My New Blog
The commentary editor of the online edition of The Daily Mail has invited me to contribute a blog several times a week. Once he wakes up and realizes his terrible mistake, the blog may be gone with the wind a lot sooner and more permanently than the Confederacy. So, if you are interested, read it while you can at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/index.html
Entries(RSS)
Here is the link:
http://fleming.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/tiger-blood-and-the-paper-tiger.html
Great first effort. I'm going to enjoy this. Please let at least some of the outrageous comments through moderation. (You're almost obligated to!)
Whoah! A Daily Mail blog. This is going mainstream.
I like the subtle hint given by your first blog post that you'll basically say whatever you want, just like Charlie Sheen.
Does this mean we will see less Fleming on the main site, now that you've sold out to 'The Man'.
#4 sounds like a statement rather than a question!
Actually, the only difference will be that I am now forced to pay attention to the political scene. Nothing I am putting up here would work for the Daily Mail. Very clever insight, Mr. Sanjay. That is exactly my point. I stuck in the highly charged racial description of the President just to test the waters. No problem. In fact, they have gorgeously tarted up my piece with pictures of Charlie, Ashton, and Demi.
Mmmmm! Paying more attention to the political scene. I smell a book here. American Politics, the Scienic View, by Thomas Fleming!!!
Dr. Fleming,
I note that your piece on the Daily Mail's blog has been commented on by one Nick Lowles of "Hope not hate," a counter-blog somewhere in England, I suppose. He, meaning a dedicated research staff, has discovered and is quite aghast that you are on record as being opposed to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that you are an apologist for the postbellum KKK, and that you have attacked Holocaust education as a reigning ideology which has replace authentic Judaism. Mr. Lowles also adds that you are a step too far, even for the Daily Mail.
I wrote a short comment to the editors, whoever they may be. It will likely not be posted; however, I simply stated that Mr. Lowles comments had nothing to do with the content your piece as published in the Daily Mail.
It is good to be affirmed by one's enemies. My father said on numerous occasions that a man without enemies was worthless; for he stood for nothing. (My father was in every way the antithesis of Rodney King as in "Why can't we just all get along?") I wish my father had known of "Chronicles" while he was yet alive.
I suspect that if you asked Nick Lowles why Dr. Fleming's opinions were wrong (e.g., why shouldn't a businessman be allowed to hire who he wanted to hire and do business with whomever he wanted to do business with without interference from the government?) he would be reduced to saying, "if you don't know why Dr. Fleming is wrong, then I can't help you!" It's people that think like him that have allowed their country to be overrun by foreign invaders. I wonder if he has read "Camp of the Saints."
Congratulations, but I must say that The Daily Mail is unworthy of you as their 'conservatism' (even the p--s weak Anglo-liberal Burkean kind) is so patently confected. Still, it does you credit in condescending to accept the job even if the paper is libellous, faithless, craven and dishonest like 99.9% of all non-Chronicles news media.
Wow, it's only five or so comments in the place, but it's already a riot.
"This Thomas Fleming person just gives completely uninformed opinions on things!"
"Can you see how this man flipflops? First he says Republicans are crazy, then he condemns a Democratic President. He can't do both, and he is probably a McCain supporter!"
"Of all the things, you had to focus on the President being half-white?!"
"How can you seriously find a relation between Charlie Sheen and American politics??? The relation seems tenuous to me!"
My own paraphrased version of what they said. It's not exactly what they said, but yeah. I admit, I am prone to missing people's point all the time, but I guess some people clearly missed the fact that the blog post was pure humour and idle indulgence of a silly idea.
By the way, it looks like one Chronicles reader commented there, and called the others "bedwetting Brit leftists". Uh oh. I hope they don't take him to be representative of our forum's generally polite manners.
Two of the other four commenters are not Brits. The site is confusing. There are two sets of comments. Follow Dr. Fleming's link above to see comments from Mr. Moses and three others. Then go to the RightMinds homepage to see an edited version with the comments to which Mr. Sanjay refers.
Actually, Dr. Fleming's blog entry is a humorous presentation of some serious issues. Chesterton would approve.
Dr. Fleming, they are already trying to "cut" you out. If you click on the link in your first post, your picture appears on the bottom right of the page with your name and face cut off...