Posted on 07/22/2016 5:16:27 AM PDT by Zakeet
They didn't riot in the streets of Cleveland, as Donald Trump said his supporters would do had things not gone his way. But you saw the raw essence of a riot, the madness and loss of reason, on display in four days of chaos at the Republican National Convention.
For a campaign now devoted to "law and order," the launch was mob rule: in spirit, in tone, in words. Long after we've forgotten Trump's closing speech - that paean to self, that nightmare portrait of an America where the lights have gone out - we will remember the savagery just below the surface.
Starting on night one, when Republicans chose to manipulate the grief-deranged mother of a terrorist victim, the build-up to the hanging of Hillary Clinton was never subtle. Imagine if one party had exploited a widow of one of the 241 service members killed in the 1983 suicide bombing of Americans in Beirut — the deadliest single attack on marines since World War II — as a stick against Ronald Reagan, whose administrative negligence was much to blame.
You can't imagine. Because nothing about this Republican Party, whose leader now stands ready to repudiate nearly 70 years of security for our European allies under an "America First" banner, even remotely resembles the Grand Old Party of before. You could not find a City on a Hill, a single Point of Light, no Morning in America. Only doom, dystopia, dread, darkness - and a bumper-sticker solution to restoring greatness.
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Yup. People have been saying that for decades.
The country needs to be on suicide watch for Nov. 9
I guess the libs forgot Cindy Sheehan, when they could not exploit her anymore for their own gain.
Nothing says “love” like an abortion.
They are panicked
I’m sensing a lot of bedwetting going on in the DNC’s state controlled “media” this morning. The snowflakes down at the NY Times and WaPo didn’t sleep well last night.
I love the smell of fear coming out of the slimes
The media in this country is every bit the evil and dangerous enemy to freedom as Islamic Terrorism. Both must be destroyed.
Agree. I assumed they were talking about Obama.....then I realized the source.
“...Republicans chose to manipulate the grief-deranged mother of a terrorist victim...”
You are disgusting boil on the body of American humanity in serious need of a lancing.
Her son, her progeny, her hope for grandchildren, the boy she sacrificed everything for is dead.
We aren’t the ones who riot. We aren’t the ones who break store windows, block highways, and throw bottles at cops. I can’t even think of a time that conservatives have rioted, in fact. If ever there was one, someone will have to fill me in, because I’ve never seen it.
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Must I at length the sword of justice draw?
Oh curst effects of necessary law!
How ill my fear they by my mercy scan,
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- Absalom and Achitophel, John Dryden
I think you just missed it by 'that much'
You could not find a City on a Hill, a single Point of Light, no Morning in America. Only doom, dystopia, dread, darkness...
So NYT both admits there was no riots or mob rule but there really was. Huh?
He’s all wee weed up. Probably because, as I learned over at the Post, there was another round of buyouts and looming layoffs of union “journalists” at the NYT.
Timmy. The Donald will make America GREAT again for you too.
Analysis of the media take on the RNC convention is quite simple and predictable.
They think the world is GREAT under Obama and Hillary. They cannot understand that the majority of Americans don’t share their opinion and they are upset.
Therefore, they see this their glasses as hate or negative or dark. They cannot see the utter destruction of traditional American values, jobs, law and order, leadership on the world stage.
They also cheer, support and promote liberalism and Obama/Clinton, so when people don’t like what’s going on they must paint those people as “negatives”.
It’s quite predictable as they are mostly all liberals and they HATE it when their programs fail and people get upset.
It has to be in the headline to avoid sanctions from the Ministry of Propaganda.
Corrupt liberal elites HAVE law and order - they pay for it with the money scammed from the rest of us... And illegals? Those are the folks that are cheap labor FOR THEIR BENEFIT. No, they’re doing just fine - they don’t want change.
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