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To: LBKQ; All
Morning quote (long but worth it)

Now we have explainers. They came into vogue with the murder of President Kennedy. They explained why the "real" culprit was not a self-described Marxist who had moved to Moscow, then returned to support Castro. No, the culprit was a "climate of hate" in conservative Dallas, the "paranoid style" of American (conservative) politics, or some other national sickness resulting from insufficient liberalism.

Last year, New York Times columnist Charles Blow explained that "the optics must be irritating" to conservatives: Barack Obama is black, Nancy Pelosi is female, Rep. Barney Frank is gay, Rep. Anthony Weiner (an unimportant Democrat, listed to serve Blow's purposes) is Jewish. "It's enough," Blow said, "to make a good old boy go crazy." The Times, which after the Tucson shooting said that "many on the right" are guilty of "demonizing" people and of exploiting "arguments of division," apparently was comfortable with Blow's insinuation that conservatives are misogynistic, homophobic, racist anti-Semites.

On Sunday, the Times explained Tucson: "It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman's act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But . . ." The "directly" is priceless. . . .

This McCarthyism of the left—devoid of intellectual content, unsupported by data—is a mental tic, not an idea but a tactic for avoiding engagement with ideas. It expresses limitless contempt for the American people, who have reciprocated by reducing liberalism to its current characteristics of electoral weakness and bad sociology.

-- George Will


143 posted on 01/11/2011 3:15:24 AM PST by The Raven
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To: The Raven
Yes, good one, ol' George.

The last comment, ......electoral weakness and bad sociaology is very good.

144 posted on 01/11/2011 4:10:03 AM PST by LBKQ
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To: The Raven

Did you get much snow, and did you go into the office yesterday?


145 posted on 01/11/2011 4:10:54 AM PST by LBKQ
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