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Always To The Right on Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:21:37 PM
Normally, I’d ignore the rantings of the fringe, but Erica Jong sees
herself as a replacement for Susan Sontag … which still makes her
fringe, but noteworthy. In an interview with Italian magazine Corriere della Sera, the Fear of Flying author makes the jump to public moonbat by predicting an armed struggle if Barack Obama loses the presidential election. Why? Because someone has to target the “Republican Mafia”, dagnabbit
And the #1 quote from Erica Jong? The troop drawdown in Iraq has a secret purpose:
“If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil
War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a
coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick
Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
I’d bold the more lunatic portions, but who can make that distinction? Jong makes Truthers look almost sane. (Almost.)
While I’m sure most of us fret constantly about the collective
psychoses of Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf, it’s difficult to see who Jong
wants to impress with these statements. If Jong is so obsessed, why
isn’t she talking about this in America? Why talk to the
Italian magazine instead of getting involved to stop the Second Civil
War? I guess Jong’s commitment to democracy and her country consists
of popping a few happy pills and seeing an acupuncturist. What a
patriot!
It could be worse, I guess. Fonda could get Jong to travel to
Pakistan in order to get photo ops of them operating Taliban
anti-aircraft guns.
Speaking of which, by the way: of whom does Jong’s rhetoric remind
readers? “Blood will run in the streets.” Sounds like an echo of
1960s radical terrorists like, oh, the Weather Underground.