from the WashigtonPravda
Posted on 08/16/2009 8:52:37 AM PDT by La Lydia
...So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests...Before the "black helicopters" of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a "civil rights movement" had been hatched in the Soviet Union...
The instigation is always the familiar litany: expansion of the commonweal to empower new communities, accommodation to internationalism, the heightened influence of cosmopolitans and the persecution complex of conservatives who can't stand losing an argument...
So, crazier then, or crazier now?...The various elements -- the liberal earnestly confused when rational dialogue won't hold sway; the anti-liberal rage at a world self-evidently out of joint; and, most of all, their mutual incomprehension -- sound as fresh as yesterday's news. (Internment camps for conservatives? That's the latest theory of tea party favorite Michael Savage.)
Liberals are right to be vigilant about manufactured outrage, and particularly about how the mainstream media can too easily become that outrage's entry into the political debate....
The tree of crazy is an ever-present aspect of America's flora...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Carrying a pistol around the president? AYFKM? The guy was on private property hundreds of yards away from any route he took or the Portsmouth HS property. Gee, little hysterical today, kids?
They just get in your face with worthless, tyrannical programs day after day
And when people fight back, it’s there fault. They’re the “angry” “extremists”
How quickly they forget the raging left protests that were cheering killing our soldiers and burning effigies of Bush. Oh, I get it. It’s only bad when it’s conservatives even daring to speak up.
And just where did “right-wing” rage return from?
If we’re crazy the founding father’s must have been raging lunatics!
Yo. Rick. The Civil Rights Bill passed because of those cwazy Conservatives.
You can take your opinion and stuff it in a sorry sack along with your sorry libtard politicians.
Funny how a liberal pinhead at the WashPost, exercising his First Amendment rights, takes issue with conservatives exercising their right to petition the government for their grievances. First Amendment rights for him but not for us...
Dear Mr. Perlstein,
Leftists are quite right to be concerned about the rage of actual Americans. You on the left have spent nearly a century attacking the Constitution, robbing taxpayers, purchasing votes and loyalty, undermining personal responsibility and working to turn the social order of the world’s greatest nation on its head. Congratulations. Your attempt to decide when your detractors are to die has finally resulted in a TRUE rage, more than matching the phony anger and upset you on the left have feigned for so many decades. Just between you and me, you a quite RIGHT to be concerned. For arrogant, self-righteous, elitist thugs like you have finally stumbled upon the topic which has stirred that sleeping majority. For years I was under the impression that the left could only generate such an upheaval by overturning the 2nd amendment. The 2nd American revolution would surely begin on that day. But we may well be treated to a preview of coming attractions with your attempt to exercise total control over our health, lives and death. Thank you for the well-placed, well-timed nudge back to consciousness. We needed that! You will come to regret it.
I wouldn’t get agita. You just have to laugh off lying atheist ACLU scum like Rick Perlstein.
So Nixon was a “Vulture”?
The Vulture who ended the Vietnam war?
The Vulture who formed the EPA?
The Vulture who passed the “Clean Air and Water Act?
The Vulture who opened a dialogue with China?
Time to get in WaPo’s face with Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, ACORN, and all the rest of the manufactured outrage B.S. that the left spews whenever there is a Republican in the White House. Thank you WaPo, for exposing your Liberal rank hypocrisy for all to see. We’re not going to put up with the Liberal BS anymore, we’re organizing right back at you, Marxist agitators. Time for us to take back our country and re-educate our youth on what it is to be an American. Remember how good you felt when Ronald Reagan spoke of America as a “shining city on a hill” vs what we have now which is basically Jimmy Carter redux. Remember the truth America, and don’t be deluded by these Marxists!
isn’t it something that when Conservatives use lib tactics they are suddenly evil or crqzy?
You had all sides producing it with some actors in the US pushing the idea that progressives in America should be encouraged because the USSR was also behind it.
Having gone through the extensive collections of English language Kerensky related literature at Indiana University (years ago) I would not be surprised to find something like this to have shown up in the early 1920s.
NOTE ~ although the Kerensky papers are located at Stanford a number of universities around the country have nearly complete copies.
Fur Shur the Washington Post has abandoned "fact checking" entirely during the Obama Depression.
It's largely the same people who were cheering for the Viet Cong in the sixties in their youth who control the virtual monopoly on the media and the schools today.
Like "tolerance", protesting is only a good thing when they use it to make inroads.
Once they're in control, they demand complete compliance.
Sounds very similar to Islam, doesn't it?
Gee.. Those Trustfund communist at Greenpeace and ANSWR never manufactured any protest at G8 summits or World Trade summits. No sirreee bob!
Liberals are a crazy as they've ever been.
They're just far more menacing when they have power to go with their self-righteous insanity.
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