My favorite counterpoint to Ric’s piece was this comment:
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Comment by psycho… on 6/12 @ 9:00 pm #
Here’s a first: I think Ric is pretty much wrong, because I think the anti-Palin Leftoids (Republicans included) are being almost honest with us and with each other. Really.
I don’t like “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”-style explanations for anything, but I’ll grant that Ric’s list could describe a set of elite-strategical reasons for V.I. Leftoid to put Citizen Leftoid’s Palinhass to use — if in fact that’s happening, qua strategy.
But I don’t think it is. Listen to them. All of them, all the way up to the President.
F**KING RETARDED WHITE TRASH DIRTY BREEDING WHORES etc., however slyly paraphrased (all the way up to Hitchens, the National Review’s concern trolls, and “lipstick” (Freud!)), is not the making-concrete of any abstraction.
It’s what it says. Visceral, crazed, violent, pure what it says.
They are lying, still, yes, but they lie their way toward the kind of synthetic objections Ric points out (and other, more self-flattering ones), not down from them.
Shit is precisely as shit as it looks.
(Have I italicized enough things to make a point?)
I did all the italics and stuff faithfully. That was something of a chore really. Time to pop open a dirty socialist Pepsi and Refresh Everything I think. The blog didn’t seem to like this one so I did the asterisk thing. I think this is a really valuable comment so I will be a bit persistent if you don’t mind.
