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Opinions/Editorials Title: Mark Ames: Why the American Right Never Liked V.S. Naipaul I’ve often wondered why the American Right has been so quiet about V.S. Naipaul. He’s easily the most talented reactionary writer in the English language–maybe the only living talent left in the right-wing zombiesphere. The American Right devotes an insane amount of resources into manufacturing hagiographies on anyone whom they believe makes them look good–even the Soviets couldn’t compete with today’s American Right when it comes to glorifying their pantheon of degenerate cretins like Ayn Rand, Phyllis Schlafly, Friedrich von Hayek… I found a few passages that I think explain why they never liked Naipaul much. Basically, it comes down to this: The American Right only needs “team players”–shameless, cynical hacks who can be counted on to churn out whatever rank propaganda ordered up by the Heritage Foundation. For that, you need a Rotary Club nihilist like Dinesh D’Souza, someone totally devoid of a literary ego, intellectual curiosity or a gag reflex. I was just reading Patrick French’s brilliant biography of Naipaul, The World Is What It Is, and came across this interesting scene from Naipaul’s visit to America in 1969. Naipaul had already started developing a reputation at that point as one of the rare examples of a dark-skinned reactionary Tory from a Third World colony, making him one of the most despised literary figures among the trendy-left. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 8. #1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0) What’s left today, three decades after Reagan’s victory, is a ruling class of Rotary Club nihilists. Right-wing degenerates. And they’re not even interesting degenerates anymore, the way some Right-wingers used to be. They just scream a lot. Scream and bang a stick on the ground–and at the end of the stick-banging, they go to pick up their checks from their billionaire sponsors. Interesting piece.
#2. To: lucysmom (#1) boring. trite. tired.
#4. To: Badeye (#2) Perfect epitaph, Boof...
#8. To: war (#4)
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#11. To: Badeye, Godwinson, buckeroo, Fred Mertz, Ferret Mike, go65, meguro, minningold, lucysmom, sneakypete (#8) (Edited) Perfect epitaph, ------. Fuck you And why I no longer CHOOSE to post here has been underscored - as I knew it would be. Boofer posts my name...I post his. My post gets edited. His does not. Fuck this place. Stone talking about "Free Speech" is just that...talk. Nice site this has devolved into, Stone. The longest thread is the detritus of LP moronically goading Bucky over what EVERYONE knows is Yukon's self-outing. FWIW, the downward spiral to full auger started when you let Tull come here and bully you.
#15. To: Badeye, war (#8) If you don't use his name he wont use yours. Sounds fair to me.
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