Blogcritics Comments on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Comment by vinny Marcanti on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:55:00 EDT

Its sadly funny how someone who hates the truth will discredit the truth teller. To call Chomsky a moron shows who the true moron is, Flynn. Keep on kidding yourselves, and deny the truth by reading truth hating fools like flynn perhaps you will be better off. However to call chomsky a moron and anti-american and on the left is unexceptable. You sir are a fool and would be destroyed in a debate with noam.

Comment by Bob A. Booey on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:44:16 EDT

Ayn Rand's novels are unintentionally quite funny propaganda. I think she might be related to George Lucas -- they share an extraterrestrial observer's ham-handed, akward, austere yet childishly limitited, abstract yet insightless approach to human dialogue, human emotions like love, and the social interactions of homo sapiens in the course of everyday affairs. That is all.

Comment by Me on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:40:09 EDT

Being a book of Flynns own Idealogy itself, I find it very shallow minded and short sided. Sorry big guy. An old prase comes to mind when I think of Flynn now, anyone familiar with "the pot calling the kettle black"?

Comment by Dr daniel on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:18:40 EST

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Comment by SteelR on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:40:20 EST

"A prime example of an IM on the Left is Noam Chompsky." Uh, that would be Chomsky.

Comment by DrPat on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:04:15 EST

Sorry, my previous comment referred to comment #9. Flynn's characterization of Atlas Shrugged (and other fiction by Ayn Rand) was listed as "propagandist" in the original post, but he may have used a different term.

Comment by DrPat on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:01:40 EST

Perhaps Flynn assigned it to its proper genre; it is an apalogue, a moral parable. From Free Dictionary on "apalogue" and related topics:

An apologue is a fiction with pointed or exaggerated details, illustrating a moral truth without explicitly stating it... the moral is more important than the narrative details. Like the parable, the apologue is a tool of rhetorical argument introduced in order to convince or persuade.

Unlike a fable... In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. [Emphasis mine.]

Comment by Sean Hackbarth on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:17:52 EST

What Flynn also told me was he was uncomfortable with the title of his first book "Why the Left Hates America." That was his publisher's idea. The book sold well so Flynn thinks they made a good decision.

Comment by Eric Olsen on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:37:28 EST

on the procedural front: did you take notes as you went, Sean?

Comment by Sean Hackbarth on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:35:39 EST

Flynn called Rand's novel "propagandist" in a positive way. Sort of a hyper-polemic I'm guessing. That portion of the interview didn't get recorded so I had to rely on my memory.

Comment by alienboy on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 06:06:58 EST

All ideology and/or dogma is ultimately bad. The world is a wonderful, endlessly varied place and the larger universe even more so. All belief systems are limited human creations and are incapable of universal application to the actual complexity of Life. Tp loosely paraphrase Isaac Asimov "Never let your beliefs prevent you doing the right thing". It seems to me that a LOT of smart people are falling for stupid ideas these days...

Comment by Temple Stark on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:27:04 EST

I know I know. Sorry. It's just not what I thik of when I think of an interview piece put in the BC interview column, which is where I found it ready to read - an interview. Just pissy of me.

Comment by Eric Olsen on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:24:22 EST

this is the kind of interview with lots of paraphrasing and summarizing - editorial decision

Comment by Temple Stark on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:17:59 EST

Ward Churchill seems to have been awarded an honary tribal membership - and gone to town with it. Dolt. One sentence is an interview? So every article I ever write for the newspaper could qualify as an interview piece for Blogcritics because they've at least got that? Hmmm. I thought it was just an article. But bloggers are the same as journalists.

Comment by Eric Olsen on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:20:05 EST

very interesting, thanks Sean! great to have original interviews

Comment by Mark Saleski on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:12:44 EST

and particularly ironic for a guy who wrote "why the left hates america". get yer blinders on.

Comment by SFC SKI on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:08:33 EST

"Ideology makes smart people stupid." Well said.

Comment by DrPat on Bashing Intellectual Morons

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:53:28 EST

Interesting that Flynn enjoys Ayn Rand's novels, even though he finds them "propagandist" - did he give specific examples, or were the "cultist" followers of Objectivism the sole reason he assigned Rand the IM tag?