Conservative punditocracy converges!

posted at 11:21 am on November 3, 2006 by Allahpundit

Just something for the fanboys here:

1. Victor Davis Hanson reviews Mark Steyn.
2. Mark Steyn, sitting in for Hugh Hewitt, will interview James Lileks tonight.
3. Hugh Hewitt interviews Victor Davis Hanson on Penn’s Halloween bomber:

I think it’s emblematic of this endemic problem on the left, that they don’t really see that we’re in a war, they don’t really see that there’s a moral difference between suicide bombers and people who try to deliberately kill people, and people in the war who have collatoral damage by accident, when they try to target terrorists. So I mean, it’s a problem we’re having, these Fraudian slips. John Kerry didn’t mean to slur soldiers, but he has a problem. And when he makes a mistake, and he makes a gaffe, that’s the type of things that comes out…

There’s something wrong in America, and in the West in general, that we just don’t have the ability to identify evil from good. And there’s a large number of people whose worldview, I think, was formed in the 1960′s during the Vietnam War, a period of affluence and leisure, and they’ve completely forgotten the lessons of their parents that went through the Depression, World War II. And we’re going to be…this generation, I don’t want to us an obscene or a gruff metaphor, but they’re sort of like a rat and a snake, and they’re slowly going through the American process, and they’re not aging well. So when we have these outbursts by Al Gore, or these outbursts by Dick Durbin, or…all of these things are connected. And I think it’s a frustration that most American people have rejected that worldview.

Hmmm.

Update: Meanwhile, the pundit di tutti pundits bows out.

Update: Is Canada’s largest book seller boycotting Mark Steyn’s book?

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Excellent interview.

A SOLID B+

Slublog on November 3, 2006 at 11:25 AM

Regarding the first Wrong Track/Right Track poll, isn’t it true that “things” go better with Coke?

Really, that poll is meaningless because the questions could mean anything.

huckleberry on November 3, 2006 at 11:26 AM

A SOLID B+

Mwahahaha.

Allahpundit on November 3, 2006 at 11:28 AM

I can’t resist. Those were the days.

Slublog on November 3, 2006 at 11:34 AM

This Hanson excerpt might be especially noteworthy to, uhm, no specific pundits,

We live in an era when many of the neoconservatives—some who called for the removal of Saddam Hussein well before September 11—have by now either recanted their support for the President, or concluded that the effort in Iraq was not very good because it has proven less than perfect.

Rarely mentioned, much less appreciated, is the low probability that another American president would have removed Saddam, or stayed around to secure Iraq, in the face of such criticism. In addition, many traditional conservatives supported the war, but, like liberal hawks, now have gravitated to the “It was my perfect three-year war, and your lousy three-year occupation” school of opportunistic hindsight.

Niko on November 3, 2006 at 11:56 AM

A SOLID B+

Excellent, Slublog.

a4g on November 3, 2006 at 11:59 AM

A SOLID B+

…but I can’t dance to it.

seejanemom on November 3, 2006 at 12:03 PM

We live in an era when many of the neoconservatives—some who called for the removal of Saddam Hussein well before September 11—have by now either recanted their support for the President, or concluded that the effort in Iraq was not very good because it has proven less than perfect.

Mmm. Go read Zeyad at Healing Iraq. He was on our side from the very beginning.

Allahpundit on November 3, 2006 at 12:04 PM

What would that side be?

Niko on November 3, 2006 at 12:12 PM

Regarding Canada’s Indigo bookstore: I have no doubt that the absence of Steyn’s book is by design, and has nothing to do with lack of supply. Regardless, walking into any of their stores you are immediately surrounded by a sea of anti-American and anti-Bush titles. This is precisely why every book I have purchased in the last 5 years (except for Steyn’s latest, which I ordered from his site, in order to get myself a personally autographed copy) has been though http://www.amazon.ca. Indigo is dead to me.

-phil

phile on November 3, 2006 at 12:42 PM

Is ‘Fraudian slip’ new slang? If so, what does it mean? I assumed it was just a typo, but I’ve seen it 10+ times.

Kevin M on November 3, 2006 at 12:54 PM

Regarding WFB’s announcement, vaya con dios, Padre. We owe you much more than we can ever repay.

cms on November 3, 2006 at 2:16 PM

Anyone seen any review’s of Steyn’s book from the Left? I’m curious to see what they say. All I’ve seen is when he was on Hannity & Colmes, and Colmes just tossed him some boilerplate about the issue of the day, North Korea. I’d like to see what liberals say about his main themes.

Alex K on November 3, 2006 at 4:03 PM

A/P: Check out Vanity Fair interview excerpts with Adelman and Perle. As Maureen Dowd said in her column this morning–”reaching new heights in the sad annals of Now You Tell Us”. Ouch.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1939471,00.html

honora on November 4, 2006 at 10:54 AM