In yesterday’s post, I mentioned how I saw the Foley affair (yes, I am the culprit who invented Masturgate but was too embarrassed to admit it ) more as Aristophanes than Shakespeare (farce, not tragedy). After reading Claudia’s report on the “dreadful” US prison in Guantanamo, which dovetails nicely with Rich Miniter’s, I thought once again that the Greek dramatist is the perfect artist for our times. Who better to describe a trip to Gitmo than the man who did such a brilliant job lampooning Dionsysus’ descent into Hades to bring home Euripides? Too bad he’s not alive now to satirize the villainous riffraff surrounding the Guantanamo story – the Newsweek “virtuosi” who made up the tale of Koran flushing (where they don’t even have flush toilets) and the greedy nabobs of so-called human rights organizations who enrich their coffers by pretending we are torturing Islamic inmates when, apparently, they are growing fat on international cuisine. Dr. Strangelove or even Aristophanes’ own The Frogs had nothing on this. Yet too bad indeed the great Greek is not with us today to decapitate the self-satisfied smirk of modern liberalism. Can you imagine what he would have done with a tour of Gitmo by, say, Streisand and Penn?
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1. Rick Ballard:Great to see that Pajams Media supports outing gays, Roger. That David Corn is a helluva progressive. Must make you feel proud to have an asssociate with those kind of principles.
Oct 5, 2006 - 5:29 pm 2. mikem:The Odd Couple! That’s where I remembered Aristophanes from. It was a clue that Felix tried to use with Oscar on the Password show. The next password was “ridiculous”, and Oscar used the same word as a clue, successfully.
Oct 5, 2006 - 6:41 pm 3. David Thomson:I loved that show, never see it on cable.
That’s the view from the Looneytown, DC suburbs. Now back to THE SCANDAL.
David Corn is definitely slime jobbing. That is most certainly a fair description of his behavior. Corn and other leftists are so intent in damaging the GOP—that they no longer hesitate in throwing gays under the bus.
Oct 5, 2006 - 6:43 pm 4. ricpic:gayscandonowronggayscandonowronggayscandonowronggayscandonowrong…..’kay, massas?
Oct 5, 2006 - 6:58 pm 5. Lem:If Laughter is an involuntary reaction to the contradiction of staying alive;
It may be harder to laugh in the direct proportion to the easier it gets to live.
In a world where gitmo is a gulag the contradictions are multiple orders of magnitude.
Give you an example from The Opinion Joural – Best of the Web – Guess who said it.
Addressing President Bush: “Can’t you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq?”
1. Helen Thomas
2. Howard Dean
3. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
4. John Kerry
The correct answer is none of the above!
Oct 5, 2006 - 9:09 pm 6. Deagle:The actual source of this quote is Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s No. 2
Strange take on your post… Yep, agree about Corn though….
For the real lowdown on GTMO, see Pattrico’s posts.
Oct 5, 2006 - 11:17 pm 7. Terrye:Roger:
Yes, it is true, things are topsy turvy. Penn is worrying about Bush torturing AlQaida and liberals are wondering out loud if gay men should not be allowed any where near 18 year old male children.
Strange.
And here we have socalled conservatives like Michelle Malkin acting as unhinged as any of the liberals she likes to complain about.
And I am with Rick on David Corn. I had hoped that the pajamas thing would do well, but I simply can not abide David Corn.
Oct 6, 2006 - 3:03 am 8. Esbiem:The only “crime” that I can determine that ex-Rep Mark Foley is guilty of is to mastergate during Ramadan much to the chagrin of Iran’s supreme leader.(http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3311189,00.html)
Oct 6, 2006 - 1:12 pm 9. vortices:Anyway, it’s “Dionysus”, not “Dionsysus”. And Aristophanes is not lampooning Dionysus’ trip to Hades, he’s making up the whole story. (There’s no legend of Dionysus journeying into Hades in Greek mythology; Aristophanes probably got the basic storyline from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ journey there.)
Oct 7, 2006 - 4:05 pm