"THIS is the symbol of the left's arrogance..."
Posted on 02/13/2010 7:10:20 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
After our very own Editor-in-Chief David Horowitz wrote a post blasting progressive columnist and Professor of literature Eric Alterman, I sent the latter an email, inviting him to respond to Horowitz’s post right here, at NewsReal Blog. Why? Well, because we, unlike most progressives, mean it when we say we encourage debate.
Alterman emailed me back immediately. The answer was short: “No thanks.”
It’s what I should have expected from a leftist, of course, but for some reason, I expected better of Alterman. I thought he would actually be willing to break ranks with the rest of the radical progressive movement and engage in a serious debate with conservatives.
Not so. Instead, Alterman proved Horowitz is right when he says that most leftists have no tolerance for dissent. They only communicate with those who share their views. Everyone else is ignored.
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Pity... but they know that their arguments are weak, at best.
I’m not sure they “know” that. I think they tell themselves their arguments are strong, etc. They can get away with this delusional behavior because they only talk with like-minded people.
that’s my take on it anyway.
Obamacare is a good example of this. The wild eyed Dems in Congress simply don't want to hear opposing points of view.
You’re exactly correct. They like to live in a construct of their own creation....a bubble where their ideas are never challenged.
This is why the hardest of hardcore leftists go out of their way to slander Fox News and any ‘fair’ form of media.
They realize that many of their minons might ‘wake up’ if ever exposed to an alternative viewpoint. The goal of such demonization is to encourage them to NEVER watch, thus preserving the bubble.
His mom was a devout Catholic woman, and when she heard news of her son's move, she commented, "well, I'm so glad you have a two bedroom place. That way you can have your bedroom and she can have hers and then you'll have a spare room once you're married."
As many times as she was invited to visit, she never stepped foot into that apartment prior to the wedding. Something always happened to "come up" to prevent it.
I've dubbed it "Mrs. A Syndrome" in her honor--the avoidance of anything that will pop the little bubble of unrealistic hope you've created that even you yourself don't really believe.....Liberals have it big time.
They are only “brave” once they have totally consolidated state power, and they can begin to march the “useless eaters” into their death chambers.
“Why” Lenin demanded, “should we bother to reply to Kautsky?
It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class.”
Given Alterman's history, why would you let your emotion eclipse your reason?
Let that be another lesson to you. Thanks for shining a light on another anti-freedom con-man, another regressive.
Good post. Thanks for naming names.
HOORAY David Horowitz!
That reminds me of the old joke: If progress is moving forward, then what is congress? Still funny.
Actually the term ‘progressive’, which is a convenient smoke screen for liberal these days, goes back at least to the 1920s.
That’s an awesome and very telling story. I’ll have to bookmark your comment for further use ;)
Eric Alterman is one if not THE MOST ARROGANT, DESPICABLE PEOPLE ON EARTH!!
It's tough these days trying to live one's faith, and do what is right, when so many have abandoned that way of thinking.
It's gotta be difficult.
Cheers!
I know it’s a smoke screen, and also an old term. I was born in the ‘30s.
Alterman is a good example of how the left takes care of its own. He started as an acolyte of I.F. Stone (who pretended to he an heroic independent leftist journalist, but who was later found to be in the pay of the Kremlin). He was then pushed higher in media circles, got some “celebrity” degrees (universities take in high profile people in the media who wouldn’t get through the regular process to raise the profile of the university), and then was given a sinecure at a university (in a field in which he has no demonstrated competence) to supplement his media income and give him the “intellectual authority” that still somehow attaches itself to being a “professor”.
Alterman is second rate mind with an overwhelming ego problem.
Just so. She didn’t want to violate her faith by openly approving of sex outside marriage, and she didn’t want to quarrel or break with her son. And she hoped it would work out right in the end. So she avoided being certain of what she only suspected. And she waited until the marriage put things right.
It’s kind of like what to do when you are informed that your kid has robbed a bank. You don’t approve of bank robbery, but on the other hand you don’t want to simply disown your own kid. So you try to handle it gingerly, not approving of bank robbery, but also not doing anything that will permanently cut you off from your kid. You’re hoping he will go straight after getting out of jail and you’ll still have a connection.
I.F. Stone was another one of those “heroes” of journalism whose background was kept hidden from the public. I remember Dick Cavett used to have him as a guest on his talk show. Cavett never once, to my knowledge, mentioned that Stone was a diehard communist. Simiarly many hardcore leftist’s backgrounds were kept hidden from the public. They were advertised as “fierce critics” of the system who made corrupt pols toe the line. They were presented as the original speak truth to power types. Only they hadn’t invented the term at that time i.e. the pre-eighties.
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