Almost a decade of the War on Terror and some fucking hick “pastor” from bloody Florida is able to hold the country to ransom with his nazi book burning stunt. Says Jamie:
I suppose it could be argued for various reasons that they had no choice, but if anything that’s even worse news from the American perspective. They’ve reached the demagogue event horizon: the most obvious vulgar chancer thrown up by the whole War on Terror nonsense is taken with absolute seriousness by people who everybody else is supposed to take seriously.
It’s the logical outcome of a process in which the rightwing of America has been allowed to make itself more and more shrill withou adults stepping in and saying enough is enough. On the other hand, there have been loons like this all through American history; they just couldn’t be interviewed on CNN before.