I save trite insults for trite minds. One such organ belongs to Ariana Huffington. She is emblematic of everything that kept me away from the left; and keeps me still critical of the celebritycentric hollywood leftists. To this day, I religiously avoid her blog. It is a waste of time. I present just one proof.
In October of 2005 she brought Sam Harris, now atheist religion hater extraordinaire, to her blog and let him about religious people.
I complained about this before. In the now predictively accurate post I wrote passingly, but angrily, about Huffington's decision to publish Harris:
Before I go on, let me just say that Huffington's support of this guy is total hypocrisy in light of the fact that she, and her leftist associates, claim to protect and fight for the minorities and such of this country. If you protect the Muslims, Ariana, why do you give such space to people who feed the anti-Muslim fire?
Now, surprise surprise, we learn the Harris' fascist turn is complete:
While keeping the Christian Nation on notice that Harris remains disdainful of "wasting time" on Jesus, he now calls for something of an alliance with the Right against Muslim Arabs and the "head-in-the-sand liberals" he denounced in a recent editorial. "Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living," he writes.
He goes to say other fascist remarks:
Instead the logic he lays out -- that Islam itself is our enemy -- invites the reader to feel comfort at the deaths of its believers. He writes: "Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them."
Not only that, but he has revealed himself to be a hypocrite on the issue of torture:
Chapter 3 finds him complaining that the medieval Church tortured Jews over phony "blood libel" conspiracies. Then in chapter 6, "A Science of Good & Evil," he devotes several pages to upholding the "judicial torture" of Muslims, a practice for which "reasonable men and women" have come out.
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"We should say we don't do it," Harris says of torture. "We should say it's reprehensible." And then do it anyway, he says.
And this is the person that Ariana Huffington gave frontpage status to? And she's a leftist? Was it a mistake? Are we going to see an apology? I don't care about Sam Harris. I do care about his Left enablers. I have never given a rat's ass about becoming popular, but its people like Huffington who make me wish I was, so I could wordslap her around.