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Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Buck, like millions of others, prefers Fox News over CNN. He’s offered this juxtaposition of videos to explain why. Do you think this makes the case?
Yep…grown-ups, versus children.
It isn’t that right-wingers (or centrists, if you’re positioned to see things that way) are or more less inclined to see issues in an “us-versus-them” dynamic than left-wingers (or centrists, if you’re positioned to see things that way). What it is, is that if you’re a left-winger we tend to give you a pass. Left-wingers are revolutionaries by nature. That is their history. They are grown-up hippies. And so we’ve come to expect it out of them; every single issue that comes along, they see it in terms of “our side” and “their side.” One is left with little reason to conclude they’ve retained any capacity — any at all! — for seeing anything, anywhere, in any other way. Blue & Gray. Lilliput and Blefuscu. Lancaster and York. Elois and Morlocks. Jets and Sharks. Crips and Bloods. It’s their view of the world, they aren’t stigmatized for it.
You haven’t long to wait before you hear of a right-wing conservative talk about an “enemy camp,” to be sure. But it’s a far more rare occurrence on the right side for this kind of twaddle to be served up as supposedly thoughtful news commentary. Bill O’Reilly might drift down a little bit further, somewhere into this general zone. He might call someone a “pinhead” — some individual who’s said or done something to merit it. And the lefties will land all over him for it. And imagine — just imagine! — Brit Hume commenting on President Obama meeting with SEIU officials, wondering aloud what our President is doing having talks with the enemy. Oh, my goodness, the hijinks that would ensue. But Matthews calls West Point enemy territory, and that’s all good. Ridickerous.
Another thought: Sad to say, but our current President owes his victory to several jackasses just like Matthews. Folks who dutifully trudged off to the polls on a Tuesday thirteen months in the past, then later that day squealed with delight as His Holiness proclaimed victory. Then, in the weeks that followed, bellowed with bellicose triumph as the winter air cackled with with the spark of this stuff called “hope.” Divisions healed, and all that.
Obama makes a speech at West Point and the hubbub distills down to a plaintive wailing of “What the heck are ya doin’? That’s the enemy!”
No sense of irony whatsoever. Vote for a healing of the divide, breathlessly anticipate a healing of the divide, and then protest vehemently against any move toward a healing of the divide. All in one, smooth, fluid motion. They think they’re being consistent, and maybe in their surreal, tie-dyed universe, they are.
Too much funny stuff smoked back in the sixties, I reckon. Pretty damn sad. National tragedy. An entire generation of people who can’t think in a straight line.
Next time the arguing starts up about Fox News I’m linking to Buck’s post, or to this one. This is a rather serious problem. It afflicts more than the afflicted, because how in the world are we going to gain access to serious news, if we lose our ability to define what it is?
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Thanks for the linky-lurve, Morgan. You nailed it: it’s the adults v. The Amateurs.
- bpenni | 12/05/2009 @ 16:14Remember Morgan…Chris Matthews represents a mindset which afflicts anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of the electorate in the United States.
That would be the percentage for whom “the enemy” is not Hamas, Hizbollah, Osama Bin Laden, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, al-Queda sleeper cells, or China. To them, those are all parties that need to be talked to and reasoned with through “tough, direct diplomacy.” (Obama’s words)
The enemy that must be engaged and destroyed. That would be Christians, conservatives in general and conservative activist groups, politicians and media figures in particular, along with anyone else who appears to be a threat to the Left’s agenda. Note that they aren’t concerned with enemies of the United States who actually want to harm our citizens and/or undermine our influence on international politics…they’re simply concerned with crushing anyone who is opposed to more socialism and statism.
Sad, isn’t it? Alas, it appears to have been going on for as long as I can remember, becoming particularly intense after the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress.
- cylarz | 12/06/2009 @ 02:04