October 25, 2010

Quote of the Day

Tom Scocca demolishes P.J. O'Roarke's election article in the Weekly Standard:

By the time O'Rourke declares that Democrats support gay marriage because it allows them to bring "domestic private life" under "domination," the joke is clear. The writer is spoofing the voice of a movement so drunk on self-righteousness it's slurring its words. He's taken Dinesh D'Souza's embarrassing little stunt of blaming every Obama administration policy on radical Kenyan anticolonialism and made it even dumber, blowing it out from self-parody into full-on parody: here is what happens if you take one simpleminded theory and apply it to anything, for cheap polemical effect, because all you care about is scoring points. You end up praising illegal immigrants as anti-Democratic Party insurgents who are evading the "legal monopoly on force." In the Weekly Standard, yet.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 25, 2010 04:14 PM
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