But We're the Haters...
EJHill ·
January 10, 2011 at 10:08pm
The new line from the left: It doesn't matter why he did it. George Packer of the New Yorker writes, "The tragedy wouldn't change this basic fact: for the past two years, many conservative leaders, activists, and media figures have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents. Not just arguing against their opponents, but doing everything possible to turn them into enemies of the country and cast them out beyond the pale."
Is mass amnesia a legitimate psychiatric condition?
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Aug '10
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This packer schmuck would have said this on the occasion of a pizza delivery as readily as he exploited tragedy with his timing. He sounds like a guy who is always wrong. No broken clocks even . This is the face of ignorant stupidity steeped in the practice of "delegitimizing political opponents" for much longer than the two years he accuses the "activists" of in a typically NYkr fashion. Is this the quickest way to deflate one's reputation or get on SNL ?
Dec '10
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"Is mass amnesia a legitimate psychiatric condition?"
I'm not certain; however, I have heard a prominent radio host claim that Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
Jul '10
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Nice graphic, EJ. Picture worth a thousand words.
May '10
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The worst thing, Kenneth, is that that the images were so easy to find. The MSNBCs and the likes of the Times know they exist. They know they are just as guilty.
I know it's a Quixotic battle. Just me tilting at wind mills. But I feel better!
May '10
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These signs, combined with Robert Gibbs' clueless statement about "Imagine just a few years ago had someone walked around with images of Hitler" are pretty much what inspired me to create my site to archive quotes, just so I could have this page.
For lots and lots of these images, check out zombie's hall of shame and his pictures of an SF anti-war rally. Also Ringo's page of awful protest pictures.
Conservatives and the Tea Party have never said anything 1/100th as incendiary or violent as the Left did throughout Bush's term, yet somehow we are leading the world into a hell of incivility.
Edited on January 10, 2011 at 4:42amJul '10
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EJHill
The worst thing, Kenneth, is that that the images were so easy to find. The MSNBCs and the likes of the Times know they exist. They know they are just as guilty.
I know it's a Quixotic battle. Just me tilting at wind mills. But I feel better! ยท Jan 9 at 7:06pm
Well, keep fighting the good fight, friend. You and I may disagree sometimes, but I do value what you bring to this community.
Oct '10
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Thanks for the memories, EJ.
Jul '10
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Yes, they are hateful, hypocritical trash. But if they did not come up on a daily basis on Ricochet, I would be in the same position as most people in this country these days, unaware. Their audience is shrinking and, after this latest round of vitriol, will shrink further and faster. They see these stunts as galvanizing the base, and the news readers do not follow or appreciate the effect of the web. They know it is not 1980 anymore, but they can't get those Ted Baxterish frontal lobes around the wild, wild web. (But they are heartened that the FCC is taking it in hand, finally.)
And remember, when you are walking downtown and find yourself stepping over a newsreader on the sidewalk, a New York Times deployed for warmth, a drained Taittenger's cradled in one arm, please be generous. This may be the last winter they see.
You're the best, EJ!
Edited on January 10, 2011 at 2:55pmAug '10
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I ran into a couple of New Yorker writers at a party in Northern Cal last summer and was complaining that I felt the New Yorker had been hijacked by Remnick, Hertzberg, others.
They were sympathetic and told me to just tear out the section from Talk of the Town in the front and the next ten pages and it might resemble what I had come to love for years prior.
Now considering the amount of pages in the magazine, that past recommendation is prologue for hopeful future. Unless of course, we can get Rob Long to pen some witty short stories for our general enjoyment.
And more cartoons from EJ, movie reviews from Teachout, little odd newsblurbs at the bottom of columns, and the occasional poem. And photographs by anyone other than Annie Liebovitz.
This politicization has had a cost culturally, as well as it's impact on civility. The left seemed to "lemming up" after 2000.
Edited on January 10, 2011 at 5:16pmJun '10
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I'm sure that without the wonderful and professional Secret Service, George W. Bush would be long dead today. The leftists who wore the "kill Bush" t-shirts were serious. They meant it, and they would've done it if they could.
Jul '10
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Packer and the left would like nothing better than for the political discourse to be limited to the people who count in Manhattan, Hollywood, S.F., the Ivies and such other enclaves where the elites shake heads over how the country is getting out of control. The "civility" baloney we're hearing now is just another front of their guerrilla war on the people they disagree with.
Edited on January 10, 2011 at 10:39pmMay '10
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Handy phrases to remember:
When "They" are in Power: Politics are rough and tumble. War is merely the continuation of politics by other means. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!
When "We" are in Power: Civility Please!
Jun '10
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Packer also wrote: "Even the reading of the Constitution on the first day of the 112th Congress was conceived as an assault on the legitimacy of the Democratic Administration and Congress." If quoting the Constitution now qualifies as hate speech, then I'll have to concede we've got a lot more haters on our side of the aisle...
May '10
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Though these signs might be the worst of it, that such seething hatred for Bush was so mainstream and so casually, publicly practiced during his term demonstrates why the Tea Party movement represents hope for, at best, a partial solution. A large portion of our population is beyond willingness to engage in honest debate and be considerate of their political-cultural opponents.
Dec '10
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Yabut, libs and left wingers are otherwise peaceful and not prone to violence, so all those calls to violence are not taken seriously by the unbalanced and unhinged on the left. Studies have shown it's those right wing nutjobs with guns who are most prone to lose control and start killing innocents at the slightest provocation. </sarc>
Aug '10
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It's not amnesia. It's simply that when the left calls Bush a Nazi, or hangs Rumsfeld in effigy, or smashes windows and throws rocks at the police at IMF events, liberals don't find that particularly scary because they're not the targets. So it's not a problem in their minds.
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EJ, I could kiss you. This says it ALL.
Jul '10
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Um, Peter? You know, anything you put out on the web is, like, there forever.
Better be prepared to explain this one to your grandkids....
May '10
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How about terrorist pin-up calendars?
There used to be a left-wing bookstore in Chicago called Guild Books on Lincoln Ave. near the Biograph Theater. In addition to the complete works of Lenin and Mao, they sold terrorist pin-up calendars, on display near the cash register. Most people buy wall calendars with pictures of puppies and kittens, or vintage airplanes, but other people find that nothing brightens their day like pictures of masked thugs brandishing AK-47's and RPG's.
Curiously, my liberal friends were not troubled by this. (Nor were local news sources.)
Sep '10
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They are simply crafting a political narrative that suits them. They do this with every significant event. Death of Paul Wellstone case in point.
And not to be disrespectful of the victims, but this happens (unspeakable tragedy) all the time to less important people and somehow we think nothing of it. We have no national moments of silence for hundreds of victims of horrible crimes every day.
Here is how their minds work... A politician was murdered, therefore the murderer had political motives. They are that poor at logic. Seriously. This is the level of person they seek to persuade.
So the media, always on the political beat giving us all the political dish, well, this is to politics as a hurricane is to the Weather Channel.
This is a story for our political reporters and pundits, who happen to see everything in terms of politics, the media can include us all in the debate, otherwise it is just another tragedy.
But there are thousands of tragedies every day and each one could have a political spin, but go against the grain of their narrative...