Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
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.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
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...
Gerard Alexander, writing in the Washington Post:
There is power in the accusation of racism against conservatives, one that liberals understand well. In an April 2008 post on Journolist, a private online community for liberal journalists, academics and activists, one writer proposed a way to distract conservatives from the campaign controversy surrounding the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s pastor. “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us,” Spencer Ackerman wrote. “Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
No doubt, such accusations stick to conservatives more than to liberals. It was then-Sen. Joe Biden, a Delaware Democrat, after all, who described presidential candidate Obama as “the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” If a conservative politician had offered such an opinion, his or her career might have ended; Biden was rewarded with a spot on Obama’s ticket. Liberal missteps on race and ethnicity are explained away, forgiven and often forgotten; conservative ones are cast as part of a sinister, decades-long story of intolerance and political calculation, in which conservative ideology and strategy are conflated with bigotry.
The article then goes on to provide a decent chronology. It doesn’t quite get down to the “why” of it though.
I think you’d have to break up the conglomeration of “liberals” to answer that. Most liberals, I think, are decent people who want to do good things but are easily bamboozled because they don’t pay attention.
There are other liberals who, deep down inside, don’t believe the leadership of the government or the policies codified change a damn thing — but they’ve spent all their living days imbibing deeply from the cup of community fellowship. They see every challenging decision as a two-side melee between sports teams and they want to pick the right team.
And then you have the sociopaths like Rahm Emnanuel, living out the goals and dreams that the “sports team” liberals only think about in their fantasies. Win. Beat. Trounce. Decimate. Flatten. Prevail. Rout. Kick ’em when they’re down and don’t forget to wear your cleats.
The accusations of racism, are the great emulsifier. This creates a conduit through which these three disparate communities can finally communicate with each other.
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Now that’s a money quote. My thoughts exactly.
As to the bit on the racism charge … I have some thoughts on that that will hopefully congeal into a post soon.
- philmon | 09/13/2010 @ 11:34