{"id":81,"date":"2002-05-10T20:12:32","date_gmt":"2002-05-11T03:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2002-05-10T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2002-05-11T03:12:32","slug":"sullivan-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/05\/sullivan-watched\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan Watched"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t help myself: On Andrew Sullivan<\/a> today: first a piece on how blogs are a lazy reporter’s worst nightmare. Followed instantly by a lazy, error-riddled screed in defense of perceived slights against his newfangled hero, Pim Fortuyn:<\/p>\n

By the way, Fortuyn’s party is not “anti-immigration.” It fully supports the right of every current immigrant in Holland to stay and be assimilated. All it wants is an end to further immigration in a country the size of Rhode Island with a population of 16 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The facts:<\/p>\n

Rhode Island: 1,050 square miles, 1 million people<\/p>\n

The Netherlands: 16,000 square miles, 16 million people<\/p>\n

And “anti-immigration” means: against immigration. How else could you possibly parse that? I’ll admit Mr. Fortuyn was too smart to be openly anti-immigrant<\/i>, which is an entirely different concept, though I suspect this distinction is lost on his followers and Andrew Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Finally, since when is being compelled to assimilate a right? Imagine trying to enforce this “right” on the denizens of New York’s Chinatown, many of whom happily go about their life without a word of English. Had Fortuyn run for elective office here in the US, he would have been laughed off the hustings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t help myself: On Andrew Sullivan today: first a piece on how blogs are a lazy reporter’s worst nightmare. Followed instantly by a lazy, error-riddled screed in defense of perceived slights against his newfangled hero, Pim Fortuyn: By the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-1j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}