{"id":1507,"date":"2003-04-16T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2003-04-16T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-16T18:33:00","slug":"pomo-hitler-jugend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/16\/14\/33\/pomo-hitler-jugend\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomo Hitler Jugend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Wolff<\/a> wrote another<\/a> interesting article on what happens when conservative forces perceive you as a dissenter<\/a>, when you dare to ask what’s behind the curtain<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The Rush thing. First it was CNN that replayed my question’the CNN view was, more or less, the liberal-media view: a certain hand-wringing about whether the media was being used. Then it was Fox, with its extreme, love-it-or-leave-it approach to the war, that took me apart: I was clearly a potential traitor. And then it was Rush. To his audience of 20 million’pro-war, military-minded, Bush-centered, media-hating, lily-white’Rush laid me out … And Rush gave out my e-mail address. Almost immediately, 3,000 e-mails, full of righteous fury, started to come. Which all, in some way, helps explain why we are in Iraq.
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\nThe next person to buttonhole me was the CENTCOM ‘ber-civilian, a thirtyish Republican operative … He was more Full Metal Jacket in his approach (although he was a civilian, he was, inexplicably, in uniform’making him, I suppose, a sort of paramilitary figure): ‘I have a brother who is in a Hummer at the front, so don’t talk to me about too much fucking air-conditioning.’ And: ‘A lot of people don’t like you.’ And then: ‘Don’t fuck with things you don’t understand.’ And, too: ‘This is fucking war, asshole.’ And finally: ‘No more questions for you.’ … Everybody was making Doha jokes. I was talking about my run-in with the scary White House guys. ‘You’ve met the Hitler Youth,’ said another reporter. Everybody laughed. This was grim, but it was funny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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