"Mark Steyn has been making his mark, or leaving his stain, on the conservative speaker's circuit. First in the US and now in Australia. Here, as there, adoring crowds of neo-cons and camp followers flock to laugh at the Canadian columnist's jokes and to applaud his insights. Trouble is it's near impossible to tell one from the other. The insights are comical and the jokes unfunny.
But put them together and you can see how the radical Right thinks, if you can call it thought.
Not that I've been able to attend one of Steyn's soirees. Though the blogger and Bush-lover was brought to Australia with some taxpayers' funds, the Steyn Gang issuing the invites clearly suffer from political bias. Thus RSVPs are received from the VIPs and RIPs of the Right - the likes of John Howard, Peter Costello, Alexander Downer, Nick Minchin, Santo Santoro, Janet Albrechtsen, Tim Blair, Keith Windschuttle and the editor of this page - while my invitation went missing in the mail."
As you might have expected the above was written by the redoubtable Phillip Adams in his column in The Australian. Adams makes the telling point that Steyn, for all the hype surrounding him, is not only completely unfunny [Steyn would seem to think otherwise!] but dangerous. Read the full Adam's column here.
But put them together and you can see how the radical Right thinks, if you can call it thought.
Not that I've been able to attend one of Steyn's soirees. Though the blogger and Bush-lover was brought to Australia with some taxpayers' funds, the Steyn Gang issuing the invites clearly suffer from political bias. Thus RSVPs are received from the VIPs and RIPs of the Right - the likes of John Howard, Peter Costello, Alexander Downer, Nick Minchin, Santo Santoro, Janet Albrechtsen, Tim Blair, Keith Windschuttle and the editor of this page - while my invitation went missing in the mail."
As you might have expected the above was written by the redoubtable Phillip Adams in his column in The Australian. Adams makes the telling point that Steyn, for all the hype surrounding him, is not only completely unfunny [Steyn would seem to think otherwise!] but dangerous. Read the full Adam's column here.
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