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Quote of the Day - 01.09.09
QUOTE OF THE DAY....From Ben Shapiro, describing the Benjamin "Henry Gale" Linus character on Lost:
Benry is evil to be sure — but he's pure, solid, wonderful evil in the mold of Dick Cheney.
Yes, this is meant as a compliment.
That is just so wrong. Sure, Ben is evil, but comparing him to Cheney is just nasty and unnecessary. Poor Ben.
I don't watch the show, so someone's going to have to tell me how many unnecessary deaths this evil "Benry" character has caused, and how much irrevocable harm he's done to my country. Comparing him to Cheney sets the bar pretty damn high.
Hold on a minute. Ben may be manipulative and callous, but it remains to be seen whether or not he's evil. The show has dropped some pretty strong hints that Ben is more or less the good guy in all of this.
The biggest difference is that Ben has a plan based on reality.
Hmm.. I wondered what ever happened to Virgin Ben.
"Don't touch it! it's Pure Evil!"-Time Bandits
Oh, Kevin, thank you. Every one should read this article.
Most amusing is the "conservative" view of "liberal" values.
Classic.
I react on my blog:
He's clearly cherry-picking his data here, heh. Biggest goof - John Locke. I mean, come on. Locke lived in a commune with a bunch of pot-growing hippies, forpetesake. He was in Australia in the first place to go on some heathen spiritual quest, and when in doubt on the Island, he gets inner direction by ... taking drugs in a sweatlodge. He's no conservative icon, he's a hippy-dippy neo-pagan. His spirit name is probably Dances with Guns (or possibly knives).
I'll give him Mr. Eko. Yeah, drug-running warlord turned Jesus-freak? Total conservative.
And Sawyer? More conservative that his description would have you believe. I mean, think about it - Sawyer, seeking revenge on the guy who caused his parents' deaths, shoots and kills.... the wrong guy. An innocent bystander, set up by people who wanted him dead, who feed wrong info to Sawyer to goad the gullible, not-terribly-bright conman into performing the hit for them. Lessee - suckered into killing someone who didn't harm him... yeah, that's a conservative alright.
The jury's still out on Ben. Oh, it's easy to call him 'evil' if you were on Flight 815, but from an outside perspective, the Oceanic Survivors have killed more of the original inhabitants than vice versa. One might be justified in considering Ben's people patriots fighting back against alien occupiers. Oh sure, he stole a stranger's infant daughter and raised her as his own, but I'm sure he thought he was justified. After all, he could give the child all the benefits of suburban life in New Otherton - backyards, modern medicine, shielding against smoke monsters... he's the equivalent of nanny-state liberalism's Child Protective Services, taking children away from their unfit parents (or their rightful parents, if you're a conservative).
I don't care enough about Claire and Charlie to argue his characterization of their 'conservative icon' status. I do however have to wonder how he missed the most archtypical of the conservative icons on the Island?
I refer, of course, to Rousseau. She's a central casting conservative - after being shipwrecked, she decides her colleagues are 'sick' (now there's a good Gingrichian term for you) and kills them all. She lives in underground bunkers in a state of perpetual paranoia. She likes to blow things up. Oh, and she's batshit insane.
I'm surprised she doesn't already have a blog on PajamasMedia.
Cheney is not evil-he is the result of materialistic evolution and the very embodiment of the culture of Washington politics. Use power and influence to make yourself rich and let the outdated ideas of Country and Constitution fall by the wayside along with human compassion and sympathy for the need of others.Go Dick!