Wolcott Unhinged

Wolcott's schtick is curiously captivating-- no one is more charismatically cranky and dead-wrong than he.

Beating off to Kerik's implosion and loving the possibility that Bush and Giuliani are collateral damage is full time work. But Wolcott is more than up to the task.

Wolcott and friends are revisiting the "many sins and sordid trespasses" of the Giuliani junta. The greatest victim of Rudy's hubristic, tough guy act that Wolcott can recall is Saudi Prince al-Walid bin Talal. Huh?

Wolcott disappoints me with this. I wouldn't have thought his violins played for the Prince. On the other hand, Mr. Diallo's story seems like such a lay up for him, I wonder why he didn't go there.

But he has absolutely gone there with Zev Chafets. Zev's great sin is that he is a former IDF soldier who fought in the Yom Kippur War. The YKW is a tough war for non-fans of the Jewish State to deal with-- its like Super Bowl XXV (when the G-Men beat Buffalo 20-19) for Bills fans. The fact that Zev fought in the YKW, an almost-win for the Arabs, doesn't sit well with a non-fan like Wolcott. 

Zev's IDF past and his current support for Kerik, Rummy and Bush's war make Wolcott a big time non-fan of Zev Chafets.

Wolcott is an odd dude. He has only blanket hostility to offer to Bush voters, but Marwan Barghouti's base doesn't trouble him a bit.

Lefties have long believed, and were keen to point it out again and again after the election, that Red States are unlivable, bigot-infested deserts. Why doesn't the Left's "Retro vs Metro" battle extend to the Mideast?

Isn't Wolcott's comfy Upper West Side life more likely to be duplicated in Tel Aviv than Ramallah?

Wolcott is put off by the "he-man displays of muscle flexing and tough talking from the 9/11 all stars (He means Kerik, Giuliani, Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the gang...of course!!! Ed)" but the public Kalashnikov worshiping and pandering to the Islamists by the Arab pols is no big thing.

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[Van Helsing]

Lefties have long believed, and were keen to point it out again and again after the election, that Red States are unlivable, bigot-infested deserts.

What would you call people who believe that everyone living in a given region shares a negative personality trait like bigotry -- I guess you'd have to call them bigots, wouldn't you?

[CDash]

Well, where is your foundation for such a belief. And shouldn't Jim Wolcott, a biggie in the VF hiearchy, be able to change VF's caucasians only cover policy?

You make a big mistake if you think that libs in Blue States are all un-racists. It's a sly racism in the blue states. Do the super rich of Manhattan send their kids to diverse public schools? Or do they spend lots of money to send their kids to uber-rich, mostly white schools where all the students come from elite backgrounds?

I know it's easier for you to cope with Bush's win by imagining that Bush's base are all mouth-breathing Christers who hate blacks and jews, but it just isn't so.

There is racism in Philadelphia, PA and Philadelphia, MS. But thank goodness, the solid GOP South is far less racist than it was when it was solidly Democrat. Somehow you partisan Democrats didn't mind so much when the "bigots" of the American South voted reliably Democrat.