Posted on 12/07/2009 10:20:45 AM PST by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
On November 22, Frank Rich had this to say about the attendees of Sarah Palin book signings [via TimesWatch]:
“That demographic is white and non-urban: Just look at the stops and the faces on her carefully calibrated book tour. The affect is emotional — the angry air of grievance that emerged first at her campaign rallies in 2008, with their shrieked threats to Obama, and that has since resurfaced in the Hitler-fixated ‘tea party’ movement (which she endorses in her book)....Palin is at the red-hot center of age-old American resentments that have boiled up both from the ascent of our first black president and from the intractability of the Great Recession for those Americans who haven’t benefited from bailouts.” — Columnist Frank Rich on Sarah Palin’s fans, November 22.
There are so many thoughts in my head right now about this pathetic hateful leftist hack with a word processor that I don't know where to begin. Seriously, I don't think there is an iota of truth, fact, or reality in this excerpt. OK, let's try to parse this line by despicable line:
1. White and non-urban. Translation: Racist rednecks. Just another instance of a liberal ideologue looking only at skin color and not content of character. As I wrote earlier in the fall, the attendance at my synagogue is all white and non-urban, a "sea of white people." Guess my congregation is just a bunch of racist rednecks.
2. The affect is emotional. Oh yeah, because Obama speeches with the freaking tears rolling down fans' cheeks is not emotional, right? Democrat politicians screaming to some audience of robots that unless you elect them, 500 million people a year are going to die due to lack of health insurance, the entire economy is
I hope the left keeps trashing the people they so obviously hate. AND that these “unwashed redncks” remember at election time!!!
It must really bother him that the votes of those backwoods hicks counts just as much as his candy-assed ‘evolved’ urban metrosexual vote does.
SnakeDoc
Affect does not = effect. I’ll betcha Sarah knows the difference. Frank Rich needs to go back to school.
The reaction to Obama is emotional - on both sides. Just over half of the country voted against America, hoping emotionally that the socialist dictatorship that replaces freedom will be an improvement (Hope! Change! Won't have to pay my mortgage!). Just under half the country then, over half now, reacted to Obama's efforts to destroy our country the same way we reacted to Hirohito's similar efforts exactly 68 years ago today (Election day, November 4, 2008 — a date which will live in infamy). At least with Palin, her supporters are inspired to become better people.
Affect
–noun 4. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
Hitler-fixated accusations - by the Bushitler crowd
I’m confused I thought we were the cold hearted Conservatives who hated kids and puppies? Now we are emotional? Which is it liberals it can’t be both!
Frank Rich is upping the ante by trying to link Sara with Adolf Hitler. Such charges could be a physical danger to Sara and may continue if not vigorously refuted. Frank Rich is yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
Keep on writing, Mr. Frank Rich - Palin2012 is just around the corner, go ahead and campaign for her with your ignorant women hating nasty diatribes.
He's using the appropriate word here, "affect". He's describing the emotion or disposition of her crowds.
I love it when liberals just assume that everything we do, say, or think is because we are racists and don’t like having an (almost) black man in the WH.
“The affect is emotional” is bad writing.
The usual noun is Effect. So one possibility is bad spelling.
Affect, used as a noun, MEANS emotion. So if Rich didn’t misspell, then he’s horribly redundant, indicating he doesn’t even know the meaning of his words. Overpaid and undereducated. But hey, at least he’s URBAN(e).
Could you please tell me where the Frank Rich Truth File is located? What a pathetic characature of a human being is he.
The left is bleeding voters on its flanks, independents who are getting their eyes opened, and they don’t mind being called rednecks by pinko faggots who are out to rob them blind, destroy their lives, and grind this nation into the ground. The choice is simple, Sarah and the principles this nation was founded on, or the lying liars and their philosophies of libtard plundering.
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