{"id":1335,"date":"2007-01-10T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2007-01-10T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T12:25:10","slug":"blame-america-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Blame America First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinesh D'Souza has written another book. Of course, as always, it's about the evil American Left. But this time, it's called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enemy-At-Home-Cultural-Responsibility\/dp\/0385510128\/sr=8-1\/qid=1168431155\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-7303680-3071019?ie=UTF8&s=books\">The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9\/11<\/a>. Hmmm...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<b>From Publishers Weekly<\/b><br \/>\nConservative pundit D'Souza (Illiberal Education) roots the blame for the 9\/11 attacks in the left wing's \"aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family\" in this mostly lucid but unconvincing argument. Pointing to Hillary Clinton, Britney Spears and Noam Chomsky, he decries those who have teamed up with Hollywood and the U.N. to foist an irreligious, sexually licentious, antifamily liberal culture\u00e2\u20ac\u201depitomized by Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and gay marriage initiatives\u00e2\u20ac\u201don a Muslim world that rightly reviles it. By deliberately attacking Islamic values, the left tacitly allies itself with al- Qaeda in its effort to defeat Bush's war on terror and thus discredit conservatism at home, he asserts. But D'Souza's claim that Islamic extremists are inflamed solely by America's music videos and feminists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot its U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or American support for Muslim dictators\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis too single-minded. For example, he paints Abu Ghraib poster-girl Lynndie England as the personification of liberal sexual depravity, without acknowledging that the U.S. Army sent her to Iraq, not the left. Charging that liberals aid terrorists while sympathizing with the terrorists' culturally conservative worldview, D'Souza's critique of American cultural excess trips over its own inconsistencies.<\/ul>\n<p>In other words: Dinesh D'Souza thinks the terrorists were <i>right<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinesh D'Souza has written another book. Of course, as always, it's about the evil American Left. But this time, it's called The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9\/11. Hmmm... From Publishers Weekly Conservative pundit D'Souza (Illiberal Education) roots the blame for the 9\/11 attacks in the left wing's \"aggressive global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}