Thursday, January 31, 2013

About David Mamet's Article on Gun Control

from The Corner Tavern via democommie

Imagine you’re a playwright whose chief talent is finding creative ways to use the word “fuck.” Imagine, too, that the more you use the word “fuck,” the richer you become. And the richer you become, the further removed you are from reality. Imagine you become richer and richer and further and further removed from reality, till you morph into one of your own characters, hurling invective into the void of cyberspace. 

You’ve just become David Mamet. Mamet, who is, let’s face it, a fucking genius when it comes to saying “fuck,” is considerably less talented when it comes to understanding American history. And when it comes to understanding the U.S. Constitution, well, he’s a fucking idiot. On those topics, he has all the analytical skills of an eleven year old boy obsessed with comic books and superheroes – not altogether unlike the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre, who responded to the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School thusly: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” 

Today, Mamet provided a sterling example his pre-adolescent, superhero-worshipping take on our history and our Constitution in an article entitled “Gun Laws And The Fools Of Chelm,” on Newsweek’s Daily Beast website. Mamet’s piece is comical both in terms of it’s razor-thin analysis (“Karl Marx summed up Communism as ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’”) and its desperate attempt to appear intellectual (“This is a chillingly familiar set of grievances; and its recrudescence was foreseen by the Founders”); but its most damnable feature is that it’s utterly devoid of facts. Mamet doesn’t cite or link to a single source anywhere in the piece, even when he quotes the Declaration Of Independence. (See, that wasn’t so hard.)

2 comments:

  1. And here is some of democommie's comment on that post

    "Fuckin'A, Dave, Fuckin'A." "...get their FUCKING HEADS BLOWN OFF by a deranged fuckwad..."
    "...the problem with Dave MotherfuckingMamet's screed..."

    Democommie should be the official spokesperson for the full-on-moron gun control freaks.

    orlin sellers

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  2. David Mamet, who uses foul language to an excess, at least according to this author, is wrong on guns, but Stephen King, who makes his money by writing about monsters and bloody death, is right on the same subject? The reason here is that the gun control freaks look at the conclusion of any argument to see if it fits their ideology. They care nothing about the evidence or reasoning to get to that conclusion.

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