(1) has found another Gettysburg Address, (2) ok, just an amen, (3) has “baited” his breath (worms or crickets?) and will want some Listerine ASAP, and (4) has discovered a philologic singularity, a “brilliant assertion”.

Rich, but no reason to go further. Like Mailer’s work, you pretty quickly get the attitude–and that’s all there is to get.

I know that you can do better than that. I’ve seen you reach deep into the emesis basin of Zinn/Chomsky propaganda and pull off a mimetic that will satisfy the inner sophist of even the most pusillanomous pedant. Surely you can come up with an apologia pro vita sua defending Sen. Dick’s right to sedition. There are a number of historical examples of Copperhead legislators that could be used. Clement Vallandigham or James W. Wall come immediately to mind. Same party, same lack of principles.

On Durbin, I can’t understand why, if he didn’t cause harm, he’s spending so much time and energy apologizing.

Maybe just to mollify the outrage from all the mean and stupid people, from the Gitmo guards to the troops under fire, to the SecDef, to the majority of voters who have put conservative majorities in all three branches of federal government and are steadily taking state and municipal governships and judiciary benches?

Why, that’s no reason to apologize!

what would be a reason to apologize? Notarized statements from terrorists that their morale goes up when their enemy’s goes down (as in, the history of human nature)?

So, why exactly did he apologize? Career? but how would his original statement hurt his career? I mean, unless there was something wrong with it? Or the majority of the country is just plain stupid?

“My nipples explode with delight!”

Sorry, that’s Hungarian.

Your argument is simplistic, I agree. In your attempt to show sophistication you bungled it. The backstabbing of the dolchstosslegende was Hitler and his friends blaming the misery of germany’s position post WWI on previous acts,(the treaty of Versailles primarily), and is associated more with Hitler then the Weimar Republic. Mein Kampf was written during this period but no one associates it with the Weimar Republic, they associate it with Hitler. The outrage over Durbins comments was because he made the historically retarded comparison of Gitmo with the Nazi’s, the Soviet gulag, and Pol Pot. Anyone who has read Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” would laugh at the comparison.

The reason Durbin used Nazi instead of Weimar was because the weimar republic, while not thought of highly, does not bring up thoughts of evil.So when you used the lame ” i used a term from the Weimar blah blah so blame me blah blah” it made no sense. You might have been chronologically correct but as far as a analogy to Durbin or anything else it was limited to say the least. That is what brought the derision.

Mailer used “poopie” joke insults and gussied them up with a few obscure adjectives. Your attempt at sophistication was ruined because most people do not associate the Weimar Republic with the ultimate evil of the Nazi period so your comment made no sense. Most of the posters here will respond to an articulate, even when it is an opposing view, argument with a respectfull counter argument. Your post was so muddled and botched that ridicule was the only proper style to use.

It must be hard restraining you vocabulary,unhouse trained as it is,but,putting the words into sentences with meaning would help you communicate better.

You see,the basic problem here is the topic is Norman Mailer,and your vocabulary seems to want to talk about,dead Germans,the FBI,someone called Durbin,it must be hard for you,you want to ask the way to the bathroom and it comes out “Pass the condiments meine Schazi”.

Heaven knows what happens to you when you are abroad.

Take your vocabulary to one side and have a firm word with it “Kartoffel, Officer I am a bratwurst”.

Now THAT hurts.

I comprehend completely. Mailer took a shot at GWB by mocking a dead man. Someone else took a shot at Mailer’s inane post by suggesting senility. You found the latter objectionable while finding nothing wrong with the former.

It is quite simple.

He could have used dolchstosslegende followed up by Gleichschaltung to connect it to the nazi’s and thus made a logical argument while still using the pretentious method of using a foreign language to try to impress everyone instead of just using his talent and wit to make a point. It’s like a using a $100 bottle of wine to disguise rotten meat. It doesn’t make a difference.