Progressives OWN The Kimberlin Problem
Home - by Cardigan - May 26, 2012 - 19:45 America/New_York - 8 Comments
Why The Brett Kimberlin Story Is A Bigger Problem For Progressives Than You May Realize
At Front Page, Matthew Vadum is correct as regards Brett Kimberlin.
As a result, Progressives and certain Democrats now face a bigger
problem than you may have stopped to think about at this point.
Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists
Someone asked me this morning, how did this guy get away with this
for so long? The fact is, he got away with it because he had the cover
to do it. He didn’t make the “Hall of Fame” on the Left because
influential people didn’t know who and what he was, no matter how much
they will repeat that myth, if asked about Brett Kimberlin today and in
the future.
And because of who and what Brett Kimberlin is, they can’t simply
throw him under the bus, not as easily as they might your
run-of-the-mill political activist. He’s been around too long and has
been too big a player on the Left for that simple solution. In short,
Brett Kimberlin knows things.
In the past, he has been called narcissistic, not just by bloggers –
Yid With Lid points out Brett Kimberlin’s narcissism in his post today.
Brett Kimberlin: The Narcissistic Terrorist-UPDATED W/Links To Other’s Posts
I’m not a psychologist. I’m not going to claim I can make some
diagnosis of Brett Kimberlin. But no one can deny that, if you’ve read
enough past coverage of him, especially during his Speedway Bomber days,
it contains words like narcissistic and worse, when it comes to
personality types. I’ve read extremely disturbing opinions on whatever
personality type he is attributed to legal professionals who have dealt
with him. One can also easily begin with the book on Kimberlin by Mark Singer:
“Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin”. This
below is from a review at link above from Kirkus Reviews.
Singer is full of contrition, presenting himself as
having been sucked into Kimberlin’s “narcissistic universe, a place far
beyond the gravity-bound realities of politics, truth, and justice.” But
instead of drowning in regret, the repentant author turns his book into
a lively revenge tale. In the delightful final chapters he cleverly
tricks Kimberlin into exposing his own mendacity. For politicos,
journalists, or anyone who has ever been pulled into the distorted
worldview of a dangerous smooth talker, the story of Brett Kimberlin is a
valuable one, expertly unearthed and reported by Singer.
Whatever Brett Kimberlin thinks of Progressive politics, it seems a
fair bet that, he cares far more about himself. That is not a man to go
quietly into any good night, cut off from the lifeline that has
sustained him all these years. If the Progressive movement – and it’s
big money donors – drop a guy like Brett Kimberlin in a manner he
doesn’t much care for, he will turn on them. And as much damage he may
have done to this, or that individual and often small in proportion to
the mass, activist on the Right, his home and power-base is on and of
the professional left. Big picture, that’s where he can do the most
damage going forward, not across the Right.