Posted on 06/20/2012 2:59:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Dana, if I wanted to bend the knee docilely to a monarch, I’d prefer to reconcile to either Elizabeth II or Benedict XVI. Neither of them, at least, labors under the delusion that he or she is God.
Thank you for posting those reminders of the left’s free speech double standard.
Whenever you see an “inconsistency” in the positions taken by someone, you’re accepting a faulty premise - that they actually care about what they are complaining about or promoting.
Step back until you see the consistency. In this case, the consistency is the advancement of the leftist agenda. So, you challenge the complainer with the actual issue - “you only oppose this because it thwarts your agenda. You really don’t care about the ‘civility’ of the situation at all.”
In Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn tells the story of a village somewhere in the Russian countryside in the 1930s. Some Moscow party officials, along with some NKVD agents, paid a visit to the town and order the residents to all attend a town meeting where one of the party officials read aloud one or another of Stalin’s long, boring dreary speeches.
At the end of the reading, everyone in the town jumped to their feet and started clapping. They knew they were being watched and judged so they continued clapping and clapping and clapping. No one wanted to be the first person to STOP clapping and so the clapping went on and on and on. Only the NKVD agents stood stone-faced without clapping; they were busy watching, and waiting. The wanted to see who would stop clapping first.
Finally the eldest man in the village, and one of the village leaders, stopped clapping and sat down. Instantly everyone else stopped clapping and sat down.
The next day, the village elder who had stopped clapping first was arrested by the NKVD and transported to the Gulag where he quickly died.
Dana Milbank would NEVER be in danger of being the first to stop clapping. Dana Milbank is absolutely, 100% safe.
Nothing. They're both full of sh*t.
Montana ping here! Plus some other Freeper friends!
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Absolutely Finest Kind.
I’ve been ROFLMAO for the past hour, gotta stop for a beer and a post so Grandma and the visiting grandkids don’t think that I’ve lost my mind.
.....And as far as WaPo, Milbank and the rest of the lib punks are concerned, there’s an Old School Navy phrase that just about covers the whole deal:
[BLEEP] ‘em if they can’t take a joke.
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