Dems Playing Soviet-Style Insanity Card
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the seemingly coordinated effort by Democrats to lately play the insanity card against conservatives?
Well, Jon Stewart is planning what he claims will be a huge rally next weekend called the “Restoring Sanity” demonstration. Odd, really, since Jon Stewart comes across as always a few screws short of a full brain. Nevertheless, Stewart says his rally will be the national antidote to the Glenn Beck “Restoring Honor” rally, which drew nearly half a million cheerful Americans to the nation’s capitol in August.
It might behoove a sentient American to ponder whether Jon Stewart considers qualities like cheerfulness, religiosity, a penchant for cleanliness, and a love of American liberty — which were on ample display during Beck’s rally — to be signs of mental illness.
It would seem so and that puts Jon Stewart right in the same league with the old Soviet regime and the way they treated their own dissidents. The Soviets were infamous for declaring any vocal dissident “insane,” putting them in psychiatric “hospitals,” turning the shock therapy machines to full voltage, and throwing away the keys.
Now, Stewart makes it all come off as though he were making a huge, political joke out of this. He is, after all, a comedian, whose entire career has been aimed at convincing America’s youth that he is giving them hard news with just a little entertainment thrown in the mix. But when a significant portion of American young people use Stewart’s comedic routines as their primary source of news, it ought to at least worry the greater public a bit when Stewart deems those Obama dissidents as “insane.”
To add government support for Stewart’s claim on the “insanity” of bucking Democrat policies, President Obama has just announced that he plans to appear on Comedy Central with Stewart to rev-up the “Restore Sanity” crowd. In this unseemly — and extremely unpresidential — appearance, Obama would seem to be throwing the entire weight of the U.S. government into this old Soviet tactical slander against dissidents.
This is nothing new, I can remember in the 60′s the establishment railing against Bill Buckley and National Review. Buckley,Burnham,Meyers and Rusher were all called mentally ill at different times.It’s a common tactic of the left.
P.S. Remember the calumnous charge against Goldwater? 2,000 shrinks declared him insane.
I agree, Pedro….Thanks to my discovering Glenn Beck, I’ve learned that the radicals of the 1960′s have re-emerged (many from the ivy league nests that gave them sustenance in the interim years), and some of them are top advisors to the president…Their nihilism spread through academia, and anyone in college from the 1960′s to now has heard their warped messages. Prior to Fox, we had no source of info on the nihilists calling themselves liberals/progressives. If Fox and the WSJ go down in this war, we are all doomed. Hopefully, sanity will right this downward spiral to national suicide. (Hope someone photographs the Stewart turn-out to see how many show up.)
Hey, uh, just a suggestion … if you don’t want people to think you’re a nutjob, don’t open with “Thanks to my discovering Glenn Beck”. It’s pretty much the equivalent of going out in public in your bathrobe a tin foil hat and then telling everyone you’re not into conspiracy theories.
That’s right, the poster could have opened with “thanks to my discovery of Keith Olberman”, you know, the liberals “voice of reason and sanity”! Speaking of insanity, where’s Joe Biden today? Is that a beard on Pelosi’s chin?
Go back to you grade school place like HuffPost you idiot!
I don’t think he is smart enough for the Huff Post.
Funny how liberals hate Glenn because he exposes the truth. Pathetic really.
Glenn Beck. If you take anything I say as gospel your an idiot.
Idiots say what.
Yea and the world is flat too. BTW – I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale if you got the money.
In a few years, the left will be running our health-care system and can actually throw dissidents into psychiatric hospitals for treatment. The infamous ’10-10′ commercial from England is an unusual slip from the Left revealing their true thoughts.
The infamous ‘10-10′ commercial from England is an unusual slip from the Left revealing their true thoughts.
In that commercial, those who failed to conform to what was expected of them were not sent to psychiatric hospitals, they were simply killed outright. Whoever was playing the representative of leftist orthodoxy in each scene simply pushed a button and the dissenters exploded. That would appear to be a much cheaper approach than building psychiatric hospitals and going through the motions of pretending to treat people. Given the dire financial status of the United States at the moment, that approach might appeal to the left simply to save money….
Never mind the 60′s. When Buckley’s book, “God and Man at Yale” was published in 1951, McGeorge Bundy, one of the school’s deans, called Buckley a “sick,twisted young man.” These tactics have always been,and will always be,used by the left.
So the Left has added a third prong to its pitchfork. Once upon a time, anyone who disagreed with them was either stupid or evil. Now it’s “stupid, evil, or insane,” with the third designation seemingly preferred for those who’ve “fallen away” from the true Leftist faith.
The longer I contemplate this election, and our current political circumstances, the more it seems to me that the Left and the Democrat Party are “going all in,” because they find themselves in a “no tomorrows” situation. If we defeat them as thoroughly and broadly as we hope on November 2, it could be fifty years before they have another shot at power. But if they stave us off and retain control of both houses of Congress…I’m not sure I want to think about what will follow.
Be vigilant…and ready.
Well for starters I have plenty of ammunition and several guns at my immediate reach and know how and when to use them!
With that said I also have my voters registration card ready and will be early voting come this Monday the 25th of October as soon as the polls open. I just got laid off and now I can sit around the polls all day long, and I will be armed with my cell phone with a 8 megapixel camera that shoots videos and 8 gigabyte SD card.
I may post what I see or my phone or camera sees here or elsewhere, since I can put most stuff on You Tube right off my phone almost instantly!
Careful Steve, you’re starting to sound like a Black Panther. (Actually I think this is Jon Stewart having a little fun)
Mr. DeMarcus, I have never been on this website before, but I knew it was a right leaning site. But I told myself to keep an open mind. But just as I told myself NOT to expect, I see several posters here hinting at political violence. Please do not be shocked or offended when people like me call you extreme or “insane.” If you don’t want to be thought of as insane, maybe you should stop informing strangers on the internet about how many guns you have.
Your own president has consistently hinted at political violence, and his SEIU allies have made good on those hints once or twice. Just thought I’d inform you, in case you weren’t up to speed.
The fifty year forecast is unrealistic. I thought the same thing in 2002 when we had a Republican president and significant midterm gains in Congress (recall that year the MSM preening over a single silver lining named Barak Obama). Reagan and others have corectly pronounced that tyranny is never more than a generation away. This is a true battle against evil which will never end. Embrace the battle because that is what the righteous do.
Not surprising coming from an Administration that had one of its key members, Communications Director Anita Dunn, say that one of the people she admired most was Chairman Mao. Shows you how far these Socialists/Communists that infest the White House today are willing to go to destroy either a News Organization or a person’s reputation. What a vile and low bunch they are.
As for these lowlifes constantly calling Tea Party members “crazy,” well, we’re more than used to it by now. Let’s see how crazy it is when the Democrats LOSE Congress because the of Tea Party movement.
And for all the members in the Tea Party movement, do not fear. Throughout the ages tyrants and their minions have not only attacked and made fun of people who oppose them, they’ve also tried to destroy them. But, no matter, we do have some good company on our side in history. I’m sure the British Army in 1776 had a good laugh at the American farmers who stood up against them. I’m sure the Japanese Army had a lot of laughs and contempt for the American troops that stood up to them on Bataan, Corregidor, and tiny little island called Wake. But they learned that, even in defeat, we would never back down as a country and would eventually win. And even when the lions were going after the Christians in the Colloseum, with the Romans laughing and taunting them just before they were ripped to shreds, they stood firm, knowing that in the end they had much more than just right on their side.
We will stand firm regardless of what they call us. Always remember what Winston Churchill once said, that “Generations will look back on this day and say that this was their finest hour.”
Vote on November 2nd and show those miserable far-left elites that, in the end, we’re the ones standing up for what’s right and we’re the ones who will have the last laugh.
…inquiring into your beliefs used to be the job of the “inquisitor”. of course, when you were sent to the inquisitor it was because you had already fallen from grace. and the procedure from the inquisitor to your demise was just a formality
our current political regime exhibits the height of hypocrisy in this as the stand and scream an yell for “tolerance” and “multiculturalism” and then denigrate those they disfavor with arguments of ridicule
theirs is truly the signature of the tyrant
Just another case of psychological projection by the left. They sure have elevated it to an art form, haven’t they? Marxism IS insanity.
Without a scintilla of a doubt, we are living in Orwellian times, the likes of which would make any Soviet puppet proud.
Whereas the left used to at least hide their mendacious behavior, at present, they are brazenly flouting their in-your-face tactics.
It is hard to fathom any other POTUS who would not only ignore the clamor (of over half the electorate)to release his documents, but would continue to add onto his staff the most radical individuals one can appoint, bar none.
It is as if Obama and his gang of thugs are saying-you guys/gals are gonna get a Soviet style government whether you like it or nor-even if it kills you!!
They are dangerously insane.Truly.
Everyone knows, borrowing an Obamaism, intelligence is not required to be an elite nor is a well rounded education. The current infestation of the White House is proof of this statement.
If they thought they could get away with it on a mass scale I think they would be trying to do it. If Obama and the Democrats had not revealed their true Totalitarian colors over the past two years, we may have been real trouble by 2012. Hopefully the 2010 midterm election will derail the Obama train. On the Left’s desire to re-educate us, remember they are already attempting that. Christian college students must accept homosexuality if they want to graduate and become counselors.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/07/christian-counseling-student-must-be-re.html
I think you are absolutely right about where the Left wants to take us. Instead of looking at the Soviet Union with disgust, they look at and think, “we could do it better”.
The modern Democrat Party are Communists. The people have rejected Obama’s Communism as the Tea Party has grown exponentially to his totalitarian schemes; however, the Obama Democrats & President Obama are in denial about their rejection. Until the Communists are purged from the Democrat Party, the Democrats will remain a broken, fractured party.
Sebastian I hope you are right and that there will be a real change in about 8 days! If not then I might use the second amendment to fix it all up!
(Yeah… Steve is definitely Jon Stewart)
The modern Republican Party is the minion of authoritarian corporate oligarchs. The people have rejected the GOP’s policies, which only benefit the ultra-wealthy, as they resoundingly booted them out of office in 2006 and 2008; however, the GOP and the corporations pulling its strings are in denial about their rejection. Until the those GOP leaders, who for their own personal gain put the interests of wealthy companies before the interests of Americans, and who use race- and class-baiting strategies to keep Americans divided, are purged from the party, the Republicans will remain a broken, fractured party.
You see how easy that is?
It’s tiresome listening to the Left say conservative candidates are “extreme” without bothering to explain what they mean by it. When it comes to smearing your opponent I suppose evidence of the charge is irrelevant.
I’m also weary of the POTUS saying over and over “we can’t go back to the policies of the last eight years…” or “…the policies that got us into this mess…” without ever once saying just which policies to which he’s referring. I’m still waiting for someone to ask him for specific policies he believes are responsible for our economic mess. Thinking Americans know that the root cause is the Democrat CRA that caused all of this mess, not anything the GOP did.
The Democrats have driven moderates from their party because gerrymandering has made all but the most far Left districts competitive so that the entire senior leadership of the Democrats are socialists, statists, and control freaks who only listen to the most extreme of their supporters.
Insane? That defines the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
No, thinking Americans understand that the destruction of the regulatory systems like Glass-Steagall (which had previously prevented the trading of collateralized debt) was the ultimate cause leading to the shady transactions by greedy traders. Had that regulation been in place, no one would have been permitted to bundle and sell toxic mortgages in the first place, the bubble would not have been created, and there likely would not have been a depression.
Sure, Fannie and Freddie were part of the proximate cause of the depression, however the majority of toxic assets which led to the meltdown were bought and sold by private investment companies that had nothing to do with Fannie or Freddie.
To state that Fannie and Freddie are wholly responsible for the economic depression is like stating that of two thieves who burglarize your house, and who beforehand were given by a third person a blueprint of your home, a list of where your valuables are hidden, and a breakdown of your security system, and tools/weapons to do the job, only one of the burglars is guilty of an offense.
Is that all they’ve got? Yup. Can’t wait until this insane administration is out of power.10 days to go until the clear-headed Americans with steely resolve make themselves heard. I haven’t felt more sane and determined in years!
Note m reply to Sebastian above!
Correct, nothing new. The Left is the Left and has limited imagination and methods; it’s always the same. It’s not a matter of type, just degree. I’ve noticed the “insanity” slander too. It arises from inability both to debate ideas or accept the premise that one must have a debate at all. The “insanity” slur covers both. After all, if your opponent is insane, there can be reason or way to debate him. How can I debate you and why should I debate you — you’re insane! This is a natural end to the trajectory of the past two years when every bill and initiative forced on America has failed (as Leftist policies are failing around the world) and the Left hits the inevitable wall. What response is there to failure? Acceptance of responsibility? Apology? Change of course? Are you kidding!? Are you insane? Of course you are.
Well good! Now, when I do what I do to stop these progressive comrades from total takeover of our society….I can claim not guilty by reason of mental defect! They will have to accept it too….and mourn the loss of a few of their leaders. Asshats.
Excuse me, sir — are you intimating that you are planning on assassinating politicians? Because that’s what it sounds like. Please explain to me why I shouldn’t report this to the FBI.
One of the defining features of the authoritarian socialist Left is to demean dissidents as insane. The Soviet system simply institutionalized it by sending dissidents to a psychiatric ward. This is a warning that the Left today in America is not liberal in a traditional mid-20th century sense of the word, but socialist and authoritarian.
The useful fools have been with us since the 1920s.
This is unkind of me, but why would a nice jewish boy change his name to something like Stewart if he were not, in fact, consumed with self loathing and shame? I see another NY secular jew hiding in plain sight.
I also believe that insanity abounds in the country, but it is largely confined to the 30% of the Democratic Party who wholeheartedly embrace the muderous tyrrany of Lenin, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and Chavez (they won’t admit that, but that is where this crap goes every time).
Hey, jon. Remember Trotsky? His reward for his service in the Russian Revolution was an ice axe to the head in Mexico, courtesy of the Man of Steel. The left really really doesn’t like jews, pard, at least not in a power sharing sense.
Since Obama took office, one of the only growth areas of the economy has been in firearms and ammunition sales to private citizens. When one has a problem with rabid dogs, one buys the means to put them down. And no, armed rebellion against these crazy bastards is NOT off the table.
“The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.”
It’s bizarro world when those who are spending us into oblivion to solve our economic woes, pushing ridiculous policies no one wants pedal to metal and calling half the middle class “racists” for opposing the boy king are the same ones labeling conservatives insane. November 2nd can’t come quickly enough.
And if they lose big Nov 2, just wait till you see the crap they ram through between then and January.
The hard left pull of the crypto-anarchists has disrupted the orbit of “classic liberals” or center-left folks and the reality is, Kyle-Anne, that the deranged and unhinged are at the helm of the Democratic Party’s sinking ship.
Juan Williams had Lanny Davis on Fox last night, discussing the NPR imposition of its gag order on center left voices in America. Davis talked passionately about how he, a near lockstep liberal, was savaged for the horrific offense of supporting lifelong friend and godfather to his child, Joe Lieberman.
The unhinged and deranged seething rage against Lieberman spilled over and oozed onto Davis himself. Juan Williams put the lie of “leftist tolerance” on the ash heap of revisionist history’s bon fire of the mendacities, when he declared that it is now exposed as a grand fraud.
Rachel Maddow, perhaps the Grand Duchess of the Deranged and Unhinged, bundled a pack of lies about Oklahoma City. She and her posse of prevaricators at MSNBC (must surely not be coherent), continue to spin the web of lies that Timothy McVeigh is the “conservative equal” to Global Radical Islam, the “Christian bomber” vs. the religion of peace oppressed “minutemen”.
First, McVeigh was an agnostic. Second, there is no worldwide declared war by radical McVeighists who have made HUNDREDS of attacks on Western civilization in a planned, organized and funded global network.
The Rachel Midol issued an invective, masquerading as an “apology” because she despises this country and reveres its enemies. Overwhelmingly, the deranged and unhinged are on the far reaches of the leftist death spiral. They seem to congregate at MSNBC, but they can be found throughout the traitorous world of Bill Ayers, Keith Olbermann, Lawrence O’Donnell.
They hate our military, they hate our people, they hate our religious institutions, they basically are big, steaming pile of hate, invective and slander.
Jon Stewart is not on the far reaches of leftism. But he does hold sway with young, impressionable types. He has the ability to pull them into the death spiral of insane, radical leftist extremism. Or to pull them out of it, into a more “classic liberal”, center left orbit.
The center left, center and center right…where 90+% of this country actually resides…would do well to truly identify where the crazies are. The unhinged and deranged are on the far left.
I believe that the sub-text to Davis’ original remarks about the hate directed towards him for supporting Lieberman centered around Jew-hatred. I also remember pretty clearly from the race in CT that the Dem grassroots and blogs were full of invective at Lieberman for his Jewishness. Still, folks like Davis, Alan Dershovitz and many more remain loyal to the Party. Yet ‘below’ them, I believe that quite a few un-famous Jews will be heading Republican. If Obama runs in ’12, that may be the election and year in which the epoxied bond between Jews and Democratia is broken. It is only one of many manifestations of the ways in which the Obama-Soros takeover of that party is wrecking it for the long term.
The proof for me (though I didn’t need it really) of what had happened to the Dems came in a video of David Horowitz, Pat Caddell and another guy talking about the Marxist takeover of the party. It’s a done deal, and a death knell both.
Larry, read my review of my brother’s book, Terrorist Cop, at American Thinker. Feel free to put your ‘two cents’ worth into the comments section, especially since you finished the book!
Okay, I’ll get over this weekend…
“Hopefully, we’re still far removed from the day when an American president will use his power to round up Tea Partiers and have them thrown into psychiatric hospitals for their treatment and reeducation.”
I suspect that this and the fear of other gross abuses of the government’s authority is why so many people have been buying guns at an accelerated rate.
Also, President Obama’s support of Stewart’s rally in D.C. smells strongly of great desperation on his part. I would urge anyone who knows people in John Stewart’s audience to turn them on to the alternative media sources like PJTV, etc. Their generation is smart enough to understand what is really going on in this country once they start looking beyond the MSM.
“Their generation is smart enough to understand what is really going on in this country once they start looking beyond the MSM.”
Really?! Are you sure? After all these are the products of govt. run schools, which IMO are really in existence now to provide union jobs, any educating that happens is an accident; but, not the indoctrination.
I fear all hope is lost (at least in this country).
The thing that bothers me most about my liberal relatives and friends is they don’t see how wrong and evil it is for the person in the Oval Office to attack people, businesses, media and ordinary Joes the way he does. I expect dignity, acceptance and encouragement from the person holding this honored office. The current resident is small in vision and heart.
The insanity card shouldn’t be a surprise.
The leaders of today’s left are the direct descendants of the Communist Architects of the late 40′s and 50′s who laid the groundwork to defeat the US through subversion…as soon as the Russians realized that they could never defeat us militarily.
The strategy was to infiltrate and take over the intelligentsia, the news media, the entertainment media, the education system and unions. This has all happened as planned.
The second element of the strategy was the balkanization of the US, which they accomplished by exploiting race, homosexuality, religion, family, small business, feminism, unions, the political system and by distorting normal wealth differentials. This has all happened as planned.
The third element was to create candidates designed to exploit the balkanization strategy. Ergo, Barry Obama, the first multi-racial, multi-national, multi-religious, multi-sexual, multi-class political figure in human history. This has all happened as planned.
What hasn’t happened as planned is that the American public hasn’t bought the con. Hence, the manic seething anger of the deranged left, the vindictiveness, the escalation of lies, and the adolescent demonization by the left of every person or group who stands against them or even disagrees with them in any way.
You would think some of their recruits would notice, but when a person is stuffing his pockets with unearned money, it seems to interfere with cognitive ability.
Somehow, I predict that some babbling leftists will call this post crazy. Gee, I wonder who they might be?
Kyle-Anne
Thanks for pointing out this interesting trend. Unlike Pedro, I remember Buckley but as a kid I didn’t really care.
I wonder if this is a new tactical shift since the old trick of calling everyone a racist seems to be loosing its power. Or are they possibly trying to win over conservatives by enticing them with goodies like free mental health care under ObamaCare? Free “Happy Meds” might win a few voters, maybe. Just a thought.
So called progressives (and progressives are to progress as pedophilia is to child care) are and always will be attractive to the far left hand side of the bell curve.
They had to use it. They couldn’t use the RACISM charge because the victim is black and the perpetrators are white. Not much else left in the playbook.
Dear tea party people, do you want to know how I know that you’re crazy?
Because you don’t even understand your own movement. The Tea Party was started as a plea by ACTUAL conservatives who were upset that Bush bailed out the banks at the cost of the taxpayer and were protesting that American working class taxes would rise as a result of Bush’s corporate bailout.
So why does the Tea Party never mention the bailout? Why is it silent about Wall street? Why is it silent on the Citizen United ruling? Why does it have absolutely nothing to say about Chinese, Russian and audi money ebing funneled into American politics? Why has the Tea Party transformed the same ludicrous right wing, I-hate-Obama-let’s-privatize-everything-but-let-me-keep-my-Medicaid bullcrap that America laughed out of officen in 2008?
The reason you are rightly called crazy is because you’d tied all your hopes and dreams to a movement you think represents you but in actuality you’ve just sold your souls to a corporate oligarchy that could give two craps about you or your values. The reason you are called crazy is that because you thinkg that you’ll have more rights and freedoms when Halliburton, GE and Monsantos step in to take over after the GOP starves and kills the government. You think Halliburton will provide you with Medicaid? You think Monsantos will provide you with subsidized crops? You think GE will provide you with the same rights and services that the government currrently does? You’re crazy.
Thank you comrade for revealing the insanity of these amerikan peasants with their idiot iphones and plasma televisions and miracle medicines and macmansions and suvs and internets and long lives and fat bellies and safe neighborhoods and skyscrapers that stay standing and nuclear weapons and overwhelming military strength and so-called morality and faith in God and close knit families and charitable organizations and no poverty and shopping paradises and education and leisure time and cheap travel and warm houses and safe meat and jewelry and computers and representative governments and entertainment and news outlets and clean cities and patriotic citizens.
Like you I hate these blind mice who are so unable to see the true horror of their lives.
trotsky – Thanks for the belly laugh.
Dear puppet~
We see the big picture not the trees. When the people are afraid of the government that is TYRANNY. When the government is afraid of the people that is LIBERTY.
~TEA mamabear
What an incoherent pot pourri of shopworn leftist slurs. The tea party is no more “silent” about the bailout or Wall Street as it is a captive of the “oligarchy” (what is that, by the way, but a definition of Obama’s unholy triad of incompetent cabinet academic apparatchiks and czars, badly managed corporations and corrupt public employee unions). What infuriates the Left about the tea party, beyond the fact it’s about to kick its ass in shockingly unexpected and maybe irrecoverable fashion, is that it represents an ACTUAL grassroots movement, i.e., a people-driven, anti-autocratic movement which also happens (gasp!) to be exploiting civil and constitutional means to effect a revolution.
And what about the Citizens United ruling? Did you read it? Going to try to peddle the leftist lie that it “opens the floodgates to foreign donations” (like the kind Obama sucked in at unprecedented levels in 2008)? Sorry, we know better.
The Tea Party was started to stop the arrogant overeach and destructive
policies of the Obama Administration. It is a true ‘grassroots’
movement which opposes trillion dollar deficits, legalized corruption
in the form of ‘Stimulus’ bribes to liberal political cronies, grovelling
to our foreign enemies, the trashing of our historical allies, the
abject refusal to enforce our immigration laws, the Government’s
planned destruction of our private healthcare industry, etc. etc.
There is absolutely nothing crazy about opposing the above mentioned
items. What is crazy is giving undying support to a Democratic Administration
that is clearly in over it’s head (or is knowingly trying to do great
damage to the country).
There is certainly no love lost between Tea Party activists and George
W. Bush. Many would view Bush’s Presidency as a failure (that is my
personal opinion) but there is no reason to oppose him – HE IS NO
LONGER IN OFFICE! OBAMA IS AND HE IS FAR WORSE (what about $3 trillion in deficits
in less than 2 years don’t you understand?). Obama’s policies must be stopped.
This sounds perfectly rational to me.
I hope it drives you to despair and suicide to realize your words have no effect.
Veni: Careful Veni, the killer in you is hanging out.
(Isn’t GE supposed to supply us with the windmills and cap-and-trade credits??)
By the way, ‘Pastor’ is exactly the guy P.J. O’rourke is talking about in this GREAT piece…
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/they-hate-our-guts_511739.html
Ironic because we know that not only does liberalism make people stupid by requiring to believe nonsense, it makes them psychotic too since those ridiculous beliefs are their reality.
One of the errors people fall into when referring to university idiocy today is to equate the ravings of the so-called liberal arts and social sciences as representative of the whole university. Bear in mind that the pure and applied sciences exist there as well and perform well. So all is not lost.
they seem like the first step down the path towards Soviet-style tyranny.
The difference being that the Soviets were a disciplined cadre run by men with balls and the American left is a bunch of prissy Nancy-boys whose idea of someone “tough” is Andrew Stern.
I thought the ‘Restoring Sanity’ rally was a day in which all the insane people would congregate in DC where they could be ignored and let the Nation have a day off from them…
David Frum and FrumForum: Useful Idiots
http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=2969
Cheers
A pound of thorazine a day, hard labor in freezing cold fot thirty years on potatoes and cold water, that ought to clear up any lngering mental instability, right komrad? Heh heh heh…. You will feel better in no time, tovarisch…
Vivian schiller is russian trained and was ted turners fixer/translator in the 1980s… Now she is the apparatchik at NPR… Who fired juan w…
Chief Propaganda Minister Barak Obama is all aflame as he is consumed in the fire of the truth. What we are witnessing while viewing the left, are the death throes of a dying ideology that has always been based on lies and half truths. So now today, the lies are greater and greater and the fire hotter and hotter. They still believe they can escape but of course as always, they believe yet another lie. For you followers of the Left; yes, “they think you are stupid”.
Refusal to adhere to currently fashionable notions of political correctness is an obvious sign of mental illness. I recall John Rocker was required by Major League Baseball to undergo psychological testing following his very politically un-correct remarks about the No. 7 train to Shea Stadium (politically un-correct, but also true–you really can see all those things on the No. 7). They did stop short of shipping him to the Gulag, however.
This does not bother me at all. Seriously, it does not. I view the Left as insane, in turn.
Fools and Knaves. The true believers honestly believe we on the Right are insane. They are Fools. The real power-hungry people behind the Leftist movement know we are not insane. They are very cold realists. They seek power, and power only. They are Knaves.
The Left lies as a matter of course, except when they say something utterly repugnant and do not KNOW how repugnant it is. Mao as a favorite philosopher comes to mind.
The funniest thing is that the Knaves do not disdain us, their opposition, half as much as they disdain the fools on their side. They have naught but the utmost contempt for the Fools.
This is why, after the Revolution succeeds, the Fools are the first ones up against the wall. The Knaves do not wake from their dreams, for they are wide awake. The Fools might waken, and become truly dangerous converts to the other side. They must be smothered in their sleep. Or, they will insist on the revolutionary principles being acted upon and launch a new revolution to make it happen. Either way, they must die. “The enemy within is greater than the enemy without.”
Tyranny and Liberty both rely on bloodshed. The difference is how much blood. Orders of magnitude difference.
The psychiatric card is more common than you think. I was falsely accused of making a racial slur against a coworker. This was during a push to unionize staff in my job classification. I did not support the union and several women who did wanted to take me down as retribution. I fought the charges and never backed down. I know what I did/did not say and was not about to admit to something that never happened, even though my supervisor suggested that I do so in order to keep the peace. I was “counseled” by several superiors to seek psychological help… even if it was just to help me deal with the “stressful” conditions at work. When hell freezes over.
Good work. We need more like you.
Hitlers death camps started off as internment camps to hold the dissents, then the death camps were build when the internment camps were full.
Insane? Is it insane to challenge that socialist/fascist illegal emigrant Muslim terrorist Barrack Hussein Osamabama, who isn’t one of us, from implementing the grand communist take-over of our great land of ours? The socialist take-over is the culmination of a 50 year plan started during the cold war to slowly infiltrate our body politic and socializing our great corporate fabric.
I already ordered my U-haul and have been systematically buying weapons grade manure over the last year and am fully prepared to go Timothy McVeigh in defense of our great country. Are you with me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKBa9K_vAm8&p=6779F92BA2210446&index=5&playnext=8 Insane?
What’s that old definition of insanity? Doing the same destructive things over and over, those things that have never worked in the past, and expecting different results? That seems to fit Socialists, Progressives and the far Left a lot better than the rest of us. They keep reassuring themselves and us that they and their efforts have just never been allowed enough time to prove their superiority which will be true again starting now and will keep them coming back for another whack. They are nothing but determined and maybe just a bit insane,
To assume that no one could disagree with Democrats without being insane is pure arrogance, an ailment that has afflicted the left wing for many decades.
We will stand firm regardless of what they call us. Always remember what Winston Churchill once said, that “Generations will look back on this day and say that this was their finest hour.”
Likely generations will look back upon the Tea Party the same way they look back upon the No-Nothings, the Klan, McCarthysim and organized opposition to the Civil Rights movement – a resoundingly immoral, prejudiced, un-American group of frightened and angry whites raging against the impending loss of their status as top dog in society and willing to lie, cheat, attack, slander, and generally subvert democracy in order to maintain that status.
Likely generations will look back on reality denying liberal whisks like you with pity and amusement.
So tell us, “Pastor:” Apart from the genocide and militarism, what is it about Nazism that you dislike? Be specific.
liberty NOT tyranny
Does Jon Stewart tend towards liberalism and progressivism? Yes. But he has been explicit in stating that his rally is intended as a counterpoint to extremist viewpoints on both sides. In this specific context, I’ve seen him take apart people like Alan Grayson (R-FL) for distorting the views of his opponent and calling opponents “American Taliban”. And I watched what looked like a fairly sincere plea from Stewart to Bill O’Reilly to attend and find common ground when O’Reilly appeared on The Daily Show. (O’Reilly turned him down, though with good humor.)
As for Beck, this is a guy who tells people to pray on it and then consider buying gold and freeze-dried food, for when the apocalypse comes. This is a guy who has called liberals “evil… Marxist, socialist, communists.” And this is a guy who has directed at Obama literally hundreds of references each to Nazism, Hitler, and fascism. And all of this is for what?
For TARP? Obama supported it, but that was a Bush thing, and it’s on track to end up close to break-even.
For saving GM and Chrysler? Obama pushed it, but Bush had been supporting them, too; Obama did so with conditions and as a result of support by both Bush and Obama, we didn’t lay off tens of thousands of workers, GM has been paying down its debt, and the upcoming IPO will start to unwind the government’s stake.
For health care reform? The CBO says it will lower the deficit over 10 years; the Republicans had 6-8 years in control under Bush (depending on how you count things) and the only major act of theirs to address health care was an unfunded prescription drug benefit that’s going to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit.
For financial services reform? After the meltdown, is there anyone willing to say we *didn’t* need some sort of action to try to curb the worst practices of the industry?
For not enacting new tax cuts (when we’re already running large deficits) to replace the cuts that expire this year? The Republicans enacted those tax cuts; they programmed them to expire because reconciliation rules they supported didn’t allow them to go beyond 10 years, and they chose to enact the cuts without bipartisan support.
So, look, if you have issues with Obama, fine. So do I. Plenty of them. But anyone who chooses to go on national TV hundreds of times and link him to Hitler and Nazism is either crazy or is acting like it. Anyone who can simultaneously claim that Obama and Democrats are *both* Hitler-like fascists *and* Marx-like communists is crazy or is acting like it. Anyone who says that putting humankind and the common good first leads to “death camps” is crazy or is acting like it. (By the way, that last bit means that Beck thinks the Catholic Church is going to lead to death camps, since the Pope says that government and the church should cooperate in serving the common good.)
A minor correction: Alan Grayson is (D-FL), not (R-FL). His opponent in FL-8 is Republican Dan Webster.
Feel free to respond how you’d like but I’m really here in peace. Please take a moment to read up on the rally before making judgments. Jon Stewart obviously leans left (don’t come back at me that he is Stalin reincarnate) but this rally really is a call to bring reasonableness back to the discourse in politics and the media. I understand that many of you believe the left is full of marxist and communists which you’re entitled to that opinion. However, our government was built on checks and balances something that will never go away (even with how much power you think Obama has). If the Republicans win back the house and take some seats in the Senate, that’s fine, that’s how our country was built to run. However, once that happens then it’s time to get down to work, coming up with compromises to solve real problems with real solutions. The hateful and hyperbolic rhetoric isn’t going to help anything.
Take a moment and remember that we all believe that America is great (because it is). And part of the reason it’s great is that everyone can believe it is great for different reasons. We should work among that common thread to come to agreements not tear each other down.
Something that I always bring up in these threads that should be of more concern than Obama or Glen Beck should ever be to both sides, is the fact that we still have no campaign finance reform in place to take the money out of politics. We continue to be complacent with the two sides fighting each other when that just leaves them to continue to do as little as possible while raking in benefits from special interests and lobbyists.
One side note, I personally have a problem with Glen Beck…wait a minute…let me finish. The reason is that he claims to love his country, which I can respect. However, the fact that he can’t see that demonizing the other side and dividing the country in two is never going to help us solve our problems. It takes reason and compromise and especially takes the void of slush funds and back room deals.
I’m interested to see what you all think and appreciate a level headed directed response but if all you have for me is hate then that’s your choice.
Well said, sir.
This article is an intentionally disengenuous “i’m rubber, your glue” argument. The fact is the right has been shifted to the far right by outright wingbats and dingbats who in every appreciable way were more concerning for a one mind mantra which stinks!
I do see an effort to steer the conversation by the liberal media. It’s there and it’s valid.
What I don’t see here is any balance here stating the conservative media (Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin, Hot Air, etc.) is also trying to control the conversation. And it is doing a whole lot better job than the liberal media.
So for conservative to claim there’s some kind of one-sided communistic plot here is, in fact, ridiculous. It makes you sound inane, as well as paranoid. Worst of all, it makes you sound like dailykos.
The right has many media outlets and has just as much a chance – in fact a lot better chance because Fox is doing a lot better than MSNBC and Limbaugh’s ratings are far higher than anyone on the left – to control the conversation as the left does.
Quit your whining.
Hmmmm, the author responds to the perceived mischaracterization by the left by labeling it “Soviet style tyranny”. No irony here, move along.
You are such a hypocrite. Republicans have historically played the name calling and denigrating game and the Tea Party is no different. Don’t point fingers until you’ve looked in the mirror and cleaned your own closet of skeletons. Just look at the Tea Party posters of Obama. No one photoshopped those into the pictures. That’s just one example. Listen to Beck with an unbiased ear and you will wonder what planet he came from. As to NPR – Juan Williams has had several incidents under his belt that he was warned about but chose to ignore the warnings. He knew the rules and broke them. If he had been on NOW and said something offensive to Republicans – you would have been screaming the same #$%& and demanding he be fired for showing a liberal bias. Don’t cry for him – it isn’t like he’s in an unemployment line. He has to deal with some embarrassment – but that multi-million dollar raise for his job at FOX will go a long way to sooth that.
What a bunch of insane right wing lunatics ! Thanks to the braindead and brainwashed hypocrites like the ones that inhabit this board this country is on the fast track to third world status. Salute our jobs in India and our bank accounts in the Caymans.
Hm, let’s see. Besides bigotry, blithering idiocy and willful ignorance? Oh, yes, they want to elect unqualified scum to double down on the regressive ideology and epically failed and disasterous policies that have brought wrack and ruin to the country and the rest of the world and expect different results. And viola! The definition of INSANITY.
Having immigrated from a ‘progressive’ communist country to one of PROSPERITY the blithering idiocy and willful ignorance of the failed and disasterous policies of the left that are wrecking America is my definition of insanity. God bless America.
For someone who claims to come from a communist country you should be the first one in line laughing at the republican and tea party crowds for not having a clue about what communism is. Makes me wonder about the truth of your claim.
LORD HAVE MERCY.
So let me get this straight:
Tea party activists, the GOP, Glenn Beck, Fox et al implying that President Obama is a Muslim / Socialist Czar / Fat Cat Elitist = totally cool and awesome democracy and free speech in action.
Democrats and Jon Stewart pointing out that this is divorced from reality = Bolshevik statism.
That about right?
You should just shoot yourself because this is beyond stupid. You know those people you call elitist? Well, it turns out, they’re smarter than you. You need to just drop the “just like Stalin” crap. You wouldn’t know a Russian Revolution from a tea party.
When you “tea partiers” chime in with “far-left” and “socialist” and now “Bolshevik” accusations, you think you’re some tell-it-like-it-is troubadour and, oh, we’re just so flaky and gay that we are cowed by your boldness, when really all we hear is that you were outside picking your nose during history class and can’t believe that we can’t get anywhere because of the tumor on our ass that is the stupid people in this country.
Next time you want to whip liberals into the ground for trying to destroy this country – stop and think about our history. Jefferson, Washington, Franklin et al were LIBERALS. Thomas Paine would be considered left of extreme left. They went against the grain of the status quo of pay up and shut up of the British Parliament to the colonies. They had this liberal, socialist view that we were all equal and should all have the right to representation in our government. Next time you bash liberals – remember if it wasn’t for liberals you wouldn’t have social security, medicare, clean air, clean water or civil rights. If it wasn’t for liberals – we’d still be fighting the Viet Nam war. It has always been the liberals that stood up for what was right for everyone instead of what would it do for me and screw everyone else.
Next time you want to whip liberals into the ground for trying to destroy this country – stop and think about our history. If it wasn’t for liberals – we wouldn’t be this country. Jefferson, Washington, Franklin et al were LIBERALS. Thomas Paine would be considered left of extreme left. They went against the grain of the status quo of pay up and shut up of the British Parliament to the colonies. They had this liberal, socialist view that we were all equal and should all have the right to representation in our government. Next time you bash liberals – remember if it wasn’t for liberals you wouldn’t have social security, medicare, clean air, clean water or civil rights. If it wasn’t for liberals – we’d still be fighting the Viet Nam war. It has always been the liberals that stood up for what was right for everyone instead of what would it do for me and screw everyone else.
liberty NOT tyranny explanation:
http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2010/10/12/god,_liberals_and_liberty/print