DAVID MAMET IS JUST ANOTHER RIGHTWING JERK

Mamet is a successful American playwright and screenwriter who has just come out with a book that could have been written by any of a number of rightwing wackos, such as David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin or Michael Savage.  In it, he claims to have had a "road to Damascus" experience and now sees that Liberalism is the great Evil of Our Times. 

At bottom, Mamet seems to have become an Israel Firster and I think that accounts for most of his change in politics:

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"American Liberals do not wish to surrender their particular country, but many wish Israel to surrender hers. ... The Liberal West would like the citizens of Israel to take the only course which would bring about the end of the disturbing 'cycle of violence' which they hear of in the Liberal press. That course is abandoning their homes and country, leaving, with their lives, if possible, but leaving in any case. Is this desire anti-Semitism? You bet your life it is."

Mamet was on Glenda Beck's radio show today and re-iterated his main objection to what he thinks Liberalism is:

“It’s like when you hear a word once you’ve never heard before and you hear it three more times the same day. I began to be aware of the pervasive animus in the West against the State of Israel. And as a serious Jew, I found it profoundly upsetting. And searched for the roots of it and thought a lot of it had to do with secular humanism and the rejection of religion and concomitant with the rejection of religion on the left is the rejection of the notion of the nation state."