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Deepak Chopra Hits Back At Rabinowitz And The WSJ
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I’m no fan of Deepak Chopra. I think the guy is an overrated douchebag who makes a living selling his spiritual guru crap to Hollywood elites. Then CNN decided to make Chopra into a terrorism expert after the Mumbai attacks. Repeatedly seeking his insights into terrorism and the overall War on Terror — something Deepak Chopra doesn’t know the first thing about.
Predictably, Chopra blames America and president Bush for terrorism. He sat there on CNN with his Swarovski crystal encrusted glasses shimmering under the studio lights and said America’s reaction after 9/11 “alienated” Muslims around the world which is causing more terrorism.
So Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal calling Deepak out for his ridiculous assertions and the absurdity of looking to him for commentary on terrorism.
If you missed out — here’s a little taste:
If the Mumbai terror assault seemed exceptional, and shocking in its targets, it was clear from the Thanksgiving Day reports that we weren’t going to be deprived of the familiar, either. Namely, ruminations, hints, charges of American culpability that regularly accompany catastrophes of this kind.
Soon enough, there was Deepak Chopra, healer, New Age philosopher and digestion guru, advocate of aromatherapy and regular enemas, holding forth on CNN on the meaning of the attacks.
The article is spot on and if you haven’t read it yet — you must.
The best part is that it got under Chopra’s skin, because he wrote a lengthy and long winded reply at The Huffington Post. I could only read part of it, because Chopra drones on and on pretending to be a genius as usual. What I did read of it though, he sounds pretty damn irritated.
All the elements of a far left argument are included. Accusations of racism, bigotry, attacks on Fox News, Neocons, Bush/Cheney bashing, etc, etc.
Here’s a sample:
When I first read Ms. Rabinowitz personal attacks on me as the lead article on the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal, I have to confess that my first reaction was that she was an ethnocentric racist and prejudiced bigot. After some reflection, I realized that she was probably more ignorant than bigoted. I could have let the matter rest there, but aside from the personal attacks, there are a number of factual errors, that, in the spirit of clarity ought to be corrected.
Ms. Rabinowitz is on the editorial board of the now Fox News-affiliated Wall Street Journal. Its editorial page has long been a faithful stenographer for the Neoconservatives and the Bush/Cheney administration’s benighted approach to militant Islam. Elsewhere, my son addressed the complexity of the terrorist problem and the US involvement in it. Gotham Chopra has experience as a war correspondent in the Middle East, including Pakistan and Afghanistan. While returning from Afghanistan, he was arrested after interviewing an Afghani leader (which caused immense anguish for my wife and I). Suffice it to say that the causes of Islamic terrorism are complex. To trivialize my views on such as vast topic of terrorism with: “Deepak Blames America,” as Ms. Rabinowitz has done, not only suggests how abysmally uninformed she is, but also speaks to the ever-sinking journalistic standards of her newspaper.
Read the rest if you can stand it. I’ve never heard of Gotham Chopra, but I hope he doesn’t invade my news cast anytime soon.
Kudos to Dorothy over at the WSJ for writing an excellent piece, and more importantly for getting Deepak Chopra riled up.
-Chris Jones
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