Where Are My Manners?
I can’t believe I failed to mention conservative Jon Swift’s outstanding analysis of Battlestar Galactica. Here’s an excerpt:
Some are calling the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica the best show on television so I decided to check out the season premiere to see what all the hype was about. It turns out to be even better than I had heard. The Sci Fi Channel show is a moving and haunting allegory about why we should stay the course in Iraq. The heroes are a deeply religious race, called the Cylons, who struggle to bring democratic ideals and Christian values to a planet called New Caprica (Iraq, of course) in the face of an increasingly violent insurgency. In a clever and ironic twist the Christian Cylons (Americans) are actually very human-like machines, while the villainous “humans” on New Caprica (al Qaeda) are brutal terrorists who follow a primitive polytheistic religion and behave like animals.
Although I am not generally a big fan of science fiction (my favorite genres are biblical epics, alpine mountain dramas, and women’s prison movies), Battlestar Galactica is not really about the future as much as it’s a subversive analysis of current events.
Read the whole thing.
Also, I forgot to give a shout out to Ezra Klein for helping me get this sucker published. Thanks, homey!
Your link to Swift’s analysis is down. Can you toss in a link to women’s prison movies as well?
So I clicked over to Ezra Klein’s place and they’re all abuzz about Jim Webb’s fiction. Seems that he included a scene in a novel that these cobags on the right would LOVE to use to make Jim Webb a pedophile. I’m sorry, but my gag reflex is in full operation.
It was fiction.
It was something he saw.
He did not present it in a sexual or salacious light.
These idiots are trashing a man who answered his country’s call, fought, killed and was wounded in action, and these republicans, you know, the “honor our troops” contingent? They are trying to smear this man as a pedophile. There is a great sickness in our land, and I’m getting nauseous. This shit has got to stop. I’m outta words….
mikey
That started at Drudge. By the way, those are best sellers:
Jim has written six best-selling novels: Fields of Fire (1978), considered by many to be the classic novel of the Vietnam war, A Sense of Honor (l981), A Country Such As This (1983), Something To Die For (1991), The Emperor’s General (1999) and Lost Soldiers (2001).
George Allen couldn’t even write a book. I am hoping this blows up in Allen’s face.
These idiots are trashing a man who answered his country’s call, fought, killed and was wounded in action, and these republicans, you know, the “honor our troops� contingent? They are trying to smear this man . . .
Yup. That’s what they do. We already knew that. Doesn’t make it any less nauseating, though, does it?
Bummer that the Jon Swift link doesn’t work. An amazing thing about Jon’s site — the wingers don’t get his satire any more than the 18th-century British aristocracy got the satire of his namesake. Again: not surprised, just exhausted . . .
Could we maybe finagle these people an extra ration of brains, since they seem to have spilled theirs somewhere?
Yup. That’s what they do.
I suppose. But it’s gotten stupid. Part of me wants to cry. Part of me wants to take up arms. Part of me just wants to go to sleep. The sickness may well be beyond cure..
Sigh….
mikey
Wait! Mikey, check out teh Doofus singing at about 1:25.
You know, the dumb George Felix Allen looking guy.
Make that 1:19-1:22
George Allen couldn’t even write a book.
George Allen couldn’t even read a book.
Sadly, “Webb is teh pedophile!” will be more harmful then “Felix Allen is teh lynching!”
God, I hate southern VA. Freaking hillbillies.
The link works, just delete everything before jonswift.blahblah
Hey, mikey, I think you’re feeling the way I felt last week. Next week it’ll be my turn again. These ratfucks are such a stunningly perfect storm of stupid and evil that it hurts. When I’m tuned into the evil, I’m reliably angry; when I’m tuned into the stupid I’m reliably snarky, but when I have the misfortune to be tuned into both at once . . . well . . . I end up depressed.
Women’s prison novels?!?
Wtf?!
I always start out reading Mr. Swift thinking, “How can this man be such an ass?” before I realize it’s just genius. It’s so genius, it’s almost scary.
I think republicans have Munchausen by Proxy syndrome. They keep sickening America then join the chorus of voices saying, “America is sick!”
I think republicans have Munchausen by Proxy syndrome. They keep sickening America then join the chorus of voices saying, “America is sick!�
That’s awesome )
You guys are silly. The Jon Swift article is here. There was a “sadly, no!” stuck in the URL.
(Fixsadly,no!ed the Usadly,no!RL.)
Dammit! Brasadly,no!d, did you leave the sadly, nsadly,no!o! generator running?
Jeesadly,no!sh.
Does anyone else see in James Callis’s twitchy, drunken portrayal of the traitorous Gaius Baltar a certain amount of homage to twitchy, drunken traitor Christopher Hitchens?
George Allen couldn’t even read a book.
But I bet he could stuff a book in a mailbox and call it “macaca.”
George Allen could, however, burn a book.
Could we maybe finagle these people an extra ration of brains, since they seem to have spilled theirs somewhere?
Why bother? If they were given a frontal-lobe transplant, they’d just stick the electrodes up their noses again. Drudge and his troll minions don’t want to use the brains they were given, which is why they’ve anointed the C-Plus Augustus as their king.
from your Prospect piece
“During a recent debate on Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked former GOP House Majority Leader Newt Gingrich if having 130,000 of our troops stuck in Iraq had reduced our ability to deal effectively with Iran and North Korea. “Only in our minds,â€? Gingrich replied.”
This is code for “Use the Bomb on these people.” Duh.
(duh indeed)
I’m sure thjat’s what all the sci-fi war fans ultimately have in mind when they fantasize about US unparalleled military superiority.
George Allen could, however, burn a book.
Only if he can figure out how to strike the match.
This HAS to be a joke:
“my favorite genres are biblical epics, alpine mountain dramas, and women’s prison movies”
Really, that can’t be real!
Ah, I’ll read the whole thing. Trigger finger is still possible when commenting. Morning ADD got the best of me. Nothing to see here. Move along…
Wanted to leave a dual comment regarding both the Jswift blog and the American Prospect article Brad published, but I think the Jon Swift blog says it all. I’m a left-wing fan of BSG, but don’t political parallels leave off when you put them in the context of space-going metal boxes full of fractious refugees? Anyway, the conservative views in favor of iraq war metaphors are hilarious. Can anyone post a link to something from a left-wing POV?