Posted on 04/24/2010 8:12:03 AM PDT by thouworm
....in terms of the electoral map this November, youve only got to scare a relatively small percentage of squishy, suburban moderate centrists back into the Democratic fold, and how difficult can that be?
Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesmans dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing tea partiers to Timothy McVeigh. Oh, cmon, theyve got everything in common. They both want to reduce the size of government, the late Mr. McVeigh through the use of fertilizer bombs, the tea partiers through control of federal spending, but these are mere nuanced differences of means, not ends.
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For a long time, tea partiers were racists. Everybody knows that when you say Im becoming very concerned about unsustainable levels of federal spending, thats old Jim Crow code for Lets get up a lynching party and teach that uppity Negro a lesson.
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Meanwhile, Comedy Central you know, the hip, edgy network with Jon Stewart, from whom young Americans under 53 supposedly get most of their news just caved in to death threats. From a hateful 83-year-old widow who doesnt like Obamacare? Why, no! It was a chap called Abu Talhah al Amrikee, who put up a video on the Internet explaining why a South Park episode with a rather tame Mohammed joke was likely to lead to the deaths of the shows creators.
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Yet in the end, in a craven culture, even big Hollywood A-listers cant get their message over. So the brave, transgressive comedy network was intimidated into caving in and censoring a speech about not being intimidated into caving in. Thats what I call hip, edgy, cutting-edge comedy: Theyre so edgy theyre curled up in the fetal position, whimpering at the guy with the cutting edge, Please. Behead me last. And dont use the rusty scimitar where you have to saw away for 20 minutes to find the spinal column . . .
Terrific. You can see why young, urban, postmodern Americans under 57 get most of their news from Comedy Central. What a shame 1930s Fascist Europe was so lacking in cable.
Prodigal Press? No, I haven't read it - but it sounds good.
Ping to my #62.
Hopefully not including....Lovely Helen:
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