Vanity Fair Editor: "Man Up, America!" [Projectile Vomiting Alert]

Vanity Fair (linked from Drudge) | Graydon Carter

[seanmerc]

Per copyright restrictions and FR posting guidelines, can't display the article. So, here's a link:

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2010/12/graydon-201012

[seanmerc]

It's just as well that I can't post the article. It almost made my head explode. Every liberal stereotype of conservatives is on display in the first paragraph. No surprise coming from a guy with the last name of Carter, I guess...

[a fool in paradise]

Bill Clinton was a centrist?

Bush was some extreme conservative?

Brawwwwaaaarrrrrrfffffffffff.

[eeevil conservative]

I told my son when he was two that he could throw a tantrum all he wanted......but he would have to do it without an audience.....I put him in his room, closed the door, and told him he could come out when he was done.....

In some cases, watching these leftist throw their tantrums is actually kind of fun.....I mean, you expect from a two year old.....but these folks make it funny.......

[a fool in paradise]

He’s upset that the liberal agenda is being questioned in Europe now after 65 years.

[Tzimisce]

...if anyone really cared what Vanity Fair thinks, they’d still be selling magazines....

[mojito]

Greydon Carter is the epitome of the smug, condescending, self-worshiping NYC ivy league, upper east side cocktail party elite whose political understanding is reflected in such pools of wisdom as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In other words, The Daily Show and Bill Maher with a slightly better vocabulary.

[Darkwolf377]

A guy with the name “Greydon” who writes for the metrosexual bible Vanity Fair is in no position to demand that anyone else “man up.”

[Billthedrill]

The entire idea of someone writing in Vanity Fair telling anyone to "man up" makes me chuckle. What if I don't, am I gonna get hit with a purse?

[Billthedrill]

One minute. Dang it.

[Rashputin]

To the idiots on the left, “Man Up” means buy cargo pants with a gray camo pattern and a Che Tee shirt to replace their hemp carpenters pants and "Kiss a Whale" tee shirt.

What a joke these people are. I wonder if these big tough talking lefties who preach to the choir ever catch a glimpse of themselves, so to speak, and realize what soft, limp wristed, excuses for decent human beings they really are?

Regards

[catnipman]

“The entire idea of someone writing in Vanity Fair telling anyone to “man up” makes me chuckle.”

Indeed. Almost as funny should Oprah tell her audience to “man up”!

I glanced at the article. Man, talk about a waste of words. I wonder if that has anything to do with this:

(August 9, 2010) “Factoring in numbers from the Wired, Vanity Fair and GQ iPad apps, single copy sales are down 12.4 percent across Conde Nast’s 18 titles. Digital edition downloads for GQ, Vanity Fair
and Wired are counted as part of single copy sales.”

[loveliberty2]

Ignorance of history, such as that displayed in this article, is part of the reason the American Dream is out of reach for many young Americans and their parents who have been "dumbed down" for the past several decades.

A recent book entitled, "The Destruction of the Great American Dream," deals with this question from a principles standpoint.

America's Founder's in-depth understanding of human nature and the ideas essential to liberty, combined with their passionate devotion to the cause of securing liberty for future generations resulted in the U. S. constitution's possibility for the "American dream."

Since the beginning of the 20th Century, so-called "progressives" have attempted to censor those enduring ideas and principles from textbooks and public discourse. They have been on a determined path to substitute the counterfeit ideas of Mao and Marx for the authentic ideas of Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison--ideas which brought freedom, opportunity and plenty to America. People throughout the world called that "the American dream."

It is threatened today, because after decades of neglect, the citizens of 2008 were blinded and bedazzled by a flash in the pan called "hope" and "change," accompanied by a Pepsodent smile and a "fill-in-the-blank" that the resulting "change" would be "whatever your heart desires."

Citizens optimisticly filled in that blank with their own desires, and later discovered they had failed to recognize that the "blank" already was filled in with the words "socialism" and "government control of your lives."

The American dream? Same as it always was: the right to enjoy Creator-endowed life and liberty, free from the cocercive hand of government.

The Pepsodent smile faded as the heavy hand of government in the pockets of hard-working Americans caused hardship and lack of investment in job-creating businesses, and politician-appointed bureaucrats were seen to be ready to take the place of local doctors on matters of health.

That over-reaching by the promisers of "change" revealed that underneath the smile and velvet glove was an iron fist. The very boldness and arrogance of that over-reaching may have awakened enough citizens to bring America back from the dustbin of history.

It is time to restore the Founders' principles and to reject, here and now, the counterfeit notions of class warfare and the Alinsky tactics of the so-called "progressives" to impose Mao and Marx on the American people.

The election of 2010 is only the first baby step in that process. Before the restoration of liberty, the glove may come off, and the iron fist may reveal itself. Already, a scowl and pursed lips sometimes replace the gleam of the Pepsodent, and lectures replace the friendly chat. The rejection of the idea of limiting government power may come next.

If so, it must be met with the firmness and resolve of freedom lovers everywhere who understand that their rights come from their Creator, not from a few self-appointed folks who dare to believe they are better qualified than their fellow citizens to decide the limits on how much they can earn, what they can do with those earnings, and how much freedom they can have while they're doing it.

[ozzymandus]

You said it better than I could. “Man Up”?? Vanity Fair??

[Owl558]

Nice speech. I agree with you, but you are preaching to the choir.

Problem is that the people you are “educating” don’t believe in the constitution or the republic.

And they certainly don’t read posts on FreeRepublic.

[redpoll]

There’s also a reason that there’s no place for reader response with the article. What a bunch of stereotypes cobbled together with an interesting font. The only good thing that I got out of the reading was that the left, indeed, continues to be deluded, which means that more and more people will be disillusioned.

[Hildy]

That’s rich coming from Vanity Fair that makes all its money from ads that always seem like their target is hormonal teenagers.

[loveliberty2]

You may be right, but don’t rule out the willingness and deteremination of people on FR to copy and circulate such messages to Leftist blogs, to liberal friends, and to write letters to the editor, utilizing some of the things they come across on this great site!!!!

[Owl558]

Hear hear

[SkyPilot]

This anger-fest is in no way confined to America. Indeed, in Europe it is becoming even uglier, what with anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise, especially against Muslims and Gypsies. In Britain, a growing anti-Islam group, the English Defence League, holds demonstrations almost monthly, usually in areas where there are high concentrations of Muslim immigrants. These protests are almost always accompanied by violence. In Germany, where 30 percent of the electorate believes the country is “overrun by foreigners,” Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a speech recently in which she declared that the country’s attempt to build a multicultural society has failed utterly. (And the Germans are usually so good at this.) French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi have both ordered the expulsion of Romanian Gypsies. In Sweden, a small number of Jews, having suffered at the hands of the local Muslim population, have just given up and immigrated to Israel.

Sheesh.

Talk about muddying the waters.

First of all, anyone who has ever lived in Europe (I lived there for 4 years) knows that Muslim enclaves in the inner cities are havens of rape and horrible crime. That is why (even the tolerant Dutch) have had enough.

Secondly, he throws the JEWS in the mix right after this to make his point! The Jews (along with the European Christians) are the TARGET of the crime, rape, and murder!!

Typical liberal - he cannot see good from evil, and evil from good.

[SkyPilot]

That’s rich coming from Vanity Fair that makes all its money from ads that always seem like their target is hormonal teenagers.