Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation, not daring to criticize the Obama administration's bungling of healthcare reform lest it give aid and comfort to the GOP. Well, that ice dam sure broke with a roar. Dissident Democrats found their voices, and by late August even the liberal lemmings of the mainstream media, from CBS to CNN, had drastically altered their tone of reportage, from priggish disdain of the town hall insurgency to frank admission of serious problems in the healthcare bills as well as of Obama's declining national support.

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Fucking classic, and exactly what we've been saying about you bitches for quite some time:

"But affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer taught. Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it's invisible. The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote "critical thinking," which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms ("racism, sexism, homophobia") when confronted with any social issue. The Democratic brain has been marinating so long in those clichs that it's positively pickled."

And an equal opportunity offender:

"Having said all that about the failures of my own party, I am not about to let Republicans off the hook. What a backbiting mess the GOP is! It lacks even one credible voice of traditional moral values on the national stage and is addicted to sonorous pieties of pharisaical emptiness. Republican politicians sermonize about the sanctity of marriage while racking up divorces and sexual escapades by the truckload. They assail government overreach and yet support interference in women's control of their own bodies. Advanced whack-a-mole is clearly needed for that yammering smarty-pants Newt Gingrich, who is always so very, very pleased with himself but has yet to produce a single enduring thought. The still inexplicably revered George W. Bush ballooned our national deficits like a drunken sailor and clumsily exacerbated the illegal immigration debate. And bizarrely, the hallucinatory Dick Cheney, a fake-testosterone addict who spooked Bush into a pointless war, continues to be lauded as presidential material."

Nice post 101. Congrats for not calling Mrs Obama a gorilla. How statesmanlike of you.

Ooga Booga.
-Michelle

(Roughly translated, it means "Grunt Grunt")

The missing link.

here's the missing link:

www.salon.com

for some reason, your link wouldn't work for me, 101.

frankly, BOTH parties are detached from reality and have forgotten just who OWNS whom. camille certainly has been earning her stripes lately!

fyi, 101 - i believe murphy put up a sowell post on obama's inability to be truthful.

Nanc,
The link works for me.

I think "mystery" was calling Michelle Obama the "missing link".

why would he place so much importance on her? BWAH!

"Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer taught. The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote "critical thinking," which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms ("racism, sexism, homophobia") when confronted with any social issue." - article

Well that explains GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoun
gGirlIn1990.com.

Great read

By foolishly trying to reduce all objections to healthcare reform to the malevolence of obstructionist Republicans, Democrats have managed to destroy the national coalition that elected Obama and that is unlikely to be repaired. If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

Here here!

"Well that explains GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoun
gGirlIn1990.com."

It's pretty funny to hear the indignation from the same crew that--seriously--claimed Clinton murdered Vince Foster.

She really captured my main beef with the O'tard movement here:

Throughout this fractious summer, I was dismayed not just at the self-defeating silence of Democrats at the gaping holes or evasions in the healthcare bills but also at the fogginess or insipidity of articles and Op-Eds about the controversy emanating from liberal mainstream media and Web sources. By a proportion of something like 10-to-1, negative articles by conservatives were vastly more detailed, specific and practical about the proposals than were supportive articles by Democrats, which often made gestures rather than arguments and brimmed with emotion and sneers.
and here
When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation, not daring to criticize the Obama administration's bungling of healthcare reform lest it give aid and comfort to the GOP.
The whole afraid to "give aid and comfort to the GOP" was bull shit from the beginning, and is really another way of putting "party over country."

"By a proportion of something like 10-to-1, negative articles by conservatives were vastly more detailed, specific and practical about the proposals than were supportive articles by Democrats, which often made gestures rather than arguments and brimmed with emotion and sneers..."

Yet Huffington, The Nation, Salon... etc. still find their way into the mainstream media and here on Drudge. Laughable.

I view the Health Care bill much like the leadup to the war in Afghanistan. When asked for proof of the Taliban's involvement in 9/11, we were told how badly they treated their women. WHen emotion is used to answer logic, it means there is no logic to support the case IMHO.

How odd, the usual Obama finger sniffers are nowhere to be found in this thread...

I'm sure they'll be along shortly.

nah, they're busy sniffing his behind on the nooner.

Is there a Palin or Rush thread up?

People like Paglia are the libtards' base, one that they can scarce afford to lose. And they're losing it.

People like Paglia are the libtards' base

Not really.

Paglia is a sex-positive lesbian intellectual whose opinions are all over the map, but at least they are genuinely her own.

She doesn't speak for me or any other democrat but herself.

I find her often amusing and occasionally either profound or trivial in about the same measure.

She is always worth a read for her unique perspective.

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