Posted on 08/22/2008 5:38:03 PM PDT by SeattleTiger
Subtitle: John McCain can't stand sucking up to the Christian right. Is this the end of the GOP's unholy alliance?
"The Bible-thumpers, mainly working- and middle-class whites with limited educations from the landlocked states of the South and the Midwest, would seem to have had little in common with the archpriests of the neoconservative movement, who as it happened were mainly Jewish academics with fancy degrees from the East and West Coasts. But they did: They shared an almost equal disdain for democracy, free speech and learning, and paradise for both groups was an intellectually mute America of vast malls, prisons packed full of ungrateful blacks, shitty TV programming to keep the brains chilled and 200-foot-high electrified fences along the Rio Grande. And lots of hero worship of soldiers, if not so much in the way of VA benefits."
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Just an awful, divisive article that perfectly captures the myopic intolerance of the "inclusive" left.
And then I'll wonder whether I really want the guy working on my body.
Imus loves this jackass.
After weeks of hearing him rave about Taibbi, I read some of his stuff - adolescent, shallow crap
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
From Wikipedia:
In March 2005, Taibbi wrote a column for NY Press, entitled “The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope.”
If this article is representative of Rolling Stone’s idiocy then reading it before having your blood pressure taken is probably not a good idea.
Taibbi is clearly a moron. It amazes me how the lefties can be so unfamiliar about the “Bible thumpers” they profess to known so well. Idiot.
Very good point. Fortunately, I was at the foot doctor.
I totally agree. And we are generally more aware of our biases and the rationale that forms their basis - right or wrong. The left, as exemplified by this guy, blithely offends and blathers in a way they would find reprehensible were it directed to anyone they considered an equal, or a protected class. Must be galling to keep losing politically to "masochists with fourth grade educations" - heh.
Hey, Matt.....play this for your bathhouse boys!
And, incidentally, I hail from, went to college and graduate school and worked while residing in — the non-landlocked Southern states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida. The coastal towns are particularly welcoming to those from other places and cultures. My grad school honor roll was dominated by students from India: we looked up to them and tried to compete academically - they raised the bar. We southerners are educated, professionally successful — and devout and Republican. I am continually astounded by how acceptable it is to insult (white) southerners in ways that other groups might find lawsuit-worthy.
On February 1, 1993, The Washington Post ---[Heh. Google is my friend]--- got into a heap of PR trouble after reporter Michael Weisskopf wrote in a news story that followers of the Christian Right are "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command." And had to take it all back when actual research showed that Evangelical leaders are somewhat better-educated than the average American.
The longevity of easily-disproved stereotypes always fascinates me, in a depressing sort of way.
Read more at rollingstone.com...
No thank you.
And that is my issue - that some of the most fervent supporters of Obama seem to be bigots themselves. But they’re largely unaware of, or unfazed by, their bigotry toward southerners, Christians and Jews. That picture is awful to a religious person - and were it a Muslim caricature, there’d be an outcry. Since we Christians and Jews largely accept, respect and advocate free speech, (as do Buddhists and Hindus) it is un-challenged. Atheists seems particularly quick to take offense - and, given the distaste for Judeo-Christian religion in the article, and the absence of reference to other faiths, the author is clearly agnostic or atheist.
Always the optimist, I read this type of "journalism" as the final outbursts of the leftist shrews. After fifty years of having to put up with their garbage, I believe their time is coming to an end.
At least, I'd like to think so. They won't go out with a swan song, but what would you expect from such wonderful folks?
Fear not my FRiend the vast majority of Rolling Stones readership have no idea what “Tumescent” means nor do they have the attention span or mental capacity to look up the definition for “a” in a Merriam Websters much less the aforementioned “Tumescent”. Funny, this author doesn’t know much about the south, the religious right or even his own intended audience. He should have stuck with the four letter words and left those multi-syllable slurs alone.
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