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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Not sure who called Mort a Dem/idiot, but watching those clips brought back memories. The one with his friend, Pat Buchanan, talking about Vietnam, Ollie North, etc., was an example of his disdain of liberals as well as his patriotic feelings about the U.S.
But, for those of you old enough to remember (I was, just barely:-) - long before our FNC guys, long before Mort, there was....... Joe Pyne! Remember him? Loved to stay up late & watch that show whenever I spent the night at my grandparents.
You can catch some clips on youtube - check him out. That was back in the Sixties.
Wow, in watching all those old clips, what a sad contrast between then (total freedom of speech, and values were still good back then) vs. the political correctness (and progressive, tyrannical agenda) of now.
If they think Beck is Like Morton Downey Jr. then I guess the left no longer views Glenn as a threat and will back down on all their boycott calls for his show...
Crickets Chirping.....
“Joe Pyne! Remember him?”
Pyne was before my time, but my older brother unearthed some of his shows and turned me on to him:
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