Shrinking the Clinton theory to fit (Begala/Brock demonizing the Right, but it's not working!)

San Jose Mercury News ^ | April 10, 2002 | Kathleen Parker

[Timesink]

The wing conspirators are at it again, but this time it's the left demonizing the right.

Representatives on the left have said that the right's ``hatred'' of former President Clinton is a function of ``Freudian projection.'' That is, those who hate Clinton really hate themselves.

[Timesink]

A few days old, but good to read.

[Cyber Liberty]

The classic nutz & slutz argument, writ large.

[Caribou]

DemonRATs should know what projection is, they do it all the time. Accuse others of what you are guilty of before they assuse you.

[thucydides]

Although Clinton is a man beneath contempt, excessive focus on him is a mistake. He was, after all, a not too uncommon example of psychopathology. What should be of concern is how millions of our fellow citizens worshipped him, how members of his party were willing to defend anything regardless of truth. What we ought to be focusing on is what he tells about the state of our culture. Our anger should be focused on his facilitators and apologists.

[philman_36]

Aw, come on. All of it should be given for content!
BuzzFlash Interviews Paul Begala (Part Two)
PAUL BEGALA: You know what I'm thinking it is? I've thought about this a lot. My latest pet theory is projection -- the psychological theory that says you take things you hate most about yourself, project them onto somebody else and attack them for that. So in other words, I think this is self-hatred projected on an innocent man. That's what I believe.

I believe these people hate themselves. I believe they hate our country. I believe they hate our culture. And they can't deal with that. They can't accept the level of self-loathing that they have, and so they project it onto someone else. I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? I don't think so. For all of his many faults, he is a man who, until he became the President of the United States of America, never earned more than $35,000 a year because he put service first. He is a man who, despite all of his many flaws and sins, has raised a good kid in as difficult a circumstance as you can possibly imagine. I mean, by any standard of measure, he is a good man. He is a decent man. He is a successful man. And yet they heap this hatred on him. I believe it is because they hate themselves. And for that, I'll continue to pray for them.
Just believe!
Bow-wow-wow.

[moyden]

The liberal worships Clinton because of what he is, not in spite of what he is.

[backhoe]

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