Appearances Count
19 Jul 2007 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysengrinA British reporter takes a cruise with with 500 readers and supporters of the National Review magazine.
However left-leaning the reporter is (and a quick Google shows that he's pretty liberal), this is how the rest of the world is seeing America now. It's not pretty.
Here's the website for the sponsored cruises; and here's National Review online. National Review started out firmly in the middle of the conservative right back in the 1950's, but it's staunchly Neocon now.
I am getting used to these moments – when gentle holiday geniality bleeds into... what? I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, "Of course, we need to execute some of these people," I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. "A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country," she says. "Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that's what you'll get." She squints at the sun and smiles. "Then things'll change."
However left-leaning the reporter is (and a quick Google shows that he's pretty liberal), this is how the rest of the world is seeing America now. It's not pretty.
Here's the website for the sponsored cruises; and here's National Review online. National Review started out firmly in the middle of the conservative right back in the 1950's, but it's staunchly Neocon now.
