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By: Sadly, No! » Famous Lookalikes: Wingnut Edition

Sadly, No! » Famous Lookalikes: Wingnut Edition — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:51:35 +0000

[...] Crackpot, conspiracy-theorist, and total asshole Steven “Shut-in von Clausewitz” den Beste = talented comic & writer Bruce Vilanch [...]

By: set

set — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think you’re misrepresenting his case. He’s stating worse case scenarios, they don’t have to be completely plausible. Stranger things have happened.

By: Robert Tennyson

Robert Tennyson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I agree set, this must be a misrepresentation. I mean, for DenBeste to be a fruitcake, he’d have to be baked, and filled with fruity-nutty things. However would he type? How could he spell?

And then, as to this sui generis business, it’s like this: all fruitcakes are alike, but each cookie is a cookie in its own way. No, no, if he is a fruitcake, there must be others just like him.

By: Narniaman

Narniaman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not quite sure why you think that’s so far fetched. You don’t think that the French would try to provide some help to their ally, Saddam Hussein?

France is Iraq’s ally.

France is not the USA’s ally.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Looks like Narniaman has answered your question.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Looks like Narniaman has answered your question.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think you’re misrepresenting his case. He’s stating worse case scenarios, they don’t have to be completely plausible. Stranger things have happened.

Stranger things have happened than France nuking the United States? Want to give any examples? The famous rain of frogs in Posset-on-the-Wye in 1537, maybe?

By: J. Michael Neal

J. Michael Neal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately, he represents a body a body of opinion. On a different online forum I participate in, there is an individual who repeats anything he says as gospel. He credits den Beste for making him see that his previous rabid isolationism was wrong.

By: PoliBlogger

PoliBlogger — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The extreme case scenario is just that, and I think that DenBeste knows it. And, I think that the nuke bit is rather extreme hyperbole (although I will confess as to only having read a little bit of his stuff, so who knows…). Still, the part that is not so far-fetched is the idea that France is hardly behaving like an ally (a view that George Will espoused this past weekend on This Week).

Indeed, while I do not expect the French to kowtow to the US, there is a point where they should just step away and wash their wash of the situation, but instead they have maneuvered themselves to be in Iraq’s camp, not just an anti-war camp. I say this because it is clear that barring a radical internal change in Iraq, there is going to a war. Delay aids Saddam, and the French are currently perpetuating that delay. Ergo, they are acting more in Iraq’s interest than ours.

By: Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A sui generis fruitcake…