’)Paul Krugman has the after-action report for the right’s futile fight against Nobel laureate Al Gore.
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I’m not normally a huge Krugman fan but that whole thing was spot-effin-on.
Dr. Victor Davis Handjob said:
Hey — you guys ever read the National Review on Martin Luther King after he won *his* peace prize? When conservatives can’t win the issue, they always attack the man. So the fact that they’re trying so very hard to personalize the global warming issue really just speaks more to their weakness on the issue more than anything else.
“For years now, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his associates have been deliberately undermining the foundations of internal order in this country. With their rabble-rousing demagoguery, they have been cracking the “cake of custom” that holds us together. With their doctrine of “civil disobedience,” they have been teaching hundreds of thousands of Negroes — particularly the adolescents and the children — that it is perfectly alright to break the law and defy constituted authority if you are a Negro-with-a-grievance; in protest against injustice. And they have done more than talk. They have on occasion after occasion, in almost every part of the country, called out their mobs on the streets, promoted “school strikes,” sit-ins, lie-ins, in explicit violation of the law and in explicit defiance of the public authority. They have taught anarchy and chaos by word and deed — and, no doubt, with the best of intentions — and they have found apt pupils everywhere, with intentions not of the best. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.”
Will Herberg, “‘Civil Rights’ and Violence: Who Are the Guilty Ones?”, The National Review Sept. 7th, 1965