MILLER ON MAILER

Dennis Miller has a hilarious op-ed in WSJ taking on Norman Mailer, who recently caused much head scratching when he opined that we invaded Iraq to make white guys feel less inadequate. (See also this one.)

Miller notes that Mailer seems very race obsessed:

Now, when I watch baseball, football and basketball, I see uniforms and skills. Mr. Mailer evidently sees races and nationalities. He’s like a Casey Stengel/William Shockley hybrid. “Why’d you send the rook’ back to Triple A, Skip?” “Well, he was gettin’ around on the fast ball but he still couldn’t hit the bell curve.”

Ironically, Mr. Mailer seems to see everything in the world in terms of black and white, except of course, good and evil.

And I think he’s absolutely right here:

A guy like Mailer hates a guy like Bush because Mailer thinks of himself as infinitely smarter than Bush and yet President Bush is the most powerful man on the planet and old Normy’s connecting through Atlanta and flying on prop planes to a community college that’s so far out in the sticks the mail rider has yet to arrive with the message that The Great Mailer is currently more out of the loupe than a jeweler with conjunctivitis. All so he can scoop up a submicroscopic honorarium and the accolades of star-struck locals and 18-year-olds who mistakenly think Mr. Mailer wrote “Gravity’s Rainbow.”

Go read the rest. I’m outta here.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.