Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good Takes Over CSPAN

Yesterday I caught the end of a program on CSPAN. It was a guy named Nicholson Baker talking about a book he had written about World War II. At the bottom of the screen it said that he is an historian. I’ve looked around the web and it seems he’s actually a novelist. But CSPAN seems to have an ungodly fear or misunderstanding of novelists and might not have known what else to do with this guy.
He said that “people” said that if oil to Japan was cut off that the Japanese would answer with war. And just before Pearl Harbor Roosevelt said oil to Japan was to be cut off. Baker argued that this made it obvious that Pearl Harbor was Roosevelt’s fault. The Japanese bore no responsibility for Pearl Harbor? Are nonwhites capable of moral responsibility? How incredibly insulting and racist. But I think there is something else at work here. American intellectuals have a lemming-like drive to attack America in any way they can. They will strain logic and evidence to strike one more blow for . . . I’m not sure exactly. Call it their hobby horse of America hate.
I can’t watch very much CSPAN any more because there is so much of this empty, baseless pathological hate set out as valid contributions to intelligent discourse. “Two legs bad, four legs good,” would be laughed at but CSPAN has no problem with, “white man bad, brown man good.” Go figure.