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Mark Steyn's Latest Victims
Massacres prompt pundit to slag old folks, paraplegics and dead students.
Steyn: pattern emerges.
Mark Steyn says the dead of Virginia Tech were wimps. While it's surely not the most important consequence of the April 16 campus massacre, the tragedy has given Steyn another opportunity to display his inner wingnut. It's not the first time. National disasters tend to bring that out in the man.
Steyn is receiving a lot of attention for his National Review piece written after the Virginia Tech shootings. Of the students, Steyn wrote: "They're not 'children.' The students at Virginia Tech were grown women and -- if you'll forgive the expression – men.... We should be raising them to understand that there will be moments in life when you need to protect yourself -- and, in a 'horrible' world, there may come moments when you have to choose between protecting yourself or others. It is a poor reflection on us that, in those first critical seconds where one has to make a decision, only an elderly Holocaust survivor, Professor Librescu, understood instinctively the obligation to act."
At one point Steyn even manages to work in a sly reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- more proof that, amid the rubble of the Iraq debacle, conservative yodelers are getting increasingly nostalgic for those grand old days. But his main point is the creeping wimpiness that allows people with guns to triumph over those without the strength of character and pouches of ammunition to respond:
"We do our children a disservice to raise them to entrust all to officialdom's security blanket. Geraldo-like 'protection' is a delusion: when something goes awry -- whether on a September morning flight out of Logan or on a peaceful college campus -- the state won't be there to protect you. You'll be the fellow on the scene who has to make the decision." Presumably that decision would involve return fire. In the Steyn Utopia, "lone gunman" will become an oxymoron -- the act of drawing a weapon will be equivalent to a conductor raising his baton. Like an orchestra launching into "Peter and the Wolf," the crowd will erupt in a symphony of gunfire. Problem solved. Ditto for the next cafeteria dispute over the final glazed doughnut.
Senior citizens as 'trivialities'
While blaming the spineless dead of Virginia Tech, Steyn harks back to 9-11. Students of Steyn should do the same. His September 12, 2001 writings, largely overlooked at the time, were another example of Steyn's responses to national stress. At such times the man reveals himself.
Mark Steyn may be one of the Hollinger corporation's more enduring gifts to the world. Born in Toronto and educated in England, Steyn first made his mark as a critic at Hollinger papers The Spectator and Daily Telegraph. A longtime fixture in the pages of the National Post, Steyn also became a regular in The Atlantic and the National Review, among others. Even his ideological foes concede -- ought to, anyway -- that Steyn wields his rhetorical rapier with genuine skill. There are more than enough left-wing gasbags and blowhards around to provide legitimate targets for a right-wing curmudgeon who knows his trade. Despite the usual conservative unwillingness to be even-handed about it, Steyn does have an instinct for at least half of the hypocrisy floating around out there. At least until some violent crisis unbalances his humours. Then Steyn goes loopy.
September 12, 2001, was the first opportunity for ink-stained wretches to add their ruminations to the previous day's deluge of televised comment. Steyn's 9/12/01 column appeared on the front page of the National Post. The fever of that terrible week clearly had his blood percolating. Never one to declare a moratorium on petty politics, Steyn went straight after a certain ex-President and, less predictably, senior citizens.
"But one of Bill Clinton's forlorn legacies," Steyn wrote that day, "is that the head of state and the Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation on earth must fill his days with piffling initiatives designed to assuage the niggling discontents of pampered soccer moms and other preferred demographics: elementary school programs, prescription drug plans for seniors.... and a thousand other trivialities.... Yesterday was a rebuke to those fatuities: The first charge of any government is defence of its borders -- and, without that, it makes no difference how much you spend on prescription drug plans for seniors."
There's your 9-11 culprits, friends -- Bill Clinton and greedy, drug-gobbling seniors. But Steyn was just getting warmed up. His next target: cripples. In Steyn World, the attacks of September 11, 2001, shone a welcome light on the utter futility of wheelchair ramps.
People in wheelchairs
"Yesterday's atrocities were a rude awakening from the indulgences of the last decade," Steyn opined, "with some awful stories to remind us of our illusions -- disabled employees in wheelchairs, whom the Americans with Disabilities Act and the various lobby groups insist can do anything able-bodied people can, found themselves trapped on the 80th floor, unable to get downstairs, unable even to do as others did and hurl themselves from the windows rather than be burned alive."
Digest that paragraph for a moment. Take your time -- it may take some hard chewing.
It's hard to say where that observation came from, incongruous as a 747 approaching a Manhattan office at eye level. What set Steyn off? And to what was he referring? Was the early 9-11 coverage packed with reports of wheelchair occupants clogging up stairwells? From the 68th floor of the North Tower, wheelchair occupant Tina Hanson was successfully carried to safety. Quadriplegic Ed Beyea perished, but he was way down on the 27th floor. Actually, Steyn was one of the few to address the plight of people with disabilities that day. Maybe not in the way they would like, but there you go.
Discerning Steyn's point is another puzzle. How exactly did the Americans with Disabilities Act harm America on September 11? Is it all part of the misguided liberalism that swells the American population with deadwood, leaving no room for potential Marines?
'Bravery' of hijackers
What set Steyn off? The logical assumption: nothing in particular. He was probably pissed about the gimps for awhile, and just waiting for a good chance to show it.
(Interestingly, Steyn's September 12 column goes on to make a point that would later cost Bill Maher his ABC network gig, insisting that the hijackers were not cowards. "A coward would not agree to hijack a plane," Steyn wrote. "We should acknowledge that at the very least it requires a kind of mad bravery, a bravery 99% of us in the West can never understand and, because of that, should accord a certain respect." Maher said much, much less in the same vein on the Politically Incorrect broadcast that sparked a patriotic firestorm and doomed the popular program. No one ever said the mob was fair.)
See also Steyn's rush to judgment over the actions of Virginia Tech students last week. His conclusion that the unfortunate Professor Librescu was Virginia Tech's only hero was certainly premature and has been contradicted by emerging reports. Here Steyn seems to have been strolling down the same idiosyncratic mental trail that once had him ranting about the disabled.
The bushes are jammed with right-wing loons who will spew any hateful garbage they can think up, poisoning the public domain and destroying the possibility of reasoned debate. But Mark Steyn has been granted a higher status than those others. Wit, intelligence, and writing skill have earned him a more exalted place in the journalistic cohort. It's useful to remember that when the pressure is on, Steyn can lose his marbles with the worst of them.
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RickW
5 years ago
He can certainly talk the talk......
But can he walk the walk? I got to wonder why he hasn't joined Blackwater.......but I guess a desk is a whole lot safer to shoot from.......
RickW
5 years ago
He can certainly talk the talk......
But can he walk the walk? I got to wonder why he hasn't joined Blackwater.......but I guess a desk is a whole lot safer to shoot from.......
arbg
5 years ago
Steve, You were better @theend
Until that came to an end...
I can't believe anyone is still pumping the "Bill Maher is post-9/11" victim crapology.
`Politically Incorrect' wasn't a `popular' show... by the end, Maher could barely manage to get even a single celebrity of any worth on his piece of crap show: `Tonight, our guests are Internet porn merchant Danni Ashe! The guy from the Dell Commercial! Some guy who came to the studio to interview for BEst Boy and we let him stay for the show! And, of course, Anne Coulter!' Yahooo!
By Maher's logic, if the 9/11 fascists were `brave' for crashing airplanes into civilians, then Ted Bundy was extremely brave for GOING RIGHT UP TO HIS VICTIMS AND STABBING THEM TO DEATH! What bravery! Marc Lepine was brave for looking his victims in the eyes as he shot them!
What bilge. It's even worse that this a*shole became a cause celebre. Bill Maher? The Dixie Chicks! Is that all the martyrdom you can manage. By god you people are pathetic.
thanks
murdock
5 years ago
next up ... death race 2010
Stick to commenting about movies Steve, this was not very useful; and only slightly better than your hockey commentary.
Stop giving these blowhards more room on any other soap boxes.
James Burns
5 years ago
changing the subject
You mean by Steyn's logic. He was the first to extol terrorist bravery. Funny how you misrepresent the whole tenor of the article above by completely paraphrasing out of context there arbg. It is interesting to note that you marched in lockstep with factually misrepresented information about Michael Moore in the comments of Glavin's last pathetic attempt at an article. Yet here in a critique about Mark Steyn, all you can do is yammer about Maher. None of Steyn's loopy viciousness appears to bother you.
Steyn is a piece of garbage who attacks the victims of a shooting rampage, because they didn't disarm the shooter. And the best Steyn can do is compare that to the bravery of those who subdued the shoe-bomber while he was struggling with matches. A situation, I would argue, a little different from trying to punch or tackle a nut armed with two semi-automatic pistols.
flattax
5 years ago
Another example of bad journalism by Steve Burgess
You have to read mark steyn's original article. His quotes here are taken totally out of context. This piece by Steve Burgess is another example of his bad journalism. I doubt Burgess even read the article.
My summary of Steyn's original piece:
The people of the west are held back by political correctness so much that even when confronted by a direct physical threat, they are in denial of this threat and cannot even respond to defend themselves.
I think Steyn is correct.
arbg
5 years ago
Cousin Jimmy!
I was starting to miss ya.
For the record, I don't like what Steyn said about V-Tech - but then, I don't like anyone trying to make a political point out of such a tragedy - that includes the feminists who, after Dec. 6, 1989, attempted (successfully as it happens) to make Marc Lepine / Gamil Gharbi a symbol for ALL men. I'm sure you were against that, too, cuz...
This is interesting, however: you condemn Steyn for saying something that Maher was allegedly `censored' about, which you also condemn (that is, Maher's alleged censorship)? Man, you are confused....
arbg
5 years ago
Bill Maher / Mark Steyn
cousin Jimmy, and Steve@theend (really REALLY the end):
So Steyn's `loopy viciousness' about 9/11 fascists `bravey' is to be condemned, but Maher's getting his a*s thrown off his crappy show for saying the same thing is an outrage! Wha?
thanks
arbg
5 years ago
arbg
[cousin Jimmy at wikipedia right now: Marc Lepine? Gamil Gharbi? wha......!!!!!!]
arbg
5 years ago
and also...
I look forward to Steve Burgess' next article: condemned the writer at the Daily Kos praising the actions of the V-Tech killer...
Bluenose
5 years ago
Quote:Steyn is a piece of
Mr. Steyn might wish to edit that for libel!
I think that Mark Steyn is an expletive deleted, libelous phrase omitted whose latest book represents the ramblings of a libelous phrase omitted who needs to have his obscenity deleted, intolerant comment removed. Holy gajeebers, I hope he's not a litigious kinda guy.
James Burns
5 years ago
More static from shrill nutbars
This is interesting, arbg is behaving remarkably like another regular noise maker on the Tyee comment threads who goes by the handle of maestro. Maestro has not made an appearance in a while, but arbg's tactics are remarkably similar.
Like Maestro arbg is engaging in placing multiple comments within minutes of each other, one after the other, taking up considerably more space in the thread. The comments themselves, particularly in this thread, are intentional misinterpretations of what others have written. The clear implication is that arbg is simply interested in generating noise to stifle any form of comment.
arbg
5 years ago
sorry cuz
You're right, but as soon as I posted the one, another thought came to me.
But you really can't be serious about "taking up space" can you? I mean what do the Tyee's servers run on, a cassette-deck storage Commodore 64?
[Jimmy typing in wiki: Commodore 64? Cassette deck?...]
Frank
5 years ago
maestro
maestro, why don't you just use your own handle? Why the "Ron Erwin"/IAMC thing?
poindexter
5 years ago
What a piece of crap!
I think if you read the entire article you will see that what Steyn is saying is as a society we need to stop thinking of ourselves as victims and raising our children as victims. He has a point.
A tough way to think for the left who want the gov't to do everything for them. Nice try Burgess, but from what I've read of Steyn's work I'll stick to his well written artciles over your whiny pieces like this.
Frank
5 years ago
The entire article
The entire article is short. People can go on and read whatever they like into it I guess because except for calling people cowards if they don't disarm the gunman he didn't say much.
I wonder if Steyn has ever called the police instead of dealing with a problem himself?
Frank
5 years ago
Steyn's favourite movie?
Come back Shane!
clubofrome
5 years ago
Nice pick up James/Frank
Yes telltale signs of maestro's multiple logins continue. Obviously on the BC Liberal payroll.
thomas49
5 years ago
damn...damn...damn...
Yes telltale signs of maestro's multiple logins continue. Obviously on the BC Liberal payroll.
i hate it when some one else ...steals my thoughts...
i gotta start wearing my paranoia cap agin...all my thoughts iz been stolen frum mee,before i kin get them COPYRIGHTED...
AND MAKE BIG MONIES FRUM THE GREAT UNWASHED OUT THERE..................
James Burns
5 years ago
The only crap is between your ears
Thinking you're not a victim won't stop bullets. Steyn has no point. He offers not a shred of suggestion as to how to avoid being a victim. All he does is heap abuse on those who have been hurt or murdered by well armed madmen. What next? Is Steyn going to blame children for being the victims of pedophiles?
Steyn is a coward. He offers nothing other than to blame the victims, because he well knows any suggestion on how an unarmed person might stop a well armed murderer would be met with rightful derision. What would work? A Light Brigade-like charge into the barrels of semi-automatic pistols?
No, Steyn resorts to an attack, because he knows criticism of America's culture of violence and the ease to obtain and the proliferation of deadly firearms will be the first areas of criticism by anyone with a neuron firing. Yet the use of violence and guns are numbered amongst his loves, so he has no other choice but to chalk the Virgina Tech murders up as a lack of "bravery" on the part of the victims. He keeps it abstracted to "bravery" because any concrete example would be laughed off as utterly foolish.
yhbt
5 years ago
Wow! That is funny- Steyn
Wow!
That is funny- Steyn is like SO fucking god
~y*h*b*t~
North of Hope
5 years ago
schooling
It was said in the article, "Mark Steyn may be one of the Hollinger corporation's more enduring gifts to the world. Born in Toronto and educated in England,"
This should read, "Born in Toronto and schooled in England,"
Clearly he has no education.
IAMC
5 years ago
Gamil Garbi ( Mark Lepine )
In 1989, this Muslim , son of a woman hating Moroccan Muslim, walked into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal
He entered a lecture hall and separated the men from the woman. He said he was fighting feminism.
He sent the men out of the room, into the hallway. He then shut the door and proceeded to shoot and kill the first nine woman.
He then left the hall, and passed right by the men he previously sent to the hallway.
None of these men lifted a finger to defend these woman.
He then wandered around the campus, murdering a further five woman and wounding ten more.
At Virginia Tech ( a gun free zone like Columbine and the Amish Schoolhouse ) a lone Jewish holocaust survivor, fought the gunman, for just enough time for everyone of the students in his classroom to escape, before he was shot dead.
Mark is making a point.
His point is what the enemy already has figured out.
We are wimpish, weak, feminized, neutered, cowards, pussy whipped, useless men now.
Our generation couldn't have fought either WW1 or WW@.
In Pakistan, they wouldn't have allowed this to happen. They would have fought to protect their citizens.
It's liberalism that got us here.
There is hope however. Times are a changin.
Booker
5 years ago
machismo
IAMC wrote:
This seems to confirm the thesis that these macho men (like Steyne) have sexuality issues. They do protest too much. Bet they drive huuuuuge SUVs.
flattax
5 years ago
Mark Lepine
Right on, IAMC!
I couldn't have said it better. There seems to be a bit of a coverup about him being a muslim, in my opinon.
Lately, most of the mass murders, both in Canada and the USA, seem to be commited by minority groups. Not much in the popular press these days about that either. The government seems to want to cover it up as well.
Mark Lepine is what, these days, is known as an individual jihadist. His ideology was probably not as well cemented as that of the modern islamist of the new millenium, but he was a jihadist nonetheless.
See LGF for more of a background:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
And I agree. The times are a changing, thanks to people like yourself and Mark Steyn. They have to, or we will all become dhimmis in our own country...
IAMC
5 years ago
Booker is a wimp too
You don't know what Mark Steyne drives booker.
You don't even know who Mark Steyne is.
Mark Steyne is a conservative commentator, who is extremely popular with many thinkers.
He is a smart man. He is an honourable man. He has more brains in his little finger than your entire family has, unless of course you are the black sheep of your clan.
I hope so.
You can love spineless wimps if you want to. It's a free country, once you get past the Charter. If you can.
Who has sexual issues here? Is your pee pee undersized?
I think it is.
No balls?
This is apparent to everyone
Alex Baldwin must be your hero.
James Burns
5 years ago
Monsters
Two cowards who hide behind handles have the gall to talk about bravery. IAMC and flattax, you two are examples of what is truly monstrous in our society. Two armchair psychopaths who preach violence and hatred who heap scorn on those who don't sacrifice themselves for your ideology. You two are no better than the radical islamic imams who extol the virtues of suicide bombers, all the while letting others do all the dying.
Steve Burgess
5 years ago
Today's lesson for North of Hope
From the New World Dictionary, Second College Edition:
"educate, vt. -cated: 1... teach; instruct.
3. to pay for the schooling of a person."
No charge.
zalm
5 years ago
IAMC
Gotta hand it to you - I was almost impressed. You managed to string together a coherent argument (ie, one that can be understood, in order to be rebutted). First one I've ever seen from you.
Then you ruined it, but I won't hold it against you. I hope it didn't hurt too much - I know thinking comes very hard to you.
There isn't much doubt about how weak and wimpy this generation is, but it is actually no different than my father's or my grandfather's. I have lots of stories in my family about fighting in the wars - the fun-loving grandfather who fought on the Russian front in Finland, who thought he would never make a soldier as he was always in the books, didn't want to hurt a fly.
It is a testament to the dehumanizing power of the army that everyone - EVERYONE - who enters basic training gets every shred of human decency stamped out of him or her, and turned into a killing machine.
As my grandfather was. An artilleryman, then artillery squad leader, division major, "winter warrior", and finally behind the lines in special forces (Jägerbataillon) he survived more than a dozen years of the war, but quite changed.
My other grandfather and his brothers had astounding stories of the Balkan wars and WWI in King Nikolai's army, and later the and their sons were set against each other under Tito's Communists and Pavelic's Partisans. Stories I wouldn't want anybody I know to have to live through.
We ARE trained from childhood to keep our emotions and actions in check. We receive little or no training in how to release them appropriately. Our loss.
But fighting a war is absolutely the wrong way to do that. There are countless better ones.
zalm
5 years ago
But things are looking up...
Part I
Functionally, you and Steyn are both idiots. You must be so proud! If you've read Steyn's book The Poison Kitchen, you'll probably realize that both you and he dislike the function of statistics, inasmuch as they shine a light on faulty logic, which you both have in spades.
Steyn's premise is that Britain's Muslim birthrate - indeed he extrapolates to Europe's - will cause it to fall to a majority Muslim barbarian in just a decade.
As if! For the 5% of the 1.5 million Muslims who wear the veil in England, to be accused to being able to take over the country in a few short years is unbelievably ludicrous in so many ways....
But Johan Hari takes Steyn to task far better than I ever could in his rebuttal of Steyn's racist essay in The New Statesman America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
He points out every one of Steyn's logical idiocies, especially with the birthrate, the "master scheme" of every one of the world's Muslim billions acting in concert on a secret plan that nobody in America can divine (shades of the Protocols of Zion!), the "Mandingo" complex of arabs waiting to rape white women - all these stains on the pages of Steyn's screed are as stupid as Steyn's obvious adulation of the "panty-bloggers" throwing theirs at Cheney and Liebermann.
zalm
5 years ago
...and down again... (sigh)
Part II
Then the master-stroke:
So, give your lips some exercise, IAMC. Go pick up a copy of The New Statemsan and cheer on Steyn as he give you more racist fodder for your fantasies of killing Arabs. Better still ,why don't you see if you can get a three-way going with him and Ann Coulter...
arbg
5 years ago
but hold on IAMC
Gosh,
IAMC you almost have cousin James Burns seeming to make sense...
You don't know what you would do if a gunman entered your classroom / workplace or wherever. You might be a hero, but can you really say that this is the way you act...
The other thing is this: you condemn Gamil Gharbi for shooting up dozens of women (killing fourteen) on an anti-feminist crusade. Yet, you condemn the men who `did nothing' for being `weak, feminized...' Isn't this what Gharbi was against?
Also, you say that most mass murders are commited `by minority groups.' What is your basis for this. Mass murders have been committed by minorities and by whites, and there's no pattern there, except this: social alienation almost to an extreme degree.
I think by now, Steyn probably feels sorry that he made these remarks, no matter what he says publicly. It wasn't his highpoint - although I'm certain that James Burns among others believe he only has lowpoints.
On the other hand, I don't see cousin Jimmy or Steve@theend condemning other stupid commentary arising from this incident: like Barak Obama (`Barak' = Indonesian for `airhead') saying that the shooting deaths of 32 people are equivalent to ... outsourcing. Outsouring. Wow. Compared to that, Steyn stands pretty well.
thanks
ARBG
RickW
5 years ago
Hey Zalm......
You think maybe what Steyn really wants is to have 7 kids with Ann......? And maybe Rachael Marsden, too?
IAMC
5 years ago
not true argb
You are incorrect when you state that I blame minority groups for most mass murders.
Please backup this statement.
Harry Reid, Dianne Pelosi, Rosie O' Donnell in a threesome might be a more realistic scenario.
My view.
zalm
5 years ago
Three weddings and a murder-suicide
Let's set 'em up. Could be the social event of the year on the Beltway!
Marsden! Bwaaahahahahahahaaaa!!! She's found her man! Set 'em up!
zalm
5 years ago
Nice one, Arby
Code Brown on IAMC.
But it was flattax who tried the racism card here in the jailhouse. He's our visitor from littlegreenfootballs, that neocon proto-Zionist turd of a website run out of Michigan. Lord knows what he's doing here out west - the racism card always works at home....
arbg
5 years ago
sorry imac
that was another poster who spoke about the minority-shooter thing...
but, other remark is still valid...
ummm... zalm, not to give you any ideas or anything but LGF is from California. the proprietor kind-a posts a picture of the Cali beaches and ocean everyday - not mistakeable with Michigan... which makes me wonder how it is you `know' that LGF is a `turd zionist website' when you obvioiusly haven't visited there.
thanks
ARGB
arbg
5 years ago
another definition
"zalm" = BC for `airhead' - is BC = airhead by definition?
zalm
5 years ago
arbg-head, airhead, same difference
You may be right - all my info is at least three years old from old battles with an arch-Zionist named Morley Harper out of Michigan. I never go back there. A lot of LGF's material was written by him. There may be California pictures on the site now, but back then, it was midwest racist to the core.
arbg
5 years ago
ya don't know what you're talking about, zalm
You obviously know nothing about Little Green Footballs...
It has been run out of California since early 2001. Its proprietor (duh) is Charles Johnson. You can say what you wish about Johnson, but he is not racist. Obviously, you're reading some propaganda somewhere and you don't know what you're saying because, as you said, `I never go there.'
You should educate yourself, not rely on others' propaganda.
thanks
ARBG
Frank Lee
5 years ago
Steyn, Coyne the National Post on Iraq
And weren't we all impressed by the impeccable logic of all of the National Post columnists and editorialists like Steyn who lined up to support Canada joining the invasion of Iraq? It had something to do with being "realistic" about the big bad "real" world--a mis-use of the term that real realists (like John Gray, John Mearsheimer, and Stephen Walt) would never endorse.
One thing I'll say about Steyn is that he sure knows his (paying ) audience. Which is why he must be in heaven to finally be in the National Review, with the approval of WIlliam F. Buckley Jr. himself. Just like DAvid Frum was in heaven for seeing his "axis of evil" phrase come out in presidential speeches--one of the most harmful and stupid over-simplifications to mar recent diplomatic history. What cant.
dave49
5 years ago
Steyn's cowardice
Years ago I studied a martial art and even bought a few martial arts magazines. One article discussed how to respond to a mugger armed with a gun. The response: pleasantly and quickly hand over your wallet. Why? Not even a black belt is faster than a gun.As Scotty used to say on the original Star Trek, “But Captain, I can’t change the laws of physics”.
Steyn is doing nothing but spinning his rhetorical wheels. It’s the victims’ fault they were victims. For that we should give him a mail order doctorate in philosophy.