Deepak who?
The following post contains a rant. Proceed accordingly.
Years ago PBS was running Deepak Chopra infomercials during their begathons, which is one of the reasons why I stopped watching PBS – anyone who fires Louis Rukeyser and hires Deepak must be out of their minds.
Now Deepak the New Age guru has come out with the oldest blame theory: blaming – who else! – the US for the Mumbai attack:
In his CNN interview, he was no less clear. What happened in Mumbai, he told the interviewer, was a product of the U.S. war on terrorism, that “our policies, our foreign policies” had alienated the Muslim population, that we had “gone after the wrong people” and inflamed moderates. And “that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay.”
Dorothy Rabinowitz does a great job of ripping Deepak up one side and down the other, but for the record allow me to say that anyone who lives in our country, the best country in the world, and who benefits and profits from the myriad opportunities we offer and enjoys all our liberties, including abusing freedom of expression to insult the US, is a thankless jerk with no credibility, and should probably go back to the underside of the rock he crawled out of.
There.
Now that I got that off my chest, I feel much better.
Update
And now Rick’s turn.
Everyone’s fault; Muslim fundamentalist terrorists excluded.
UPDATE
Now he’s blaming the US for creating the Taliban.
Is there anyone who can possibly support this charlatan?
Tags: Fausta's blog, Mumbai
December 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I think you were quite restrained with the schmuck.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Deepak is too ‘new age’ for me to believe that he is credible. His ‘new Jesus’ book is another attempt to marginalize Christians – much like what has happened to Christmas. Before he was hip, by Oprah’s standards, he was just another BS guy. Now, he’s a BS guy with MSM street cred.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Just one thing to say: Amen.
When I read Chopra’s drivel, I just about fell off my chair. Talk about repeating cliches.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
Deepak is a jerk and the fact that Hannity even let him on the show is a shame. Who gave this goon the microphone to talk about terrorism?
I think his stupid books and uga booga tantric crap are something we should subject the terrorists to as a form of torture.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 am
Was that “Blame America First,” moment of Chopra’s before or after he had his morning wake up drink of cow’s urine?
December 5th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Hi!
Personally I think Deepak Chopra is a carefully packaged piece of marketing, who borrows heavily from the lives of many and the lessons of a few good men. He isn’t saying anything new and I’m definitely not a fan.
But I am a fan of an American who was born before Chopra, one Marshall Rosenberg, who outlines an interesting concept on his website http://www.cnvc.org.
I believe that Marhsal Rosenberg has a wonderul approach to life and provides all the tools and resources needed to live an evolved life.
As it turns out, Marshall Rosenberg and I have another thing in common, we’re both fans of a little man called M. K. Gandhi, who lived in India, where I live.
Peace!
Sajani