Posted: 1/19/2005 7:58:46 AM EDT
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I remember back in the early-to-mid 90's that this guy was a Conservative author with such liberal-bashing books as "The Real Anita Hill", among others. Fast-forward 10 years. Now he's a fire-breathing liberal, putting out books like "Blinded By the Right" and "The Republican Noise Machine". So........ WTF happened? I've seen many a liberal wake the hell up and realize they are wrong, but going the other way is almost unheard of. Any ideas? |
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This fool, Brock, was interview on NPR within the last month or so. I did not catch all of it, but he seems to have had some kind of "conversion". I believe that the program was "Fresh Air", hosted by Terrri (sp) Gross. He was primarily hawking his new book, though. |
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A few writers convert to the left, though more seem to convert to the right. Michael Lind and Gary Wills both used to be thought of as at least somewhat conservative. In bizarre way Wills might still be "conservative" in the old, bad, Tory sense of thinking that the government had a right to continued existence over and above the wishes of the people. They do get paid better writing for Vanity Fair than they did for The American Spectator. |
Isn't Lind the guy with ties to the neo-Nazis? The far-left and far-right seem to intersect. |
That is because National Socialism is not really of the right…State control of everything is not an idea of the right but the left. |