Barbra's Chutzpah

The Conning Tower ^ | 1-12-03 | Trentino

[Davis]

The results of the midterm elections last November greatly saddened Barbra Streisand. But within three days of that awful event she had picked herself up, dusted herself off, and sat down to tell us why the Democrats lost.

Like the blond who stares at the red arrow on a subway map, "You are here," and asks "How do it know?" we are bound to ask, "How does Yentl know why the Democrats lost?"

More, we want to ask her why her analysis is in terms of why the Democrats lost rather than why the Republicans won. Ms. Streisand views elections as rightly being contests that Democrats ought to win because...because they ought to, they should, being morally and rationally the better people and their programs being morally and rationally better. Hence, if they don't win, it's because they failed to promote their message in the right way. It's not the product, see, so it's got to be the marketing.

For sheer contempt, chutzpah to the max, this bears an eerie similarity to Jane Fonda (Tom Hayden-phase) declaring to an audience at Michigan State University in 1969:"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist." So, here, if you only knew what Streisand knows, you would have voted for Democrats.

Streisand's contempt for people who differ with her is evident on every page of her website. She doesn't deign to make arguments. She knows that human activities are the cause of global warming and that signing the Kyoto treaty will compel it to halt. Anyone who has the temerity to disagree with these views is a) iggurent, and b) morally repugnant.

There is no need to make arguments if your propositions are self-evidently true. Accordingly, a holding by a Federal judge appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate cannot have been made on the merits. It is self evident that it must have been made by one of those "judges who will forgo judicial fairness to protect the president's interests." No proof is needed. Q.E.D.

Does Ms. Streisand suffer from didiocy, an upper respiratory disease described elegantly by Andrew Sullivan in the case of Joan Didion. "Perhaps this is a function of being in a liberal intellectual cocoon. When the only educated people you know hold identical views to yours, it's an easy step to assuming that all those other mysterious creatures out there who disagree with you are simply dumb anti-intellectual jingoists."

Since she continues to pay the bills for them, I have no doubt Streisand is happy with the position papers that appear under her name on her website. I am, too. She is evidently unaware that they reek with hauteur and are so lacking in even elementary manners that they're utterly unpersuasive. Which suits me just fine.

[Davis]

http://www.atrentino.com/ConningJAN03.html

Scroll down for a scathing piece on Patty Murray. "Moral Blinders"

[Pharmboy]

Her "Truth Alerts" are beyond contempt. She is a caricature of herself.

[Davis]

You can find the link to her webpage in this piece at the website. Better take a barf bag if you visit her webpage...

[gitmo]

I can't believe it!!! Streisand still has that stupid passage on her website (http://www.barbrastreisand.com/news_statements.html) that she attributed to William Shakespear. This has been exposed as a lie, and she said her secretary screwed up. Her secretary hasn't gotten it off the website yet!

BJS: You know, really good artists have a way of being relevant in their time… but great artists are relevant at anytime.

So, in the words William Shakespeare,

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind…

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so.

How do I know?

For this is what I have done.

And I am Caesar."

BJS (contd.): Imagine that was written over 400 years ago… It's amazing how history without consciousness is destined to repeat itself.

Liar. Shakespear never wrote this. It is internet folly.

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[expatpat]

Jane Fonda ......at Michigan State University in 1969:"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist."

I hadn't heard this one before. How come she didn't head for Moscow?

[ricpic]

People
People who shtoop
People
Are the raunchiest
People
Of them all.

[niteowl77]

'Cause it's for the people, man- the people.The brave fighters who were striking a blow against the imperialist bourgeoisie all had to stay here and take one for the working class. Only shirkers opted for the soft life of the Workers' Paradise™.

[expatpat]

You're right. I guess I should be glad that she would be willing to go through the suffering and poverty of living and working in Hollywood, just for the good of mankind!

[Marauder]

What people like Streisand, Clooney, Penn, Baldwin, ad nauseum don't apparently have the snap to get is that their rantings are costing them in terms of box office appeal. I believe this will cost them serious money down the road.

There are too many people who are so offended by their idiotic rantings that they'll spend no more money to see them in their play-acting world.

[Paul Atreides]

One wonders why, if Babs has all of the answers, she doesn't quit her unending caterwalling comebacks to become an advisor for the DNC.

[Pharmboy]

One wonders why, if Babs has all of the answers, she doesn't quit her unending caterwalling comebacks to become an advisor for the DNC.

I'll see that, and raise it one more: she should run for office.

[Paul Atreides]

I almost said that, but it is like wishing for a tornado to hit, just to see how much damage it does.

[friendly]

BS at The Kennedy School for Very Big Government at Harvard?

Her speech there was written (I swear) by that ever impartial High School Dropout Canadian with the obnoxious condescending liberal bias himself.... Peter Jennings! Absolutely true!

[maxwellp]

We are also people offended by these anti-Americans and wouldn't see one of their movies if we could get in free! As for Striesand, we had one of her long-playing records and decided to throw it in the garbarge just as our garbage was being picked up. I took it and ran out and handed it to one of the men picking up the garbage. I said "Here's one more thing". He looked at the album, took out the record, tossed the cover in with the rest of the garbage, broke the record over his knee and tossed that into the garbage. Then he said to me "That's where she belongs". God Bless America and God Bless our garbage guys!

[Bullish]

The garbage guy has a lot more class than Streisand.

[freekitty]

BS to the little people:

"How do I know"?

"I don't: I only know I am a world class Moran".

[Nick Danger]

More, we want to ask her why her analysis is in terms of why the Democrats lost rather than why the Republicans won. Ms. Streisand views elections as rightly being contests that Democrats ought to win because...because they ought to, they should, being morally and rationally the better people and their programs being morally and rationally better.

This is a telling observation. However, we expect this from Barbra Streisand. Whatever you think of her opinions, she is open and honest about her bias.

The creepier thing is how often you'll see the same thing in press organs that feign the "Who, us? Liberally biased? Nyaa, that's a myth" stance.

This is an interesting thing to watch for in the mainstream media; it happens all the time. "Democrats are hoping that this happens... here's what the Democrats need to gain control... here's why the Democrats lost." The author is right; it's a mindset, and it comes from viewing the world through the eyes of a Democrat. The same liberally-biased jerks who tell us that they can keep their politics out of their reporting do stuff like this all the time, without even thinking about it. They don't even understand how revealing it is. After all, isn't everybody a Democrat? Why wouldn't everyone want to know what the Democrats need to win?