At 4:14 PM -0500 1/27/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >Paranoid Sy-chosis >The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh has been getting a lot of attention of late >for his reporting about various aspects of the war on terror, but an >interview with the left-wing "Democracy Now!" radio show suggests his >politics are quite loony. Here's a sample: > >*** QUOTE *** > >The amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or >nine neoconservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and >why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later >historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to >overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the >greatest of ease. It does say something about how fragile our democracy >is. You do have to wonder what a democracy is when it comes down to a few >men in the Pentagon and a few men in the White House having their way. > >*** END QUOTE *** > >But Hersh is a glass-is-half-full kind of guy: > >*** QUOTE *** > >Another salvation may be the economy. It's going to go very bad, folks. >You know, if you have not sold your stocks and bought property in Italy, >you better do it quick. > >*** END QUOTE *** > >Meanwhile, in the JoongAng Daily >http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200501/24/200501242228021239900090109012.html >, an English-language South Korean paper, senior columnist Kim Young-hie >explains the goal of the neoconspiracy: "One of the hidden purposes with >which the neo-conservatives in Washington started a war against Iraq was >to democratize the Middle East and build a condominium that the United >States and Israel could jointly manage." > >A neocondo? Taking over the whole government seems like an awfully >complicated way of getting into the real estate business. Rice and Race >Our item yesterday >http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006210#telethon on the >Democrats' bizarre anti-Condoleezza Rice telethon prompted this e-mail >from reader Cliff Thier: > >*** QUOTE *** > >I have not read anywhere what seems obvious (to me, anyway) as the real >reason why the Democrats expended so much energy trying to defame >Condoleeza Rice. Rice is the Democrats' worst nightmare: a highly and >obviously intelligent black woman who has freely chosen to be a >Republican. If her intellect and achievements, and the respect she >receives in Republican policy circles, causes black voters to begin the >process of questioning their allegiance to the Democratic Party, that >party may lose any chance to win a national election ever again. > >Only because Democrats can count on nine out of 10 black voters >automatically pulling the lever for a Democratic nominee can the Democrats >even fantasize about regaining the White House. Worse still for the >Democrats is the possibility that Rice will have a place on the next >Republican presidential ticket. An "Anybody and Rice" ticket would likely >defeat whatever pairing the Democrats could come up with. Such a ticket >could result in an additional 16 years of Republicans in the White House. > >*** END QUOTE *** > >There's no doubt some truth to this, and as we've noted >http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005912 , some left-wing >commentators (though not politicians, as far as we remember) have insulted >Rice in expressly racial terms. But making a show of their opposition to >Rice would seem to run counter to the Democrats' political interests. As >the New York Post's Deborah Orin reports: > >*** QUOTE *** > >It's not just Republicans who are livid at how Democrats have ripped into >Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice--so are plenty of black Democrats, who >say their party now risks alienating its most loyal supporters. . . . > >"A lot of African-Americans are watching this and they're wondering why >[Democrats] are going after her so hard. She has an exemplary record. >She's probably better qualified than most secretaries of state that we >have had." > >*** END QUOTE *** > >CNSNews.com >http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200501/POL20050126d.html >adds that "Andrew Young--the former Atlanta mayor, U.S. congressman and >United Nations ambassador in the Carter administration--and C. Delores >Tucker, chair of the National Congress of Black Women, agreed to appear >with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday, to urge support for Dr. >Condoleezza Rice as the next secretary of state."
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