New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
I love the Capitol Hill neighborhood I lived in for 15 years. But in a city where over 90% of voters vote one way, there's a serious problem with diversity of thought. This morning one of the local businesses -- a children's consignment store, mind you -- tweeted:
Anyone know where Boehner lives on Cap Hill? I need a place to throw out my trash during the #shutdown.
Nevermind the partisanship or failure to acknowledge that the previous Congress (you know, the one that Democrats controlled) completely failed to come even close to passing a budget. But the tone? That's just uncool.
And now I see that it wasn't even original. Turns out there's a Facebook page launched by the political director for Netroots Nation that calls on all my old neighbors to dump their trash on Boehner's lawn. It's not even cute or funny.
And then there's the meme going around that Republicans want to kill women. Literally. Can you even imagine the uproar among liberals if, say, Sarah Palin used this language? It would be the "lie of the year."
Now, I don't get sore when people use military language to describe politics. But this inconsistency -- where the media blame conservative rhetoric for a madman's shooting rampage while not even blinking when the other side alleges murderous motives for legislation -- doesn't sit well with me.
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Jan '11
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
Agreed. It is extremely annoying. It's been annoying for years. But what can we do? By now it's obvious that the media are beyond shameless. There is zero chance that by pointing out the kazillionth instance of inconsistency we'll get any major media outlet to blink, let alone saying, "You're right. We need to change that. Nostra culpa, nostra maxima culpa."
We need to do something more than pointing out inconsistency and double standards. I can't think what, but maybe the more brilliant minds on Ricochet have some ideas.
Aug '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
If the SEIU can go the Bank of America regional exec home and protest when they still owe them for a loan in 2008 of about over 75 million , then I don't see that they would have any problem taking their personal belongings over to Boehner's and dumping them on the law, trouble is, Boehner might just decide to kick their ass. After all, this is a guy who spent his life working in the family bar and I'll bet it included the occasional tossing out of some drunk or rude characters. That would pretty well describe the types headed for his house.
Sep '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
Margaret Ball
We need to do something more than pointing out inconsistency and double standards. I can't think what, but maybe the more brilliant minds on Ricochet have some ideas. · Apr 8 at 8:50am
Excellent point Margaret. I too am frustrated and even more so because I can see this playing out exactly as you say with Republicans losing 8 points in our favorablility rating with independent voters and then buckling and and us lamenting the fact that the world is unfair to those who try and do the right thing.
The only good point I can make is that we are being drawn into a fight with an equally matched opponant on ground of THEIR choosing. I admire our spirit, but this is not what Sun Tzu would recommend.
Jul '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
Conservatism just keeps on getting more fun all the time.
It used to be all we could manage was to pluck food from the mouths of poor children and kick the occasional granny to the curb. But now we get to declare war on women, too!
Next up: a jihad against puppies and kittens.
And bunnies.
Aug '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
Democrat Louise Slaughter pleaded for civility a few months ago, saying Republicans were guilty of using extreme rhetoric. Now she's saying they're deliberately trying to "...kill women."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-you-know-the-gop-is-in-washington-to-kill-women-thats-what-this-dem-says/
This degree of lying, deceit, and hypocrisy is not only ugly, but dangerous. It creates mental imbalance. Of course, she's certainly mentally imbalanced. We have to wonder why our fellow citizens aren't protesting. Their was a time when this would have generated loud catcalls.
Apr '11
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
It was transparent from the beginning: The New Tone was always about silencing conservative opposition. When I'd point out that hateful rhetoric is nothing new and there's plenty coming from the left, my liberal friends would dismiss that as just people on the fringe and nothing nearly bad as anything coming out from right field.
There was never an interest in changing the tone. There was only an interest in finding a way to shut those pesky conservative voices up tight. Personally, I don't plan to remain silent.
Dec '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
C. U. Douglas: It was transparent from the beginning: The New Tone was always about silencing conservative opposition. When I'd point out that hateful rhetoric is nothing new and there's plenty coming from the left, my liberal friends would dismiss that as just people on the fringe and nothing nearly bad as anything coming out from right field.
There was never an interest in changing the tone. There was only an interest in finding a way to shut those pesky conservative voices up tight. Personally, I don't plan to remain silent. · Apr 8 at 9:54am
Precisely correct assessment of the reason the Left became suddenly (and very temporarily) concerned with "civility."
Dec '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
Margaret Ball
Agreed. It is extremely annoying. It's been annoying for years. But what can we do? By now it's obvious that the media are beyond shameless. There is zero chance that by pointing out the kazillionth instance of inconsistency we'll get any major media outlet to blink, let alone saying, "You're right. We need to change that. Nostra culpa, nostra maxima culpa."
We need to do something more than pointing out inconsistency and double standards. I can't think what, but maybe the more brilliant minds on Ricochet have some ideas. · Apr 8 at 8:50am
While it's true that the media is dominated by ideologues who tried to push the "New Tone" meme as a bludgeon to silence voices on the Right, those ideologues have forgotten that they are trying to push that meme onto the American people. Americans have a prediliction for fairness -- one of the reasons they fall prey to Lefty ideas at times, but also a reason that they want incivility on both the Right AND Left held to the same standard. Americans tend to dislike people who condemn certain activities and then engage in those self-same activities.
Aug '10
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
I say we should offer Slaughter a trade-off. As long as we can defund Planned Parenthood, we will swap you the life of every senior citizen who we are "killing" for each new citizen we "save" from Planned Parenthood killing them instead.
Jan '11
Re: New Tone: Trashing Boehner, Killing Women
Mollie,
You wondered how, besides whining that "It's not fair," conservatives are going to stop Democrats from playing the game of "Do as I say, not as I do."
The Democrats' tactic is classic bullying. How do you stop a bully?
There's a great scene in the movie "Elmer Gantry." Lulu Baines (Shirley Jones), the prostitute who betrayed Gantry, is being bitch-slapped by her pimp for not collecting the ransom Gantry was willing to pay to keep her silent. Gantry (Burt Lancaster) barges into the room. He sees what's happening, spins the pimp around and asks him,
"Don't you know that hurts?"
And then Gantry shows him that it does.
That's how you stop a bully. Not with reason. Not by appeal to authority.
You bloody his nose.
Elect no Democrat anywhere, ever.