Posted on 09/07/2008 12:21:36 AM PDT by neverdem
I think he may have intended this as satire, or partly satire. But this really hits the nail on the head.
Eskimos have 27 words for snow, Liberals have 27 reasons why it’s OK to kill an unborn baby, and Conservatives have two important ethical words: “right” and “wrong”.
"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
The finest level of satire is when it is factual with a good portion of tongue-in-cheek humor thrown in for flavor.
Lipson NAILS IT with style in this piece.
Hopefully, an image of a hammer and nail continue to appear, expressing the accuracy of the author's keen observations in his righteous smack down of the left (as opposed to seeing a red X in a box).
Loved it.
Reminds me of “The Body Ritual of the Nacirema,” one of the most ingenious and creative pieces of writing I’ve ever come across, which I was assigned to read in Sociology 101 back in the ‘80’s...hint: “Nacirema” spelled backward is...
I really enjoyed reading this.
(Guess we could just call what appears to be, their obvious bias here - and their collective determination to ignore the discrepancies - the 'Oprah Effect'.)
The essay is actually titled “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema’:
https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html
He nails it.
One major reason why this highly intelligent, sophisticated and diverse crowd has discarded all semblance of impartiality in overing this election is that most of them won't be around to influence the next one.
Sarah speaks for the people. To date, she has verbally kicked Obamassiah's @ss for the tribe. She's our voice.
She's not all about Sarah like Obamassiah.
That’s great! [grin]
Written in a satirical vein while also making a valid point.
And I like the way he talks down to the Dems and the media. They deserve no better after their reprehensible behavior that appears to be blowing up in their faces.
Yesterday a friend stopped by for a cold one and was discussing the pres race. He is a political refugee from Cuba and has only been here a little over a year. He is just a regular guy...goes to work, takes care of his family and looking forward a normal life here.
He made this comment “she is like real Americans...she is what we think Americans are..” The “we” refers to people outside the US and legals here.
Think about it.
"I used to read James George Frazer's seminal classic of mythology, The Golden Bough. Liberals don't really understand conservative rituals and mythology. It might as well be to them terra incognita as is to us moderns the vanished practices and beliefs of the ancients. "
5 posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 3:33:53 AM by goldstategop
Now, before they are sent rushing off to the library for volumes of Rousseau, Frazer, Jung, Durkheim, Lévi-Strauss, Richard Hofstadter, and Margaret Mead, to start their own Coming of Age in Wasilla seminar...there should be a few guidelines. The readings for this week's homework are on the desk: Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, ed. by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan, pp. 23-52. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
I think to be fair someone should prepare an audio-visual presentation on the habitat of liberals in Cambridge, Massachusetts and south Chicago. Particularly focusing on the folklore, rituals, superstitions, and tribal customs of liberals. Maureen Dowd has already given us a few hints that the Ma Barker Archetype plays a role in their mythology, superstitions, and tribal lore. A rather important one for early-20th-century liberal matriarchal subcultures.
This is a tough grind month in Ivydom as it is, with all of them speed-reading through paperbacks of Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, and Fanon. Don't be too hard on liberal dorks. They tend to get angry when confused and pushed beyond their paradigm.
Eventually someone snarky enough on the liberal side is going to pick up on the totemism and fetishism of the monkey-god idol and reexamine their involvement in a millenarian messiah cult promising a socialist utopia.
> He made this comment “she is like real Americans...she is what we think Americans are..” The “we” refers to people outside the US and legals here.
Think about it.
(AMEN BROTHER! Can you get a witness?? I said, CAN YOU GET A WITNESS???!!)
I’ll witness to that! It’s true! That is how people outside America — like me — think all you Americans are like.
Sarah Palin is the typical American.
God Bless America!
God Bless Americans!
When I heard about Obama’s “bitter and clinging” comments at that San Francisco fundraiser I immediately thought of a medieval explorer (Vasco Obama?) reporting back to his patrons about the primitive peoples he had encountered during his travels...
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