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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (18556)	1/1/2003 11:38:52 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

This is waaaaaay cool. Sorry, Sean: Intellectuals Talk Nice About America Usually it's only the leftist blame-America-first eggheads you hear about in the media, but some of the nation's best writers are doing something shocking: saying good things about the U.S. "While pompous peaceniks like Sean Penn, Warren Beatty and Barbra Streisand babble their inarticulate opposition to a war with Iraq," the State Department is cranking up "a worldwide p.r. blitz to drown out the Hollywood nay-sayers," the New York Post reported today. The department's International Information Programs are releasing a pamphlet called "Writers on America," in which the likes of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Richard Ford and Michael Chabon, novelist Julia Alvarez, poet Robert Creeley and National Book Award winner Charles Johnson discuss America's virtues. "Though Penn, Streisand and their ilk shriek at the prospect of Iraqis gaining liberty from the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein, Ford quotes Milan Kundera that in a totalitarian world 'the novel is dead.' Ford notes that American life is 'not at all totalitarian, but contested, complex, ambiguous, diverse ...,'" the Post said. The Dominican-born Alvarez writes, "I would never have become a writer unless my family had emigrated to the United States when I was ten years old. I grew up in the ’50s in a dictatorship ... among people who thought of reading as an anti-social activity that could ruin your life." "The Hollywood elite may regard America as a place of unmitigated stupidity and greed," the Post observed, "but Charles Johnson, who won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel 'Middle Passage,' writes: 'I’ve always seen my American life as an adventure of learning and growth and service. In this country no individual or group, white or black, could tell me not to dream. Or censor me ... Some tried, of course, but in America I knew that our passions define our possibilities.'" Here's an odd point. Federal anti-propaganda law makes it illegal for the government to distribute the pamphlet in the U.S. It's a good thing for Hollywood and the New York Times that no anti-propaganda law applies to them, or they'd have little to peddle. newsmax.com Know something? That's a better description of your native land than you and your leftist cohorts such as Duh-ray believe. If the US is the totalitarian dictatorship you and he seem to believe, how is it that Penn and Streisand still walk free?