Doris Lessing: Nobel laureate, elite intellectual, moonbat, moron.

She is a living (barely) parody of the upper-crust idiotic liberal who sneers at everything that doesn't glorify her. You can't make this stuff up. The sad part is that her comments get published as if they mean anything, embarassing a batty old lady and the newspaper that printed it. She should be left to drool in her oatmeal politely ignored.

But as Rigoberta Menchu and Harold Pinter have proven, you don't have to be a genius to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; you just have to be an obnoxious moonbat.

Let's adjust that a bit:

But as Rigoberta Menchu and Harold Pinter have proven, you don't have to be a genius to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; you just have to be an anti-American moonbat.

Just like violence and sex sell in Hollywood, so does anti-Americanism sell among the self-proclaimed intelligentsia of the world.

I'm a little embarassed. I had heard of Pinter before, and I knew about Menchu because she's mentioned in Dsouza's book Illiberal Education, but I had to do a Web search on Lessing. I had no idea who she was.
Now I remember why I stopped reading fiction a long time ago.

She's obviously very old. Good, hopefully she'll drop dead soon and the world will be minus one sniveling moonbat.

Lessing was an early feminist author, it's worth noting though that she's an equalist feminist who a few years ago caused a stir by denouncing that supremacist feminism which is anti-male. I think maybe she's just expressing here a feeling here in the UK that it's bizarre to think terrorism started in 911. As an ex-Londoner I lived through the IRA bombing campaigns, and although they never scored anything like 911, they did do some serious damage. I've worked in a building that was bombed twice (before I worked there) a major tower next to the Baltic Exchange. It was serious shit.

There's always been terrorism. The problem is, 911 was really the moment of declaration of war between the West and Islam. But we're not allowed to say that. So we say "War on Terror" as a euphemism.

Anyway, she appears to be quite fat, so the government will march her off to a concentration camp soon.

Did any of you see this?

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: DORIS LESSING: "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" IS TOTALLY LEFTIST

A while back someone from Britain said that we Americans just need to get over September 11.

While it's easy to criticize this most recent comment, it's not wrong to look at her perspective. We can look at two major attacks on our soil: Pearl Harbor and New York/DC. Europe was decimated by two world wars. England was under attack by the IRA, though over a period of years, not just one day.

It's like someone who lived through the Depression scoffing at someone complaining about losing their job in a booming economy. To the person who lost their job, it's a big deal. To someone who may have been unemployed for years, it's nothing.

If this had been a 30-year-old who said this, then they could rightfully be shamed because they have to perspective. Coming from someone who has lived a bit more, it's understandable why she said it.

Amen to Ian's comment. Also at least she dissed the nobel award as "nonsense" (which it is). Like Phil, I gave up on fiction years ago. Too much factual stuff out there to waste my time reading material based on someone else's imagination.