Comments on: Lord Haw Haw of Pyongyang

By: david woolley

david woolley — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:23:28 +0000

kushibo,

Selig Harrison may still be looking for his place in the sun, but I’ve obviously found mine on Monster Island.

Fame at last!

By: Horace Jeffery Hodges

Horace Jeffery Hodges — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:47:32 +0000

Joshua, I see that you and I had a similar reaction to Harrison’s op-ed piece. I just couldn’t believe that he was calling for the US to act as an imperialist, neo-colonial power.

Such is the irony . . .

Jeffery Hodges

* * *

By: kushibo

kushibo — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:55:12 +0000

david woolley, in the link provided by Joshua, I mentioned "skewering" Mr Harrison in the past. That "skewered" link contains a PBS interview with him, so I don't think he's someone's pseudonym. But your comment got me thinking of the Die Another Day villain, and it occurred to me you might be on to something.

By: david woolley

david woolley — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:23:47 +0000

Why is there no wikipedia entry for Selig Harrison? Is it because the no-vilification rules are unavoidable — or is he, in fact, a figment, a convenient name for an editorial actually penned by Kim Jong Il, much as Stalin wrote for Pravda under a pseudonym? Inquiring minds and all that.

By: j

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:33:05 +0000

What can be said about the attitudes of Selig Harrison, Christine Ahn, and the like is that their attitudes toward America – the extremely reductionist account of America as a hegemonic, neocolonial beast – reflect more a childish fantasy to slay the most perfidious and pernicious dragon than reality.

I really don’t understand how some could lack a basic self-awareness – that they can freely make dissenting observations only in a country or “empire” they disdain so much. That is not to say that they do not make some valid claims and critiques. Quite the contrary. However, their general “dissent” is dismissed to the fringes not because of the imperial attitudes of the Washington establishment, but because Harrison and Ahn are correctly assessed as pseudo-intellectual hacks, generalists who comment on all things Coreana (or “human rights”), and just plain stupid.

How deliciously ironic would it be if they actually accomplished their agenda to weaken the projection of U.S. power and to make U.S. policy toward China and North Korea as inconsistent as possible? They could then immigrate to their socialist utopias, where free speech is held so dear, which they have defended for so long.

By: KCJ

KCJ — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:17:08 +0000

What can be said? He has crossed the line and must be identified as a Juche apologist.