This is making the rounds in the blogosphere (and thanks to RS for originally alerting me to it): It is Evan Sayet speaking to the Heritage Foundation and giving his own incisive angle on what he now perceives about the way that modern liberals think. Who is Evan Sayet? Heritage says:

Evan Sayet has been a top Hollywood writer and producer for more than 20 years. His credits range from “The Arsenio Hall Show” to “Politically Incorrect.” After the Sept. 11 attacks, Sayet decided to step from behind the camera and speak out in his own voice — that of one of the nation’s top political satirists. At Heritage, his entertaining yet quite serious lecture will examine the modern liberal “mindset” and how it can lead to siding with evil over good and behaviors that produce failure rather than success.

According to himself:

I call myself a 9/13 Republican. I grew up a liberal New York Jew — you don’t get much more liberal than that, though it was lowercase “l”, not what’s considered liberal today. Graduated from high school knowing one thing about politics; basically that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil.

Click on this link and you can choose between listening to the talk on mp3 or watching the video.

A standout quote, in my view:

Imagine being in a restaurant with an old friend, and you’re catching up, and suddenly he blurts out: “I hate my wife.” And you kind of chuckle to yourself because he says it everytime you’re together and you know he doesn’t hate his wife — they’ve been together for 35 years, he loves his daughters and they’re just like her — no, he doesn’t hate his wife. And you’re having some dinner and you look out the window and you spot his wife out the window, and she’s being beaten up, and you grab your friend and you say, “C’mon, c’mon, let’s help her, let’s help your wife!” and he says, “Nah, I’m sure she deserves it.”

In that moment it dawns on you: He really does hate his wife.

Well, that’s what 9/11 was to me.

Some might dismiss this talk as the ravings of a newly-minted zealot. I wouldn’t. Although it is very strongly stated, I think that it is also in its way very empathetic. Check it out if you have the time.

...................
Share this!

Posts which might be related to this one based on a mysterious algorithm:

• Hollywood conservatives meet secretly; plot non-America-hating ventures
• The first one now
• Odds and ends
• Pain