The Left’s Extras: For a myopic media, everything’s about Bush. [Mark Steyn]

National Review Online ^ | August 29, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

[Tax-chick]

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[Owl558]

"Perched on their little manure piles of self-regard, they demand that all the world be props in their personal movie."

I got to see this on display some months ago. We had an Afghan man at work (The area is home to a very large Afghan population) who tendered his resignation in order to go home and help take care of his family remaining in Kabul. Almost to a person we wished him well and took up a small collection for him to take home to help folks over there. Of course, the loud-mouthed leftist (every office has at least one of these, right) A) refused to give because it would be supporting Bush's war, and B) could not understand why the man was grateful to American soldiers and felt compelled to contribute to the rebuilding of his own country.

Props indeed.

[elbucko]

They're mere extras filling out the background in a story about competing factions of A-list white guys.

That is all that national politics is all about. Who it is from Harvard, Yale or Princeton, (HP) that is going to be president and bring in their fellow HYPie lackeys on their coattails. It matters not if their Democrat or Republican, they are still just Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Once in a while a Ronald Reagan comes along and shakes the old game up, but it soon returns to normal once the HYPies regroup, both left and right, to retake the White House.

Meanwhile, the HYPies that couldn't cut national mustard are put in charge of the state houses. These people are not fit to teach simple math at a community college, but they run California, Massachusetts and a lot in between.

All Joe Wilson is miffed about is that someone found out his "term paper" on Niger was cribbed and that his girlfriend kissed George Bush on the Quad. That's all. (yawn)

[elbucko]

Perched on their little manure piles of self-regard, they demand that all the world be props in their personal movie.

Well said. The Left always seem to unwrap their issues from one of their soiled diapers.

[Pokey78]

Thanks!

Steyn ping!

[COUNTrecount]

Thanks.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Man on man.

Really?

[Alexander Rubin]

Steyn!

[alwaysconservative]

Multiculturalism is a sort of Potemkin cosmopolitanism, a way of showing that you care without having to bother to know.

Thank you for such an articulate, profound, even Steynian post with the above punch line! It made me proud to be a FReeper when I read this (/intellectual groupie gushing)! We really DO have all the bright minds on our side!

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks, as always, for the wonderful ping, Pokey!

[Democratshavenobrains]

The fact that the Left gave up on Plame and Wilson just to jump on the Shaheen bandwagon shows that they knew it was nothing.

[johnb838]

I thought it was supposed to be Private Parts and Major Woody.

[eureka!]

Thanks for the ping. Wonderful Steyn, as usual...

[bray]

What is it like to wake up every day in a Country that you hate with every fiber of your being? To be employed by a company that you hate? To report on people you detest? What a miserable life to be a "reporter"?

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[irv]

There is an actual news story in Niger right now.

Funny. I work for a newspaper and don't remember anybody mentioning that. It must not really be happening.

[metesky]

The left loves humanity, it's people they hate.

[Felicity Fahrquar]

That sentence is a little slice of genius. It made me laugh loud enough to earn some disdainful looks from the folks in the next cubicle here at the library...

[federal]

Yeah Mark Steyn is the best, He has a uncanny way of cutting through the spin and hoopla with little nuggets of truth and humor.

[kellynla]

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