August 29, 2010

Krauthammer: Fear and Loathing in Martha's Vineyard
— 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.

Posted by: Ace at 06:37 AM | Comments (186)
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1 Make the ad.  Load it up on youtube & Liveleak.  Pass it around.

Posted by: Granny at August 29, 2010 06:40 AM (jpld8)

2 I'm clinging to a hangover at the moment. 

Posted by: anka machines at August 29, 2010 06:41 AM (s7I0E)

3 Make the ad, Ace.  We'll review.

Posted by: Sukie Tawdry at August 29, 2010 06:43 AM (YmdLx)

4 Make the ad.  Load it up on youtube & Liveleak.  Pass it around."

~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)

5

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)

6

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)

7 Dr K-Hammer is right.  When you've lost the argument all you have left is the name calling. 

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 06:48 AM (yQWNf)

8

Remember the meme that Republicans were ruled by their lizard brain?

Posted by: Ed Anger at August 29, 2010 06:49 AM (7+pP9)

9 "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."

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)

10

Great Post.  Great start to the day.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 29, 2010 06:51 AM (0fzsA)

11 Ace,

You forget, these people have no shame or intellectual honesty.



Posted by: Kemp at August 29, 2010 06:55 AM (AQxTm)

12 i've noticed the media is heralding the 5-yr anniv. of katrina pretty heavily. they pine so bad for a return of bush dont they?

Posted by: skr8 outta at August 29, 2010 06:55 AM (icVev)

13

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)

14 'Scientists believe dry water could be used to combat global warming by soaking up and trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.'

~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)

15 So if some Americans are afraid of people "who have what seem to be strange religions,"

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)

16
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)

17 According to the current occupants of the White House, rulers of Congress, and the elite, unelected liberal bureaucratniks, we are the unwashed, uneducated  masses who are too stupid to understand the complexities of governing. 

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)

18

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)

19

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)

20 Ever hear a prominent conservative politician or pundit for that matter speak frankly about Islam, race, immigration, the poor, gay marriage, etc. etc.
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)

21 "Anyone heard any reaction to Becks sermon content? Namely how was all the Christianity received by Jewish and Muslim attendees?" stevo, I guess today's liberals wouldn't have liked MLK's actual speech either.

Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 07:03 AM (+sBB4)

22 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.

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+)

23 "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!""

Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 07:06 AM (+sBB4)

24 Any Jim DeMint disciples out there? I've been one for a while. He has the plan and it's covered pretty well here. Well worth reading. http://tinyurl.com/2dzgx9s

Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 29, 2010 07:07 AM (Oj/ob)

25 7 Dr K-Hammer is right.  When you've lost the argument all you have left is the name calling.

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)

26 In a society where Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are considered "elite," I proudly stand with the lumpenproles.

Posted by: Cicero at August 29, 2010 07:08 AM (0pBLV)

27 6  "Concern trolls"?

Posted by: Drinky Crow at August 29, 2010 07:09 AM (5+Fvb)

28 How did the Democratic Party move so far left?  My courting left-wing third parties and community groups.  How do we nudge the GOP to the right?  I say, the same way.  Third parties don't have to endorse a different candidate that the GOP candidate necessarily.  They have to push the primary runners to the right with those endorsement offers.

Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:10 AM (HLGCA)

29 The Kraut hits another one out of the park. It's good to see a little bare-knuckled honesty among commentators, and he's delivering.

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)

30 Hurricane Katrina hand-wringing on Meet the Press.  All the attention is focused on New Orleans and NOT coastal areas of Mississippi and Alabama.  I wonder why that is.........

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 07:13 AM (yQWNf)

31 It has almost reached the point where "bigot" and "racist" and a few other choice liberal put-downs have become terms of honor.

Posted by: Minnie Rodent at August 29, 2010 07:14 AM (PZLW0)

32 "Concern trolls"? See #17 for (bad) example.

Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 07:15 AM (+sBB4)

33 #21 Which is why getting conservatives like Angle, Toomey, Rubio, Coats, Rossi, Johnson, Buck, and Fiorina are essential. Heck even McMahon is all about business, which is why shes running in the first place. Businesspeople realizing the Dems are going to doom them, and they jump in to stop it, should be embraced. Even those whom we view as Rinos- Brown, Whitman, Giuliani, serve a vital purpose in election season. Brown could be like the Maine sisters and sit around pretty, but he's going on a cross-country tour to help raise money for Rossi, Fiorina, Kirk, and several key Ohio congressmen. Giuliani is doing the same, and Whitman is dumping millions into the near-extinct California Republican party. Resurrecting that in California may be one step of a long plan to try to save the state, and it wouldn't hurt. (Especially if she tosses $ to the congressional races down here where money can make a difference, like CA47, CA37, CA36) There is plenty of reason to be excited about subverting the party into a truly anti-socialist one instead of the current goofpile.

Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 07:16 AM (Gr1V1)

34 The mental masterbation by the panelists on Meet the Press is really something to behold.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 07:18 AM (yQWNf)

35

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)

36 i've noticed the media is heralding the 5-yr anniv. of katrina pretty heavily. they pine so bad for a return of bush dont they?
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)

37 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!"

Posted by: EZB at August 29, 2010 07:20 AM (fa9yq)

38

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)

39 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.

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)

40

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)

41

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)

42 Aren't the (R)'s supposed to be in the middle of a civil war against each other right now?

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)

43 32 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 . . . .

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)

44

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)

45 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.

Posted by: Truman North at August 29, 2010 07:23 AM (HLGCA)

46 It will take a long time to dismantle the twisted mess constructed in the last 100 years. The Goddess Irony smiles at SS, Medicare, and EbolaCare.

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 07:25 AM (rIm2V)

47 #38 Her positions on most of those aren't nearly as liberal as Chuck Devore tried to make, though Chuckie basically guaranteed her election by giving Cali Republicans a 3rd option over the truly liberal Campbell (thanks asshole for that huge california state tax increase you designed last year) and the unelectable Chuck DeVore. Unlike Meg, she hasn't turned her tongue in knots in every single issue, which is why I am slightly more excited to vote for her over Boxer than Meg over Jerry... But I get your point- she shouldn't be planted up there with the rest. There are differences though between her and Buck/Paul/Angle, just like there are between her and Kirk, and like there are differences between Kirk and Castle (who I would say is the most liberal Republican running for any office this year)

Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 07:26 AM (Gr1V1)

48 VDH also did a great write up on NRO, America's Anger .yesterday i believe..

Posted by: willow at August 29, 2010 07:26 AM (UIwus)

49 Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 29, 2010 11:13 AM

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)

50 Personally I'd like to see Chris Christie campaigning cross country too, but kicking as much ass as he needs to save New Jersey is very tiresome...

Posted by: CAC at August 29, 2010 07:28 AM (Gr1V1)

51
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)

52

controversial shock jock Glenn Beck

Ah, patriotism and religion!

<faints>

Posted by: Shocked Leftie at August 29, 2010 07:28 AM (XdlcF)

53

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)

54 Want a big dose of condescending? Watch link.

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)

55
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)

56

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)

57 Every single American is trapped in the Democrat Party Plantation (DPP). The DPP isn't just the cities and Hollywood, and leftish suburbs. We all bear the yoke. Some places are just more heavily decorated with DPP signs and posters, but we all live inside the walls. We have a long, long way to go.

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 07:37 AM (rIm2V)

58 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 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)

59

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)

60 For the commercial, make sure the actors portray a Very Diverse group of liberals:

 - 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 Â… 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-MomÂ’s-basement. Perhaps Palin Steele is available Â…Â…



Posted by: Arbalest at August 29, 2010 07:41 AM (VZC6E)

61 Make the ad but, don't let Mitch McConnell review it.

Posted by: Barbarian at August 29, 2010 07:43 AM (EL+OC)

62

Wash Examiner article: Kate Zernike tries to out-Dowd Dowd.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 29, 2010 07:44 AM (XdlcF)

63 The problem with libs is not just their constant condescension, but that they are so damn stupid and condescending at the same time.  You gotta be stupid to think Zero would have ever made a good president.  You gotta by stupid not to see that Zero was just Jimmah Carter II. 

Posted by: Edge at August 29, 2010 07:45 AM (h7kan)

64 As long as the IRS exists we are serfs. As long as Social Security exists we are serfs. As long as Medicare exists we are serfs. What is happening now and what is about to happen in November are goods things, but they are the beginning of the beginning.

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 07:52 AM (rIm2V)

65 The problem with libs is not just their constant condescension, but that they are so damn stupid and condescending at the same time.  You gotta be stupid to think Zero would have ever made a good president.  You gotta by stupid not to see that Zero was just Jimmah Carter II. 

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)

66 Not really on topic, but the MFM is predictable again. On Meet The Depressed they're wringing their hands, not over the Beck event, but... Katrina! They're replaying ancient video of the MFM panic, and do they even once remind us that the worst of the rumors spread, like about dead bodies in food lockers, were false? No, of course not. Prize Cheesedick Brian Williams is nasally moaning his way over KatrinaBush as if this were topical, beyond being an anniversary of sorts. Which brings us to a wider observation. The MFM has been trying to whip up Katrina again for at least a week, using its anniversary as an excuse. Think they would be talking about this if Sharpton had drawn 300K people? Nauseating. Why precisely is it so important, years later, to dutifully recount this one hurricane? Anyone think the MFM will annually retell the saga of the floods in Tennessee? Or the ice storms in the Midwest, both during Barry's term? Where is the anniversary lamentation over the massive flooding from Hurricane Andrew during Clinton's term? It's a "throw a shoe at the TV screen" morning.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 07:53 AM (AZGON)

67  "I don't understand this moron motto "No allies with higher IQs."

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)

68 Racist! OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012' (the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice) -It's never too early to campaign-

Posted by: Barry Soetoro (D-King OF The World!!) at August 29, 2010 07:54 AM (aFZPR)

69

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)

70 Lefty "farmers" double down on dollars:

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.
---
In season there are bargains. But in Washington, Mark Seibert sells his organic milk for approximately $12 a gallon, with no apologies.
---
Salad at $12 a quarter-pound? "This is worth every penny," Marco said.
---
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)

71 I wonder if the concern trolls are goin to thread hop here from the Mall thread.

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)

72 The content around here seems to be getting kind of thin...

Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 07:56 AM (in6WL)

73 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.

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)

74 You ever get a hangover so bad not only do you feel like shit, but you still feel drunk at the same time? 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.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at August 29, 2010 07:58 AM (V/EYZ)

75
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)

76 Lefty "farmers" double down on dollars: Moron commenters present single-finger salutes.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 07:58 AM (AZGON)

77 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.

Try "flip thingy."

Posted by: Homer J. Simpson at August 29, 2010 07:59 AM (kxQZx)

78 Moron commenters present single-finger salutes.

And drop trou in front of the White House.

Posted by: Moron Commenter at August 29, 2010 08:01 AM (kxQZx)

79 77

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)

80 75  "I don't understand this moron motto "No allies with higher IQs."

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)

81 Moron commenters present single-finger salutes. Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 11:58 AM

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)

82 Love my Charlie K !

Posted by: Home of Joe Biden at August 29, 2010 08:03 AM (zdY2n)

83

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)

84 Gosh, didn't Stalin and Mao have a similar problem with a segment of the populace that just wouldn't think the way they were supposed to? What was their solution again?

Posted by: neuromancer at August 29, 2010 08:05 AM (UH66/)

85 How could've he possibly been a bad president?

Did he go to Harvard?  If not, bad.

Posted by: B. Hussein Obumble at August 29, 2010 08:06 AM (kxQZx)

86
What was their solution again?

Their 'problems' weren't as heavily armed.

Posted by: Dang Straights at August 29, 2010 08:07 AM (in6WL)

87 Andy Roddick pooped his pants!

Posted by: Man in the Box at August 29, 2010 08:08 AM (HLGCA)

88 Leo, Beck certainly has faults and I do not see the religious content of Beck's message the way many folks here do, but Beck et al did a fantastic job yesterday. This rally is just what the Country needs. People need to see physical manifestations of what they and others are thinking and feeling. This is how civilized folks rebel without violence.

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:09 AM (rIm2V)

89 Beck is pretty handy with a longbow, I hear.

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:12 AM (rIm2V)

90
This is how civilized folks rebel without violence.

Pikers.

Posted by: French Muslim Teens at August 29, 2010 08:12 AM (kxQZx)

91 - memorializing the impact of a hurricane to one city while ignoring all other impacted cities and subsequent natural disasters= inspiring, profound, insightful, well-meaning media coverage

- 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)

92 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?


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)

93 soooooo what happened to all the money people donated to katrina?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 08:14 AM (eOXTH)

94
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)

95 Meow!  'zat you Aretha?

Posted by: EZB at August 29, 2010 08:14 AM (fa9yq)

96 This is how civilized folks rebel without violence.

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)

97

 "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)

98 How could've he possibly been a bad president?
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)

99 I have really been thinking long and hard about this all day yesterday and I could not fall asleep last night.  I know a lot of lib/dems, a lot of them and they span the spectrum, they all aren't hard core ultra left wing libs but none of them even get near to RINO.   But they have a collective fear of conservatives.  Which I find off and I'm having a very difficult time understanding actually.  (If God forbid some weather problem hit them and they found themselves ok but with their house flooded or something, I would be willing to bet copious amounts of money (if I had it) that all these folks would be lined up outside a conservatives door asking them what to do and how to do it and when to do it.  Now, I"m only basing that on you guys but seeing them and seeing you guys, I know that's what would happen)

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)

100 jimmah didn't hate america.....he just hated jews

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 08:17 AM (eOXTH)

101
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)

102 Oh fucking sweet Jesus on a stick  I got so sick of the Katrina coverage I put on SportsCenter, and they're doing... a Katrina retrospecitve.

Posted by: Man in the Box at August 29, 2010 08:18 AM (HLGCA)

103 So let's elect Glenn Beck president because he surely lacks those offensive credentials.

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)

104 memorializing the impact of a hurricane to one city while ignoring all other impacted cities and subsequent natural disasters= inspiring, profound, insightful, well-meaning media coverage You so beat me to it. I was just thinking, "Why has none of the MFM hand-wringing over Katrina centered on Mississippi which was equally devastated, why ignore other Lousiana cities, why only look at New Orleans? Answer: Ray Nagin and his political party.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 08:19 AM (AZGON)

105
Katrina, the national disaster that democrats love most.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 29, 2010 08:19 AM (0fzsA)

106 @105 +10 to the tenth power

Posted by: George Orwell at August 29, 2010 08:20 AM (AZGON)

107 You so beat me to it. I was just thinking, "Why has none of the MFM hand-wringing over Katrina centered on Mississippi which was equally devastated, why ignore other Louisiana cities, why only look at New Orleans? Answer: Ray Nagin and his political party.

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)

108 113 Katrina Obama, the national disaster that democrats love most.

FTFY

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 29, 2010 08:21 AM (kxQZx)

109

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)

110 we know hilary gave $10 to the pakis.....how much did she donate to the oil spill? or katrina for that matter?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 29, 2010 08:22 AM (eOXTH)

111
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)

112

113
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)

113 WashPost "PostPartisan" quiz:

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)

114 Didn't the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of new Orleans prevent the federal government from doing anything from the get go and didn't the mayor of new Orleans totally mishandle the whole evacuation, leaving the school buses sitting in the lot?  I haven't seen any retrospectives and I'm going on memory and the fact that my amateur weather person friend came running in white as a ghost three days before saying "holy shit it looks like that hurricane is going straight for new Orleans and that wouldn't be good"..."they need to be preparing yesterday, I hope they see that"....and us dummies said "on of course they do, don't worry about it, if you see it, they see it"

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:24 AM (p302b)

115 Great column. I am going to say this knowing it will irritate some on this board. Beck is what we have because of a vacuum of leadership. I do watch his show and find agreement with him. But he is more emotive than strategic. I still haven't found what I'm looking for. But we are moving in the right direction. I have been watching CNN this morning downplaying any importance to the mass at the mall knowing that if it were the NEA there instead it would be "significant." Sherlock,s point added to Ace's ad are the point of attack.

Posted by: Locus Ceruleus at August 29, 2010 08:25 AM (tzcjs)

116 113
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)

117 Taranto's column reminded me of David Brooks' column from 2002 on what he called "bourgeoisophobia".

Posted by: Gran at August 29, 2010 08:26 AM (kmmbv)

118 That's overwhelmingly white of you to say that, Ace.

Posted by: the MFM at August 29, 2010 08:26 AM (3phFo)

119 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 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)

120 -looting, intentional destruction of property, civil disobedience, fraud= national tragedy needing 5+ years of media coverage and free homes, benders and FEMA cash for everyone (so long as you are a minority)

- 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)

121 128 -looting, intentional destruction of property, civil disobedience, fraud= national tragedy needing 5+ years of media coverage and free homes, benders and FEMA cash for everyone (so long as you are a minority)

- 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)

122 Posted by: Damiano at August 29, 2010 12:28 PM

Nice dot-connecting there!

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2010 08:30 AM (Ulu3i)

123 Oh, no, Jimmy didn't hate America.  No.  That's why he tried to bend us over and bang us in the pooper without even a reach around, and then when America kicked his ass to the curb, went around the world talking behind her back about how big a slut America is.

Yep - Jimmah loves America.

Posted by: Editor at August 29, 2010 08:31 AM (YX6i/)

124

#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)

125 we know hilary gave $10 to the pakis.....how much did she donate to the oil spill? or katrina for that matter?

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)

126 Yep - Jimmah loves America.

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)

127 I can't believe a lib said to me this morning "wow, there's your 2012 team, Beck and Palin", it'll be perfect, right"......

well, she wasn't one of my good friends anyway

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:36 AM (p302b)

128 Yep - Jimmah loves America.

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)

129 The American People are starting to learn the the "news" is not news. That the Democrats and the MFM are two sides of the same coin. Go ahead, MFM, keep calling them names.

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:37 AM (rIm2V)

130 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.

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)

131 I think carter, though, is very religious and bases his life on his faith.  So I think his problem is that no one really can live up to the ideals he has living in his head. If your "frame of reference" on the world is either wrong or missing parts or you can't conceive of it, then it follows that your decisions are going to be wrong cause they were based on wrong assumptions to begin with.  (not sure I'm getting this across)  I  know those Olympians will always despise him

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:40 AM (p302b)

132

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)

133

#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)

134 From Newsbusters: JOE KLEIN: YouÂ’ve had over the last year, two or three major incidents of deranged Muslims, the Army doctor down at Fort Hood, the Times Square bomber, who were Americans, American citizens. MATTHEWS: And whatÂ’s stirring them up? This attitude against them? KLEIN: Yeah. But I also think that thereÂ’s a small minority of Muslims in the world who believe this extremist philosophy. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz0y0vUqrWL

Posted by: eman at August 29, 2010 08:42 AM (rIm2V)

135 OT:  And you thought Bell, CA officials were overpaid....pikers....

http://tinyurl.com/2d8ko9a

Posted by: Tami at August 29, 2010 08:42 AM (bfnnQ)

136 "Yoybtophobia"?

Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:42 AM (LutGd)

137 Its the economy, stupid.

Posted by: Robert at August 29, 2010 08:43 AM (cd6Ip)

138 I got it:  "Flobbiyiptophobia."

Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:44 AM (LutGd)

139 Let's try that again....

http://tinyurl.com/2dl729x

Posted by: Tami at August 29, 2010 08:44 AM (bfnnQ)

140 I have this other word idea too.  I was going to suggest calling cars "pedophobes."  See, fear of walking, so you drive.  Cool, huh?

Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:45 AM (LutGd)

141

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)

142 While we're at it, we should call these paleoprogressives "PP-ers."

Posted by: James Taranto at August 29, 2010 08:47 AM (LutGd)

143 The RNC can't run a commercial like that because at heart they believe the same things as the Dems.    They believe they are better than the average voter.

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)

144 I just took a quick look at Carter's wiki page.  Wow, had no idea how much of the mess we have today was created by him.  He managed to do an awful lot of damage in one term.

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:48 AM (p302b)

145 I just took a quick look at Carter's wiki page.  Wow, had no idea how much of the mess we have today was created by him.  He managed to do an awful lot of damage in one term.

N
ow 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)

146 We are all obstreperous now!

Posted by: AmishDude at August 29, 2010 08:56 AM (3wPsb)

147 Yesterday fox interviewed jason chaffetz at the rally event.  He was just there in the crowd and he was well spoken, he gets what's going on in America.  Anyway, I wanted to make sure he was a republican before I said he was a republican but I went to his page and it isn't right there, it doesn't say "republican representative"....now I don't normally look at these pages but is it now out of fashion to show party affiliation?  I had to look at his bio to figure out that I was right and he is a republican.  Well I went to Peter King's website and he doesn't have anything about party affiliation either.  But he does have a poll about AZ's immigration law that you all can take. (it's on the right, very tiny little question).  Anyway, if they aren't proud of their party affiliation that speaks volumes.

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 08:58 AM (p302b)

148

"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)

149 Dems are Phobophobes

Posted by: ingenus at August 29, 2010 09:00 AM (+sBB4)

150

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)

151 I hope Ace institutes a "captcha" system of some sort to stop the spam-bot watch specials. The last shipment I got didn't even look like Rolex -- more like Timex.

Posted by: Soon-to-be-Ex-ExZonie at August 29, 2010 09:06 AM (gZHvI)

152 What does it mean when a person hangs the flag upside down?

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 09:06 AM (p302b)

153 I like your idea for an ad, Ace. But if they ever used it we would have to get you and your immediate family into hiding - stat! A name change and some plastic surgery would also help.

Posted by: Moi at August 29, 2010 09:06 AM (Ez4Ql)

154 I noticed something new at home depot.  they have a flag pole now and it is lighted with the flag.  I was pretty annoyed with them as lately they haven't had stuff I needed at the right price and I've been going to lowes instead but when I saw the newly installed and lighted flag I felt well i'll buy it here even if it is five bucks more.

Posted by: curious at August 29, 2010 09:10 AM (p302b)

155 46You 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 11:22 AM (5+Fvb)

158 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 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)

156 17--I can't speak for anyone other than myself, of course, but  I am a conservative Jew and would far rather live in a Christian nation than a godless one.

Posted by: dulce at August 29, 2010 09:36 AM (Z8tGV)

157 Still looking for where I said I was "concerned."

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)

158 Hey Kemp, how's tricks?

Posted by: Blazer at August 29, 2010 09:55 AM (NRr+T)

159 As to, you know, THE TOPIC;

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)

160 I think carter, though, is very religious and bases his life on his faith. 

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)

161 *And now for the REAL moron of the day story from Myrtle Beach* Fuck you Vic! I am the real moron of Myrtle Beach and if you don't like it you can move.

Posted by: Mayor John Rhodes at August 29, 2010 10:30 AM (oj52M)

162

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)

163 controversial shock jock Glenn Beck

Eek-a-mouse!

Posted by: gail at August 29, 2010 10:53 AM (f46PC)

164 I looked at this at my place as well. It's interesting that I'm drawing some agitated responses. Perhaps we're striking home.

Posted by: Prof. Mondo at August 29, 2010 11:17 AM (yndqP)

165 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.

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)

166 The party affiliation problem seems to swing both ways. I tripped over Rodney Glassman's web site (he's running against McCain) and except for press releases that he's posted, the word "Democrat" has been scrubed clean, along with any mention of President Obama. Frankly if you are running against John McCain, party affiliation has to be pretty obvious to any voter who can tie their own shoes. So clearly Glassman is bottom feeding for those who can't.

Posted by: fapo at August 29, 2010 11:46 AM (TcaE8)

167 "Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' " What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left." I left that quote from Taranto's column in the WSJ. SO appropriate! We SHOULD embrace "Oikophobia" as our retort to the Looney Left.

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 29, 2010 12:07 PM (tJjm/)

168

"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)

169

How about "Okey-phobia"?  A bunch of racist, homophobic Okeys.

Posted by: timothyj at August 29, 2010 12:19 PM (7SxtJ)

170 You expect us to trust you, Ace? With the overwhelmingly white background you use on this blog?

I think not!

Posted by: Overwhelmingly AnonymousDrivel at August 29, 2010 12:27 PM (swuwV)

171 Hickenlooper founded fund that supports far-left groups

http://3.ly/DHvd

Posted by: ninjapirate at August 29, 2010 12:39 PM (z3txl)

172 Oikophobia? Whew! I thought it read Okiephobia. You know, the fear of Oklahomans. For a second there, the Libs had a point.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 29, 2010 01:08 PM (swuwV)

173 Why bother with the RNC unless you still expect something from Michael Steele. Jim DeMint's organization is the way to go.

Posted by: Banjo at August 29, 2010 03:39 PM (nnZ5F)

174

"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)

175 Damn, you're good.  I posted almost the same stuff at 10:46 AM (CDT.)

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)

176 Leftism appeals to two kinds of people:

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)

177

Charles has a way with words.

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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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