(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Saturday, May 25, 2002
My readings in the Right Reverend's Washington Times ordinarily confine themselves to Bill Gertz's latest seizure of intelligence. The emetic opinions page is a positive no-go area. Reading the below effort by Roy Edroso, I felt a certain compulsion to confront the object of my aversion directly, particularly the writings of Larry Kudlow.
Kudlow, you may know, is the groundbreaking Wall Street economist who fearlessly blazed the trail later navigated by Marc Weill and others too numerous to count. The world owes him a debt, though Kudlow is not content to rest on his laurels and passively await collection of the same. No, sir. In a colossal feat of reinvention, Kudlow has been reborn hard - this time as an Opus Dei nutter and CNBC tie model. He finds spare time enough to commit the choicer bits comprising his manic stream of thought to paper, much to the benefit of the readers of the Times and other outlets where his column enjoys syndication.
In a recent outing (it points to the actual column; I already squandred the Brock-Drudge link elsewhere), Kudlow impatiently awaits the day "Israel inflicts a crushing military defeat" on the Palestinians, a prerequisite in his and an allied historian's estimation to peace. "This is the right position," Kudlow assures the readers, as those omnipowerful Palestinians are waging an economic war against Israel. Though Kudlow does not make specific reference, it is presumed that contained somewhere within one of the dusty compilations of refutable prejudice that Kudlow lives in accordance with is a passage that gives Divine assurance of 4 per cent per annum growth of the Israeli GDP. Following His and Larry's leads, "lets add economic progress to the list of must-defend freedoms" and wage war wherever investors are paid sub-par dividends, if we're not doing so already. Amen, Brother! posted by Anonymous10:43 AM
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WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.