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Marty Peretz on Ned Lamont:

I also believe that Lieberman will probably be helped by the case of the would-be airplane terrorists arrested in Britain. This episode shows that Islamofascism is a real threat to civilized life and that it must be fought severely and wholeheartedly. I don’t know if Ned Lamont has thought seriously about this. It seems so remote from life in Greenwich. But, if he plays true to form, he might suggest taking the whole issue before the United Nations. That would be a gracious setting. After all, Lamont can no longer avail himself of the country club he quit on the eve of his primary campaign.

And Marty should know, because marrying into money makes you think seriously about threats to civilized life.  Unlike those country club liberals and their fancy-pants “United Nations.”

Posted by on 08/12 at 12:15 PM

  1. I am constantly laid low by the depths that sadly do not go unplumbed by such total emus.

    Peretz would make the same argument if Lamont had been poor and had his entire family murdered and killed by Osama bin Laden personally.  He would just add the word “despite.”

    Posted by Pinko Punko  on  08/12  at  01:38 PM

  2. Hey, all Marty boy is doing is echoing the large gluteous maximus upon which he sucks:
    The Vice President of the US said that anti-American terrorists are “betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task. And when they see the Democratic Party reject one of its own, a man they selected to be their vice presidential nominee just a few short years ago, it would seem to say a lot about the state the party is in today.”

    Now, since we know that these alleged plotters (none convicted as yet of course) are Pakistani’s living in the UK, given Dick/Marty reasoning: “it must be fought severely and wholeheartedly;” we as a nation need to immediately bomb and destroy (shock-fully and awe-fully) both England and Pakistan, so that we can keep the fight in the homes of the “terrorist/islamofascists.”

    Oh, we can’t do that can we? England is our only real ally, and well, Pakistan has nuclear weapons.  We might as well just stay in Iraq, because that will, of course, “complete the task” whatever that means.

    Posted by  on  08/12  at  01:41 PM

  3. I am constantly laid low by the depths that sadly do not go unplumbed by such total emus.

    This is strangely mellifluous.

    Posted by Michael  on  08/12  at  01:47 PM

  4. Non-Nutmegstaters might not realize that Ned Lamont drives past this memorial a dozen times a week.  I’m sure he never thinks about it “seriously” enough for Peretz.

    Posted by  on  08/12  at  02:13 PM

  5. That would, of course, be the country club where George HW Bush and future wife Barbara met for the first time at a dance.

    IOW, the country club which is responsible for the very existence of Our Fearless Leader.

    It seems ungrateful of Peretz to trash a place he owes so much to.

    Posted by julia  on  08/12  at  02:14 PM

  6. These “would-be airplane terrorists arrested in Britain” help Senator Lieberman make his case against the upstart Lamont by reminding us of the fate of the evil mastermind that dispatched middle class Saudis to hijack passenger jets and fly them into buildings here in the United States. Better to fight Ned Lamont over there than to have to fight him over here.

    Captcha: probably. Everyone’s probably forgotten that since Joe lost his bid for Vice President he’s lost the Democratic nomination for President and for Senator from Connecticut. Joe-Nertia.

    Posted by black dog barking  on  08/12  at  02:46 PM

  7. On a related matter: Google searching NO HARD EVIDENCE one discovers that the FBI seems to have no direct evidence tying Osama Bin Laden to 9/11.  Why do you suppose that is????

    Posted by  on  08/12  at  02:49 PM

  8. Peretz also has the “ability” to produce hacks at rates far beyond mere mortals, including:

    Andrew Sullivan, Peter Beinart, Fred Barnes, Morton Kondracke, Stephen Chapman, Michael Ledeen (yup, he appeared in the pages of the New (Likud) Republic in the 1970s, back when I was a subscriber).

    And who can forget Ruth Shalit and Stephen Glass, those plagarizing hacks?

    Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly are rolling in their graves…

    Posted by Mitchell Freedman  on  08/12  at  03:07 PM

  9. When THINKING SERIOUSLY about terror, one needs must make the Serious Face.

    And wear the Serious Pants.

    While doing the Serious Dance.

    (which doesn’t involve the arms at all, but isn’t a jig, because the Irish are not serious. Except for Ian Paisley. He means it.)

    capcha: ‘nothing’ This is some serious shit!

    Posted by  on  08/12  at  04:35 PM

  10. The Serious Dance is performed by John Cleese. That’s clear, no?

    Posted by  on  08/12  at  04:36 PM

  11. I am constantly laid low by the depths that sadly do not go unplumbed by such total emus.

    Mellifluous, perhaps. But totally unfair to emus.

    On the subject of Seriousness About Terror®, check out this post by The Editors responding to everyone’s favorite Blogger of Little Brain.

    Posted by  on  08/12  at  06:02 PM

  12. Even when my brain was at war with itself trying to figure out how the late 90’s TNR was supposed to be “liberal” I still divided the two writers that seemed to cover Israel the most, Martin Peretz and Yossi Klein Halevi, into “crazy” and “less so.” Given that I was also faced with a torrent of Andrew Sullivan and Gregg Easterbrook I soon fried my tiny brain trying to solve that conundrum.  First I thought it was environmental as my roommate furnished the crapper with his subscription, then I shifted blame from my colon to the magazine itself.  The initial fallacy of liberalism was supported by the other periodical provided: The Weekly Standard.

    Posted by Pinko Punko  on  08/12  at  09:24 PM

  13. Twelve residents of Greenwich, CT were killed on 9/11, further proof that Peretz has his head up his ass.

    Posted by Randy Paul  on  08/13  at  10:50 AM

  14. Peretz and his ilk have crawled so far up their own rectums (one might say they are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike) that they are challenging the bounds of language. “Groupthink” does not even begin to describe the intellectually dishonest self-serving cluelessness they exhibit - we are in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds territory.

    Need something along the lines of “No statement can adequately describe their degree of cluelessness even if it acknowledges its inability to adequately describe their degree of cluelessness” We need to resurrect freaking Quine just to get someone clever enough to produce the corerect formulation.

    Peretz, of course, descends even further by implicitly playing the faux populist “ink-stained wretch” card so favored by the Broders and Russerts of the plutocratic national political press, which, as you point out, is doubly ironic in his case.

    Posted by  on  08/13  at  01:15 PM

  15. Well, yeah, the sight of Broder recoiling in populist horror at the damaging effect of elite exclusionism on american politics has been fun (Washington being, you know, his place and all).

    Not nearly so much fun as Peretz attacking Lamont voters for taking advantage of politics for graceless social climbing.

    Captcha “federal”

    Posted by julia  on  08/13  at  01:20 PM

  16. Mathpants:  everything you say works even better if we replace “serious” with “stupid.” Also, love your nym.

    It is just more of that “wrong for the right reasons” stuff.

    Captcha: addition.  For people too “serious” to add 2+2 and get the right answer.

    Posted by  on  08/13  at  01:39 PM

  17. Marty is surely a bit confused about, say, whether he’s still a Democrat, as in this dialogue with Hugh Hewitt:

    “"HH: Do you want the Democrats to win majorities in the House or the Senate, Martin Peretz?

    MP: I’m...I’m appalled by some of the people who would become head of Congressional committees.

    “HH: Is that a no?

    “MP: Uh, but I’m also appalled by some of the shenanigans…

    “HH: But is that...I’ve got five seconds.  Is that a no, Martin Peretz?

    “MP: It’s a cowardly refusal to answer.”

    The phenomenon of the lefty millionaire candidate (partly an artifact of idiotic “campaign finance reform” and the equally idiotic Buckley v. Valeo decision), however, merits both pondering and gales of derisive laughter.  Instead of where slime meets evil it’s where naiveté meets privilege.

    Posted by Grumpy Old Man  on  08/13  at  02:00 PM

  18. Maybe the plotters in England would have been discouraged if we had bombed Iraq a little harder.  But I think Cindy Sheehan stopped us with her protest in Crawford.  Let’s get serious, people.

    Posted by  on  08/13  at  06:29 PM

  19. No, KLK, you’re right that we could have bombed Iraq harder, but in the end I think it’s all about Lieberman.  Three of the plotters, Fox has recently reported, vowed to call off the attack if Lamont lost.  “All that stands between the infidels and their destruction is Joe Lieberman,” said one.  “Joe Lieberman has thought about us with a seriousness that we frankly find intimidating.”

    Posted by Michael  on  08/13  at  07:16 PM

  20. the plotters followed the CT primary?

    Well, then they should be mocked!

    Cuz Serious People just don’t follow politics that closely, as they have serious shit to attend to, serious-wise.

    I, myself, don’t know nothing about nobody nohow not even close, and I fail to find that the slightest bit funny. Certainly not Richard Cohen plays a sweatshop funny.

    Also, thankee, Emma Anne.

    Posted by  on  08/13  at  11:35 PM

  21. Plus, you know he’ll get the boobs off the tube. Sweet Joe, why did Gore raise thee out of the obscurity you so richly deserve?

    Posted by Pinko Punko  on  08/14  at  04:00 AM

  22. ""No statement can adequately describe their degree of cluelessness even if it acknowledges its inability to adequately describe their degree of cluelessness” We need to resurrect freaking Quine just to get someone clever enough to produce the corerect formulation.”

    Maybe Gödel can help. “For any sufficiently powerful and Washington-based media commentator, a statement of his can be shown to be clueless that does not derive from the rules of any system of rational thought.”

    Posted by  on  08/14  at  11:54 AM

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