My Daddy Makes Me Write This!

Max Boot writes a devastating review of the latest diatribe by a defrocked Catholic priest who has decided that everyone else is to blame for his own perfidious wreck of a life.

Of course, "everyone else" would mean first and foremost this gelded freak's father,

an Air Force general who was the first director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the 1960s. Unfortunately, Mr. Carroll already told that story in a previous tome, "An American Requiem" (1996). Here he incessantly cites his parentage and his childhood visits to the Pentagon to lend unwarranted authority to antimilitary and anti-American pronouncements of the sort that undoubtedly drove his dad batty. "I have the eyes of a soldier's son, through which, unfortunately, I see everything," he writes with mock humility. (Note that "unfortunately"--oh, what a curse omniscience is.) In reality he sees nothing beyond his own ideological blinders.

I read Carroll's first book, a waste of money, but interesting anecdotally. This deranged priest represents the mass psychosis which the ultra-left tries incessantly to perpetrate with the help of big media and Hollywood---Carroll himself would be full of pride to be called an apostle of an anti-Christ.

In contrast, Garry Wills is a sort of sane representative of the left---of course, Wills probably has 50 IQ points and is not fixated on his father as Carroll obviously is. Wills was a Jesuit postulant in his youth, left the Order, and became a writer on the right when it was not fashionable, then flipped to the left a la Andrew Sullivan---just in time for the Reagan ascendancy, which Wills has treated with much more insight than the frivolous whiner Carroll.

Unfortunately, there is a whole series of booknote programs on C-Span, Charlie Rose, and network Morning Shows on CNN, MSNBC, and the broadcast beacons of the left all to be cluttered with this psycho/ex-priest peddling his ultra-left rubbish.

Of course, he will hit the academicide circuit with dozens of drone hives available to expatiate on the evils America has brought on the world, with some students lapping this up as they strive toward degrees in psychology, sociology, African studies, and women's studies.

This phony racketeer of self-hatred should go back to the Boston Globe where projection of self-hatred upon the USA and authority in general is a mandatory illusion.

I'd love to hear Carroll's views on the Da Vinci Code!