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| Sept. 1, 2002
| Trentino
Posted on 09/01/2002 9:37:15 AM PDT by Davis
John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..."
Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." MORE
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; johnpowers; left; republicans; right; slatemagazine; trentino; warofideas
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:37:16 AM PDT
by
Davis
To: Davis
Yeah right. Just one faction of the Frankfurt School displacing a more delusional and incoherent one.
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:40:04 AM PDT
by
junta
To: Davis
So, the liberals have been weighed and found wanting by the Persians? Hmmm. Gonna have to think about that one.....
To: Davis
Great quote:
"The Left's remaining hangers-on are delusional hoaxters, worthy targets of our scornful wit. It takes no great rhetorical skill to mock them. All we have to do is quote them."
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:40:43 AM PDT
by
Restorer
To: Billy_bob_bob
So, the liberals have been weighed and found wanting by the Persians?Actually, the Babylonians were weighted and found wanting by God. He gave their kingdom to the Medes and Persians as a result.
Minor nit.
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:42:11 AM PDT
by
Restorer
To: Restorer
'twas plenty to mock last week in Jo-berg.
To: Davis
"having a gas" Hummmm Is that what we have been doing? Anyone know the origin of this phrase?
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:43:01 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
"having a gas" Hummmm Is that what we have been doing? Anyone know the origin of this phrase?Blazing Saddles.
The campfire scene.
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:44:43 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Ditter
If you follow the link to the original article, you will find another link to the article and writer of that phrase to which you refer.
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:45:35 AM PDT
by
Davis
To: Lazamataz
Blazing Saddles. The campfire scene.
An excellent description of what emanates from the left. Also a spot-on word picture of the smell they generate.
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:50:26 AM PDT
by
strela
To: strela
bump
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:53:46 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Restorer
Yes, you picked a great line. Here is another great quote from this piece...
"The intellectual contest between the one-plan guys and the freedom guys is over. We won."
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posted on
09/01/2002 9:57:40 AM PDT
by
Davis
To: Lazamataz
LOL Good guess Laz, but the phrase "having a gas" is lots older than "Blazing Saddles".
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posted on
09/01/2002 10:21:17 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Davis
I thought one of the defining characteristics of liberalism is that it's practitioners are absolutely joyless. Liberalism is a mental illness.
To: Davis
Liberal whining and howling are the ultimate bore.
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posted on
09/01/2002 3:51:59 PM PDT
by
moyden
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