What we mistakenly see as a craven, anti-Semitic, hypocritical, hysterically anti-American, selfish, overtaxed, culturally exhausted country bereft of ideas, fearful of its own capitulation to fundamentalist Islam, headed for a demographic cul de sac, corrupted by lame ideologies, crippled by a spirit-stomping social elite and up to its neck in a cheesy soufflé of multilayered bureaucracy is actually worse than all that. It’s vile.What is the Dewey decimal number for tripe?
Anyway, what intrigued me is that the book is published by Encounter Books.
And Encounter Books is funded by Encounter for Culture and Education.
And Encounter for Culture and Education, described by SouceWatch as simply a shell company to enable accounting and legal/tax benefits, is funded by several conservative foundations, including the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, and the Philip M. McKenna Foundation.
And Media Transparency estimates that Encounter for Culture and Education has received 70 grants totaling $4.638 million between 1991 and 2002.
And in 2003 alone, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation gave Encounter Books $1.15 million in grants, listed in the organization's annual report under the heading of "Intellectual Infrastructure."
And so, Vile France may be tripe, but it is very expensive tripe.
And it was explained to me more than once -- as if I were an uncomprehending child -- that given generous tax cuts, the wealthy were going to wisely invest their money in America.
And not blow it on very expensive tripe.
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