My fellow Americans: A liberal learns it's not so wrong to be right [MSM trolls FR]

Seattle Times ^ | October 3, 2006 | By Mark Rahner

[PLOM...NOT!]

He finds out we are not the two-headed, serpent-eyed, evil beast he came looking for. What a surpise. Actually, I think this guy is a double agent. He's batting for our side and trying to win over the hearts and souls of liberals. A person could sit down and engage in real conversation with this man.

The gay thing is really not so difficult to figure out. As someone mentioned already here, it's their insistent in-your-face, accept me, I'm normal, you're a homophobe, absurd pleading for acceptance of their deviant behavior that p*sses one off. They're like 2 year-olds throwing a temper tantrum, look-at-me, I want it now and I'm not gonna quit screaming until you give it me.
I really don't care what pleasures you, I just want you to be happy, spare me the details.

[HairOfTheDog]

Q: How are the "Lord of the Rings" movies conservative with all those gay hobbits?

~sigh~ ~smacks in the face~

[misterrob]

Wag the Dog
Primary Colors
Team America
Anything on Lifetime

[CyberAnt]

The real secret was revealed by the son - his dad just didn't have a "burning" inside his belly for the presidency.

And .. that is what it takes.

[woofie]

Thanks for the link ...very funny.....

[reagandemocrat]

Ding ding ding!

[HonorsDaddy]

Oh... and a "mooreon" ;).... only those with severe local knowledge will "get" that one....

hehehe....had to laugh at that one...and yes, i get it. Are you a local?

[soccermom]

That question was posed before 9/11.

[soccermom]

Well, it was nice of him to try to understand conservatives and acknowledge that the nicest places also happen to be the most conservative places. (I've found that, too. Incidentally, I think Boston is one of the most racist places I've been to.) It was also decent of him to give an honest relection of FR, rather than to pick out the worst nuts in the crowd as an example of conservative. I just think it is funny how liberals think Toby Keith is the typical conservative. I happen to like the guy, but I wonder how many liberals know he was raised and still claims to be a democrat? From what I can tell, he doesn't seem like he was trying to be subvertive, so why ban him. His kind of conversation is the type we need to engage.

[soccermom]

I can't wait to see the letters to the editor in the Seattle Times, reacting to his claim that Seattle is where people have been the biggest jerks to him.

[Deb]

LOTR may not have been "political", but it is highly moral.

Tolkien believed that every generation would have to battle a great evil and if the war was lost, Western Civilization would also be lost.

My favorite line is when Aragorn says, "Men of the West arise!"

[Just mythoughts]

There was nothing that GHWBush could have done or said to have protected this nation from Clintonism, there were far toooooooo many of US that were totally unaware about the methods of mass deception perfected by these unconscionable liberals.

" I feeeeel your pain" who could have unmasked that mentality????

[Deb]

You must mean "Team America" without all the blow job scenes.

[gridlock]

That question was posed before 9/11.

Actually, the questoion was posed in a thread on May 4, 2005.

[GOPJ]

Yeah, that's the other thing, the difference between simplicity and complexity. But it's a really powerful thing to just shut up and listen to somebody who has ideas that are different than your own.

There's hope for this guy!!! Maybe not a lot a lot of hope, but hope none the less... :)

[soccermom]

Oh -- so you don't think the initial post asking that question was posed by the same guy?

[gridlock]

I don't think so. The language of the second posting is the same as cited in the article. Could be, of course. But it seems odd to be writing a think piece about a question you asked six years ago.

[Billthedrill]

A nice enough fellow, I suppose, but I don't think the experience disabused him of the infuriating tendency of liberals to regard conservatives as some sort of strange, inferior species to be regarded under a microsocope in a biological containment facility. You see a fellow in a moon suit approach you saying in a soothing tone "Relax, be calm, we just want to understand why you're the way you are," and your first reaction isn't likely to be one of eternal chumship. ("Remember, Drill, two to center mass, one to the head, two center mass, one to the head...")

He certainly had the right idea simply to ask a couple of straightforward questions to begin with but it is revealing that he had to do so on a public forum rather than, say, an intelligent conservative friend with whom he had already established a trust relationship. Those tend to be somewhat rare in Seattle but hardly nonexistent - he could have had all of his firearms-related questions answered at Wade's Eastside in Bellevue, for example.

But clearly the preference was to theorize - i.e. to imagine - an answer rather than letting the specimens under study to speak for themselves, and I think I know why - such an imagined answer might fit into the fantasy world in which doctrinaire liberals confine themselves mentally and forthright answers direct from the source would not. The one on firearms is an example - it's almost right and entirely wrong. The issue of taking responsibility for one's own life and by extension its self-defense does not occur to him, what does is the ability to kill something. You have to squint pretty hard to equate the two but he manages it.

That said, I am all for promoting discourse between the two sides of the aisle. I just wish it didn't have to be semaphore.

[misterrob]

Well, actually the whole nasty scene to boot,

But, any movie that depicts Michael Moore, Sean Penn and the rest of the Hollywood set the way that movie did is okay in my book.

[GOPJ]

A liberal willing to listen? Interesting.

Yesssss -- odd, but hopeful...