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Uncovering the Persophobes
Thursday, April 26, 2007

A diverting if trivial debate has broken out in the blogosphere about whether John McCain hurt or helped his campaign by singing "Bomb, Bomb Iran" a number of days ago. You know how it goes: Conventional wisdom says he hurt his candidacy, then the imperative of pundits to then challenge the CW kicks in and a number of people say it actually helps his campaign among core Conservatives. Then another minor blip emerges and the pundits and blogosphere go chasing that diversionary story for a while.

Anyway, I was indulging in a bit of reading on this the other day when I stumbled onto Eunomia, a blog by Daniel Larson, a Conservative PhD student in Byzantine studies, who offers this sentence:

The voters McCain most needs to win over right now are Fred Thompson-adoring Persophobes who believe, as the members of the audience in the video believe, that bombing Iran is the obviously right and necessary thing to do.

What jumped out at me in this sentence was the word Persophobe. I'd never heard it before, and don't know its origin, but I love it! Persophobes. Perfect for the warmongering Iran-bashers out there right now.

Labels: Middle East

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