Though many have been lambasting him, I for one want to thank Joel Stein for coming out and admitting he doesn’t support the troops and urging others against the Iraq war to admit they don’t support the troops too (see this interview with him for more details). As conservatives, I think we should support this new “truth in liberals” movement. Kudos to Joel Stein, you treacherous bastard.
If his cousin (who unfortuately has the same name) gets sent to Iraq, I wonder if he’ll support him.
Honesty from Stein concerning ANYTHING is refreshing, even if it’s only about being a traitor (something anyone with an IQ over 37 already knew)
I disagree with EVERYTHING that Stein said. I do however congratulate him for saying it. Maybe other “mainstream” liberals will take heart from his honesty and come out and tell us flat out that they are moonbat traitors. If more of the MSM tells the truth about what they really think then conservatives will stay in power for the next 20 generations. Keep up the good work you freaking moonbat.
Exactly. It’s helpful for those on the other side to at least be honest about their positions. Then when they say, “How dare you question my patriotism!,” we can just respond, “I’m just quoting from your column which starts, ‘I have no patriotism and I despise this country. Down with the Great Satan!'”
Maybe Al Qaeda and Hamas could market some pro-terrorist baseball caps, little pennants, and foam fingers to them. Or souvenir pseudo-bomb-belts.
Now, let’s get them to come clean about how they REALLY feel about grated parmesan cheese!
I guess he does deserve some praise for being honest.
I assume the L.A. Times covered its tracks legally by having Stein sign the following agreement:
“By submitting this article, I agree that I am officially making an [donkey] of myself.”
If not, they could have a frivolous lawsuit on their hands.
Now if Ted Kennedy would just come out and say “I’m a drunken, lecherous killer”, THAT would be a breath of fresh air (or not).
I don’t ask much of people but I do ask they pick one side of the fence and stay there. Stein has done just that.
You have to give traitorious scum credit for admiting it. At the moment he is my favorite liberal because he admits to thinking what they all think. Also anything from the Chapaquidick bridge diver is NOT a breath of fresh air. Fresh air does NOT catch fire if exposed to flame due to alcohol content.
I agree whole heartedly. Let them all come out from underneath their rocks and proclaim their true feelings. I’m hoping hollyweird jumps on board real soon. Can’t wait to hear what the enlightened ones will have to say to us uneducated, unwashed masses. And I’m particularly uneducated (although well groomed) as I just wasted 21 years of my life wearing the uniform.
I read in Jon Stein’s bio that he’s “desperate for attention”. I’m guessing mom and dad just didn’t beat him enough that he’s gotta write crap like that. My thinking is that the LATimes is just encouraging his dumb-assness by printing in moronic opinion.
I’m tellin you THIS is his bio:
//Joel Stein is desperate for attention. He grew up in Edison, N.J., went to Stanford and then worked for Martha Stewart for a year. After two years of fact-checking at various publications, he got hired as a sports editor at Time Out New York. Two years later he lucked into a job as a staff writer for Time magazine, where over seven and a half years he wrote a dozen cover stories on subjects such as Michael Jordan, Las Vegas, the Internet bubble and — it being Time and he being a warm body in the office — low-carb diets.
Being desperate for attention, he has appeared on any TV show that asks him: VH1’s “I Love the Decade You Tell Me I Love,” HBO’s “Phoning It In,” Comedy Central’s “Reel Comedy” and E! Entertainment’s “101 Hottest Hot Hotties’ Hotness.”
After teaching a class in humor writing at Princeton, he moved to L.A. at the beginning of 2005 to write a column for the Los Angeles Times. He still contributes to Time and whatever magazines allow him to. But his heart belongs to you, L.A. Times reader. Only to you. //
here is the link for his bio…
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-columnist-jstein,0,4347837.columnist?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
In the interview, Hugh and Joel come from orthogonal points of view. Joel is not interested in educating himself about the military and Hugh just isn’t down with pampered rich people. There was very little intersection of life styles. That made the interview kind of circular.
“So you don’t know anything about the military?” “No, but I don’t think my limosine liberal friends should be hypocrits.”
I guess it was instructive to see just how much the wealthy left resembles characters out of “The Great Gatsby.”