I’m too swamped by an English paper to give a detailed analysis, but I don’t really think one is necessary. Just read this, and gape at the fact that its author actually teaches here.
Some favorite excerpts from our Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies’ latest pathological screed:
With that one phrase she puts on the record that behind her clean-cut hairdo and makeup lurks the criminal mind of a mass murderer….
She does not wish to inconvenience her major supporters — ranging from her Israeli constituency in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, to her Zionist financers in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, all the way down to Gloria Steinem, Edward Rendell, Geraldine Ferraro and Jack Nicholson…
The good Senator from the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Israel wants this varied constituency to know immediately what she means when she says she is going to obliterate the entirety of a nation, a people, the whole 70,000,000 plus of them….
…she serves as the senator of the Empire State of Israel…
…the Israeli Senator from New York…
The latter is fully supported and sustained by the American Christian Empire, and will be after Senator Golda Clinton Meir possibly becomes its Commander-in-Chief…
To his credit, the good professor does sneak a valid observation into his hyperbolic and publicly humiliating display of crypto anti-Semitic paranoia:
She is the worst face of American political culture — a vicious, vulgar and degenerate power mongering, willing to do absolutely anything and everything to destroy a rival, no matter how many more states have voted for him, how much more of the popular vote he has received, and how many more pledged and super delegates are on his side.
This was funny, but the writer used a split infinitive himself “I have always wondered what precisely is the urge, the inner compunction, to split one’s innocent infinitives and hurriedly declare a genocidal intention so urgent that it cannot wait for a simple verb to end in peace.”
The verb “to declare” is split by the word “hurriedly.”
Said YO momma,
On May 9, 2008 at 5:51 pm:
I cant attack you for your political beliefs, this being Columbia’s new voice of opinion. I can however point to the vast panoply of media which has attempted much the same thing that Hamad Dabashi has. Calling her a Zionist puppet is almost a compliment compared to the ever more ludicrous insults Maureen Dowd heaps upon her. At least his anti-Zionist screed is original.
Said Dear Armin,
On May 9, 2008 at 12:08 am:
quotes like these do seem to moderate the picture.
“When the pestiferous president of the Islamic Republic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, uttered his now infamous inanity about Israel, he too used a bad grammatical construction (in both his native Persian and in its official English translation). In Persian he said, “Israel bayad az safheh-ye ruzegar pak (or mahv) shaved,” which is a terrible way of speaking or writing Persian, because the sentence is constructed in a lame passive voice, and there is no agency in it.”
also, yo momma, the verb is “to split” and declare has an implied “to” that goes along with it.
Said invisible_hand,
On May 9, 2008 at 9:46 am: