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"What is it supposed to mean to describe conservatives who have a beef with Limbaugh's views or rhetoric as 'highbrow'? Are the opinions illegitimate or mistaken because they supposedly come from a vantage point of cultural sophistication?Having plowed the fields of culture for many years, I don't want to deny being sophisticated, but that's not really the beef, is it? Calling people "mongoloids" isn't exactly sophisticated, even if you do reference it to A Confederacy of Dunces. I mean, Huck Finn is a work of literature, so maybe there are some words in Huck Finn that Rod Dreher wants to start slinging around.
-- Rod Dreher
In any conflict between Rod Dreher and Rush Limbaugh, Dreher loses.
As I wrote on my blog, who is Rod Dreher to be the guardian of cultural sophistication? He is a journalist for s second-rate newspaper whose primary contribution to the world of ideas is a book where food selection is the centerpiece of ideology. Michael Oakeshott he is not.
ReplyDeleteDreher actually has a lot to contribute to conservatism, especially his views and writings on the 40-year decline of Western culture and the junking of traditional social values. I just wish he wouldn't get his back up so badly when he hears Rush Limbaugh expound his own views.
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