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Showing posts with label Wellstonian Event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wellstonian Event. Show all posts
Saturday, January 15, 2011
My Gawd, Charles M. Blow’s written this at the NYT…
UPDATE
This, spotted at Don Surber's, fits well with Charles M. Blow's surprising moment of lucidity.
Immediately after the news broke, the air became thick with conjecture, speculation and innuendo. There was a giddy, almost punch-drunk excitement on the left. The prophecy had been fulfilled: “words have consequences.” And now, the right’s rhetorical chickens had finally come home to roost.Not helpful, Chas. Someone might require you attend a remedial Democrat Talking Points session. Expect it to be closed-door.
The dots were too close and the temptation to connect them too strong. The target was a Democratic congresswoman. There was the map of her district in the cross hairs. There were her own prescient worries about overheated rhetoric.
Within hours of the shooting, there was a full-fledged witch hunt to link the shooter to the right. …
Great. So the left overreacts and overreaches and it only accomplishes two things: fostering sympathy for its opponents and nurturing a false equivalence within the body politic. Well done, Democrats.
Now we’ve settled into the by-any-means-necessary argument: anything that gets us to focus on the rhetoric and tamp it down is a good thing. But a wrong in the service of righteousness is no less wrong, no less corrosive, no less a menace to the very righteousness it’s meant to support.
You can’t claim the higher ground in a pit of quicksand.
Concocting connections to advance an argument actually weakens it. The argument for tonal moderation has been done a tremendous disservice by those who sought to score political points in the absence of proof.
UPDATE
This, spotted at Don Surber's, fits well with Charles M. Blow's surprising moment of lucidity.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
BHO's Arizona Pep Rally and Memorial: A "Wellstonian Event", with a Circus-like Atmosphere
0 comments Posted by kotang at 6:00 AM
T-Shirts on the chairs, emblazoned with more HOPE and CHANGE-grade blather. Nice touch, don't you think?
A political pep rally where a Memorial service broke through. Somewhere in the background. If you looked hard enough, you could grasp that a Memorial Service was...nearby.
They gave the performance a title and handed out t-shirts.Tammy Bruce is on fire...
Honestly.
They did.
Nuance.
I can hear it now! “Oh Tammy, why so political!? How awful of you!!” of course, with a death threat thrown in and some crass misogynistic swear words from the Gestapo of Love and Unity for Everyone Except Some. For people shocked, just shocked at how I’m not being more ‘compassionate’ and genteel about this “event. Well, let me explain–Upon hearing the awful news Saturday morning, within an hour–even before we knew the number of dead–Barack Obama’s gestapos moved in for the kill–the Kill of Palin and the Kill of Conservatives in this country. For 5 days Tea Party, conservative and Sarah Palin were blamed for murder. I spent the weekend, as did so many others, not being allowed to grieve but having to listen to crass political smears and libel, while defending those falsely accused of horrific complicity.In today's New York Times, Gail Collins doesn't waste a minute before launching into Democrat talking points, pushing Gun Control. She even expresses hope that the EVIL Republicans would give up on reversing ObamaCare, for the sake of...what?
Democrat and Republican leadership sat silent, including Barack Obama, as this nation was stomped on by grotesque beasts using the dead and maimed in an attempt to add a 20th victim–Sarah Palin–to the body count. Obama may have been silent and he could be–his gestapos were doing all the work. His machine knew what to do and they moved quickly. Their Massacre Cult chose their targets and went hunting, accusing innocents of the horror of being an accessory to murder to score political points.
So don’t wonder why I’m calling the charade tonight a charade. Despite all of us being faced with the ugliness of the liberal response, we also spent the last 5 days praying for the victims and being concerned for our nation. You will also see my concern in refusing to silently acquiesce or in faux praise for one of the most bizarre displays of manipulation of a tragedy I’ve ever seen. Was the speech good? I suppose considering what we’ve been put through this weekend by the very same people, reading the phone book would have moved some people to tears. If you lurved the speech, then let’s make the speechwriter president!
Not the Republic, that's for sure.
Forget it, Gail, Leftys, Dems; we're tired of giving ground to you wide-eyed children. Grow up and face the deficit. -
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