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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Walt Whitman was in the theatre when President Lincoln was assassinated. I hope I am never around another drop of murderous blood. The Point I wanted to be Kristal, willian clear about is...History records a bit of human nature psy/sociology etc. I'm the first in my house to admit fallibility. In fact, it may have actually been on Saturday when actor-Booth drank brandy and used his cowardly black pistol to pre-meditate the death of Abe. Let me be clear, none should kill.
I see witless hate in the audience of the world. We can make the most innocent moral, spiritual, emotional, or passionate plea for common sense, and the rt-wing turn the day into a ugly phantasmagoria carnival. Yankee ladies named Ann lived and made fortune and fame from ill-dramas then. The general hum on Life's Stage about politics, history, dramas and debate clubs...And art and craft expressions can become soiled and bastardized. We have varied personal experiences that shape and mold our (love) psyche.
The Point: Pure hate leads to actual murder. It's murder. Pure and simple, killing others we disagree with or they got oil and vinegar that we crave for our Romain and Caesar salad, O, parmesan me, boom!
It's not the bursting of a trigger-sound that spring flowers are comming? We are talking about something as equal or more serious. You see the mad animals under the Pundit spot-lights, eyes, right? They are not the good dears. "Sic semper tyrannis!"
People in panic will jump over chairs, trample others, scream---many obsenities from ashen faces and brandied flavored lips. A horror noise is a hideous shrill cry. Have you ever stayed up all night in a bombed out area in the rain to hear weeping, screams, and unbearable moaning and wails that never would stop? You can't sleep.
"Stop," or we will experience the inextricable confusion and be forced to ask, "Why."
Thinking that during my morn wash-up time; I wanted one more attempt to sound more clear. Thanks.
Serious. They put you in a better mood. I wish we all could watch them chew on bushes and grass. Beautiful.
Depends Clownsense...the gardener, farmer or apple tree enthusiast might look out the window and see hooved locusts...but don't let me be a buzzkill.
ahh yes they begged you for sex huh? that's the best you can do? geez even more pathetic than we feared.
jon gets off on his handjobs complaining that howie is not objective. wahhh wahhh wahhh!
trouble is that kurz doesn't claim to be and jon is an effin fool.
which roughly puts him slightl;y below the three year old throwing a tantrum when he learns that he can't fly.
now go back to all those tards begging you for more of your special bad sex jon.
Clownsense, you are the Poet Laureate of us pontificating posters. You make clear sense even at 5:30 am - much appreciated!
Tip tap,
I have to disagree with how you describe Kurz. Both in the paper and on CNN, Kurz is presented as a neutral observer of the media, both left and right. On tv he's the moderator and in the paper he covers both sides, in his own special way.
As for there being more important people to cover. So what? How does that excuse Kurtz or make Glenn's post here less accurate. If you want to talk about others, do so. If you don't want to read about Kurtz, don't. The rest of us are interested.
One of the most remarkable things about the rise of the conservative media is the success of the strategy of attacking strength, despite the obvious, staggering hypocrisy of such attacks. ... Most recently, Al Gore got attacked for not caring enough about the environment in his electrical usage. This is amazing when the comparison is made between his work and the planet-destroying oil obsessions of Bush and Cheney, et al.
Malkin and Kurtz' attack is on this same pattern, I believe, and the strength that they are trying to neutralize is precisely the fact that a core value of liberalism is reasoned and civil discourse. -- marfks
To this point, what the right is doing is what both sides do effectively: Highlighting perceived hypocrisy. Nothing turns off the American public like hypocrisy.
What critics are saying is "liberals claim that, 'a core value of liberalism is reasoned and civil discourse,' and yet, their rhetoric is anything but. Witness the Huff Po comments."
Al Gore preaches conservation but he wastes energy.
John Edwards speaks regularly about his empathy for the working man, yet he just built a ginormous mansion, flaunting his obscene wealth.
We on the left do the same thing all the time. Quite effectively. Homosexuality is not a big deal in a Democratic politician, but it is outrageous in a conservative Republican politician or evangelical. Why? Because it suggests hypocrisy: Preach one way and live the other. The issue of homosexuality is irrelevant to the debate.
In the last election, we used the issue of "corruption" very effectively against the Republicans. Part of the reason it was so effective is not because Democratic politicians are so clean, but that Republicans claim to be the party of good government and fiscal responsibility. Hypocrisy.
This is reflective of no grand strategy by the right. It is merely low-hanging fruit. Kurtz was easy to predict because he's lazy and this was a no-brainer of an issue.
These are self-inflicted wounds.
Much of the Arab world believes that 9-11 wasn't perpetrated by Arabs because Arabs would never do that. It therefore must've been the Israelis, trying to turn the world against the Arabs.
That's no different than the crap I'm reading here. Must've been right wing trolls or the biased media trying to make us look bad. Worse: They're conspiring. We're the victims.
We look bad when we make excuses and look for scapegoats.
We win when we stay on offense and on message. This debate puts us on defense. In my opinion, we're wasting time arguing that "they are bad," or "they are no better," or even "here's why they are bad," when we should be showing why our ideas are better.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
