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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

(Video) Andrew Sullivan tells Naomi Klein "the financial crisis does not validate Noam Chomsky, it validates Ron Paul"

The Atlantic Monthly's star blogger Andrew Sullivan, who's just penned a fantastic articles about blogging, appeared on the panel with Canadian anti-corporate journalist Naomi Klein in the September 19th episode of Bill Maher's HBO political show Real Time.

Here's a little chat they had about the financial crisis and Klein's "disaster capitalism" thesis.

Sullivan, a conservative in the tradition of Michael Oakeshott, meaning he runs from ideology a little too much for my taste (he championed the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq and favours a carbon tax), sounds a little like Andrew Bacevich when he talks about Americans' reckless borrowing and makes a fine defense of free enterprise capitalism from conflation with the present US economic system of government meddling and cronyist state capitalism which created the financial crisis.

He tells Klein "[the financial crisis] does not validate Noam Chomsky, it validates Ron Paul. If we actually had capitalism, if we actually had conservative government, if we actually had fiscal conservatism none of this would have happened."

In October, I also wrote about the vindication of Ron Paul.

Posted by Kalim Kassam on December 2, 2008 in Economic freedom | Permalink

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It is actually quite sad that people like Klein and Chomsky get cronyism mixed up with authentic capitalism.

Posted by: Charles Anthony | 2008-12-02 8:50:37 AM

This is the first coherent thing to come out of Sullivan's mouth in 8 months.

Posted by: jm | 2008-12-02 6:20:09 PM

Naomi Klein smoked that guy.

"Where is your example of a working capitalist model, there is none."-Naomi Klein

That sentence says it all.

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Posted by: Pat | 2008-12-07 12:13:36 AM

If Sullivan is conservative then Richard Simmons is the Pope.

Again, a Western Standard columnists brazenly misrepresents an outright gay radical and AGW hypemeister as a conservative - in order to criticize conservatives for not being conservative enough. This is now an established pattern, which seriously undermines the credibility of this website.

Both Omar and Kalim are easily intelligent enough and well read enough to understand that Ben Stein and Andrew Sullivan are not conservatives, but rather are presented as conservatives by a lib-left corporate media, meaning that this pattern is rooted in duplicity rather than misunderstanding.

Posted by: Statist Investigator | 2008-12-07 2:41:24 AM

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