I think its a bit of both: They both failed to grasp the import of what occurred, and also instinctively sought to contain it. As the author says, in any case the effect is the same. You can’t unring a bell.
Good news alert.
Hundreds of aftershocks to come...
I was listening to the 7:00 news and morning edition on NPR on my way to work the following day. Not a peep. Nothing.
This thing affected hundreds of thousands of Americans and there was no “here’s what finally happened in the Chick-Fil-A event yesterday” story.
I posted it on a liberal site and the consensus was, “nobody outside of far right wingnuts cared.” Which is, of course bunk but the fact remains that it was completely missing from NPR.
My personal take is that liberals really want the story to go away. They lost this one, big time.
There is much conservative enthusiasm out there:
Entirely pi$$ed off and fed up with liberals and progressives
Not going to take it any more
Tired of high taxes
Hungry for Liberty
Unwilling to negotiate America’s enemies, foreign AND domestic
Sick of business killing regulations
Intolerant of RINOs
Aware of the danger
Sick of Mainstream Media Bias
Mobilized to finally do something about the left’s encroachment on liberty…
Makes me smile again just thinking about it...
This is the same Chick-Fila that I tried to get into last Wednesday and couldn't get near.
I was there from 9 to about 9:30. The place was *not* mobbed. I'd call business "steady" or "normal", prob 3-4 dozen people going through the restaurant while I was there. Plus whoever went through the drive-in, I couldn't see that.
I talked to the girl behind the counter for a bit. She said that she'd never seen anything like last week. Frankly, she looked like she was glad for a "break", if you'd call normal business traffic a break.
As a side note, probably 1/2 of the people who came through either asked the same question I did, or were talking (positively) about the prior week's events. IMHO, what's happening at Chick-Fil-A is a huge event, something that we might not see (or fully understand) the end result of for a good while. You wouldn't think that buying a chicken sandwich is an earth shattering act of political defiance, but I'm sure that other significant moments in history were only understood with hindsight, as well.
“Working in the newspaper business used to be great. 3 martini lunches, smoking cigarettes at my desk, knock out a sob story article and the readers lapped it up begging for more.”
“Stupid f’n internet. I hope Al gore rots in hell!”
(News propaganda writers across the country)
I still remember reading an article about how horrible LBJ was for bombing in Vietnam on page one of a news paper with the story continued on page 2. Right beside the continuation, with a nice large title, was a story about what a wonderful man LBJ was for trying to rebuild the cities and raise poor black folks out of poverty. All this while cities all over the country were condemning and taking control of the black business section of cities rather than paying black folks what their commercial properties were worth.
The fascist media has long advocated the elimination of both black folks and "poor white trash", they just periodically change the euphemisms they use for those two groups to keep up with the current democrat propaganda terminology. The media is just another part of the democrat fascist machine the same way the entire education system has become little more than a recruiting and brainwashing tool for the fascist machine.
The whole democrat fascist machine has to be brought down if we're going to take America back. Look at the horrible consequences of having had Carter in office and consider the fact that the democrat party suffered very little overall in spite of the Carter fiasco they sponsored and put in place. The democrat party was able to recover from and distance itself from Carter in because the dedicated academic machinery was there to provide good jobs for all the democrat pols who were voted out of office and begin to immediately revise history in a way that excused or ignored the blatant failures of not just Carter, but the entire party that groomed and supported him.
The democrat fascist party has to be eliminated as a national political force and that includes the democrat propaganda media heretofore called "the media" as well as the whole academic system that the democrat party has totally integrated into their political machine. It all has to be replaced and the democrat party has to be fought until democrat is only spoken in Hell. JMHO
The greatest thing for me about all this is that it shows that normal America is starting to refuse to be bullied by our betters in the ruling classes.
This should be the next stage in the evolution of CFA support, e.g., declaring non-support of KFC until they disavow Nancy!
A good question right now is “How are Chick-fil-A sales going to continue?” That is, is this just a one-day blow out, or are lots of these people going to increase how often they eat at CFA?
For this reason, I am encouraging folks to consider getting CFA on a regular basis for groups of all sorts.
For example a boss who regularly gets his staff donuts might consider providing them with a CFA lunch every now and then.
Clubs and teams could also patronize CFA, as such, everyone from Boy Scouts, softball teams, church groups, a very long list there.
And for political meetings, like Tea Party groups, and election night rallies, they might be large enough to get the CFA catering service.
Chick-Fil-A Wednesday saw a rock through a big glass door at the church building where I worship. The glass shards were such a mess that it necessitated the carpet in a large area to be replaced. Just a quiet little church building.
OMG! catering to the 98% seems to be a better market strategy than pandering to the 2%.
RNC should take notice. RINO's especially should take notice.
Those same people who swarmed CFA's across the land, are all voters.
Give them someone for whom they can "enthusiastically" vote.
It is in my view, once again, a symptom of a sense of entitlement that transcends the law, the notion of a civil society, and the Constitution. The reaction against CFA is the perfect paradigm of leftism.
The left thinks it is smarter, therefore it thinks it has not only the right to its opinions, but the right to enforce them upon others, and further, to squash the Constitution by muzzling the freedom of speech and opinion of others. And they don’t even think about it; they don’t weigh their reaction against any external set or hierarchy of standards. Because they do not have one.
Ah, don’t tell me they misspelled “Chick-fil-A” in the dang headline.