Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss: J-Pod Fills Daddy's Shoes
John Podhoretz, son of the Godfather of the Neo-conservative movement Norman Podhoretz (now serving as foreign policy advisor to Rudy Giuliani), has stepped into his father's position as Editor in Chief of The Commentary, the neo-conservative publication. The NY Times interviewed him on the eve of his legacy ascension, and it doesn't look like J-Pod is going to be any more inclined to give up the failed neo-con policies or sneering the left:
In 1995, you were among the three founders of The Weekly Standard, which is snappier than Commentary and quickly surpassed it circulation-wise. In the '90s, the Clinton years, conservative magazines exploded. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
Right. In the Bush years, left-leaning publications like The Nation and The New York Review of Books have flourished. Do you read either one? I look at The New York Review of Books. It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
What do you make of writers like
Eric Alterman , who have criticized your appointment as an act of cronyism, which goes against the conservative belief that jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit and not affirmative action? That's a very personal thing. Twenty years ago, I refused to shake his hand.Why is that? Shouldn't you make some pretense of civility toward your fellow writers? I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
Small magazines used to be associated with lofty ideas, but I wonder if ideas and visions have shrunk in our time into mere political agendas. If you're asking me whether there has been intellectual degeneration in our time, the answer is no. There was plenty of substandard thinking even in the precincts of Partisan Review.
So let's get this straight: the very precepts of your foreign policy have been wrong--genocidally wrong--as even one of your own members has admitted. But you don't think that you and your ilk are suffering from intellectual degeneration into mere political agendas? Boy, do I have a bridge to sell you...
OY!
The New York Review of Books is the best magazine in the nation. It had the very best reporting on the Iraq debacle. And still does.
bad genes, I guess.
Okay, this is not a guy I would like to get to know better. Not the guy I would want to have a cocktail with either. He comes across as a flaming asshole and a jerk too.
Just another Big Ol' Closet Queen.
That's one shallow gene pool.
Can mean and nasty be inherited?
pissed off patricia @ 7:
I think it can be injected.
Two Pod People at once makes my day. After all, "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is my favorite moves
Where's the J-Pod pic from? Looks like he went to Glamour Shots
Passing the ashes from Podhoretz to Podhoretz, that'll insure the name lives on in infamy.
The head shot of John looks like it was cropped from his pose in Males for Men, when he was modeling the crotchless bikini.
Like father, like son. And Rudy thinks he's fooling who with this ridiculous neo-con switcheroo?
The Weekly Standard? Like FOX News, another News Corp enterprise. If it weren't for the constant influx of Murdoch Money, The Weekly Standard would be out of business.
Super-Dimension Pasty Ninja White Men-Team...GO!
LibertyLover @ 8:
Maybe then it's a good thing that you can't by hypodermic needles with out a prescription.
That guy has "picked last for football" written all over him. Probably didn't get laid 'til his thirties either.
the NAZI spawn lives on
it's time to eradicated this neo-fascist viral infection of our democracy
What kind of idiot buys Commentary Magazine anyway?
Ah well, as long as Pod jr is running it, it won't last long.
What a loser.
One more idiot fucktard with the neocon glazed-over look and feel. Once a podhoretz, always a podhoretz I guess...
Why do all these guys look like Karl Rove? Are they being cloned somewhere?
Oh my gawd, some woman slept with Norman Podhoretz?
*urp* I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
"I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged, and formed Dysentery."
--Woody Allen, Annie Hall
Neoconservatism is a mental illness. It originated from a man named Leo Strauss. Straussianism was brought to America by Bill Kristol's father Irving.
Straussians believe in two things: (1) The "Noble Lie" and (2) You and I need Kings to make decisions for us because we are too stupid.
Strauss,...believed in the inherent inequality of humanity. Most people, he famously taught, are too stupid to make informed decisions about their political affairs. Elite philosophers must decide on affairs of state for us. Strauss believed that allowing citizens to govern themselves will lead, inevitably, to terror and tyranny, as the Weimar Republic succumbed to the Nazis in the 1930s.
A ruling elite of political philosophers must make those decisions because it is the only group smart enough. It must resort to deception -- Strauss's "noble lie" -- to protect citizens from themselves. The elite must hide the truth from the public by writing in code. "Using metaphors and cryptic language," philosophers communicated one message for the elite, and another message for "the unsophisticated general population," philosopher Jeet Heer recently wrote in the Globe and Mail.
"For Strauss, the art of concealment and secrecy was among the greatest legacies of antiquity."
I just looked up "giant fucking dickhead" in the dictionary... and wouldn't you know it, the same picture as at the top of this entry!
What a douche.
Jesus, what a lame excuse re: Alterman! "That’s a very personal thing. Twenty years ago, I refused to shake his hand."
WTF? It's personal? Pod-man, jr. coulda said "It's a liberal vs. neo-con kinda thing," and while that woulda been pure bullshit- 'cause it is yet another shinin' exaple of neo-con hypocrisy- it wouldn't have stunk like the personal-smear-card that Pod-man, jr. chose to play.
Nobody4President @ 3:
I keep wondering why all the neocons in the news look like relatives of Bozo. You can tell just by looking that there's something genetically wrong with these guys.
what a miskite! probably thinks "tomorrow belongs to me" – this time.
Jpod, do you want me to define intellectual degeneration for you?
Norman and all of his Pod people suffer from their being incubated in a sterile intellectual test tube. They can't survive in light or microscopic scrutiny.
And all of the Pod-like neo-Cs seem to have had their masculinity drained out of them after so many years of ossified ideology. His son here sounds like a slightly more vicious version of Joan Rivers: prissy, bitchy, effete.
Hard to believe that these court eunuchs have any power any more.
Considering John Podhoretz's father is a psychopathic thug, what is he suppossed to be?
It figures he would be Rudy Giuliani's foreign policy advisor. That makes it clear that Guiliani has sold out to the Zionists.
Yeah, all his right-tard friends call him "Pud Hurts" not J-pod.
If you're conservative, do you have to think that everything is part of a controlled, systematic process to destroy you? It seems like the only requirement.
Can anyone doctor the above photo (a tattoo would be best...chuckle) to have the words "John P. Normanson" and "Daddy's Little Boy" appear on the subject's his bald head.
A little Adobe Photoshop handiwork.
we need a sterilization program for these mouth-breathers
Neoconservatism is a scam, most people know this by now. A true conservative believes as the founding fathers believed in non-intervention. Please stop giving people like this credibility, no more.
I suppose that if you can demonize Sean Penn or The Golden Compass, then demonizing Islam is easy.
well j-pod knows never bite the hand that dipers yall I mean feeds yall
let me give this another try he knows which side his ass is buttered on dag nabit I mean bread one more time a pile of crap in tha hand is worth two in tha bushes well yall know what I mean
Makes sense since he obviously lives in mom and dad's basement
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