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Your quote of the day, courtesy of Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA), unhinged by the Beck rally in DC on Saturday.
Wait, did I say rally? I meant, the chance collection of a slightly larger than usual number of tourists passing between the monuments that day, according to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who Beck has lots of fun goofing on, here:
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Meanwhile, Lexington Green of the Chicago Boyz has an interesting take on what he sees as Beck’s strategy:
Someone who asks what the rally has to do with the 2010 election is missing the point.
Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously alive and kicking.
Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.
Beck is unabashed that God can be invoked in public places by citizens, who vote and assemble and speak and freely exercise their religion. They are supposed to be too browbeaten to do this. Gathering hundreds of thousands of them to peaceably assemble shows they are not. But showing that the people who believe in God and practice their religion are fellow-citizens who share political and economic values with majorities of Americans is a critical step. The idea that these people are an American Taliban is laughable, but showing that fact to the world — and to potential political allies who are not religious — is critical.
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
And causing America’s Ruling Class to become utterly unhinged (well, even more so) in the process. Read the whole thing.
Hate to be a proofreader, Ed, but Deval Patrick is Governor of Massachusetts (abbreviated MA), not Mississippi (abbreviated MS).
It’s interesting that Rush, Beck, Coulter, Palin and Bachman are singled out of the hundreds of notable conservatives for special, over-the-top scorn.
Something about Rush and Beck is that they are both funny as hell.
Something about the ladies is that they are good looking as heaven.
It’s ok to be a conservative as far as the msm is concerned if you are boring and ugly.
If a drop-dead gorgeous woman conservative ever appears who is also drop-dead funny, liberalism might implode on itself.
Where is a young Lucille Ball when you need her?
‘It’s a Free Country. I Wish it Weren’t’
So does Nancy Pelosi…but she’s willing to do something about it.
Good try, but that’s not really what he said. Here’s the full quote:
Asked if he was troubled the rally was held at the site, he said, “I wish it weren’t, but it’s a free country.”
As in he wishes the rally wasn’t held where it was, but it’s a free country and they therefore have the right to peacefully assemble wherever they want. http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsma/Mass.Gov.Patrick.2.1891553.html
Ahh, glad to see somebody in Massachusetts is doing damage control for the Ruling Class!
What a great campaign commercial this will make!
“You want to decide what’s best for yourself and your family. You want to pick your schools, your doctors, your light bulbs, your car. It’s a free country. But that’s not what liberals like Deval Patrick want.”
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“Liberals think they are smarter than you. They don’t want a free country. They want to make the choices for you. They want to be the elite. You should just follow orders.”
“If you don’t vote against liberals, they will run your life.”
I called the governor’s office to ask why he wishes we weren’t a free country. The response was, “It was taken out of context.” After pointing out that it wasn’t taken out of context, I was answered with some nonsense about his work with civil rights.