Nicky Cheese

Although it’s quite difficult to identify what she stands for – her first book, the populist No Logo, rallied against the ubiquity of advertising, and her latest, The Shock Doctrine, maligns Milton Friedman and free-market economics by association (yes, oddly enough, by association) – assuming she has some, I’m fairly certain I loathe the ideals this woman espouses.

Ordinarily, I’d dismiss her as yet another drop in the misanthropic, anti-consumerist, socialist well, but she’s a popular misanthropic, anti-consumerist socialist. Really popular. According to wikipedia:

Klein ranked 11th in an internet poll ^[1][2][3] of the top global intellectuals of 2005, a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals compiled by Prospect magazine^[4] in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine. She was the highest ranked woman on the list.

Plus, all my lefty friends cite her as an authority source.

Check out this video:

Sounds like another name to add to the list of modern-day Ellsworth Tooheys.

Expect more on this evil and contemptuous soul…

2 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

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   nichall
   July 8th, 2008 at 2:43 pm #

   But the people cheer her “claims”. How can she be evil OR contemptuous? I mean she only comes off as a vindictive bit…nevermind. I get it.
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   pragmaticallypolitical
   July 8th, 2008 at 2:44 pm #

   For the record, the previous was my own. I know that Naomi Klein doesn’t care much for property rights and personal responsibility, but I do.