|
it's funny, the dominant response from the right about this book:
(a) mclellan says what he says to sell books.
but i thought capitalism was rational in conservative world...an unquestioned good. so how does this not amount to a tautology?
(b) that mclellan is not mclellan ("this is not the scott we knew") but rather some leftist duplicate mclellan who seems to have had something of the same experience as the actual mclellan but who thinks about everything in an entirely different way--perhaps as a function of information the alien mclellan extracted from the actual mclellan via anal probe on the spaceship.
i like that one.
from what i've seen so far--which ain't a whole lot as the book is only just out (or will be this week)--it seems that mclellan's motivations center on the sense of being-chumped by the rove team. bush-the-amiable-dufus is an object of affection and so seems to float around as mclellan's double, nearly--the Other Guy who was Manipulated. mclellan is the dupe who has since come to see--bush the dupe who cannot see---a curious doubling that gets repeated in the "real mclellan" versus the space-alien duplicate mclellan ("the left-wing blogger")...
republicans sometimes make me laugh
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
|