To see herself featured as one of the “People Who Inspire” Kerry Crowel Jr., a young paleolibertarian friend on Facebook.
I’ve noticed that Facebookers often refer to themselves in the third person. I thought I’d try it just this once. (Glenn Beck of the not-so-Beautiful Mind does it too. Oh dear…)
Befriend me on Facebook.
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/IlanaMercer
I was just on Russian TV (RT) to discuss the healthcare repeal vote and China. I like RT America a lot because, unlike American TV, they seem to value contrarian opinions, and mine certainly don’t fall within the permissible, Demopublican range. The interview was with the lovely Kristine Frazao. Should you locate the clip, please be charitable to me. I was on Skype and am sure I stared in the wrong direction. Besides, I am no circus performer, but, rather, the quintessential writer, always most comfortable at her PC screen typing.
http://www.youtube.com/rtamerica
UPDATED I: As promised, here’s the RT YouTube clip.
UPDATE II (Jan. 20): Thanks for the encouragement, however, I would hope that Robert is being unduly negative (and dark) about the prospects of future RT invitations. Just what I need! RT is not really mainstream. Our friend Nebojsa Malic appears on RT often; he is thoughtful and unorthodox.
Besides, unless I am autistic to American reaction (this is indeed possible), I thought the anchor was pleasant to me, even smiling and reacting positively. I liked her a lot. All in all, I found the RT folks professional and pleasant.
Feminism, Free Speech, Ilana Mercer, Law, Media, Republicans, Sex
Where do the Republicans find their woman commentators? A fulminating female named Jedediah Bila, who bills herself as a conservative, called Julian Assange of the WikiLeaks notoriety a rapist. (Bobbing head S.E. Cupp, also a “conservative,” backed her up with vigorous … nods.) The two dim bulbs appeared on David Asman’s “America’s Nightly Scorecard.” As I mentioned in “Condomned by Law,” Swedish sexual harassment law is more diabolical than anything the radical American feminist jurist Catharine Mackinnon could dream up in her sweetest dreams—Mackinnon’s baleful influence on American and Canadian jurisprudence cannot be underestimated.
But if Bila and her conservative cohort agree that having consensual sex without a condom is tantamount to rape—Mackinnon’s work is done.
I do not wish to hear these imbeciles’ views on Assange’s free press and due process rights, do you?
UPDATE: What makes a reader of this site imagine that I decide on which TV news programs I will appear (none, so far, except one PBS program)? Guess what? The producers and writers of the cable news programs decide who to ask on their more-or-less conformist shows. That this is so unintuitive to readers implies an optimistic faith in the cognoscenti to whom they look up; they really believe that the chicks whose words they lap up are indeed cutting-edge thinkers, and that by mere chance ilana mercer is not among them.
The reader should let the producers and anchors of his favorite shows know about his preferences. Telling this marginalized writer to free up her busy schedule and, presumably, stop rejecting invites to join mainstream TV Talkers is worse than ridiculous.
Again: I’m floored to find-out that readers of this space believe an-out-of-the-mainstream writer, who has never echoed the mob, can pick and choose the forums she frequents to showcase her work. That someone holds such a naive, optimistic impression about the mainstream media (and Fox is a bastion of banality, for the most), and the power of the ousted individual in American society knocks my socks off.
If readers entertain the notion that I’ve been shunning all those invitations I get to appear on Fox Business and News—I’ll repeat the gloomy mantra with which I’ve been sealing each post these days:
This is, however, a good opportunity to ask you to fully comprehend the degree to which truth-tellers and original thinkers are sidelined in your society and to support this site. My new book, Into The Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa, is currently under consideration, but I fear that promoting it will ultimately fall to me alone (as has been the case for almost a decade). The work is simply too explosive. So kindly spare a thought, first, to the degree to which this writer’s voice is marginalized. And, second, to the need to support her mission.
As for S. E. Cupp: there is no accounting for aesthetic taste. Other than youth, however, I see no aesthetic merit in little Lolita’s vacant visage. As for this Fox-panel staple’s smarts: She is a studiously dumb chick, whose contribution to ideas is to gesture wildly and grimace, while portentously parroting mind-numbing banalities.
Tuesday, December the 21st: I’ll be on “Talkback” with Chuck Wilder, between 12:40 and 1:00 pm, Pacific Time. The topic: “Our Overlords Who Art in D.C.”