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> Like I said. Clap! Clap! Clap! Polly-want-a-cracker?
> Polly-want-a-cracker?
I thought you Limbaugh asslickers just said "Ditto"
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> "t1gercat" <wexford1778@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 13, 3:52 pm, "Billary/2008" <F#
> %K_Liber...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> This article pretty much covers all of the hate filled, wacko,
extremist
>> talking points of the left. Everything from religion to economics.
>> Joseph
>> Stalin himself could not have written a better manifesto. I applaud
the
>> writer! His programmers would be proud of their protégé. He
>> regurgitated
>> this crap flawlessly, on queue and without remorse. Clap! Clap! Clap!
>> Clap!
>>
>> "Trey Harlow" <thar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
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>>
>>
>> > From Salon.com:
>>
>> > The Coulterization of the American right
>>
>> > The "faggot" episode isn't about Ann Coulter. It's about the deal
>> > conservatism made with the devil -- a deal that has cost it its soul.
>>
>> > By Gary Kamiya
>>
>> > March 13, 2007 | So Ann Coulter has done it again. She called John
>> > Edwards a "faggot" at a major conservative conference and everyone is
>> > outraged. But do we have to go through this ridiculous charade again?
>> > Nothing's going to happen. This is old and profitable hat for the
>> > shameless buffoon who once compared Hillary Clinton to a prostitute
>> > (when Clinton was first lady, no less) and displayed her keen grasp
of
>> > geopolitical strategy after 9/11 by declaiming, "We should invade
their
>> > countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
>> > (Following her sage advice, George W. Bush acted on the first two
>> > recommendations, with splendid results, but the third, despite the
best
>> > efforts of some of his holy pals, is proving difficult.) We all know
>> > that Coulter will emerge from this episode selling even more books,
>> > appearing on even more right-wing talk shows and being even more
>> > fanatically wor****pped by her legions of fans. A few newspapers have
>> > dropped her column, and some GOP presidential candidates condemned
her
>> > statement -- who cares? As should be amply clear by now, there is
>> > virtually nothing that Ann Coulter can do that will cause her to be
>> > cast
>> > out of the bosom of the American right. And even if she was to lose
her
>> > head and cross a line that even she can't cross -- calling Obama a
>> > "nigger" is about the only thing that would do the trick -- a
thousand
>> > hissing Coulters would spring up to take her place.
>>
>> > For this isn't really about Coulter at all. This is about a pact the
>> > American right made with the devil, a pact the devil is now coming to
>> > collect on. American conservatism sold its soul to the Coulters and
>> > Limbaughs of the world to gain power, and now that its ideology has
>> > been
>> > exposed as empty and its leader****p incompetent and corrupt,
>> > free-floating hatred is the only thing it has to offer. The problem,
>> > for
>> > the GOP, is that this isn't a winning political strategy anymore --
but
>> > they're stuck with it. They're trapped. They need the bigoted and
>> > reactionary base they helped create, but the very fanaticism that
made
>> > the True Believers such potent shock troops will prevent the
>> > Republicans
>> > from achieving Karl Rove's dream of long-term GOP domination.
>>
>> > It is a truism that American politics is won in the middle. For a
magic
>> > moment, helped immeasurably by 9/11, the GOP was able to convince
just
>> > enough centrist Americans that extremists like Coulter and Limbaugh
did
>> > in fact share their values. But the spell has worn off, and they have
>> > been exposed as the vacuous bottom-feeders that they are.
>>
>> > It will be objected that Coulter, Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael
>> > Savage and their ilk are just the lunatic fringe of a respectable
>> > movement. But in what p***** for conservatism today, the lunatic
fringe
>> > is respectable. In the surreal parade of Bush administration follies
>> > and
>> > sins, one singularly telling one has gone almost entirely unremarked:
>> > Vice President Dick Cheney has appeared several times on Rush
>> > Limbaugh's
>> > radio show. Think about this: The holder of the second-highest office
>> > in
>> > the land has repeatedly chummed it up with a factually challenged
>> > right-wing hack, a pathetic figure only marginally less creepy than
>> > Coulter. Imagine the reaction if Al Gore, when he was vice president,
>> > had routinely appeared on a radio show hosted by, say, Ward
Churchill.
>> > (The comparison is feeble: There really is no left-wing equivalent of
>> > Limbaugh, just as there is no left-wing equivalent of Father Coughlin
>> > or
>> > Joe McCarthy.) The entire American political system would melt down.
>> > Beltway wise men would trip on their penny loafers in their haste to
>> > demand Gore's head. Robert Bork would come out of retirement to call
>> > for
>> > a coup to restore the caliphate, I mean the Judeo-Christian moral law
>> > in
>> > America. Yet the grotesque Cheney-Limbaugh love-in doesn't raise an
>> > eyebrow. We're so inured to the complete convergence of "respectable"
>> > conservatism and reactionary talk-radio ravings that we don't even
deem
>> > it worthy of comment.
>>
>> > The right in America has always flirted with various forms of gutter
>> > populism, but its latest incarnation may represent its lowest
>> > limbo-dance yet. It's worth pausing for a moment to recall how this
>> > happened. Newt Gingrich, the adulterous moralist and demagogic hit
man
>> > who led the vaunted Republican Revolution of 1994, is largely
>> > responsible for the GOP's debased state, along with evangelical holy
>> > warriors -- let's call them Christo-jihadists -- like Pat Robertson,
>> > Ralph Reed and James Dobson. In a reprise of Nixon's "Southern
>> > strategy," which used racist appeals to white Southerners to
>> > devastating
>> > political effect, Gingrich and the Christo-jihadists fired up the
>> > so-called values or social issues conservatives by ranting about
guns,
>> > God and gays.
>>
>> > Just as im****tant as Newt and the holy men was what former right-wing
>> > operative David Brock called "the Republican noise machine," the
>> > well-funded media apparatus that ceaselessly broadcasts right-wing
>> > propaganda. Figures like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and, of
>> > course, Ann Coulter, using the enormous power of the new Fox News
>> > network and of talk radio, whipped their audience into a resentful,
>> > self-righteous fury, raging against "godless secularists" and
"liberal
>> > elites" who they blamed for the moral collapse of America. This
vicious
>> > culture war played on the fear and confusion of traditional Americans
>> > confronting massive societal and cultural changes -- a process
>> > brilliantly described in Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter with
>> > Kansas?"
>>
>> > In fact, the right's culture war was -- and is -- mostly bogus. Most
of
>> > the deep societal changes it decried -- the decline of community, the
>> > loss of religious faith, economic insecurity, selfishness, social
>> > atomization, anomie -- cannot be blamed on liberalism: They are
>> > products
>> > of modernity itself and of the modern world's triumphant economic
>> > system, capitalism. (Daniel Bell pointed this out more than 30 years
>> > ago
>> > in his 1976 classic "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.") And
>> > those changes have been greatly exacerbated by the monopolistic,
>> > heck-of-a-job-Brownie, cor****ate-crony version of capitalism -- one
>> > loudly championed by, naturally, the GOP. Other aspects of the
right's
>> > culture war are simply reactionary and/or unconstitutional, like its
>> > attack on science and its outrageous attempt to tear down the wall
>> > between church and state. There are some culture-war issues, like the
>> > fight over abortion, that are genuine moral cruxes and difficult to
>> > resolve. But even these have been made far more toxic and destructive
>> > than necessary by the right's hysterical use of them as a bludgeon to
>> > attack its enemies.
>>
>> > But if the right's culture war is almost entirely a fraud, and is
one
>> > of the major factors behind the unraveling of the American polity, it
>> > paid big political dividends. The right's embrace of "values" allowed
>> > it
>> > to stave off what should have been its inexorable decline. If the
price
>> > is obeisance to an increasingly vulgar, bigoted, nativist,
know-nothing
>> > and theocratic ideology -- well, apparently it is better to survive
as
>> > a
>> > slimy Gollum hungering after the Ring of Power than not to survive at
>> > all.
>>
>> > By rights, American conservatism should be dead or on life sup****t by
>> > now. The ideology has always been incoherent, deeply divided between
>> > its
>> > libertarian, free-market wing and its traditionalist, "values" wing.
As
>> > George H. Nash noted in his 1976 book "The Conservative Intellectual
>> > Movement in America Since 1945," a shared anti-communism and
political
>> > convenience tem****arily concealed these profound differences. Ronald
>> > Reagan's anti-communism, and his sunny personality, allowed
free-market
>> > conservatives to overlook the fact that government actually grew
>> > enormously on his watch. With a majority of Americans continuing to
>> > believe in Democratic social policies and programs, and demographic
>> > trends running in the Democrats' favor, the right was facing disaster
>> > after Reagan's exit and the fall of communism. It desperately needed
a
>> > boogeyman to unify its unruly factions. Fortunately, conjuring up
>> > boogeymen has been a right-wing specialty since the days of the
>> > Know-Nothing movement.
>>
>> > First the right launched the culture war, a key part of which was
>> > demonizing the Clintons. This and a disgraceful Supreme Court
decision
>> > sufficed to get a featherweight named George W. Bush named president.
>> > But Bush lived down to his résumé, and after his first year his
>> > approval
>> > ratings were tanking. The old culture-war tricks weren't working
>> > anymore; the magic was wearing off. And then a miracle literally fell
>> > from the skies: 9/11.
>>
>> > The terror attacks were just what the right needed. It allowed it to
>> > fold "national security" into its culture war ****tfolio -- a potent
>> > mixture, especially with Congress and the mainstream media drugged by
>> > patriotic fervor. Islamic terrorism was hastily dressed up as the new
>> > Red Menace, liberals were painted as Chamberlain-like appeasers, and
>> > all
>> > was well for a while. In 2004, Bush's strategy of appealing to his
base
>> > proved successful, despite his
>>
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> We all know you didn't read the article, ****wit, so stop pretending.
> The conclusion was prophetic and rang especially true when it comes to
> your brand of calcified ignorance.
>
> "...as the feebleness of the right's agenda becomes more and more
> apparent, we can expect the noise from figures like Coulter and
> Limbaugh to get louder and louder. But the tactic will not work -- in
> fact, it is likely to backfire. And if the Republicans go
> down big in 2008, conservatives will finally be forced to confront the
> Frankenstein monster they created -- and decide whether they dare get
> rid of it before it consigns their movement to oblivion. Based on
> their recent history, I don't think they have the common sense to take
> out the garbage."
>
> Now stick your fingers in your ears and yell "la, la la." The Right is
> thoroughly bankrupt. Only the hard core Bu****es remain and those
> numbers are shrinking daily.
>
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