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National Review’s Victor Davis Hanson is just Maureen Dowd with a better knowledge of LatinIf you’ve never heard of Hanson, here’s an excellent and representative example of his writing for National Review’s blog:
He does this kind of thing regularly. He’s supposedly an intellectual because he’s written a book about military history (which was hilariously and devastatingly debunked by an actual military historian) but this stuff is really more his stock in trade these days: Every few days, he writes 200 words or so mocking Obama as a “messiah” — and ask yourself when, despite the missteps, anybody in Obama’s crew has ever referred to Fox News, Limbaugh or the NEA in anything approaching religious terms — collects his National Review paycheck and returns a few days later to do the same thing. It’s all rather Dowdian, his obsession with issues of personality and symbology instead of using his classics education to actually illuminate his readers on the issues of the day. It makes for rather flamboyant reading experience, but I don’t come away feeling like I’ve learned something or heard an argument that I have to carefully consider or respond to. It’s highfalutin’ neener-neenerism masquerading as something deeper. |
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I find it amusing that you use the typical liberal tactics in your opinion of VDH. Is your notion that a “military historian” debunked his military book even remotely relevant to your displeasure with Mr. Hanson opinion pieces?
All of Mr. Hanson’s articles are very insightful, serious yet at times very humorous as well as factual.
Which seems to be quite contrary to many of Ms. Dowd’s hateful rants?
Perhaps if you researched the man before you insult his intelligence with your opinions you may learn just how his opinions have evolved. He is far more than a “Maureen Dowd with a better knowledge of Latin”.
Do yourself and others a favor and invest in a “wee-bit” of research before exposing your own lack of knowledge when writing about (or attempting to demean) someone.
Bateman’s own emotional charges against Hanson are frankly Dowdian in their own right. Your citation of him in this context against Hanson makes me wonder if you’ve read both sides of the debate between the two.