Oh, how true! (gag) Just look at this candid photograph of the violent mob at a typical Tea Party event! Where's Janet Reno and her tanks now that we really need them?
Posted on 09/15/2010 8:26:04 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Ben Smith of Politico noticed that two "influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama" recently floated the notion that as the nation turns rightward and isn't voting with the extreme left, why we've all become "irrational."
In the New Yorker, George Packer wrote that we've become a mob of unreason. "Nine years later," he writes, "the main fact of our lives is the overwhelming force of unreason. Evidence, knowledge, argument, proportionality, nuance, complexity, and the other indispensable tools of the liberal mind don’t stand a chance these days against the actual image of a mob…"
Packer imagines that our "mob" mentality and "unreason" is why that wonderful, most smartest of all presidents in th' whole wide universe is "less and less able to speak to and for our times." We are deaf to Sir Smartness because we are all too stupid to understand, don't you see?
Smith also notes that the intellectually inconsistent Andrew Sullivan is basically saying the same thing as Packer said...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Oh, how true! (gag) Just look at this candid photograph of the violent mob at a typical Tea Party event! Where's Janet Reno and her tanks now that we really need them?
When Reagan was elected over Carter, Canadian douchebag Peter Jennings sadly informed the ABC News audience that America had just thrown a giant temper tantrum.
They have “evidence, knowledge, argument, proportionality, nuance, complexity, and the other indispensable tools of the liberal mind” to work with, and yet the best they can come up with is “Bush’s fault!” ?!
To be sure, many in the media who promote such nonsense are not journalists in the sense that they came up through the reportorial ranks, or they might be more disturbed than they appear to be by simple failure to report. Why project racism, ignorance, insensate emotion when you could, well, actually ask a few of the movement's members what is motivating them and write the answers honestly? Because that's a reporter's job, not that of a political activist, and they're not reporters.
We have absolute evidence based on our knowledge of where wealth comes from and the Dems' demonstrated lack of economic understanding that the complexity of running the country is above Obama's paygrade. We tried argument last summer, but the liberal mind ignored our objections and passed ObamaCare over our strenuous objections. When it comes to the unending trillion dollar deficits that Obama and Pelosi are dumping on our children, proportionality demands the response that we are seeing today. As for nuance, I'd say we're doing a fine job there. Real Americans who voted responsibly are keeping their jobs in Congress, and liberals like Blanche Lincoln are getting what they so richly deserve.
If the Dems try more monkeying with the polls as they did with Al Franken, ACORN, SEIU, and Philadelphia voter intimidation, then they'll get a real look at what a mob can do.
LOL, yeah for all their “nuance” and super smarts, that IS all they can come up with: “It’s Bush’s fault.”
What gets me is that there has never been a political movement in American history that has poured so many millions of Americans into the streets at rallies. Yet the left wholly dismisses it as inconsequential! The denial of reality simply amazes.
When Reagan was elected over Carter, Canadian douchebag Peter Jennings sadly informed the ABC News audience that America had just thrown a giant temper tantrum.
Well, no.
Peter Jennings made his comment about the American Electorate in 1994 after the Republicans took the House and Senate, not the 1980 Presidential election.
"Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."
-- ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14.
However, he was a MSM liberal 'douchebag'. :-)
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Exactly right on all counts!
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