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February 24, 2010
Newsweek/WaPo Columnist Disgusted by Patriotism at the Olympics
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 24, 2010 9:24 AM
Moonbats were delighted that an American hockey player was denied the opportunity to express his support for our troops on his helmet, but their joy was short-lived. There's apparently too much national pride on display for the refined tastes of the Progressive Left. Leftist Dingbat and WaPo/Newsweek columnist Susan Jacoby is chagrined by the blatant --- and in her peabrain completely unjustified --- pride in the success of our athletes.
Why, anyone would think that these medals were more important than the performance of American students on international comparison tests of achievement in school.
My guess is, if our Olympic athletes were trained by unionized progressive bureaucrats whose pay was unrelated to performance, they would suck as bad as our public schoolkids do. But of course, a leftist intellectual like Jacoby doesn't see that.
This Olympic coverage matters because it offers a window into a deeply provincial, reflexively nationalistic mindset that hampers our understanding of the rest of the world and prevents any realistic assessment of American weaknesses and strengths in comparison to other countries.
The conviction that the United States is morally and culturally better than other countries--including other developed democracies--is a real social disease that hurts us more than it does anyone else. It is also a profoundly anti-intellectual.
Hey, scrunt, why don't you pick one of those countries and move there, if you hate this culturally and morally backward country so much?
