carl guderian on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:39:22 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> for our american friends: wilders explained |
Hi all, The world, however, didn't wait... A quick troll of news websites the day after yields barely a mention for Wilders outside of nu.nl or NOS. Geert Wilders may be an A-list bastard here in the Netherlands, but his name sure doesn't conjure in the US, assuming anyone knows how to pronounce it. Last night I tried to read and watch Wilders's speech. It was long and lacking any rheorical flourish. He was repetitive like a drunk trying to steer a barroom coversation back to his pet conversation. It must have disappointed anyone trying to use it as political capital for the November elections. It certainly disappointed me, as I hoped Wilders would say something even more offensive to potential partners back home. At best it's jus another example of him running off when he gets bored building a government, which may at least offend the civic sense of CDA parliamentarians. (The VVD'ers have no sensibilities to offend nor do they have any moral qualms about anything, so this is all irrelevant to them.) Pam Gellar's ' No Ground Zero Mosque protest drew about 1500, says MSNBC, but a counter-demonstration supporting the center got 2000. She already gets on-air spealing gigs for their shock value, but if she hoped to ride this event any further, she was sadly mistaken. The real A-list wingnuts, Glenn Beck & Sarah Palin, were holding a 9/11 rally in Anchorage Alaska. Tickets were $65 (€50,-) a pop, and the photo below shows seating for maybe 150 people. Add it up and the takings run to maybe $10,000 ($20,000 if you believe Ms. Palin's figure of 300)--small potatoes for the egos and speaking fees for the two. Pic of Anchorage rally here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 32527116@N06/4981752538/ I think we hit a high-water mark for 9/11-connnected bigotry and it scarcely got our feet wet. I marked 9/11 by burning a picture of Augusto Pinochet. Yrs, Carl On 11-sep-2010, at 22:45, dan s wang wrote: > Thank you, Geert, for forwarding this primer for us, the myopic > Americans. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org