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Monday, February 28, 2005
Hugh Hewitt is among the many noting Howard Dean's assertion that the struggle for the Democratic party to retake power is "a struggle of good and evil."
Hugh thinks this is over the top.
Hugh apparently didn't get the memo.
Talking about the 19 men who murdered 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001 as evil is over the top.
Talking about the Taliban that reduced women to beneath livestock in the social pecking order as evil is over the top.
Talking about the person who murdered 100 Iraqis with a car bomb earlier today as evil is over the top.
We know this, because the Europeans worried about our tendance simpliste to see the world en noir et en blanc when the president described the 9/11 hijackers as evildoers and the Democrats piped up about the need to listen to our European betters about nuance and to the gauche sensible about how much pain the Islamists must be in to act thusly.
The War on Terror as a struggle of good against evil is gauche - though certainly not gauchiste.
But Republicans as evil? Why they're practically Nazis, don't ya know. No language is harsh enough.
posted by gbarto at 3:46 PM
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