Chicagoland DUers... who is the Sun-Times' Mark Steyn (today's Editorial)

[VolcanoJen]

And is he always this shrill and obnoxious?

In the editorial below, he actually lets Bush off the hook for the "significant quantities of uranium from Africa" line in the SOTU speech. No mention of Joe Wilson or hyped intelligence, of course. He just plain lets Chimpy off the hook, and then goes on to say "The anti-war movement is in denial."

Who is this jerky, anwyay?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn11.html

Check out this ridiculous excerpt... it's hard for me to believe that someone on the Sun-Times editorial board approved this for publication; it reads like something off the Yahoo! message boards.

Bush's State of the Union speech redeemed

Bush didn't LIE!!!! He was right, and the CIA were wrong. That doesn't mean they LIED!!!! either. Intelligence is never 100 percent. You make a judgment, and in this instance the judgments of the British and Europeans were right, and the judgment of the principal intelligence agency of the world's hyperpower was wrong. That should be a cause of great concern -- for all Americans.

National security shouldn't be a Republican/Democrat thing. But it's become one because, for too many Americans, when it's a choice between Bush and anybody else, they'll take anybody else. So, in ''Fahrenheit 9/11,'' if it's a choice between Bush and Saddam, Michael Moore comes down on the side of the genocidal whacko and shows us lyrical slo-mo shots of kiddies flying kites in a Baathist utopia. In the Afghan war, if it's a choice between Bush and the women-enslaving gay-executing Taliban, Susan Sarandon and Co. side with the Taliban. And in the most exquisite reductio of this now universal rule, if it's a choice between Bush and the CIA, the left sides with the CIA.

There's one for the peace marches: Hey, hey, CIA/How many Bush lies did you expose today?

This isn't an anti-war movement. This is a movement in denial.

[wndycty]

1. He is a Canadian conservative who works for Hollinger. . .

. . .the paper's far right parent company that is under investigation.

[SidDithers]

4. Ewww...Say it aint so!

I didn't know we were exporting our nutjobs :)

Sid

[KharmaTrain]

5. I Ignore The POS

I'm a lifelong Sun-Times reader (still can't subscribe to anything Tribune) and I long gave up on Steyn's myopic Gen-X rants.

I figured he wasn't local...and thanks for pointing out the Hollinger connection...so most of what he writes is of little interest. Fortunately they run him on Sunday only...and at the back end of the op-end section. I usually just go for Novak's blast-fax points and the Greely op-ed (or the occasional Ebert one).

This is a Krauthammer "wannabe"...and, I hope the Canadians deal with him...or else we may have to send Terrence & Phillip to do the job.

[VolcanoJen]

9. Very interesting.

I've honestly never heard of the guy before. Gen-X rants, eh?

You're absolutely right about the Novak blast-fax talking points, too... his column is the best place to go for a quick round-up of current Republican spin. :D

[KharmaTrain]

10. Jen...do a Google on the guy...

He's so right wing he makes even Hannity seem moderate. His gung-ho war/chickenhawk stuff should be fodder for slamming the Right Wing agenda and the disinformation campaign that's now returning dead and maimed young men and women to this country.

Yep, he's one of those "I want mine" type...living in the wingnut dreamland of a world subserviant to his "proper world view" of total American (or should I say corporate) economic and political domination and the sugjugation of those who it sees fit.

This is the antithesis of everything my generation stood for, and I'm so glad to see is starting to sprout in my children and their peers.

Cheers!

BTW...Jen, great story and pics from the Rally...may you savor those great feelings and the magic of the moment. It will be one you always remember.

[legin]

2. The freepers favourite coloumnist

he's everywhere. Daily Telegraph, Spectator (britain), and others.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. ie papers that Conrad Black owns

or did own. Perhaps he'll be in the unemployment line soon ...

[VolcanoJen]

3. It's just... I can't believe horrible writers can stay gainfully employed.

Not only is his piece completely flawed when it comes to the facts, it's a poorly-written, juvenille piece of crap better suited for an internet chat board, isn't it?

:shrug:

[Spazito]

6. This guy is a creep!

It is interesting that a CANADIAN writer is allowed to try and influence a US election. One would think that his screeching against Kerry and the left would be counted as "foreign influence"?

Edited to add: I wonder if he has given up his Canadian citizenship and is now a US citizen?

[coda]

7. "...Susan Sarandon and Co. side with the Taliban."

If it had been posted without a name, I would have assumed Coulter wrote it.