More Polanski

Phase I: A number of outspoken, incensed jews, dismayed at the arrest of Roman Polanski, spring to his defense peddling patently lame arguments. Their op-eds as well as hard news accounts emphasize Polanski’s status as a holocaust survivor. His crime and flight are minimized. It’s “ancient history”. The expense too great. “We demand the immediate […]

The Outrageous Defense of Roman Polanski

When news of jewish director Roman Polanski’s arrest broke two days ago I excerpted the following details from an early article, Festival says director Polanski in Swiss custody – Yahoo! News (* – see endnote): A native of France who was taken to Poland by his parents, Polanski escaped Krakow’s Jewish ghetto as a child […]

Fruitloopable Presumption

Lawrence Auster’s latest fruitloopery – the “rebuttable presumption“, a term he introduces in the course of smearing Pat Buchanan: The obvious explanation is animus against Jews. Let’s call it a rebuttable presumption. If Buchanan and others want to rebut it, let them do so. Let’s call it a new name for a very old, very […]

Triangulating From the Right

During this past month has Lawrence Auster has expressed a considerable shift in rhetoric, fundamentally altering his depiction of “liberalism” by adopting, without explanation, ideas he had previously ignored, dismissed, or denounced. In First thoughts on the PWC conference, posted on 8 Feb 2009, we see Auster was giving speeches “meticulously describing” non-discrimination and writing […]