Posted on 11/03/2014 6:28:05 AM PST by Kaslin
Ezra Klein has a new raison d'être.
He wants to get the politics out of everything.
Yes, the guy who set up a website to coordinate the attacks on Sarah Palin in 2008; the guy who used his blog on the Washington Post to argue many false arguments on behalf of Obama, including all the stuff he got wrong on Obamacare; the guy who cemented the Post’s place as the largely irrelevant, largely laughable post-internet dinosaur and press office for Democrat policies, says that everything has become politicized.
And he deplores it.
He quotes a report from Stanford:
"Partisans discriminate against opposing partisans, and do so to a degree that exceeds discrimination based on race," [the report from Stanford says]. Think about that for a moment, says Klein, at least under certain experimental conditions, our political identities now trump our racial identities.
You don’t say? Really?
Memo to dude who lives inside the DC bubble: You’ve just found out what conservatives have argued for years. And in finding it out, you’ve made the most compelling argument for smaller government?
What law are you going to propose to stop discrimination on the basis of party affiliation?
Oh, that’s right. There already is one.
It’s in the constitution.
It’s called free association, free speech, freedom OF religion.
You should look up the constitution. It’s a document written by irrelevant white guys like you, only they were older and wiser.
But if that doesn’t work there is also the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to look at. It was more popular with Republicans in both the House and the Senate than it was with Democrats.
In fact one Senator who opposed it on the Republican side at least did so for the RIGHT reasons:
“If I were a Negro” said Goldwater, who opposed federal intervention on matters of race, “I don't think I would be very patient either."
The Democrats who opposed it did so because they were incorrigible old racists. Were it not for them, there would have been no reason for civil rights legislation.
At least Goldwater knew why he opposed civil rights legislation, dear Comrade Ezra, even if you forgot to notice.
He was afraid that the Civil Rights laws would be abused to fit into neat little political bludgeons; bludgeons used to beat a majorities’ common sense. You know? Used to propose things like healthcare as a universal human right, where the government has the right to make you purchase insurance; or where men get to decide which restroom they use as a matter of civil rights. Yes, he thought that it would be silly to construct a body of legislation that would allow grown men to use the ladies’ room as a matter of civil rights.
Ok, I made the last part up. Kind of.
Because clearly Goldwater or any of the other Senators who voted on that legislation would have reacted violently if I were to go back in time and ask them with the utmost seriousness whether the proposed legislation would be abused to cover such foolishness.
But since you can’t even follow your own professional ethical standards, why would I expect you to follow a new law you profess to have discovered?
In coming full circle Klein seems determined to justify the old adage by Churchill: “Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”
I don’t know exactly where Klein now fits on the continuum. He's still young, I guess.
I just know that Ezra Klein is still an idiot.
Why is that a problem, Ezra?
When the Dems are losing, they always want to get the politics out of _________.
Its really laughable. All they are really saying is that after they force A,B, & C down our throats through the political process, they want us to accept that reality and stop trying to change it back via the political process.
When HE does it, it isn’t partisan politics. Only when conservatives do it.
Settled science
Law of the land
Until they come up on the losing end.
That’s when it’s time to change all the rules. For the children.
Ezra Klein—despite the hype for this guy by the usual suspects, he’s just another useful idiot, as Ransom scathingly demonstrates.
Partisan ‘discrimination’ is the only legal form of discrimination, and now that his party faces a huge defeat he wants to end it? Cry some more croc tears Ezra and maybe someone will take note and throw you a rat carcass............
The Dems are the ones who have politicized EVERYTHING. At least for a while the tables are turning. LIVE WITH IT, DEMS!
Ezra Klein...another fine Goebbels School of Journalism graduate...
Ezra sees the Senate slipping away. He couldn’t be more obvious.
Ha! I don’t care about the article so much as I enjoyed the headline.
Ezra Klein is one of the key people in that “journo-list” group, of liberals who twist and shape the news and talking head program talking points.
When Republicans had a funding advantage Democrats decried and denounced the evil, filthy money in politics and tried to gain equilibrium through McCain-Feingold.
Then Obama raised nearly a billion dollars, much from foreign sources and we have never heard about the evil money in campaigns ever again.
Republicans successfully used “negative” campaigning to beat Democrats and the Democrats went all over the place denouncing the use of negative campaigning and how sad it really was. The high water mark was Clinton denouncing the politics of personal destruction.
All the while, the Clintons engaged in the politics of personal destruction. Just ask Lanny Davis what he and Democrats thought of Ken Starr. Almost all Democrat's campaigns are now intensely negative, starting with the $100 million in ads trashing Mitt Romney before the presidential election ever really started.
I did a lot of research on Journolist and that statement is flat out untrue. We've seen significant portions of the j-list archive. There certainly were disgusting comments about Sarah in there, but to say that Ezra Klein set up Journolist specifically to attack Sarah Palin is horsesh*t and doesn't advance the author's point.
Once an idiot, always an idiot.
Mr Klien defines the term.
And I will bet my last dollar that should Republicans take the Senate that we will instantly hear, non-stop, about bipartisanship. The corrupt MSM will scold Republicans for riding roughshod over the minority. Heck, who will be the first RINO to offer power sharing in the Senate??
If Republicans don’t act as politically ruthless as Harry Reid then they need to be primaried. Period.
Good Post
Klein is blinded by his conceit, like most liberals. The others are blinded by hatred or greed. It’s not a good cult.
He started Journolist.
Ezra Klein is a twisted PARODY of himself. He is a Liberal/Obama SYCHOPHANT who NOW acts like he can be a fair arbiter of the truth.
FUEK
So as the man behind Journolist, we should know that we can’t trust anything he says. Everything he says is related to trying to urge us to be liberal. Everything. I don’t believe anything he says.
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