Well that was quick. No sooner did the sun rise than Mark Steyn was out blaming brown people (well, brown-people-loving hippy congresspeoples, to be exact) for the financial crisis:
But isn't it the case that we're in this mess because US politicians, ...with their usual casual destructiveness dressed up in the baby talk of ‘diversity,’ chose to turn the mortgage industry into just another branch of the affirmative-action racket? The United States government in effect decreed credit a human right rather than a privilege judiciously granted by one independent contractor to another.
Of course! Liebrul Dhimmicrats (unbeknownst to, well, everybody but Mark Steyn) secretly wielded the power of the US congress from the minority to declare credit a human right! Not only are brown people now stealing my job, scholarships, and wallet, but THEY are the reason I couldn’t finance that 60" plasma TV last year! BASTARDS! IT ALL MAKES SENSE! And now that it’s a human right, are we going to have to drop millions of MasterCards to the credit oppressed around the world?! I guess we’ll have to wait until Mr. Steyn’s next missive.
Mark applies a thin veneer of credibility by questioning whether there actually is a crisis, albeit by underhandedly slighting Barney Frank. As is normally the case, though, the stupid then snowballs and runs downhill, engulfing "any reasonable estimate of the number of headless chickens running around" and "the big Soviet command economy" in the third paragraph to culminate in this:
At times like these, it helps to remember the sage words of Boy George: Calmer, calmer, calmer, calmer, calmer, chameleon. You come and go. The market is forever.
Leave it to Mark Steyn, noted defender of gay rights, to flamboyantly (and I guess deliberately, after his update) misquote one of the most flamboyantly gay celebrities the world has known. George Bush called, he wants his hubris back.