Jonah Goldberg appeared before the Oxford Union to debate the proposition: "This House regrets the founding of the United States of America."
One of his opponents was supposed to be a Communist. Here's an excerpt from Jonah's speech:
I don’t know how it is in Britain, but in America, Communists are nearly extinct. A few aging relics do linger on — like Japanese soldiers refusing to surrender long after the war. They live in an archipelago of academic backwaters, their bunkers brimming with yellowing copies of The Daily Worker and the Guardian, saturated with the strong stink of despair mixed with the suggestion of old urine. Communists are more commonly seen as comic-book villains or mythical creatures rumored to have once existed in fairy tales or, perhaps, James Bond movies.
A Communist!? My goodness, were Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, and Ernst Blowfeld unavailable?
Did the most sagacious pundits of the Klingon Empire not return the Oxford Union’s phone calls?
Do the Oompah Loompahs refuse to fly coach?
I’m sorry, but my honorable opponent’s party stands — as a matter of principle! — in lockstep solidarity with the murderocracy of Kim Jong Il’s North Korea. He stands as the living exponent of the criminal tradition of Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung, and he dares damn the United States of America from the safety of history’s dustbin. Please.
Surely, this evening was intended as a gag.
Read his entire speech here.
[HT: Instapundit ]
One of his opponents was supposed to be a Communist. Here's an excerpt from Jonah's speech:
I don’t know how it is in Britain, but in America, Communists are nearly extinct. A few aging relics do linger on — like Japanese soldiers refusing to surrender long after the war. They live in an archipelago of academic backwaters, their bunkers brimming with yellowing copies of The Daily Worker and the Guardian, saturated with the strong stink of despair mixed with the suggestion of old urine. Communists are more commonly seen as comic-book villains or mythical creatures rumored to have once existed in fairy tales or, perhaps, James Bond movies.
A Communist!? My goodness, were Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, and Ernst Blowfeld unavailable?
Did the most sagacious pundits of the Klingon Empire not return the Oxford Union’s phone calls?
Do the Oompah Loompahs refuse to fly coach?
I’m sorry, but my honorable opponent’s party stands — as a matter of principle! — in lockstep solidarity with the murderocracy of Kim Jong Il’s North Korea. He stands as the living exponent of the criminal tradition of Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung, and he dares damn the United States of America from the safety of history’s dustbin. Please.
Surely, this evening was intended as a gag.
Read his entire speech here.
[HT: Instapundit ]
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