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Old 05-30-2011, 11:41 AM
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That is the March 2008 title of an article written in the Village Voice when it outed Pulitzer Prize playwright David Mamet and presented in a WJS article May 28-29). Mamet reference some of liberals sacred cows "diversity is a commodity", "college is nothing more than socialist camp", "liberalism is like roulette addiction". He also says that" Hollywood liberals embraced communism because they hadn't invented pilates yet".

His conversion started with recommended reading by his rabbi. His first reading Whittaker Chambers "Witness" documenting Chambers turning from communism. Mamet also cited the folowing readings: "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele, "Ethnic America" by Thomas Sowell, "The Instinct of the Herd in Peace and War" by Wilfred Trotter, "The Road to Serfdom" by Frederick Hayek and " Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman.

He came to realize that "real diversity is intellectual". "Whatever its flaws America is the greatest country in the history of the world". The "free market always solves problems better than government". "It is the job of the state to be just not to render social justice". In his novel Secret Knowlesge he wrote "there is no perfect solution to inequality only tradeoffs".

He states that liberal believe everything is always wrong, global warming, second hand smoke, etc. and something must be done...The temptation to believe everything can be fixed is a fatal flaw...He used as an example calling to have your pluming fixed on a Saturday

He recalls being in Toronto and reading an interview, reprinted from the Chicago Tribune , with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn discussing the bombing in the 1950's. And the reporter asked are you regretful about that and Bill Ayers say No no no. Mamet then got on a plane and while on the plane
learned they blew up NYC (Sept 11, 2001)

This was a great interview of David mamet byBari Weiss page A13