Denis Boyles over at the National Review Online reviews last week’s European Press for the literate American conservative. Here’s a summary :
“Germans are sissies for not agreeing with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that calling the “annoying socialist” Martin Schulz a Nazi is indeed really funny. Why? Germany is Unpatriotic/ Antiamerican/ LEFT/ EVIL to its core as it was against the war in Iraq. And Silvio Berlusconi was for the war (boy did we kick Saddam’s ass!). And he’s also rich, powerful, and never has to actually pay for the illegal stuff he did, aka self-made, which is really cool in my book. But those sissies on the European LEFT/EVIL, just can’t see clearly. They’re always lamenting about justice (bleah). Europe needs more RIGHT people like Mr Berlusconi. Disclaimer: Beware – Europe is in the hands of THE EVIL/THE LEFT! Ceterum censeo THE LEFT/THE EVIL should be destroyed.”
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Chris K
Very good, this reminds me of SSDB (Shorter Steven Den Beste) that some tried to sustain for a while. All gave up after a couple of weeks.
hans ze beeman
Thanks for aggregating his rant. He misses the significant point of the current rift though: only on the surface, it’s about national sensitivities; in realiter, it’s about e.g. common European immigration policy and other convent issues. It would have been wiser to go to Italy and not let oneself be pissed of by this Italian stallion though. Since iraq, the rhetoric style in politics has suffered a lot – and I don’t like it. Especially not lessons in Italian irony from the man who says noone on the world stage can compete with him :)