Well, as they say, a stopped clock is right twice a day, unless it’s digital. Pegbrook sounds like a nasty sort, but I think there are probably a goodly number of folks who agree with the sentiment in that particular quote. By all means, though, I urge the left to go global with the anti-small-town meme. It can only help to consolidate the metrosexual image they so desperately desire.

Ironically, my post referred to Oswald Spengler, as many of my posts do. I am sure RFK-lite would be quick to point out that Dr. Spengler was a fan of Der Führer, since Hitler’s rise was a striking confirmation of Spengler’s theory of history. Hitler, on the other hand, was not a big fan of Spengler, since the doctor predicted his downfall. [Right again, Oswald!] And though I am a fan of Spengler, I am no fan of Hitler. Thus, we see fandom is neither symmetric nor transitive. I am also sure that RFK-lite doesn’t care about such subtleties when there are political points to be scored among the unwashed.

However, if the repugnant Jr were to ask me for a tally of other favorites from my reading list, it would include Heisenberg. And Guderian. And on the left, I’ve read Orwell and Neruda and many others. I would be willing to quote from any of them, if I felt that truth were being conveyed in an eloquent way. So who is being intolerant now?

Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”

It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.

– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/governor-palins-reading-l_b_126478.html

Gov. Palin has been a breath of fresh air to Juneau, which in Frank Murkowski’s wake was feeling downright dirty in every sense of the word. The Alaska state legislature — and the state Republican party in particular — has been plagued with corruption and other problems. Ms. Palin is principled, a pretty good executive and manager, I hear, and also fairly benign. There is currently some accusations about her inappropriate involvement in dismissal of a trooper, who was married to her sister, but this is no sign of malfeasance. She has insisted the records related to the incident be opened up. She’s definitely not of the Cheney-Bush school.

She’s a relative lightweight, though. McCain can and will dominate her. She has no strong connections in Washington. To this Alaskan, she looks like window dressing for the Oval Office, a diversionary tactic meant to freshen up the same-o same-o.