral scruples and I doubt any nation building would be attempted.
Here endeth the lesson.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 16 at 09:58 AM • permalinkSome linkys for addummo
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7140-15.cfm
http://www.cdi.org/russia/258-1.cfm
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/iraqchron.html
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 16 at 10:02 AM • permalinkNo I’m talking about the modern left, the decadent trash that swarms in academia and show business. Wretchard said, and he was right, that one of the great untold stories of the 20th century is the hollowing out of the left’s Bolshevik core. The armed revolutionaries that once attempted to overthrow and tyrannize societies were defeated and the colorful rabble of useful idiots, paid stooges and fellow travelers they used as Trojan horses to weaken their target societies remained.
The armed killers were defeated, but not before leaving behind half the planet in economic ruin and a colossal pile of corpses.
You’re what Lenin contemptuously called a ‘useful idiot ‘, Addamo, the first to be shot once the comrades take charge, because what’s a useful idiot when he’s no longer useful? Just an idiot. But you’ll never face the firing squad, the death camp or the gulag because men unimaginably better than you in every way fought and died to defeat the ‘imaginary’ enemies of democracy, just as today they’re fighting a disgusting medieval theocratic murder cult that would love to get it’s hands on your pansy ass.
You’re fit to be nothing but a slave. You’re a fucking cockroach.
#11--Amos--THE most contemptible, spineless trash on Earth- the modern leftist. An entire ideology, more like a cult, devoted to zero-cost masturbation of the ego.
Never have truer words been spoken (written, whatever).
Following Ant’s link, I noted The Independent calling itself The RED Independent. What’s this, I asked, a bold, new approach to truth in labeling? But, alas no, it’s just a special edition:
This article is from the (RED) edition of The Independent, guest-edited for 16 May 2006 by Bono(!). Half the revenue from the edition will be donated to the Global Fund to Fight Aids.
Never did find out what RED stands for though.
Mr Chavez added: “There is a big ideological confrontation in the region. Some defend the big project of Washington that has smashed our people. We want a profound change, a new socialism. And we are going to debate: do we want socialism or capitalism? We say socialism!"
I must have missed the big Washington project that smashed the Venezuelan people. Damn. Also must have missed that whole capitalism vs socialism debate that went on down there. My impression has been that Sr. Chavez is sorta, kinda imposing his will on the populace, in an entirely democratic way of course--power to the people and all that. (I asked my husband if he thought Chavez would nationalize Venezuela’s oil industry. He said, no, that Chavez may be many things, but stupid is not among them. Well, we’ll see.)
The notion Antony grasps for more likely involves Chavez walking the walk.
Like they say, money talks, bullshit walks. Okay, I’m going over now to leave a message for this insufferable POS. Let’s see if it gets published.
#57--Amos--You da man (and you make good cookies too).
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 16 at 12:24 PM • permalinkHmmmmm.....Addamo hasn’t been
fellatingdefending Fisk here lately. Maybe he is moving up in the world after all.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 16 at 03:12 PM • permalinkOh Paco, thanks for the laugh, especially after reading Adumbo’s hatefulness.
As I wrote on another thread, Adumbo covers the holes in his brain with little slabs of jargon. He is predictable and can be counted on to show what one hopes is his ignorance. One doesn’t like to think that people choose evil, even though one knows they do. Whether consciously chosen or from ignorance, he has the knee-jerk response of all America-haters and it doesn’t take long to be bored with the same tired sentences. And it never seems to disturb this type that the enemy has begun to use these very sentences in their propaganda, word for word; this says nothing important to him.
He did say one thing that is correct, however. Islam is the Borg and we will all be assimilated in Allah’s own good time. Resistence is futile.
65 knowsbetter
Resistence is futile.
The fuck it is.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 16 at 05:18 PM • permalinkSome other Jeffersonian quotes that are, I think, as relevant today as when they were spoken, please gather round and stroke your beards and nod your heads in somber agreement
"Denouncing your fellow soldiers war criminals on hearsay evidence while the war is still going on is the highest form of extra-special patriotism with a creamy centre of pure integrity."
"Everything I say, no matter how stupid, is true until you can exhaustively prove it isn’t in which case it’s still sort of true somehow, but by which time I will have said about thirty other idiotic things you’ll be struggling to deal with."
"That Christmas I spent in King Georges harem of nubile concubines disguised as an ineffectual, flip-flopping eunuch while taking my saucy pleasures of the girls as I willed, even doggy-style, are seared, seared into my memory"
Any of you fat chicks rich? Seriously, I’m single. I helped write the constitution.
You like boats? I sailed a boat around in the revolutionary war and discovered France. Not like that pussy Adams.
And it never seems to disturb this type that the enemy has begun to use these very sentences in their propaganda, word for word; this says nothing important to him.
That’s because he thinks they’re not his enemies.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 16 at 10:36 PM • permalinkPanurge help me—my hit list is getting longer.
I swat mosquitoes, it’s true, but I’ll put a hunstman outside rather than kill it—even a whitetail if I can do it without getting bitten.
But Lowenstein? Chomsky? Anyone from Neturei Karta? Hamas?
I guess I am not so gentle as once I was, because if I could—I would do them grievous harm.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 17 at 05:21 AM • permalink
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I don’t think that Antony is a fuckwit. I think that he is just a young man trying to make sense out of a complicated world.