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September 05, 2006

Doomsday for Dummies

When you see a YouTube video you like, it's worth scrolling through the related list, because you might find an entertaining evisceration of moral equivalence, prompted by Hitchen's famous bird-flipping of Bill Maher's audience:

RELATED: This fisking by historian Richard Landes accomplishes the same purpose, confronting another fatuous attempt to put a thumb on a balance scale to make it even. The topic is an old chestnut in the rhetorical armament of the Left: the Palestinian vs. Israeli "narratives." Richard, being a historian, punctures this rhetoric elegantly, with lots of referential links. A good read.

Judith | 09/05/06 at 09:52 AM | Categories: Competing narratives

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