Posted on 07/09/2012 4:49:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Liberals really are a single-minded lot: In their view, the only possible explanation for a person hoping that Barack Obama loses his next election is racism. All things political are analyzed through a filter of skin color, putting today's left directly at odds with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that his children "will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Conservatives might argue that leftists are hypocritical on this score, that they are judging Obama by his skin color and judging his critics by what they perceive to be the content of our characters -- based on nothing but our opposition to a far-left president who happens to be black.
But what they are demonstrating is not hypocrisy, it is projection. Liberals assume that since race is so important to them, it must be equally important to the rest of us, that it must, if you'll pardon the pun, color our every political thought. This is of course particularly true of the liberal elite who suffer deeply from what Hayek termed the "fatal conceit," a symptom of which is believing that all intelligent people must think as "Progressives" do -- and that all people not intelligent enough to think as they do are suited to be ruled by them.
The moral yardstick for the American left is now "the color of your character."
To liberals, when it comes to non-leftist critics of Barack Obama, the fact that many of us are not black means little less than that we wish the South had won the Civil War.
But when the subject is Barack Obama, the fact that his skin is black (despite his mother having been white) trumps all;....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
HOLY......!?!?!?!
Boing....!!
Look at dem puppies....you could balance a mug of brew on that shelf...
How do you like the rope support they have? Makes for a interesting shot
Rope??? What rope???
Them there babies don’t NEED any support...and they aren’t Silicone Mountains either...
In the words of a memorable Seinfeld episode...”And ohh...by the way...They’re Real, and They’re SPECTACULAR!!!!”
“...In the words of a memorable Seinfeld episode...”And ohh...by the way...They’re Real, and They’re SPECTACULAR!!!!”..”
And that was Teri Hatcher in that episode...she’s another one with a set of Wondrous Wombats...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL2PicT9Kng
Your comments on this subject are bringing me flashbacks of AL Bundy. Remember ‘Hooters’ magazine?
” I am the one with negativity problem. It was bad in 2008 and it’s got even worse now with Romney, Boehner and McConnell.
With those as friends who needs enemies? “
They ARE the enemy!
” Mine get sympathetic periods...Oy... one’s whining, the other is crying, then the other is bitching, and the other is cramping and whining, back to whining, and bleeding all over the damn place... it’s hell...HELL, I say...
My son just...RUNS....to the Man Cave to kill Zombies on the PS3.
So do I, for that matter....and we lock the girls out.”
You and your son gotz it all figgured out : )
( bien-pensant refers to people who 'think acceptable thoughts'...)
What a cool phrase - thanks for sharing...
Man’s GOT to have his priorities...hehehe
“Your comments on this subject are bringing me flashbacks of AL Bundy. Remember ‘Hooters’ magazine?”
Oh yeah!!!
The good ole days of TV...
” Because Dems tell him that those 50+ white male Republicans who are really secret KKKers who want to take away his Obama-care because they want all blacks to die. Get him raged to go out and get others to vote.
That is the plan. “
Quite transparent, but not for these mopes : )
I just wish I could think of many more ways to call the dozens on the sin-crime of vanguardism, which insults its alleged beneficiaries and bystanders all alike even as it degrades its dispensers.
No, O'Connor was a card-carrying, bleeding-heart liberal all his life.
Yes. Besides using the Archie character as a hate-puppet for other libs, Yorkin and Lear also used him for what Kirk and Madsen (in After the Ball), who were professional Mad Avenue marketing shrinks, called "jamming". Play back a person's character to him as a portrait in ugliness (tweaked and disfigured, of course) and then jam it down his throat, with the objective of a) behavior modification, b) energizing his enemies, c) encouraging friends to desert him, and d) encouraging him to abandon his own guiding lights by pretending to him that he is an object of toleration, and that the toleration is running out (deservedly, of course). It's an exercise in psychological bullying.
"Jamming" is a borrowing from radar-jamming and radio jamming (cf. the experience of Voice of America and Radio Liberty listeners in Communist countries in the 60's), and the idea flows from that frame of reference.
Lear's effort to "overhaul straight, white America" may have backfired by showing the (term then-current) Wallace-voting "hard hats" that the moneyed liberal elite had set its face against them, turning them into "Reagan Democrats".
By the way...what flick is that screen cap from???
Ahh!!! Married with Children!!!
Funny show. Always had a laugh from it.
One of the funnier moments I remember had Sam Kinnison as a Ghost showing Al what life would be like without him... he was hanging up Christmas lights and nearly electrocuted himself.. and Sam Kinnison suddenly appears as an Angel ala “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
Peg married Jefferson...and the kids were perfect angels.
It was hilarious...
“Funny show. Always had a laugh from it.”
Totally agree!
I don’t remember that episode though.
Peg Bundy is one of the few women out there that actually looks better after her plastic surgeries (boobs, nose, etc.).
They called them ‘hooters’ but Al Bundy’s favorite magazine was named ‘Bigguns’ .
I can’t imagine NFHale ‘reading’ a magazine with a name like that.
Never thought of it that way, but I think you're right. Insightful.
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