Nothing but insults:

What would you do if someone called you:

• A person with a "scrawny chest"
• Prone to "completely unearned righteousness"
• Someone who failed in their first marriage
• "self-deceiving"
• A "lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward"
• "quivering"

Would you be open to hearing that person's message? The Los Angeles Times thinks you would.

Re the essay's pro-Limbaugh claims: I've listened to plenty of Rush's radio show and Andrew Klavan's argument is total bullshit.

UPDATE: Klavin speaks out (at Pajamas Media):

Kudos, by the way, to the always fair op-ed page editors at the [Los Angeles] Times. I have written for the Washington Post and the New York Times as well and getting a conservative point of view past their editors without being gutted is virtually impossible.

Klavin's blog is quite interesting. Here he writes about the Pope:

I’m not a Catholic—and I’m pretty sure I’ll never become one—but I’ve read a fair amount of the writings of Pope Benedict XVI and it’s clear to me the man is a theological genius. I find it amazing that the Vatican could have followed a genuine hero like John Paul II with a mighty mind like Benedict’s.

He also considers Ann Coulter "adorable".

CODA: Speaking of right-wing radio, on Sean Hannity today, he opined that Europeans were worried that Obama was going to force socialism on them. The horror!


posted by Quiddity at 3/30/2009 02:50:00 PM