Another conservative bastion blasts McCain: The Economist

[chicagoexpat]

Another conservative bastion blasts McCain

The Economist is long standing British publication that serves snide upper class pretentiousness. It serves as a clearinghouse of opinions for corporate leaders, pushing privatisation and deregulation -- and being European, actually social liberalism (of a sort) -- at every opportunity.

(An Economist staff assassin will probably hunt me down for calling anything British "European")

One article excerpt:

America not quite at its best
The election has taken a nasty turn. This is mainly the Republicans’ fault

The Economist Sep 18th 2008

The decision to play this election, like that of 2004, as a fresh instalment of the culture wars is disappointing to those who thought Mr McCain was more principled than that.

By choosing Sarah Palin as his running-mate he made a cynical tryst with a party base that he has never much liked and that has never much liked him. Mr McCain’s whole candidacy rests on his assertion that these are perilous times that require a strong and experienced commander-in-chief; but he has chosen, as the person who may be a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency, someone who demonstrably knows very little about international affairs or the economy.

See also Richard Milhous McCain

[whistle]

1. No more republicans at the Federal level until they can learn to be

...civilized

[chicagoexpat]

2. U R asking a helluva lot

[Oak2004]

7. I've got a better suggestion

Expand the Vermont Progressive Party, so that it is a major party in the US. The Democrats can be moderate-to-liberal, the now US Progs can be the socialists, and the troglody- er, far right can settle for running fringe third party candidates alongside the neo-Nazis and the like.

I know, I know. But I can dream.

On a more serious note, I consider the destruction of the Republican Party to be a valid goal. Not the destruction of legitimate conservativism, nor the political suppression of the far right, but the discrediting of the Republican practices and agenda to the point where they are no longer a credible major party.

Let another right-leaning party arise to replace them, just as they replaced the Whigs when the Whigs proved themselves unable to legitimately deal with the issues facing the US. "Lipstick! Lipstick!" and "Lookie there, it's a black man!" and "Watch me do bizarre things to distract you from the headlines" are not legitimate ways to deal with the multiple crises facing America today. Especially when you're the party who made the crises in the first place.

[Nye Bevan]

3. Give "The Economist" credit

It may be economically conservative but it is socially liberal and absolutely does not hesitate to rip the repukes when appropriate. Far superior to Time, Newsweek, etc. And it endorsed Kerry in 2004.

[anigbrowl]

4. I didn't know that I was snide, upper-class and pretentious. Thanks for letting me know.

I'll keep it in mind when my copy thumps into the letterbox this afternoon.

[chicagoexpat]

5. I'm sure you enjoy Faux News for its objective analysis of the world, too

[regularguy]

6. So you think Fox News = The Economist?

Wow.

[chicagoexpat]

8. I think I said very clearly the Economist is a snide publication for upper class pretentions -- &

that's the general opinion of that trash.

And anyone who's ever read one of their opinion pieces sees the snide pretentiousness role off the slick mag like water.

OR ANYONE WHO'S BOTHERED TO READ THE OP-EDS QUOTED IN THE PARENT PIECE

Except for those who clearly aren't up to figuring things out for themselves but need some recent Oxford grad w/ delusions of knighthood to tell them what to laugh at (i.e., any opinion that doesn't show how great the British upper class is). That's the perfect reader for the Economist, & if the snide fits, u can wear it

If you read it for any other reason than to see what the upper class thinks, you're fooling yourself, quit trying to fool me.

If u can't figger it out for urself, u and John McCain should learn about this new device called "the Internet" and "web search engines" that can look up reviews of magazines & such. You should try it sometime.

[Nye Bevan]

9. Yeah. The Economist sucks. They are *exactly* like Fox News.

[chicagoexpat]

11. hmmm, John McCain's fact checkers are writing posts on DU!

[anigbrowl]

10. How interesting.

I'll be sure to use the Internet to look up someone else's review of a magazine next time, rather than forming my own opinion of it. Why I didn't think of this in my last 20 years of using the Internet, I really don't know. Probably I was brainwashed by all those upper class mind control rays or something.