Joseph Sobran, Writer Whom Buckley Mentored, Dies at 64Why Mr. Sobran today? I remember him from a long time ago. I did not care for his ideas.
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: October 1, 2010
Joseph Sobran, a hard-hitting conservative writer and moralist whose outspoken antipathy to Israel and what he saw as the undue influence of a Jewish lobby on American foreign policy led to his removal as a senior editor of National Review in 1993, died on Thursday in Fairfax, Va. He was 64 and lived in Burke, Va.
From my archives in 2007 or 2008:
Reading The Drudge Report, I noticed a link to Joe Sobran. It was one link among many. I remembered reading Joe Sobran many years ago. I found him to be intellectually non-existent. I imagined him to be a schnorrer of concepts and conceits, a pastiche maker, a compiler of collages of political snippings which he glued together with a unlovable persona. He hasn't changed much. On the Home page of his site, there is prominently displayed an add for another site called The Legion of Joan of Arc and we find there: "The formula for winning the war is:listen to the subliminal audio, connect with God, sleep, awaken, and go to work;listen to the subliminal audio, connect with God, sleep, awaken, and go to work.Give it thirty days. This is the action of cultural transformation referred to by all of our theoreticians as that that will lead to the cultural instauration of our people, our American Renaissance and the Benevolent White Imperium." (emphasis mine) There's a mouthful. I wonder what Joan's so-called friend, the Dauphin of France, would say?The site exists but is moribund:
Our nation will have the doctrine: Our Race is our Nation. Entrepreneur needed: Create subliminal CDs/tapes/etc. of well known musical selections of all genres with embedded subliminal messages promoting White racial consciousness.My question is how could a man who was prominent and educated enough to have such praise at his passing have a link on his web page to such a racist site? An oversight? If so, he was not as smart as his eulogizers believed.
No, I fear that racism yet is the dynamo that runs much of Conservative Ideology in America, and debases good Conservative thought by its baleful evil. It is obvious that there are racists in every group in America. I was born and bred here: we breathed racism with our first breaths.
We have fought against it, yet we know how it continues and its traces cannot be totally expunged, but remain as scars in our souls. Some people do not see it that way. Something as potent as racism... well, where there's a whole lot of smoke, there must be a heck of a lot of fire. They grasp onto racism as a magical amulet of power.
And make no mistake, it indeed invigorates its devotees.
If there is any Exceptionalism for the USA, it is the divine injunction to change ourselves and to establish a Peaceable Kingdom of Mankind; to eradicate Racism and establish Equity for all Mankind.
If the Conservative Idea of Exceptionalism is anything but this, it is the idolatry of Ahab and Jezebel, and shall lead us to similar fates as theirs.
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Baysage and I feel the strains of racism in this country because we have lived here a long time; we have worked here and played here and we know exactly what it is like.
What is unusual is the blatant hatred.
Why do people expect that we would agree with them with such outrageous expressions?
My wife has befriended a couple of friends from the past who showed up on Facebook, and the next thing you know, one is beset by mailings of anti-Obama doggerel and other nonsense.
(Of course, then there is the jokes about getting old... which some people just keep sending, apparently forgetting that they did the same joke 9 months ago.)
I will not ask what B's response was to this insulting outburst, but I think my wife would have thrown a drink in the guy's face.
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