August 29, 2010
— Ace You've probably read this, but it's darn good.
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" -- this part is less remembered -- "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
-- Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
-- Disgust and alarm with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.
-- Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.
-- Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.
Now we know why the country has become "ungovernable," last year's excuse for the Democrats' failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?
Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities -- often lopsided majorities -- oppose President Obama's social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero.
What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument.
James Taranto follows up by giving this intense loathing liberals feel for their fellow Americans, but somehow I don't think "Oikophobia" is going to stick.
He quotes Robert Reich making the typical "bitter, clingy" analysis of Americans -- we're all just reacting, animal-like, in fear -- and responds:
So if some Americans are afraid of people "who have what seem to be strange religions," it must be a totally irrational reaction to "economic insecurity." It couldn't possibly have anything to do with an act of mass murder committed in the name of the religion in question.And Reich doesn't just fail to see the obvious. He dehumanizes his fellow Americans by treating their values, feelings and opinions as no more than reflexive reactions to material conditions. Americans in fact are a very tolerant people. Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there was no serious backlash against Muslims. What makes them angry--what makes us angry--is the bigotry of the elites.
I've tried to get the RNC's attention -- I think an ad which featured members of the media calling Americans racist and ignorant, over and over again, for a full minute, followed by the text "You know who They're voting for" would be effective.
No one reacts well to hatred and condescension directed at them. Liberals get this when it comes to certain minorities. But when it comes to others -- us -- they strangely have no empathy whatsoever.
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Posted by: anka machines at August 29, 2010 06:41 AM (s7I0E)
~i agree with this. and use all available evidence. the left is really shooting themselves in the foot with these phobics. it's pretty much all they're doing right now.
Posted by: skr8 outta at August 29, 2010 06:45 AM (icVev)
I've tried to get the RNC's attention -- I think an ad which featured members of the media calling Americans racist and ignorant, over and over again, for a full minute, followed by the text "You know who They're voting for" would be effective.
Ads like that should write themselves but I'm not sure the RNC is really paying attention to anybody but themselves. They've been given a gift on a silver platter and seem to be completely autistic regarding what it is. Maybe they've got a plan in place which calls for not peaking too early but after the McCain disaster my skepticism is at an extremely high level.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 29, 2010 06:46 AM (EPgc2)
I wonder if the concern trolls are goin to thread hop here from the Mall thread.
Must've gotten their marching orders late last night after they changed their doodie pants.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2010 06:48 AM (fLHQe)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 06:48 AM (yQWNf)
Dude, gotcha covered: Rush Limbaugh 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, 20+ years.
Posted by: BJ at August 29, 2010 06:50 AM (qX40S)
Posted by: skr8 outta at August 29, 2010 06:55 AM (icVev)
Just try to grok the insanity of this following sentence:
Scientists believe dry water could be used to combat global warming by soaking up and trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 06:55 AM (HLGCA)
~scientists and politicians have intertwined so much it's hard to take any of them seriously.
Posted by: skr8 outta at August 29, 2010 06:59 AM (icVev)
Wouldn't this describe liberals to a T? They are constantly in fear of those evil Christianists...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2010 06:59 AM (bgcml)
Anyone heard any reaction to Becks sermon content? Namely how was all the Christianity received by Jewish and Muslim attendees?
Posted by: sTevo at August 29, 2010 07:00 AM (VMcEw)
We have the unmanageable characteristic of not trusting the leaders of a religion that want us converted, subjugated, or dead..
We are weary of being told what we can purchase, believe, or do.
Basically, we are not understood; they do not and will never understand why we reject the wonderful things that our government is doing for us. We believe that something is being gone to us, not for us. They have no other alternative but to resort to name calling and denigrating those who see things differently.
Posted by: Pelayo at August 29, 2010 07:02 AM (QLmzi)
Somebody wrote an analysis that really hits the mark. The elitist mentality of the leftards forces them to position themselves as anti anything that mainstream America is. This makes them special and smarter and more important than Johnny Sixpack and his blonde ponytail pickup truck adornment. It's a sign of their perpetual childishness. They've never gotten past high school mentally or emotionally. They want to be or join the 'cool kids' clique. Everyone knows that the cool kids don't follow the main stream. They are the pace setters, fashion setters, etc.
This explains why so many people fall for $hit like Zubaz and midi skirts. The former are ridiculous and the latter are perfectly designed to make womens' legs look like they belong on a piano. But... they are "the latest fashion". So is Progressivism - that is, both 'fashionable' and stupid. President Obama. QED.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at August 29, 2010 07:03 AM (adr25)
5 Ads like that should write themselves but I'm not sure the RNC is really paying attention to anybody but themselves.
The GOP is very, very happy to remain a permanent minority party. Their leaders clearly believe in 99% of Obama's agenda. Am I calling for a third party? No. But you look at Cornyn and Murkowski, Christ and Rubio, Arlen Specter, Dede Scuzzyflavor, their tepid responses to all of Obama's agenda when it comes time to vote... they are Quislings in the face of a hostile takeover by socialists.
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:03 AM (HLGCA)
How the hell can anything change if you can't even talk about such things without being labeled something derogatory. The left has done their job, somethings are taboo to even speak about.
Posted by: lowandslow at August 29, 2010 10:48 AM (GZitp)
Exactly. Frank discussions that confront ugly realities are reflexively rejected by many calling themselves conservatives. I've been amazed at how rapidly supposedly right-leaning folks will pull out accusations of racism/nazism, and pop-psychology BS about "hate." Usually this is done in response to being faced with outcomes/possibilities that they prefer not to consider. Or when policy changes are proposed that are "not nice." Conservatives of the "compassionate" variety are most known for this.
Posted by: Reactionary at August 29, 2010 07:03 AM (4nbyM)
Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 07:03 AM (+sBB4)
Make the ad yourself. You can't rely upon the RNC. You want to see something done, do it yourself. We can't expect them to swoop in and save the day. In the words of Moe Lane: we are the cavalry.
Posted by: Tom In Korea at August 29, 2010 07:05 AM (+gX1+)
Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 07:06 AM (+sBB4)
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 29, 2010 07:07 AM (Oj/ob)
I made this point before, but I think it bears repeating. This is more than losing an argument for liberals. This is the collapse of their entire worldview, and that worldview is how they define themselves.
"I'm not one of those knuckle-draggers. Therefore, I'm a truly superior human being. What's that? Everything I do fails utterly? Racists!"
I suppose it's a bit like what the Japanese must have felt at the end of the war, when they discovered that they were, in fact, fallible, and the emperor wasn't really a god.
I read an article yesterday, I can't remember where, which pointed out that the prime human need after food, water and oxygen, is status. Status gets you sex and serenity, and that's what most people spend their lives seeking. Liberals are watching their status go down the toilet, and they can't bear it.
Posted by: pep at August 29, 2010 07:07 AM (0K3p3)
Posted by: Cicero at August 29, 2010 07:08 AM (0pBLV)
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:10 AM (HLGCA)
Taranto, on the other hand, illustrates what's wrong with the jabbering class. I don't give a damn about what British philosopher Roger Scrotum (or whoever) thinks; that's the kind of inside-baseball, theoretical shit that wankers like Jonah Goldberg love to trot out as they send little public love-notes to each other across the Interwebz.
I wish Krauthammer, Walter Williams or someone of equal acuity had written Beck's speech yesterday. They could have combined the faith and renewal message with some hard-core realism, and toned down the "Sister Aimee" stuff.
Faith, hope and charity are not enough today. You can weep after you've planted the flag on Mt Suribachi, not before.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 07:13 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 07:13 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Minnie Rodent at August 29, 2010 07:14 AM (PZLW0)
Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 07:15 AM (+sBB4)
Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 07:16 AM (Gr1V1)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 07:18 AM (yQWNf)
36 Which is why getting conservatives like Angle, Toomey, Rubio, Coats, Rossi, Johnson, Buck, and Fiorina are essential.
Are we talking about Carly Fiorina here? Amnesty, Cap and Trade, Gay Marriage and End the Bush Tax Cuts Fiorina?
I understand the concept of defeating a Democrat liberal with a Republican liberal for the purposes of building a majority... but she's no conservative.
There is plenty of reason to be excited about subverting the party into a truly anti-socialist one instead of the current goofpile.
Amen, brother
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:19 AM (HLGCA)
Posted by: skr8 outta at August 29, 2010 10:55 AM
Roll out of the hockey stick graphs for the level in improvements to N.O. since the beginning Wonder O administratin' in 3...2...1.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 29, 2010 07:19 AM (xQjXM)
(my personal favorite)
"the both parties are too corrupt to ever fix, the fed rules the country,the banks control congress, we haven't had a Republic since 1864, McCarthy was right, no one cares what we say and we're all gonna die!"
Posted by: EZB at August 29, 2010 07:20 AM (fa9yq)
34 It has almost reached the point where "bigot" and "racist" and a few other choice liberal put-downs have become terms of honor.
When the Boy cries "Wolf" often enough, "Wolf" takes on a new meaning.
Dropping the "racist" bomb is the intellectual equivalent of resigning in chess.
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:20 AM (HLGCA)
Posted by: chuck in st paul at August 29, 2010 11:03 AM (adr25)
I've watched the Left and its media suck-ups for much of my adult life trying to understand why persons of apparently average intelligence or better can cling so persistently to a set of ideas that have history has shown to be recipes for failure. Over the past few years I've realized that the explanation is entirely psychological with these people; they're just desperate to separate themselves from the neanderthals in the eyes of people who they perceive to be "elite."
Posted by: Cicero at August 29, 2010 07:20 AM (0pBLV)
Hurricane Katrina hand-wringing on Meet the Press
Yeh, ignore the national idiots on that. This is almost like real reporting.
Posted by: Mama AJ at August 29, 2010 07:21 AM (XdlcF)
40 Concern Trolls aka Eeyores. Giving the gloom and doom, "It shoulda been done this way", "Why bother, we're screwed", "I don't care how much good ____ does, he's a clown" or
(my personal favorite)
"the both parties are too corrupt to ever fix, the fed rules the country,the banks control congress, we haven't had a Republic since 1864, McCarthy was right, no one cares what we say and we're all gonna die!"
I plead guilty to all of the above. But I'm still making calls, organizing, and voting. You don't try less hard because you're down by 30 points, you try harder.
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:21 AM (HLGCA)
I posted this in my "news wrap-up" at the end of the ONT. Hell we are helping them with that "civil war" meme.
And finally, more on trhe AK ballot counting. Absentee ballots now up to 23,000 and Miller makes more accusations.
More accusations made in close Senate race
There were more allegations by the Joe Miller campaign of ballot-counting monkey business on Saturday as the absentees continue to pour into the Alaska Division of Elections. State elections officials now say there are 23,472 ballots to process, with more coming, and the first count set for Tuesday.
Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto said in an e-mail Saturday that there are many calls going out to Alaskans who voted absentee ballots, asking them who they voted for in the primary.
(Snip)
"I believe, and time will prove it, (the calls) are being done for nefarious purposes," DeSoto said in the e-mail. "It is definitely not being done by the Joe Miller campaign. It is being done, I believe, by the National Republican Senatorial Committee or someone they contracted with as the beginning of a legal battle to throw out ballots."
I think he needs to cool it right now until something a little more substantial comes up. All we are doing now is feeding the Dems with bad press.
Posted by: Vic at August 29, 2010 07:21 AM (/jbAw)
I wish Krauthammer, Walter Williams or someone of equal acuity had written Beck's speech yesterday.
You seem to be contradicting yourself here because Roger Scruton is like a Brit Krauthammer or Williams. Why the animosity? I understand the revolutionary motto "No enemies to the left." I don't understand this moron motto "No allies with higher IQs."
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 07:22 AM (5+Fvb)
Here is what I think Beck is trying to do. He looked back at American history and tried to figure out what was the beginning of the ideals of the american revolution. He settled on the mid-18th century awakening, discovering that many of the fouynders had been influenced in their youth by religious figures who preached individual salvation, honor, stark individualism, there is no earthly king etc., in direct contrast to the then monarchy and the now statism.
He's hoping that by waking america up to individual responsibility and the ideals of the founders, americans will reject the collective salvation from liberation theology that Obama recommends and attempts to instill which also rejects the communist/marxist collectivism that pervades the government/democrats.
Once you understand Obama's collectivism, you see that to defeat it you have to strike at it's heart---the definition of man.
Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2010 07:22 AM (nb5bb)
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:23 AM (HLGCA)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 07:25 AM (rIm2V)
Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 07:26 AM (Gr1V1)
Posted by: willow at August 29, 2010 07:26 AM (UIwus)
I'm gonna ask the same question I always ask when anyone mentions Katrina. A knee-jerk reaction on my part, maybe, but I haven't yet seen an answer:
What the hell has the Osama Obama regime done for the Katrina victims except whine about Dubya?
A rhetorical question for morons and moronettes, I know, but one the Traitor-in-Chief has not answered and, IMO, will not answer when he drones on about this in his next televised waste of time "major speech."
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 07:27 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 07:28 AM (Gr1V1)
Kind of related, USA Today (*spit*) is firing a bunch of print 'reporters'.
Make the ad, Ace. That kind of thing is just what us bitter clingers in fly-over country need to see to get the point home.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 07:28 AM (in6WL)
Fox has a commercial on now advertising film cameras. For old people. Wow.
I'm not sure why this strikes me funny.
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:30 AM (HLGCA)
Note the video is 2/3 on the poor white trash and 1/3 on the family that has cleaned up. Also note the "Book of Mormon" in the video? Why? Hmmm.
Warning, NY Times video. Expect Southern prejudices. The Upper West siders are so embarrassed that's for sure.
http://tinyurl.com/2b6q97p
Posted by: Kemp at August 29, 2010 07:31 AM (AQxTm)
controversial shock jock Glenn Beck
Funny how the concern trolls in the Mall thread use that same phrasing, ain't it?
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 07:34 AM (in6WL)
What the hell has the Osama Obama regime done for the Katrina victims except whine about Dubya?
From my earlier link (#43):
Cannon said migrant workers did more to renew his neighborhood than did any government official.
Posted by: Mama AJ at August 29, 2010 07:37 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 07:37 AM (rIm2V)
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 11:22 AM
It's very simple. The armchair-bound "opinion leaders" of conservatism love to jabber away about problems, and repeat their buddies' views ad nauseum. It's the "Poppin' Fresh" way: "A" does something, "B" writes about it, linking to "C," "D" and "E" (and sometimes "F") who all agree that "A" did that thing.
Philosophy is a Good Thing, just like sand-table battle planning. But at some point you have to lock and load and take it to the enemy. Words can only do so much.
It's not an "IQ" thing. It's reality.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 07:38 AM (Ulu3i)
Oh, and one other OT thingie: I was driving last night and the 9 PM ABC Radio News announcer reported that there were "thousands of people" at "controversial shock jock Glenn Beck's" rally.
haha... the station that carries Rush here is an ABC affiliate. The dichotomy during the breaks is astounding.
Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at August 29, 2010 07:39 AM (+GvVy)
- Older, thin and gaunt hippies, with very long salt & pepper hair (men balding, women makeup-less and “unshaven”), with lots of tie-died t-shirts and hand-woven dog-hair clothes: some highly educated professors, others who live in mud-and-cardboard tree-houses (“elves”), maybe a few living in converted school busses that run on vegetable oil and solar panels. Where's Honest Cloud?
- A few limousine liberals, of various ages and weights, visibly moneyed … particularly offended by ANYONE ELSE , NOT MONIED AND LIBERAL, who dares to wear a “Members Only” jacket. Impersonations of Chuckie Shumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and that towering intellect Joe Biden preferred. How about a Alan "Dick" Grayson "It's the Joker !!!!! To the Bat-Poles" alert?
- An array of public-handout-parasites (waaaaaaaaaaaay too many possibilities to list; just make sure the actors portray their characters as “direly in need of benefits, quite determined to get a job, if there were any, yet, nevertheless, happy and well-fed”)
- Very young (and doubtfully educated, employed or employable) dropouts, anarchists, Rage-Against-The-Machine-types, “Cheeto-ans” (like vegans, only orange), and other snivelly-dwellers-in-Mom’s-basement. Perhaps Palin Steele is available ……
Posted by: Arbalest at August 29, 2010 07:41 AM (VZC6E)
Posted by: Edge at August 29, 2010 07:45 AM (h7kan)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 07:52 AM (rIm2V)
Posted by: Edge at August 29, 2010 11:45 AM
Agreed, except that Jimmuh was, despite his antisemitism, socialist leanings and general incompetence, an American. He had served his country and, if he was trying to remake it, was doing so in a kind of wacked-out, Quakerish way.
The Mohammedan Mouthpiece is an America-hating terrorist, plain and simple.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 07:53 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 07:53 AM (AZGON)
Still looking for anyone who said this. Oh wait, sorry, you're just concerned.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2010 07:53 AM (fLHQe)
Posted by: Barry Soetoro (D-King OF The World!!) at August 29, 2010 07:54 AM (aFZPR)
Memo to the Carolina Panthers: Dressing exactly like the 1993 Detroit Lions will not end well for you. Just saying.
Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:54 AM (HLGCA)
It's all about "community" --
Farmers markets that accept government benefits are seen as one answer. Washington, D.C., markets match them with what they call double dollars.
"My granddaughter is covered by WIC, and her mother, you know, is covered by WIC," said Gloria Foss.
"Today, I'm planning to get some melons and some corn, and with my free dollars, if they still have the crabs over there, I'm gonna go for some crabs," Foss laughed.
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In season there are bargains. But in Washington, Mark Seibert sells his organic milk for approximately $12 a gallon, with no apologies.
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Salad at $12 a quarter-pound? "This is worth every penny," Marco said.
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those perfect chanterelle mushrooms or maybe teeny, weeny little cucumbers the size of your thumbnail.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 29, 2010 07:55 AM (xQjXM)
Helloooo!
I wonder if you city slickers would address the fact that Charles Krauthammer formerly killed about 2 million minorities a year and sickened perhaps 10 times that many. I have indisputable proof. From the Sierra Club.
Posted by: Crenny Dane at August 29, 2010 07:56 AM (q34+X)
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 07:56 AM (in6WL)
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 11:38 AM (Ulu3i)
I think you just described AOSHQ, the whole blogosphere, and Charles Krauthammer.
Posted by: fozzy at August 29, 2010 07:56 AM (lPLCj)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at August 29, 2010 07:58 AM (V/EYZ)
I wonder if the concern trolls are goin to thread hop here from the Mall thread.
No allies smarter than us journolisters... I mean, Concerned Christian Conservatives!
Posted by: Beo Badenson at August 29, 2010 07:58 AM (in6WL)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 07:58 AM (AZGON)
Try "flip thingy."
Posted by: Homer J. Simpson at August 29, 2010 07:59 AM (kxQZx)
Memo to the Carolina Panthers: Dressing exactly like the 1993 Detroit Lions will not end well for you. Just saying.
At least they won. I didn't go and they won? uh oh.
Posted by: Kemp at August 29, 2010 08:01 AM (AQxTm)
Still looking for anyone who said this. Oh wait, sorry, you're just concerned.
Still looking for where I said I was "concerned."
As far as yesterday's rally went, I think that:
--as a fundraiser for SOWF: it was great;
--as a conservative political event: meh;
--as a tent revival: I'll just go to church, thank you;
--as a Beck self-promotional event: he's got a big fan club, great--Howard Stern used to turn out big crowds too. Plus Beck ruined my plans for taking my kids into Washington.
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 08:02 AM (5+Fvb)
As long as you kick in your tax dollars, they don't mind much. (and I double denounce myself as a agraiphobe).
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 29, 2010 08:02 AM (xQjXM)
Agreed, except that Jimmuh was, despite his antisemitism, socialist leanings and general incompetence, an American. He had served his country and, if he was trying to remake it, was doing so in a kind of wacked-out, Quakerish way.
But . . . but Carter had a college degree, a firm grasp of history and served in the military.
How could've he possibly been a bad president?
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 29, 2010 08:05 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: neuromancer at August 29, 2010 08:05 AM (UH66/)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:09 AM (rIm2V)
- memorializing 9-11-2001= hate speech designed only to instill fear
- ignoring the refusals to evacuate, looting, fraud and other illicit activities that surrounded Katrina= honest, accurate coverage
- speaking about the Muslims dancing in the street after 9-11= hate speech
- Glen Beck holds a "Restoring Honor" rally= "overwhelmingly white" crowd of "tea party activists" gather to covertly rally conservative support for the upcoming election
- Al Sharpton holds a rally at a high school and talks about how Glenn Beck is a racist who is trying disgrace King's message = inspiring memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King
...
Posted by: Damiano at August 29, 2010 08:13 AM (PA722)
How could've he possibly been a bad president?
So let's elect Glenn Beck president because he surely lacks those offensive credentials.
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 08:14 AM (5+Fvb)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 08:14 AM (eOXTH)
This is how civilized folks rebel without violence.
Yes, and it has the lefties shitting their pants, hence the influx of CT's. Even the dimmest of the dim (nancy p.) is realizing their crime spree is over.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 08:14 AM (in6WL)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 12:09 PM
Chrissy Matthews crew equates Million Man March with Beck rally, -- "eventually you have to ask, what are they so damn mad about?"
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 29, 2010 08:15 AM (xQjXM)
"You know who They're voting for"
Exactamundo! Dammit, I have been waiting for these clueless Republicans to figure out that there is one group you can run against that is hated more than any other, and with good reason - the media! Those sonofabitches need to be eviscerated and their guts entrails hung out to rot in the sun.
And don't worry, since so many of them work in newsrooms propaganda mills that are non-diverse lilly-white, they can't even scare you by playing the race card!
ps. And after the tag line above,wrap up by showing the clip of Obama saying "I know all of you voted for me!" at the White House Correspondents' Media Whores' dinner.
Posted by: sherlock at August 29, 2010 08:16 AM (thr9V)
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 29, 2010 12:05 PM
He did a damn fine job of being a bad president.
But I'll give some credit -- grudgingly -- to those with screwed-up ideas pushed for patriotic motives, and I doubt Jimmuh hated America.
Same goes for George McGovern, a first-degree loser. He at least thought he was doing what was right for the country.
The Traitor-in-Chief does what he thinks is right for himself, the Third World and the Muzzies. If Carter was a bad president, Osama Obama is the worst and most dangerous president in US history.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 08:16 AM (Ulu3i)
So, I'm working on a theory based on 7th grade girls. In a pack of 7th grade girls there are all kinds of interactions but the most debilitating is "the unsharable information" That is when a small group in the larger whole is in possession of some "unsharable information" that isn't shared with the whole. However, those in possession of said "unsharable information" feel the possession of said "unsharable information" gives them license to do whatever they want vis a vie the pack as a whole because their perception is that it is good for the pack and were it shared the pack members who aren't aware of the "unsharable information" would agree that those who did have said "unsharable information" did the right thing.
So, if you start with the premise that the libs/dems love our country as much as anyone. If you add that they want to do the right thing for everyone. If you assume their hearts are pure. Then the only conclusion you can draw within these aforementioned parameters is simply "they know something we don't know".
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:16 AM (p302b)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 08:17 AM (eOXTH)
Paul Krugman is a discredited joke, so he has to lash out.
The left must hide behind race in order to push their agenda. Obama was their last hope to get government controlled tax payer funded health care. They knew that if anyone dare object, they could pop out the race card.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 29, 2010 08:18 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Man in the Box at August 29, 2010 08:18 AM (HLGCA)
I must have missed him throw his hat into the ring, but he couldn't be worse than Obumbles.
Posted by: A COncerned Christian Conservative at August 29, 2010 08:18 AM (kxQZx)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 08:19 AM (AZGON)
And no one in the media or the White House cared about Louisiana after the BP spill. Interesting.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 29, 2010 08:20 AM (kxQZx)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 29, 2010 08:21 AM (kxQZx)
Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?
They see the world through bigot-colored glasses.
Posted by: rdbrewer at August 29, 2010 08:21 AM (LutGd)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 08:22 AM (eOXTH)
So let's elect Glenn Beck president because he surely lacks those offensive credentials.
Seriously. You are sticking to the script, aren't you?
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 08:23 AM (in6WL)
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Katrina, the national disaster that democrats love most.
It's perfectly natural to love what you created through your long-term program of political, moral, intellectual, and economic voter enslavement.
Posted by: sherlock at August 29, 2010 08:24 AM (thr9V)
X is doing Y because Z. And it doesnÂ’t make sense.
the "correct" answer:
A. Glenn Beck. Hosting a "Restoring Honor" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s "I have a Dream” speech, which was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Because he wants to “reclaim the civil rights movement."
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 29, 2010 08:24 AM (xQjXM)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:24 AM (p302b)
Posted by: Locus Ceruleus at August 29, 2010 08:25 AM (tzcjs)
Katrina, the national disaster that democrats love most.
Which is odd because the truth is that it was a total failure of state and local (i.e., Democrat government) and something of a triumph for the federal (i.e., Republican) government's response: over 33,000 rescues by the USCG in a matter of days, FEMA's provision of aid to over 700,000 applicants, etc., etc. A few bad PR calls in the beginning have led to this giant myth of Bush's failure. Actually, it was a heckuva job, Brownie.
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 08:25 AM (5+Fvb)
Posted by: Gran at August 29, 2010 08:26 AM (kmmbv)
Posted by: the MFM at August 29, 2010 08:26 AM (3phFo)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 12:16 PM (p302b)
Or they think they know something ... The left quite often acts based on superstition or incorrect information - or sheer prejudice.
Posted by: Josef K. at August 29, 2010 08:26 AM (7+pP9)
- people who lost family members on 9-11 speaking out against Victory Mosque= "Islamophobes" (yes, the media even makes up words) who are engaged in hate speech
Posted by: Damiano at August 29, 2010 08:28 AM (PA722)
- people who lost family members on 9-11 speaking out against Victory Mosque= "Islamophobes" (yes, the media even makes up words) who are engaged in hate speech.
Finally, another American on board with my mantra!
Posted by: Barry O at August 29, 2010 08:29 AM (kxQZx)
Yep - Jimmah loves America.
Posted by: Editor at August 29, 2010 08:31 AM (YX6i/)
#123: Beck is what we have because of a vacuum of leadership.
Too true. He isn't terrible, but the maudlin shit grows old fast, as does the religiosity. Need some solid intellectual content. If we could do a "RINOectomy" on a few of our "leaders" like The Mav McCain, we would be well served. But I am afaid if we did, there might be nothing left over after the operation.
Posted by: sherlock at August 29, 2010 08:33 AM (thr9V)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 12:22 PM (eOXTH)
Hillary and Bill always give to minorities. At her daughters $5 Million wedding there were lots of minority cooks, servants and drivers.
Posted by: robtr at August 29, 2010 08:35 AM (fwSHf)
Posted by: Editor at August 29, 2010 12:31 PM
Just think, in a few more years, Jimmah and Zero can tag team and berate America around the world. Look for Zero to lead the UN so he can stick it to the bitter clingers.
Posted by: Edge at August 29, 2010 08:35 AM (h7kan)
well, she wasn't one of my good friends anyway
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:36 AM (p302b)
Posted by: Editor at August 29, 2010 12:31 PM (YX6i/)
The funniest thing I've heard about Jimmah lately was that one of the commenters here said regarding Jimmah's latest trip to North Korea: "It took him 31 years but Jimmah finally got a hostage released"
Posted by: robtr at August 29, 2010 08:37 AM (fwSHf)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:37 AM (rIm2V)
Good point.
Food for thought though: All that would be left are the people- us. ("...of the people, by the people, for the people...") Would this vacuum necessarily be a bad thing? As I see it, our problem now is less about a potential vacuum of leadership than it is the current, complete absence of representation of the will of the people.
Posted by: Damiano at August 29, 2010 08:39 AM (PA722)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:40 AM (p302b)
James Taranto follows up by giving this intense loathing liberals feel for their fellow Americans, but somehow I don't think "Oikophobia" is going to stick.
How about "Schnoogophobia"? That was really my first choice.
Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:42 AM (LutGd)
#51
"Ebolacare"
That's hilarious! I am going to steal that and use it every chance I get.
Obamacare will bleed out like real ebola victims do.
Posted by: PugBoo at August 29, 2010 08:42 AM (h3ZPT)
Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:42 AM (rIm2V)
Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:45 AM (LutGd)
Also I forgot what a spatula was. I pointed at it, and then had to think for about 30 seconds to remember the word for it.
That only happens when you drink?
Uh, yeh, right, me too...
Posted by: Mama AJ at August 29, 2010 08:46 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:47 AM (LutGd)
You see how they have responded to the insurgent candidates. It is still very much a top down type of thing where the good ol' boys and gals look after each other.
The Republicans don't understand that the game has changed because the stakes have been raised. They still think people will vote for them or against them because of the R by their name. They don't realize that those little letters, R and D, that used to mean so much are now meaningless. Instead they will be judged on their merits.
Can you think of anything scarier to a politician than to be judged on their merits?
Posted by: Clingy the Clown at August 29, 2010 08:48 AM (sfNbl)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:48 AM (p302b)
Now you know why Obama's Theme song is "Welcome Back Carter". It's horrifying how much damage one man can do.
Posted by: EZB at August 29, 2010 08:52 AM (fa9yq)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:58 AM (p302b)
"Still looking for where I said I was "concerned."
And I'm still looking for where anyone said the new moron motto was "No allies with higher IQs."
Take your time, show your work.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2010 08:59 AM (fLHQe)
Remember the standard: we must not judge an entire group of people, i.e., Muslims, based on the behavior of some of that group, i.e., radical Muslims.
Unless, of course, they're Tea Partyers or against the Islamic center/mosque at that location or in favor of better border control.
In that case, the most extreme elements are representative of the entire cause and we can judge it accordingly.
Posted by: WhatheHey at August 29, 2010 09:01 AM (caxUU)
Posted by: Soon-to-be-Ex-ExZonie at August 29, 2010 09:06 AM (gZHvI)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 09:06 AM (p302b)
Posted by: Moi at August 29, 2010 09:06 AM (Ez4Ql)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 09:10 AM (p302b)
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 11:22 AM (5+Fvb)
Take your time, show your work.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2010 12:59 PM (fLHQe)
You're welcome. I don't think you looked very hard for it.
Posted by: fozzy at August 29, 2010 09:15 AM (lPLCj)
Posted by: dulce at August 29, 2010 09:36 AM (Z8tGV)
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at August 29, 2010 12:02 PM (5+Fvb)
You know, maybe if everything you posted wasn't for the sole purpose of stirring up shit, people wouldn't think you're a troll. I know, it's a tough house.
You're welcome. I don't think you looked very hard for it.
Posted by: fozzy at August 29, 2010 01:15 PM (lPLCj)
Wow, using the accusation as proof of the accusation. That's original.
I hereby accuse you of advocating hurling pies at nuns. As proof I offer this blog post!
Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at August 29, 2010 09:54 AM (bxiXv)
Liberalism always ends up here, and usually quickly. The truly ironic thing is it's a HUGE theme in drama and literature, subjects liberals are supposed to be all hot on - the "leader" or movement that sets impossible goals (i.e. like expecting leftist economics to EVER WORK) and then lashes out at "the people" who fail to make those goals work.
Recurring theme in real life, of course, but strongest since the French Revolution (and pretty much The Theme of the Soviet Union). Sometimes it's just "saboteurs and wreckers" that get the blame, sometimes it extends to pretty much everyone but the inner circle.
On the mentally ill left, the inner circle pretty much never gets the blame, unless it's from another inner circle.
The nice thing about a representative Western system of government is that, while yes, sure, we suffer economically, usually the mass-murder is kept to a minimum. See China/Soviet Union/Cambodia/North Korea for the alternative.
They hate the comparison, but the Western Left ultimately believe in the same ideals, collectivism and a sort of lazy anti-capitalism, they just restrain their talk of revolution and purges to anonymous chat rooms and cocktail parties.
Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at August 29, 2010 10:02 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 12:40 PM (p302b)
That might be true - I just wish he'd quit trying to say that his faith is Christianity. There's just no way. I've had plenty of doctrinal disagreements with other peopel who I believe were sincere Christians, but none of them ever went so far as to put his arm around Kim Jong Il and say "this is a man I can work with."
Carter is a bitter old piece of shit, using false religiosity to paper over his nastiness.
Posted by: Reactionary at August 29, 2010 10:09 AM (4nbyM)
Posted by: Mayor John Rhodes at August 29, 2010 10:30 AM (oj52M)
Well at least Beck gave G.W.Bush a weekend off, while the Obama's were feeling the pain with the rest of us didn't-strive-hard-enough-to-become-elitists.
Posted by: A Clown is better than no messenger,Carolyn at August 29, 2010 10:33 AM (NYjsM)
Eek-a-mouse!
Posted by: gail at August 29, 2010 10:53 AM (f46PC)
Posted by: Prof. Mondo at August 29, 2010 11:17 AM (yndqP)
Genius. It would strike back at the FOX news attacks, since it's the only thing you can watch if you want to take a break from the craziness and propaganda. It also echos the celebrity theme that was so effective in 2008.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 29, 2010 11:25 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: fapo at August 29, 2010 11:46 AM (TcaE8)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 29, 2010 12:07 PM (tJjm/)
"but somehow I don't think "Oikophobia" is going to stick."
Make it stick. I've already started to use it.
Posted by: Bill at August 29, 2010 12:13 PM (4qBN3)
How about "Okey-phobia"? A bunch of racist, homophobic Okeys.
Posted by: timothyj at August 29, 2010 12:19 PM (7SxtJ)
I think not!
Posted by: Overwhelmingly AnonymousDrivel at August 29, 2010 12:27 PM (swuwV)
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Posted by: Banjo at August 29, 2010 03:39 PM (nnZ5F)
"You're welcome. I don't think you looked very hard for it.
Posted by: fozzy at August 29, 2010 01:15 PM (lPLCj)"
Thread's dead and Merov already took care of this at 168, so I just wanted to call you a dickhead who can't read very well.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2010 03:52 PM (fLHQe)
Didn't read yours first, honest!
BTW, I do think that "Attack of the Oiks" has resonance.
Posted by: dad29 at August 29, 2010 04:39 PM (3PS1w)
1) Elitists
2) Losers
Elitists can easily be defined as those who think they are better/smarter/wiser/more-enlightened, etc, etc, than everyone else. Leftism appeals to them because it promises to put them in charge of all those crude ignorant heathens.
Notice that it only appeals to those who THINK they are smarter, etc. People who are possessed of true wisdom, intelligence, and enlightenment understand the virtue of freedom and know that human beings are at their best and at their most noble when left to their own devices in a culture founded on liberty and governed by a state that guarantees the rights of all, but otherwise stays out of the way.
Leftism appeals to losers because they are promised bread and circuses by the elitists in exchange for their fealty. This is a devil's bargain however in that what the losers really trade away is their own integrity.
Were leftism made into a play, the title might be When Stupid Met Evil.
Posted by: Lee Reynolds at August 29, 2010 05:38 PM (/gY4D)
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Wonder if the 'hammer still sees Maobama as a political genius. Wish I had a nickel for every time he said or wrote something like that. Seemed to me, as a tea bagger wingnut from the boondocks, that Chuck was always trying to cover his left flank for the sake of his good standing in DC.
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