James Fallows Reveals Inner Moonbat: '5 Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Coup'

NewsBusters ^ | June 25, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, usually presents an image of himself as a "reasonable" liberal. However yesterday he revealed his inner moonbat with an article title worthy of a thread name in the sanity challenged Democratic Underground: "5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup." After a few hours of reflection, Fallows realized he allowed too much of his moonbat side to be displayed to the public so he altered the title with this explanation

Midnight update: This item went up three hours ago with a more blunt-instrument headline than it should ever have had: "5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup." I used the word "coup" in a particular way in the longer item this was drawn from. Using it in the headline implies things I don't mean.

[PJ-Comix]

2012: The Year of the Moonbat.

[jboot]

So far the 21st century is shaping up to be the Century of the Moonbat. In fact, I've heard almost nothing but moonbattery from the MSM since circa 1987.

That said, they are really still that butthurt about the 2000 election? LOL!

[blastdad51]

A “reasonable liberal “ That’s like saying Kosher Pork

[Paradox]

The level of paranoia in politics (BOTH sides, yes even here on FR) astounds me. Otherwise “rational” humans start seeing boogey men around all corners..

[KarlInOhio]

First, a presidential election is decided by five people, who don't even try to explain their choice in normal legal terms.

Anyone who claims that Bush v. Gore in 2000 was a 5-4 decision is either lying or ignorant. The real decision that Florida had to follow its own election laws (and especially no recount cherry picking in Democratic counties) was 7-2. The follow on 5-4 decision said that Florida had wasted so much time doing the recount illegally they didn't have the time to redo a legal recount completely before the due date so had to stick with their original results.

[MrB]

Is it “paranoid” to point out that the left’s unwavering goal is to implement worldwide communism?

[Red Badger]

[driftdiver]

“Is it “paranoid” to point out that the left’s unwavering goal is to implement worldwide communism?”

You mean just because people like George Soros with direct access to the White House have stated it as their goal?

yeah apparently thats paranoid.

[DuncanWaring]

“Implement worldwide communism” is a nebulous, ephemeral concept.

What they want is to see most of us dead, the rest in chains.

That’s what they want.

[Logical me]

The communists have been trying for many years to turn America into a communists dictatorship. The are real close to it this King Obama term. Americans may never realize that putting a communists black as President will destroy their way of life.

[VeniVidiVici]

Since he’s an Obama lover I’m surprised the headline didn’t read as:

‘5 Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Coupe’

- or -

‘5 Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Coop’

[jeffc]

Watergate was a coup. I guess, the media don’t like it when we refuse to believe their junk.

[Salamander]

Wow...and the corps wasn’t even cold yet.

[jeffc]

First, a presidential election is decided by five people, who don't even try to explain their choice in normal legal terms.

Ask any liberal who spews this trash to try and say those words if SCOTUS had ruled for Gore.

[tx_eggman]

A “reasonable liberal “ That’s like saying Kosher Pork

I prefer the analogy "polished turd"

[huldah1776]

not knowing the author and being generally horrible with names, I thought this was about how the administration was accomplishing the take over of the government by Obama simply making up rules as he goes along. A true existentialist.

[bigfootbob]

“...Kosher Pork”

You win the best post of the thread award. Very funny.

[Noumenon]

What they want is to see most of us dead, the rest in chains.

That's the real bottom line, isn't it? Strip away all the pretension, all the evasive language and disingenuous assertions, and that's what lies at the destination of the road the Left and their ilk have traveled for generations: slaughter for it's own sake and slavery. History is my witness.

[DuncanWaring]

In recent history, look at Alec Baldwin, wanting to stone Henry Hyde and his family to death.

Look at the junior-high students last week on the bus harassing the “bus monitor” - they don’t have far to go before they’re perfectly willing to be shoveling people into the ovens.

There’s those barbarians, and then above and beyond them, there’s the idiots who view humanity as a blight on the planet and think that humans should become extinct as a favor to Mother Gaia.

[PowderMonkey]

"First, a presidential election is decided by five people, who don't even try to explain their choice in normal legal terms."

End of the line, Jimmy. We didn't pick that fight. You did. Your boy chose to take it to court. He was warned his chances were slim to none. He was warned he'd look like a sore loser, and accordingly branded for life. That's what you got. A nasty, embittered loser, now selling glowbul warming snake oil to a generation of whiny soccer kids who didn't get a participation trophy for the first votes they ever cast.