Something Like Hatred

Loose Canon had planned to quote from Jeremy Lott's fine piece in Doublethink magazine on spiritual writer Ann Lamott's fiendish hatred of George Bush even before Ms. Lamott recounted her own hysterical outburst when she participated in a panel and the subject of abortion came up:

"But I did the only thing I could think to do: plunge on, and tell my truth. I said that this is the most intimate decision a woman makes, and she makes it all alone, in her deepest heart of hearts, sometimes with the man by whom she is pregnant, with her dearest friends or with her doctor—but without the personal opinion of say, Tom DeLay or Karl Rove. I said I could not believe that men committed to equality and civil rights were still challenging the basic rights of women. I thought about all the photo-ops at which President Bush had signed legislation limiting abortion rights, surrounded by 10 or so white, self-righteous married men, who have forced God knows how many girlfriends into doing God knows what. I thought of the time Bush appeared on stage with children born from frozen embryos, children he calls 'snowflake babies,' and of the embryos themselves, which he calls the youngest and most vulnerable Americans."

Yikes! Ms. Lamott may be the left's poster girl for spirituality, but this is unbalanced. Here's just a bit from "Bush as Antichrist," Lott's piece:

"'Plan B' has unusually strident anti-Bush credentials. [Lamott] admits to having written, before this, an anti-Bush baby book. A search of her 1994 best-seller 'Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's Year bears out this claim. ...'Plan B' is more of a Bush-haunted book. Bush is mentioned as the author contemplates the ashes of her dead mother, whom she also dislikes, these two villains proviking the same 'bewilderment that this person could ever be in charge, and dismay, and something like hatred.' ....Lamott sees the president as the head of a vast movement that she admits brings out the worst in her, twitch fears."

Sounds like she should have tea with Mr. and Mrs. Uptown.

Although Lott's piece isn't online, the group that publishes Doublethink, America's Future Foundation, is--and it's a nice organization for younger conservatives. (Disclaimer: I was on a panel there recently, where I picked up a copy of their excellent magazine.)