A glimpse of the paleo perspective on the Conrad Black trial, plus a more exotic one

Thanks to an anonymous commenter, I got a link to Taki's polemic on the trial, which interprets the coverage of it as yet another feeding frenzy in the "holier than thou members of the Fourth Estate;" Conrad Black's accusers are pegged as merely Savonarolaesque.

What was interesting about that article, though, was the comments it elicited; 6 out of 8 of the commentors (as of the time of this entry's posting) expressed plain dislike for Conrad Black, with at least two of them explicitly rooting for the prosecution. None of them appeared to be leftists, or even liberals.

The perspective that undergirds these comments is similar to that expressed by Justin Raimondo, a paleolibertarian, who has nothing but contempt for "The Neoconservative Personality." In that 2004 opinion piece, he held up Conrad Black as a neoconservative transmogrified by greed and power-lust. It's interesting, not to mention significant, that belief in Mr. Black's innocence is controversial within the American Right.

A more exotic example, from the blog "Sundown, The Tunnels and Pee Funnels": "Barbara Amiel No Libertarian." The political worldview expressed in it is similar to the commenter "james"'s response to Taki's excoriation of the American media.