Palin’s Speech & Matthew Scully

September 6, 2008

Steven Best has something to say:

“Thanks to Scully’s adroit words and Palin’s androgynous mix of feminine soft talk and macho militarism, the chronically anxious Right erupted into a roar of elation as they felt they had, with the addition of Palin, finally find the ticket they wanted — one entirely devoted to militarism, privatization, increasing their already obscene levels of wealth, and waging a full-blown culture war against abortion, sex education in the schools, the ban on prayers in pubic places, and so on.” [...]

“Congratulations, Scully, you did it! You galvanized and unified the most reactionary forces of the country that want to finish the job — on the Constitution, liberties, privacy, human rights at home and abroad, the United Nations, international justice, restrictions on trade, unions, animal protections and the environment — that Bush brought to such a high level in eight years. There is nothing innocent about what Scully does: he is a hack, a propagandist, a demagogue, a mouthpiece for nihilistic ideologies that are anything but ‘pro-life.’”

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Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Miscellaneous 

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2 Responses to “Palin’s Speech & Matthew Scully”

  1. Tracy on September 8th, 2008 9:16 am

    I don’t understand how someone could really care about animals and then use their talent to potentially harm them.

  2. Elaine Vigneault on September 8th, 2008 12:11 pm

    Well, to do it in good faith for animals, you’d have to:
    1) be a mole, or
    2) believe the Republicans can and will change for the better.

    But I think Steven Best is right when he said:

    No principled or consistent person writes a book against hunting, and then pens a speech for a vicious defender of hunting and avid killer herself. Can any animal advocate among us ever imagine doing this?! This is the moral and logical contradiction that would haunt a Kantian, someone with a conscience, anyone with principles or moral consistency, but it never troubles a utilitarian-opportunist like Scully and his movement apologists.

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