Two new pieces suggest this new form of media is catching on. Here’s Time’s brief synopsis; and here’s Newsday’s more sophisticated take. One sign of our increasing impact is the 840 percent increase in Amazon sales of “Warrior Politics” yesterday and 225 percent increase today. It’s now Number 4.
MORRIS REINFORCES THE NEW CONSENSUS: In a piece today in the Wall Street Journal, Dick Morris doesn’t add that much that is new to the record of Bill Clinton’s foreign policy fecklessness. But he does finger Sandy Berger as the key operator in preventing a serious war on terror in the latter years of the Clinton administration. And he does serve to buttress again the growing sense that the Clinton era, for all its successes, was the end of something rather than the initiation of a new politics. This is what even some liberals are beginning to acknowledge is another part of what might be termed the transformational presidency of George W. Bush. As the contrast between pre-9/11 and post-9/11 culture deepens in the public consciousness, Bill Clinton seems forever a small and mildly regrettable incident from the distant past.
THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM WATCH: A disturbing report in London’s Telegraph on the rabid, murderous anti-semitism of some British Muslims:
Mr Hamza, the imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London, has been filmed urging young men to attack non-believers. “Crush his head in your arms, wring his throat, rip his intestines out . . . Forget wasting a bullet on them – cut them in half,” he said… Mr Faisal, a Jamaican-born cleric, preaches across Britain and sells recordings of his inflammatory sermons. In one he tells listeners: “How do you fight the Jews? You kill the Jews.”
Hmmm. Where have we heard statements like that before? (I should add that I’m appalled that in my homeland, such statements, however disgusting, have no First Amendment protection under the law.)
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