Posted on 02/01/2011 10:48:49 PM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
If progressives wonder why they began to falter at the end of the 20th century, I can tell them.
Analogies.
The great battles for black, workers', and female rights having been (mostly) won. So-called "liberals" started calling themselves "progressives" at the precise moment they began, perversely, living in (and off) the past.
As the stakes got smaller -- a side effect of the shift in the Left's locus from the streets and the factory to the academy -- the rhetoric became more comically overblown.
So a girl demanding admittance to an all-male military school was held up as the Rosa Parks of the Citadel. (After dragging the school through an expensive lawsuit, and winning, the stupid chick dropped out her first week).
Some New York transvestites at a Mafia-run bar got maudlin drunk after Judy Garland died then attacked some cops -- and "Stonewall" was held up as synonymous with "Selma." Baby seals were just like Bangladesh babies, with snow.
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Wow...the left is comparing Beck to ol’ Mort? Man...that’s so desperate that’s actually funny! I’m not a big fan of Beck, but come on...Morton Downey, jr? LOL!
For the youngins’ not aware of the circus that was Mort:
Mort versus schlock horror film maker Lloyd Kaufman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFtusuqoaMQ
Mort has the Guardian Angels on - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUNxvKqAIeY
Roy Innis and Al Sharpton get into it on Mort’s stage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_WryOg2oZU
I remember him!
It’s mostly a vague fog but I watched him— he seemed mean and scared me a bit but I would still watch.
Was he on the new FOX with 21 Jump Street and all that?
Yikes it has been a while...he’s dead? What happened?
The smokes got ‘im, Irenic. Downey died from lung cancer in 2001.
Remember this stunt?
Do the progressives know that most people either don’t remember or have never heard of Morton Downey Jr.?
Belated but RIP...he scared but fascinated me or something... I watched.
How old was he, if you know? Thanks for the response. :)
Beck is clearly much more like Wally George than Downey. /s
One year he sold out the 1,000 seat Club Casino in Hampton Beach NH. The next, his show was cancelled—because they had only sold 16 advance tickets.
Letterman’s Chris Elliot spoofed him as the Chris Elliot Jr show. One moment had Chris picking at a zit on his face and eating it.
No. He had a nighttime talk show on WWOR Channel 9 in NYC, and before that he was on KFBK radio in Sacramento. When he got canned at KFBK, the radio station hired Rush to take his place.
Yeah, the comparison is silly. Mort was in a league of his own.
What an absolute crock of B***S***!
Downey was 63 when he was first diagnosed. The docs removed a lung (yikes!) and he made it to 68 before giving up the ghost.
Interesting thing about Wally George, he claimed Mort copied his act. LOL
LOL, I remember that! Elliot was a hoot!
(Maybe if Letterman had him back on he wouldn’t suck so much!)
Maybe because Ted Baxter and Vanity are clueless?
OMG my ex was a huge fan of Mort. He was frigging hilarious. Going a mile-a-minute with the mouth, and with the cigarettes. lol crazy
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