The Left Has Spoken: Today, We Are All Extremists
by John T. SimpsonThe leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.” – Adolf Hitler.
“At this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.” – NY Times columnist Paul Krugman.
Paul Krugman
Really sucks to be a conservative these days. I feel like I’m walking around with a big bulls-eye on my back. I know many of the Left, especially Keith Olbermann, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, the New York Times editorial staff and all the pundits at HuffPo and KOS would find that statement hilariously ironic, given the recent shooting deaths of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas and security guard Steven T. Johns at the Holocaust Museum. Then again, they’re not the ones being branded en masse as co-conspirators in those murders. Conservatives are.
As a bonus, the recent arrest of Jason Bush, a national executive director of the Minuteman anti-illegal immigration group, for brutal murders committed during a home invasion, is also fueling the fire of portraying Righties as inherently violent extremists-in-waiting. Yet Cambodians and other ethnic gangs pull violent home invasions against the vulnerable in their enclaves, which have included brutal murders, on a regular basis. No one’s calling them a threat to the Republic, or branding all Cambodians as inherently violent. They are, in fact, its greatest victims.
Curiously absent in the above blanket indictments of conservatives were the facts that the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, was a radical anti-Semite and anti-conservative with a long history of attacking the Right, even going so far as attempting to kidnap President Reagan’s entire Federal Reserve Board back in the 1980s. He was also an ardent proponent of the ‘9/11 was an inside job’ tinfoil conspiracy theory. In that respect, he has a lot more in common with Dylan Avery and Rosie O’Donnell than Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
Also curiously absent was the recent shooting death of Pvt. William Long and wounding of another soldier outside a Little Rock recruiting center by an anti-military Islamic convert. Again, that kind of hatred and violence toward the military has far more in common with Code Pink than FOX News. It was not radical conservatives who poured concrete on military rail lines in Olympia, Washington, nothing less than an act of sabotage during wartime. Nor was it a right wing extremist who set off a bomb in front of a Times Square Army recruiting office.
Yet I do not hold all the aforementioned esteemed MSM mouthpieces, or the Left as a whole, responsible for those violent and destructive acts. Nor do I hold the entire American Left responsible for FBI Most Wanted Terrorist Daniel Andreas San Diego’s bombings in San Francisco. Or the violent acts of other eco-terrorists, like the firebombings of scientists’ homes while they and their families were still inside, or the burning down of research labs, car dealerships and housing developments which have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. Or the highly destructive acts of the ‘elves’ of the Earth Liberation Front.
I also do not hold all left-leaning gay rights advocates responsible for the white powder mailings to Mormon churches by gay radicals. I do not hold the Left responsible for any those singular acts of violent left-wing extremist groups and individuals because of one simple fact: they all didn’t do it.
Fact is, America has always been a land overflowing with nutjobs of all stripes. Sales of the Anarchist Cookbook rival Betty Crocker’s. Some lone psychos have done incredible damage in all sorts of brutal and heinous ways. Lee Harvey Oswald. James Earl Ray. Timothy McVeigh. Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomer. David Koresh. Andrew Cunanin. Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph. John Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo. Michael McDermott. Daniel Andreas San Diego. And that’s not even counting serial killers like Ted Bundy, John Wanye Gacy and Henry Lee Lucas.
American law enforcement has their hands full. Always have. Sometimes they are successful in stopping extremists from attacking, as was the case with the Fort Dix Six and Bronx synagogue bombing plotters, who also planned to shoot down military aircraft with Stinger missiles. In other not-so-fortunate circumstances law enforcement was left to deal with the violent aftermath, as was the case recently with the aforementioned Tiller, Holocaust Museum and Little Rock shootings.
There is, however, a distinct difference in America today regarding these lone nutjob killers that have plagued us throughout our history. They are now being politicized by the Left in much the same way Hitler manipulated the Reichstag Fire: to brand the entire mainstream conservative movement in the country as extremist threats to the Republic, requiring strong government intervention.
In other words, today we are all extremists.
Just ask Paul Krugman. Or Frank Rich. Or rest of the New York Times editorial staff in their ‘Hate Crimes and Extremist Politics’ oped. Want to see some real hate speech? Check out the comments sections of those Times posts. Those comments, as well as many other recent posts on left-wing blogs, reveal a stunning turnaround on the Left regarding political profiling, censorship, tapping phones and blanket monitoring of the Internet. I guess it all depends who’s being targeted. How quickly things change when it’s the Left running the show.
But all this is really nothing new. President Bill Clinton implied that Rush Limbaugh shared some culpability in the Oklahoma City bombings way back in 1995. Yet the degree to which the Mainstream Media and the Left is attacking the Right over these recent murders goes way beyond just implying. Those bloody corpses are being tossed right on the doorsteps of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and any other conservative pundit they can think of, as well as blanket condemnation and guilt by association of all their millions of listeners.
Noticeably absent also from this discussion of political extremism was the KILL BUSH death cult on the Left that screamed for the President’s blood and brutal murder for years. Or that most Lefties falsely accused President Bush of staging the worst terror attack in American history against his own citizens. I believe the subsequent bombings by Al Qaeda of London, Madrid, Bali, Iraq, Jordan, or any of the other 13,000-plus Islamist acts of terror since 9/11, put that subject to rest with all but the most dedicated conspiracy theorists. That is clearly Al Qaeda’s modus operandi, as it was way back in 1993 during the first attack on the WTC when Bill Clinton was President.
Also no mention of the Left’s David Dukes, the black supremacist, hate-mongering Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the bloodstained, racebaiting and mayhem-inciting Rev. Al Sharpton. Or the Left’s unrepentant Timothy McVeighs, domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, now Leftie icons. You want to talk hateful, extremist, violence-inciting behavior and speech from the other side of the political spectrum? I guess not, huh, Paul? Rich? Keith? HuffPo? KOS?
See how it works? One eye open, one eye closed. Guess which eye is conveniently sewn shut.
Nothing new there, either. For decades the radical Left has engaged in, equivocated or looked the other way on egregious political behavior while at the same time painting all conservatives as extremists by, ironically, adopting extremist positions themselves. This political demonization of the conservative opposition has been flourishing on the Left under the Obama administration. Worse, that demonization has even been given credence and official sanction by such top government officials as David Axelrod and Janet Napolitano.
Now, as much as the Left howled about the Bushitler regime during the past eight years, when did Bush, Karl Rove or anyone else declare all Lefties a clear and present danger to the Republic, even when assassinating the President became a cultural fad in Leftie plays, books, movies, merchandising and art exhibits, egged on even by Air America’s Randy Rhodes simulation of President Bush’s assassination on the air?
Never mind how much the Left is freaking out now over James von Brunn. Can you imagine if the far right made a popular subculture out of assassinating President Obama to the degree Lefties did under President Bush? Or if Glenn Beck simulated the President’s assassination on the air, like Randy Rhodes did at Air America? They’d all be screaming for martial law and internment camps!
I can’t help but wonder. Now that the Left controls the media and all branches of government, do they see their golden opportunity to shut down the hated Right once and for all in this country? Perhaps only now we are finding out the Left’s true definition of unity: singularity of political thought and opinion, and the silencing of all the annoying competing ideologies. What should be vigorous and thoughtful political debate on important issues that concern us all is fast becoming an ideological pogrom. Dissenting views are no longer opposing opinions. They are now thoughtcrime.
This is not right wing extremist paranoia. The track record speaks for itself.
Example. I don’t dislike President Obama because he’s a Socialist raiding the Treasury and nationalizing private industry faster than Hugo Chavez. Or for firing an Inspector-General without notifying Congress, in violation in a law he himself signed off on. Or that his Justice Department under Eric Holder just gave the baton-wielding “you will soon be ruled by the black man, cracker” Black Panther ‘poll monitor’ thugs a total pass, despite a default conviction and the assessment by Mr. Bartle Bull, a former Robert Kennedy campaign manager and prominent election observer of the Civil Rights era calling it “the worst voter intimidation I’ve ever seen.”
And he monitored elections in the South during the Jim Crow era. How bad is that?
No, I don’t dislike the President for any of that. I hate him just because he’s black. In fact, if you’re a conservative these days, you have no valid reason to oppose anything other than mindless right wing hate and bigotry. You have no valid reason to protest President Obama’s spending us into financial oblivion. You are a redneck racist teabagger, and most likely a rabble-rousing neo-Nazi or white supremacist, according to a memo passed around by liberal Democrats in Congress.
You have no valid moral, social or religious reasons to oppose gay marriage. You’re a Nazi and a homophobe. Or Nouveau Jim Crow KKK crackers, as the Boston Phoenix termed those opposing gay marriage. You have no valid reason to oppose Sonia Sotomayer. If you do, you’re a sexist and a racist, and you’d best tread carefully around her. Never mind anything she’s ever said or done, like upholding the blatantly discriminatory Ricci decision now before the US Supreme Court.
Never mind all that. She’s a wise Latina woman, and better than a white man. Watch your step!
You have no valid reason to oppose the millions of illegals flooding our country without procedure or proper criminal, medical or psychological screenings, as was done on Ellis Island, or support securing our borders as every other nation on earth does. You are a vile racist nationalist, just like that Minuteman killer Jason Bush. If you question the populist science of Global Warming that over 31,000 scientists dispute, or oppose any of the draconian taxes and regulations we are about to get slammed with via the Waxman-Markey bill, you are a heretic on the order of a Holocaust denier.
Never mind all the record low temperatures worldwide, or the discrediting of data presented by GW gurus Hansen and Gore as either defective or outright fraudulent. Or the political power and financial riches ‘green’ proponents like Al Gore and GE’s Jeffrey Immelt stand to gain that would dwarf Big Oil profits. I’m not saying that we should pollute the earth until we all choke from it, as GW True Believers will no doubt accuse me of. I’m just saying. Rational debate of the subject on the Left is nonexistent. As it is with most every political subject under the sun.
Is it really any surprise Michael Savage was banned from Britain for what is essentially thoughtcrime, given that government’s extreme left-wing bent? How soon before he is banned here, along with every other conservative pundit on the radio? But this is the mindset of today’s Left. If you do not agree with their extreme positions on the issues, you are branded as the worst kind of extremist yourself, publicly and repeatedly. Just as we conservatives are being painted right now with the same bloody brush of killers who committed acts 99.99999% of us would never dream of. That is not reasoned debate. It is ideologically driven hate and tyranny of thought.
That mindset makes no distinction between violence of speech, i.e. heated political rhetoric, which is Constitutionally protected, and violence of action and criminal speech, i.e. incitement to violence, which is not. It is that twisted perspective that made the assassinations of President Bush and VP Dick Cheney humorous and chic, yet responds to even the mildest criticism of President Obama by Rush Limbaugh with unbridled rage, petitions in Congress and demands to shut Rush up by hook or by crook, be it the Orwellian Fairness Doctrine or in the name of diversity.
Lefties commit the most egregious of slanders, yet take violent offense at every slight real or imagined. The Left even codifies that double standard by turning the language on its head in Orwellian fashion to make political evils appealing. Tolerance becomes a pretty name for exclusion, diversity a lofty term for bigotry. Censorship in the form of restrictive speech codes on college campuses around the country are enacted in the name of free speech.
But it doesn’t stop at the language. Abuse of authority and political power has become SOP on the Left. Cynthia Dixon was fired from her job as a college human resources director for her contrary Christian opinion on homosexuality, voiced in a local paper’s editorial page in response to a lefty lesbian faculty member’s pro-gay oped in the same.
The lesbian faculty member’s job, however, was never in danger, even after spewing incredibly vile vitriol at Dixon, with included the obligatory ‘racist bigot homophobe!’ Ironically, Cynthia Dixon is African-American. Where’s the EEOC when you need them? Unfortunately. Ms. Dixon is the wrong shade of black, i.e. Christian conservative. For more information on that subject, ref Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas. See, they’re not REAL minorities. They’re all Uncle Toms, don’t you know.
I’m sorry, who are the racists here again?
Harvard president Larry Summers was run out of his job on a rail for repeating a research-supported but politically incorrect scientific opinion on how men’s and women’s brains may work differently. So much for Veritas. But science is not a factor to the Left. Politics and ideology is all. State-employed climatologists were fired in Washington and Oregon for not toeing the Global Warming line. Lord Christopher Monckton, who holds an opposing view to Al Gore’s on Global Warming, was shut out of Congressional hearings the day after he flew over from England to testify.
See, to the egalitarian Left, all opinions are equal. It’s just that some are more equal than others.
The Left’s championing of women’s rights is also a sham. They routinely and publicly degrade women who don’t fit their ideological template. They publish and fall all over themselves laughing at a ‘Top Ten Conservative Women I’d Like To Hate-Fuck’ rape list and slander Sarah Palin without end, even joking about her being gang-raped. Carrie Prejean is derided as a fascist bitch and a cunt for voicing the same opinion on marriage as President Obama and most American citizens.
You see the pattern that’s emerging here? When has anyone on the Left been fired for expressing pro-gay views? When has Al Gore ever been shut out of speaking, as Lord Monckton was by liberal Democrats in Congress? Or attacked physically, as routinely happens to Ann Coulter and other conservative speakers on college campuses like clockwork?
If you want to talk extremism, left-wing extremists in America have been guilty of some very serious crimes in the last decade, as highlighted above. Again, you won’t find any of those crimes in the New York Times extremist hit list. No, let’s forget about all that left-wing extremist mayhem and hold talk radio and FOX News responsible for the acts of politically twisted or mentally disturbed individuals, as they seek to hold all mainstream conservatives responsible today for every violent act committed by lone psychos.
You want to blame Bill O’Reilly for Dr. Tiller’s death? What if President Bush had been assassinated by some lone leftie nutjob while he was President? Who would have been responsible? The assassin? Or everyone on the Left who encouraged Bush’s assassination with relish and glee? What about the white powder mailings to the Mormon Church by radical gay activists? Should we start FBI surveillance on the Prop H8 crowd because of the extremist acts of a few?
Should we clamp down on all American Muslims because of the violence domestic jihadis plotted or carried out, as with Little Rock, Fort Dix and the recent attempted bombing of a New York synagogue? Why is all the focus on the right side of the political spectrum, and all of the evils of the extreme Left being totally whitewashed or ignored today? Don’t answer, it’s a rhetorical question.
I have to tell you, people. I’m really starting to fear for this country. Left-wing demagogues like Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, the New York Times editorial board, and all the others in the so-called mainstream media, branding all conservatives with the same bloody brushes as lone wolf psychos that have long been a problem in this country and always will be, not to mention all the shutting down of political discourse by inspiring fear, hatred and intimidation against the minority party, are doing a lot more damage to the fabric of this society, and American democracy itself, than a James von Brunn ever could with a .22 rifle.
I’ve got a radical right wing extremist idea. Why don’t we leave the nutjobs to law enforcement, and try to engage in the honored American tradition of healthy and vigorous political discourse without enacting new Nuremburg decrees or shredding the Constitution? Isn’t championing freedom of speech and expression and human rights what the Left is all about? So they say?
It is long past time for the Left to live up that credo. Because if the firings, shutting off of debate, censorship bills now in Congress, and the relentless demonization of the political opposition continues relentlessly and without end, as it has for so many years now, I’m just liable to think the dividing line between mainstream liberalism and the hate-filled totalitarian left-wing crowd has been virtually erased. You got all that, Paul? Frank? Pinchy? Keith? Janet? David? KOS? HuffPo?
GROW UP! I’m sick of dealing with a bunch of full-grown screaming control-freak toddlers! The Right isn’t going anywhere. In fact, our stars are ascending. FOX News and conservative blogs are putting the MSM out of business. And there’s a huge amount of discontent across the political spectrum over liberal Democrat policies since the Left took power.
The 2010 elections are starting to look a lot like 1994’s. And tell the truth, guys. Doesn’t that scare the hell out of you all a lot more than one or two lone shooters? And don’t just call me a right wing extremist. Let’s talk about the issues. I’m a reasonable guy. Don’t even own a gun. But just because I support the Second Amendment doesn’t make me a gun nut. I support it because it’s a Constitutional right. See how easy rational debate works? You all ought to try it sometime.
Last word. I opposed President Obama’s candidacy from the start. I disliked his polices, and I especially disliked his associations with real bomb-throwing extremists like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and racial hatemongers like Rev. Wright. I spoke out on blogs like this for a year against candidate Obama, and everything he and liberal Democrats stood for.
Yet shortly after Obama was elected President in November, I noticed a security vulnerability that fell within my area of expertise and called the Secret Service right away. Fortunately, they knew all about it. See, despite my extreme distaste for President Obama’s policies and associations, the American people spoke loud and clear last November. Barack Obama is now President of the United States.
As such, he represents a hallowed tradition of political stability and continuity of a government and most benevolent political system that I hold sacred, and is the envy of much of the world. I defended that system for six years in uniform, and would defend it again if need be. How ironic I must vigorously defend it today against those who profess to be its greatest champions.
There’s a right wing extremist for you, Lefties. Oh, and by the way, I and other conservatives like David Horowitz have spoken out loudly against the extremists in our ranks. Where was the condemnation of unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers on the day after 9/11, when he said in the New York Times that he hadn’t done enough? Why is he revered instead of reviled? Don’t answer, it’s a rhetorical question. But it does make me wonder who the real extremists are here.
After all, you don’t see the right glorifying politically-motivated mass murderers. Hmm. Curious.
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188 Comments
Wow, you clearly have no sense of responsibility for your ideology. This reads like a manifesto one would write before going to shoot up another liberal church. Maybe Rev. Wright should get some security.
I will proudly wear the target on my back, front and side, if necessary. Come on leftist/communist boys, come get me. I'm waiting for you.
I will proudly wear the target on my back, front and side, if necessary. Come on leftist/communist boys, come get me. I'm waiting for you.
well, I see Romper Room is back in reruns.
Apple.
Antifascist, do the world a favor and drop dead.
You just labeled him an extremist… *headdesk*
Anti-monitor, given your ignorant statement, you obviously did not read the same essay I did.
Actually, it's the lefties who write the manifestos before murdering people (i.e. unabomber).
No b.s. antifascist, why do you think the polling intimidation case against the black panthers was dropped? They were clearly breaking the law in my opinion.
we suspect auntie waits for it's moment- a particularly ripe post such as this- to lay troll turds… there is no one, and we mean NO ONE who hurls invective, taunts, simplistic bromides and ad hominem attacks like the ditch dwelling denizens of the Organized Left (that's what they do, right? organize?). So, the solipisms emanating from the mouth of idiot savant Krugman surprises nobody.
We think these attacks to be oddly comfiting; that this lot would use despicable hate as a weapon is beyond cliche'- and now becomes the backhanded compliment.
Ultimately we wouldn't want Paul Krugman to like us. His sort are perfect reverse barometers. If he hates you, well, you must be doing something right…
Typical Auntie. You didn't even attempt to rebut or reply to anything in the article. Just attack. You are exactly the kind of person Simpson is writing about. You looked in the mirror and can't bear what you see here.
another liberal church
I wonder how far someone would need to go to find a LIBERAL CHURCH?
All of the comments from the Left equate the Religious to the Right.
Hey! But then, do not let the facts get into your way.
Let's quit referring to him as Auntie. I think a better handle for him is simply fascist. Perhaps, even better, we simply quit replying to him until he is willing to debate issues as an intelligent individual rather than a hate filled ideologue
Pie, Auntie…we want you to bring some pie when you come here.
I doubt you even read the piece. Certainly not with comprehension.
Mr. Simpson – What I like most about your post is the notion that the right's stars are ascending and putting the main stream media out of business. The NYT is going out of business. Nobody with an open mind cares what Paul Krugman thinks. Hardly anybody pays attention to MSNBC anymore. Everyday, I get excited by seeing young educated people who see liberalism for what it is. In some ways, we may even be lucky Obama got in. He is over-reaching so far, people are bailing on him so fast it would make your head swim. We need to make our message loud and clear and let the hate mongers continue to expose themselves for what they really are. I think the right will be invigorated in 2010.
Ted Kaczynski, apart from being a nut, spend a lot of his manifesto explaining why leftists are so horrible.
A poor example.
I for one am proud to wear a target on my back or on my forehead. The Government should fear the people, not the people fear the Government. If I am deemed an extremist, so be it.
This is great—George TIller is dead, but you're the martyr. I though conservatives hated playing the victim card.
Bravo!!! Well said and well done!
You are so correct when you saw that the left is guilty of such vile language and disrespectful behavior.
The conservatives are finally speaken out but the problem is nobody is listening so that is why we are getting louder because we want to make sure you hear what we are saying. Enough is enough.
I am proud to be an American and I do not want another day feeling like I can't express what is happening to my country.
I thought Obama was the guy that could bridge the divide! All I have seen him do is be the leader of the pact of not letting a crisis occur and not seeking an opportunity to make it worse!
God Bless America and may God help us to get back our country!
reneeinohio
Glenn,
George TIller is dead and for that I am truly sorry. But what we conservatives hate, if I can speak for such a large number of people, is being blamed for his death.
The Left Has Spoken: Today, We Are All Extremists
by John T. Simpson
Followed up with a quote from Hitler. What might the implication be?
Hilarious.
perhaps you're right. We have developed, not a fondness, but a morbid curiosity of someone so committed to a failed ideology as to be unhinged, who waits for a nice juicy conservative post to come in, spew commie hatespeak (Orwell would be proud) and then books… It is conflicted about fascism, the burning Stars and Bars is the ultimate non-sequitur- that represented states rights, not collectivism- and, of course being a fascist one generally doesn't admit it…
The frightening thing is that individuals like antifascist, who obviously doesn't know what a fascist is, Krugman and others intentionally attack and defame using the same tactics they accuse the right of using. There's something perverse in using a right irresponsibly in an attempt to deny others that same right. I guess they see what they are even if it's not there. Instead of debating individual ideas on their merits (or lack thereof) or extremist individuals, they irresponsibly smear an entire spectrum of people who they neither know nor understand. They share a mindset with the racists of the 50s. They are political/cultural bigots.
Obama and his administration treat Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il with kid gloves, then treat us as truly blackhearted fiends dreaming of nothing more than total subjugation of the human race. I don't like it one bit. Dubya, for all his problems, never did such a thing.
not only dead, mind you- but getting his just desserts in the afterlife as well. His life was never going to end well, 6,000 dead infants can give anyone Karma problems…
This article should be printed in the New York Times. Perhaps it would wake up a few people to the hypocrisy on the Left.
On second thought, no one would read it with the NYT's falling circulation. Washington Times would be a better choice.
The point was, Bubba, that Krugman's and Hitler's quotes are nearly indistinguishable from each other, and that the Left is trying to use the Tiller shooting as a Reichstag Fire to shut down the Right. But I expect that kind of knee-jerk reaction from Lefties who don't even read what I write. Did you even get any further than that quote?
I kind of thought this during the election…. The terms Moderate and Extremist have been so coopted by the left that they've lost their original meaning. If Obama can be called a Moderate, then Moderate simply means Democrat/Leftist. If McCain can be called an Extremist, then Extremist simply means Republican/Conservative.
In reality Obama is the extremist and McCain is the moderate (if that), but in the crazy world of the State Run Media, its opposite.
I agree that we (although "we" implies me too, and I've never actually replied to anything until now) should quit replying to Fascist.
I enjoy reading the replies by the writers on this site who are much smarter than I when responding to the rare liberal's civil attempt at debate. It's a great lesson for me on deconstructing their arguments.
However, this guy NEVER has anything even remotely approaching intelligent discourse.
It's SO tiresome! (Although sometimes your responses are really funny!)
Maybe if we ignore him, he'll just go away
the answer to that is obviously no; they are not here to engage in honest debate but to vent their spleens, and by doing so feel a self-righteous justification… assuaging their precious egos and 'feeling superior' is what this lot is all about.
Makes honest folk kind of ill…
dcase, I dont mean to correct you but George Tiller was reported to have aborted 60,000 babies. And I agree, where he's going I dont envy him a bit.
The point was, Bubba, that Krugman's and Hitler's quotes are nearly indistinguishable from each other
Good lord, can you read? The quotes are distinguishable from one another in that Simpson uses the Hitler quote to show a tactic, and we're supposed to read the Krugman quote as an example of the tactic.
So, Simpson calls the Jew a Nazi and waves his arms around missing the irony.
That's the thing, with the bullys, you stand up to them and they'll fold quicker than 7-2 off suite.
They might talk tough, but they can't follow thru.
I don't blame Glenn Kenney for the murder of Private Long. I thought liberals hated playing the victim card.
Dear RB, keep commenting on this post. You are a case study in exactly what I'm talking about here. Every comment you make only proves my point further. Go, Bubba!
PS Shouldn't that Leftous Bubba?
I say let him speak. Just like Krugman. The more he opens his mouth, the more he proves our case.
I also believe replying to and countering Leftie morons like Anti-Anti-Fascist in force at every opportunity is imperative, just as I did here today. Make 'em squirm on the hook! Don't let 'em off!
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A domestic terrorist, strongly suspected to be an eco-terrorist (never caught) planted two large bombs in a building on the street I grew up on. While unlikely, it is possible that my father would have been walking home from work next to that building when the bombs went off (they didn't). I would have almost certainly known some of the victims.
Whenever a liberal tells me that right-of-center people are a bunch of crazy violent people and the left is about peace and love, I tell them that story. Shuts them up quickly.
we stand corrected. Dropped a zero… and yes, no abortionist comes to a good end…
you bet. We are sick of letting ridiculous assertions and snide attacks just slide by; responding to 'the trolls' actually provides a valuable service as CSheehan's post so adroitly spell out…
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! Hey lunch money! How's that part time job selling hemp products going? You libs are all alike. Projecting your girlish fears on the big bad conservatives. I bet you soil yourself whenever you have to talk to a conservative in person. BOO!! There – now go and change your shorts. Tool.
Mr. Simpson, this post was awesome! You have laid bare the double standard of the elitist left. It's commentary like this that keeps me constantly refreshing Big Hollywood.
Indeed it should, and I am indeed honoured to receive a nickname from someone non-extremist enough to lump me in with the entire left, just like it says he doesn't do in the post above.
Most amusing.
The frightening thing is Auntie is the future, god helps us.
AUTHOR'S FOOTNOTE: CIA Director Leon Panetta has gone back on his "Cheney wants America to get attacked to prove his point" blunder. I'll leave a link so you can see the comments, which range from "Panetta" was right to "Cheney is probably funneling money to Al Qaeda." You of course know what this all means. If America is attacked again, Blame Cheney! As they will continue to blame Bush for everything the next four years.
Link as follows. Unless, of course, you're already sick enough from reading my post here as it is. And it's not like you don't know what you're going to read. But I wonder now if maybe Nancy Pelosi had a point about the CIA lying all the time. Leon Panetta ain't helping his case any.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/15/c...
Conservatives are their own worst enemies right now, & whiny polemics like this aren't helping much, to put it kindly.
Von Brunn – like many other "anti-conservatives" – was a semi-regular poster on Free Republic. He despised Bush because he considered him TOO LIBERAL … & who in their right mind with any knowledge of the subject can possibly think that "the Left controls all media"? Silvio Berlusconi & Rupert Murdoch will be surprised to hear that, I'm sure.
As for the childish & sexist Playboy article, every liberal I saw discussing it thought it was disgusting & moronic. When did the Right suddenly acquire the PC bug, anyways? Certainly not when they were laughing at McCain's rape humor or Limbaugh comparing Chelsea Clinton to a dog.
"Science is not a factor to the Left" – yet it's the Right that still actively supports the useless theory of Intelligent Design & thinks it deserves equal time in classrooms alongside Darwin's time-tested & scientifically-verified theory of evolution, even though it's utterly unverifiable & contributes nothing to biology.
"Why don’t we leave the nutjobs to law enforcement, and try to engage in the honored American tradition of healthy and vigorous political discourse without enacting new Nuremburg decrees or shredding the Constitution?"
Why don't you ask the previous POTUS why he gutted habeas corpus & put dangerous folks like "Quilters For Peace" on watch-lists, or why he thought tapping your phone & reading your e-mails was OK? To him, the US Constitution was "just a god-damned piece of paper" & his actions in office backed up his words. Can you cite one single solitary additional REAL dimunition of your civil liberties under Obama?
These "lone wolves" don't just spring out of thin air – their links to far-right groups & people like Coulter, Hannity & Limbaugh are not coincidences. Where, pray tell, were the far-Left "lone wolf" killers when Bush & Company were in power? Show me the churches firebombed, the slaughters, the terrorism – or STFU.
"The 2010 elections are starting to look a lot like 1994’s."
Thanks for the laugh. Sorry, but Americans aren't about to forget what a tragicomic horrorshow the last GOP Congress was, nor are they likely to long for the crimes, cronyism & fiscal insanity of "the good old days" – & 2012 isn't looking any less bleak for the Republicans. Who has the GOP got that can beat Obama in 2012? Jindal? Pawlenty? Gingrich? Palin?
"The Right isn’t going anywhere. In fact, our stars are ascending."
The GOP's shrinking base of supporters are furious at the marathon of epic failure they've seen from their party since 2006, & in 2009 most of them can't even agree on who the leader of the party is. Only about 21% identify as Republicans now. Stay in denial & it could hit the single digits in a year or two. From their numberless "budget" to the quiet acceptance of stimulus money they loudly swore never to touch, the GOP has been blasting footbullets for over a year now & shows no signs of running out of ammo (or feet) any time soon.
To reiterate, "the Left" isn't your main problem – it's your own extremist dogma & refusal to adapt your platform to changing times. When you can acquire the cojones to practise REAL fiscal prudence by advocating slashing the Pentagon's hypertrophic budget, & stop pretending that tax-cuts are a magic bullet for every ill, you'll be on the right track. Sadly for you, I just don't see that kind of honesty & return to old-school conservatism happening in the GOP, at least not until you truly bottom out.
The Right in the US has been steadily becoming more & more extreme since 1980 – thats nearly 30 years of ever-increasing radicalization. The trend shows no signs of stopping any time soon – & the bodies are starting to pile up as a result… at what point, if ever, do you have the intellectual honesty to say that people like Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh & their ilk are something more than "harmless entertainers"?
Fortunately, there are still some conservatives who are NOT "extemists" – & as soon as the GOP stops trying to kick them out of the party & starts listening to them, its fortunes may improve.
Good luck with that – it looks like you're going to need it.
Conservatives are their own worst enemies right now, & whiny polemics like this aren't helping much, to put it kindly.
Von Brunn – like many other "anti-conservatives" – was a semi-regular poster on Free Republic. He despised Bush because he considered him TOO LIBERAL … & who in their right mind with any knowledge of the subject can possibly think that "the Left controls all media"? Silvio Berlusconi & Rupert Murdoch will be surprised to hear that, I'm sure.
As for the childish & sexist Playboy article, every liberal I saw discussing it thought it was disgusting & moronic. When did the Right suddenly acquire the PC bug, anyways? Certainly not when they were laughing at McCain's rape humor or Limbaugh comparing Chelsea Clinton to a dog.
"Science is not a factor to the Left" – yet it's the Right that still actively supports the useless theory of Intelligent Design & thinks it deserves equal time in classrooms alongside Darwin's time-tested & scientifically-verified theory of evolution, even though it's utterly unverifiable & contributes nothing to biology.
"Why don’t we leave the nutjobs to law enforcement, and try to engage in the honored American tradition of healthy and vigorous political discourse without enacting new Nuremburg decrees or shredding the Constitution?"
Why don't you ask the previous POTUS why he gutted habeas corpus & put dangerous folks like "Quilters For Peace" on watch-lists, or why he thought tapping your phone & reading your e-mails was OK? To him, the US Constitution was "just a god-damned piece of paper" & his actions in office backed up his words. Can you cite one single solitary additional REAL dimunition of your civil liberties under Obama?
These "lone wolves" don't just spring out of thin air – their links to far-right groups & people like Coulter, Hannity & Limbaugh are not coincidences. Where, pray tell, were the far-Left "lone wolf" killers when Bush & Company were in power? Show me the churches firebombed, the slaughters, the terrorism – or STFU.
"The 2010 elections are starting to look a lot like 1994’s."
Thanks for the laugh. Sorry, but Americans aren't about to forget what a tragicomic horrorshow the last GOP Congress was, nor are they likely to long for the crimes, cronyism & fiscal insanity of "the good old days" – & 2012 isn't looking any less bleak for the Republicans. Who has the GOP got that can beat Obama in 2012? Jindal? Pawlenty? Gingrich? Palin?
"The Right isn’t going anywhere. In fact, our stars are ascending."
The GOP's shrinking base of supporters are furious at the marathon of epic failure they've seen from their party since 2006, & in 2009 most of them can't even agree on who the leader of the party is. Only about 21% identify as Republicans now. Stay in denial & it could hit the single digits in a year or two. From their numberless "budget" to the quiet acceptance of stimulus money they loudly swore never to touch, the GOP has been blasting footbullets for over a year now & shows no signs of running out of ammo (or feet) any time soon.
To reiterate, "the Left" isn't your main problem – it's your own extremist dogma & refusal to adapt your platform to changing times. When you can acquire the cojones to practise REAL fiscal prudence by advocating slashing the Pentagon's hypertrophic budget, & stop pretending that tax-cuts are a magic bullet for every ill, you'll be on the right track. Sadly for you, I just don't see that kind of honesty & return to old-school conservatism happening in the GOP, at least not until you truly bottom out.
The Right in the US has been steadily becoming more & more extreme since 1980 – thats nearly 30 years of ever-increasing radicalization. The trend shows no signs of stopping any time soon – & the bodies are starting to pile up as a result… at what point, if ever, do you have the intellectual honesty to say that people like Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh & their ilk are something more than "harmless entertainers"?
Fortunately, there are still some conservatives who are NOT "extemists" – & as soon as the GOP stops trying to kick them out of the party & starts listening to them, its fortunes may improve.
Good luck with that – it looks like you're going to need it.
our experiences with intel types is they don't lie- their credibility is extremely important as you might expect.
But they don't always share all of the pertinent information, ergo 'need to know' basis…
so many it is hard to imagine 60,000!!!
I still marvel that the diagnosis is death.
So imagine this, you go the ER and the doctor says you are so depress and the only way to cure it is we are going to have to kill you!!! Sounds like something you can learn in medical school!!
Now we know the truth:
"antifascist" is actually Leon Panetta…
Stalin killed millions…
Care to take responsibility for that?
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That was supremely awesome! "Ditch dwelling denizens…" LMAO!
Work of art here! Sheer work of art! I am still laughing!
And this article was excellent as well. Best read all day!
Krugman had to do some damage control after it was disclosed that the subhuman murder in the Holocaust museum was a Bush hating truther. Undoubtedly Rahm Emmanuel or Hussein
orderedasked Krugman to scribble a smear piece.Must be Intense Debate. Comments systems seem to rely on a lot of Java these days and it's flaky. Haloscan – now JS-Kit – suffers from the same touchiness.
===Followed up with a quote from Hitler. What might the implication be?===
That liberals have fascist tendencies and behave in the same manner as nazis on the political front.
A completely non-extremist view! No wonder Mr. Krugman is so wrong and Mr. Simpson so aggrieved.
See, Leftous? I'm not lumping you in with the entire Left. You don't need no help with that! You should be their poster boy
I am awfully good-looking. Hey, this part of your column's pretty funny:
GROW UP! I’m sick of dealing with a bunch of full-grown screaming control-freak toddlers!
This too looks suspiciously like irony.
Oh boy, an internet tough guy! Let me guess, you are one of those hillbillies with truck balls hanging off your Ford pickup. You may think being a conservative makes you tough, but it really only makes you the laughing stock of civilized society. Yes, we are laughing at you, not with you.
Krugman is a mental midget. Ignore him.
Where's the goddamn pie?
See, Jim? Not only did not read my piece (were you too busy waiting to write?), you're using extremist positions to attack me! AND blaming conservative speakers for lone nut jobs! Just like I said. Thanks for confirming every word I wrote
BTW take a look at the links below. One shows how pervasive government monitoring of the Internet has become under Obama. The other, that far more Americas identify themselves as conservatives than liberals. An exercise in futility, maybe. Must be done. You're just pissed because I'm right. Sucks, doesn't it?
http://thegooddemocrat.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/n...
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/twice_a...
I find that beating one's head into a wall achieves the same headache as engaging the trolls. Personally, I like Cochrans.____By the way, a happy late birthday for our beloved Army. 234 years young Sunday and still mean as hell.
SUA SPONTE BROTHER
Great read John! This is the leftist screed for 40 plus years, I’ve basically ignored politics and taken care of my own life, family, business etc. no longer. Smug certainty in my experience is the first indicator of a fall. Leftist set up false premises and project their insanity onto conservatives, simply do not accept the premise or projection. Don’t know if you saw the latest Gallup Poll, the country considers itself around 20% liberal, 35% Moderate, 40% Conservative. Simply put a conservative leader up and we’ll sweep the leftist back to their real 20%.
Very true! I especially loved the lack of sharing when coming face to face with brand spanking new French field pieces in the sandbox that were not "supposed" to be there. Nothing like a 75 zipping over head to wake a guy up.
I guess that you did not see the latest Gallup poll that shows conservatives are the LARGEST ideological group in the country. 40% compared to the 21% liberal. Nice try. Also let's not forget the ENTIRE enviro-weenie movement in the forms of ALF and ELF that are ACTUALLY on the FBIs most wanted list. Of course you have Air America simulating the murder of a sitting president as well a movie. I could of course keep going and expose the left for what they are. So spare me the self rightousness.
I guess you don't have time to answer direct questions, hey fascist. BTW, I'll never laugh at the likes of you, your much, much too pathetic.
Oh hey Auntie! Wow that was pretty good righteous indignation, but alas it’s you Auntie, nobody gives a $hit. You’re fascinated with balls, are you. Auntie be sure and wear your helmet when you go outside, it can be dangerous, and know your Barry loves you.
Now you know how progressives/liberals felt under felt. If the science didn't agree with Bush's politics he ignored it.
If you weren't 100% with Bush on Iraq or Israel, or the erosion of due process, you were unamerican.
So you're not feeling anything liberals haven't felt for the last 8 years.
Sucks doesn't it.
That's proves it… the left is a bunch of fascist Nazi's!
Whoops, did I just put them all into one category… Oh well, let them be categorized incorrectly and broadly for once…
Oh come on!!! The liberals have been calling Conservatives a bunch of gun-toting, war-mongering, greedy, ignorant, bible-thumping, rednecks since AT LEAST Nov. 7th, 2000…. :/ If that's not a broad brush for the last 8 years…. then I don't know what is…. Both sides are equally as guilty of this.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.” – Adolf Hitler
This was the German leader inadvertently paraphrasing a time-warped observation by a Harvard Law student more than 50 years later concerning 'that kid Obama'.
Agreed. Until the party dumps sideshow embarrassments like Rush and Palin, conservatives are going to not only be marginalized, but mocked and pitied. There's so much conservatism could be and achieve if the party would quit letting the political circus freaks run the image of the GOP. You can keep them around if you insist, but lets get some faces out there that aren't walking talking winking blinking jokes.
Hear, hear, where's the goddamn pie! When you come here you must bring pie, Auntie!
Every accusation from the left, from racism to hate-mongering to extremism to insanity, is pure projection, and it always has been. High school psych stuff.
Bingo, buddy.
I'll give you credit for looking at the words. Minus twenty for comprehension though.
Sorry.
Now if you could get Jim to do his chores
I've been having the same issue
Due process for who?
How about this one then?
Should we clamp down on all American Muslims because of the violence domestic jihadis plotted or carried out, as with Little Rock, Fort Dix and the recent attempted bombing of a New York synagogue?
Malkin says yes to concentration camps, why shouldn't you?
K8, it it looks, walks and acts like a duck, it's a duck. I've documented the case history. Scientists, teachers, college faculty members and even university presidents being fired for not toeing the PC line. Show me comparative firings on the Right.
Answer me this one question. Why did liberal Democrats in Congress bar Lord Monckton from speaking at the same hearing as Al Gore? Why only one side of the issue? Because, maybe, GW skeptics are no better than Holocaust deniers who deserve no audience at all? It that in the spirit of scientific debate or fascism?
So shutting up Rush and Palin, becoming more like RINO Specter and adopting Leftist ideologies is the answer for conservatives? Circus freaks running the GOP, like Uncle Tom Michael Steele? I rest my case.
Remember 1980 and 1994? See you in November 2010, Mitz, when the pendulum swings once again. If we're still a democracy by then, that is
Nah, maybe just have some sane non-ridiculous people represent your party.
Did you check out the protesters in front of the Late Show? What a bunch of classy people–ahhh, who're we kidding? A bunch of namecalling irrational haters calling names and spewing vile garbage.
Funny thing was–you guys were in the right!– and yet now you've managed to give Letterman rating a super-boost, and, impossibly, made him look sympathetic, and Sarah Palin once again looks like a fool, with her own unfortunate "Willow" remark to have to explain. Amazing–like 6 of the last 8 years, you guys had everything, and you went too far, and repelled everyone who might have been on your side.
Good job. Wonder why people don't want you guys running the country.
Mitz is like so many other RINO's who seem to sincerely believe that the only way the Right will succeed is toward the left – to exist right of extreme Left, but left of center.
The Right wants discourse, not the irrational temper-tantrums of the typical left. Mitz calls Sarah Palin a "Circus Freak", yet while Leftist nut-jobs set fire to Palin's church in reaction to her religious beliefs I didn't see her burning Starbucks in retaliation.
I weep for the world when America is no longer the beacon of light, hope and integrity it once aspired to be. I read Mr. Simpson's words and cannot describe the aching sadness in my chest because I know, in my heart of hearts, that he is telling the truth.
These are truly the times that test men's souls. We must rally together, and cry against such hatred and bigotry, not with more hate or violence in speech or deed, for hate begets hate, and violence begets violence, but with reason and tempered passion. It is not wrong to want our enemies to be successful, it by successful we mean that they see the error of their ways and come to embrace the true and eternal principles that this country was founded and built on.
Bridgey, Palin accepted the apology. I do, too. I think the protests do help Letterman. Leave the idiot be.
But I have to ask. How far were your undies bunched up your cheeks by Imus' 'nappy-headed hos' comment that cost him his job? As to blowing it, Obama has already blown any good will he's had in five months! Like I said, 2010 is looking a lot like 1994, and if Obama keeps up the Carter redux, 2012 will look a lot like 1980. EOM.
I thought Imus made a stupid comment, as did Letterman. I believe they both deserved some bad press and blow-back, which they got. As far as firing, I don't believe in that, especially if someone apologizes, but of course their respective bosses may feel different, and in Imus's case, apparently did.
I'm more offended by a Rush Limbaugh, who does his hate-schtick for 20 years, but my feeling is, hey, if people want to listen or watch, more power to them. They deserve what they get.
And Obama continues to be popular, even in a troubled economy, which most people blame at least partly on the administration who ran everything into the ground for 6 of the last 8 years. Now he may or may be making it worse, and he'll pay the price regardless if things that don't improve, but that's politics.
But until the conservatives get their act together and can offer up something beside whining and finger-pointing, and a candidate that isn't a walking character, then Obama can look like Carter, Clinton and Nancy Pelosi combined, and it ain't going to matter.
Strange but I don't think Paul Krugman speaks for anyone but himself. There may be people on the Left who agree with him but that certainly doesn't mean Krugman = The Left.
Since you, John T. Simpson, are on the Right should I now refer to everything you say as = The Right?
I disagree, Drew. Who on the Left isn't blaming O'Reilly for Dr. Tiller's death? Or calling Beck, Rush and Hannity hatemongers stirring up all the wack jobs? It's out of hand! And yes, I do speak for myself. Whether I speak for the Right is up to others, not me.
Wonder what kind of church the late abortion doctor attended(I seem to recall it was a Lutheran church)? I've never attended a church that condoned abortion. Several churches didn't talk about it and several were very outspoken about the evilness of it. Clearly there are churches that welcome with open arms all people, no matter what sorts of blood are on their hands. God welcomes all, but he has certain expectations for people who follow him. The book they use, must be different from the one I've read. How could you show your face in church if you were an abortionist? How could you look at yourself in the mirror? If I was an abortionist, I wouldn't need to be murdered, I probably off myself from the guilt! God will indeed judge in his time.
Did you notice that the % identifying themselves as conservative had gone up very recently? Is that a poll vagary or is that "the Obama effect"?
What a coincidence. Auntie makes mention of truck balls, an out of the ordinary thing to say from anyone, and there's another troll called T.R. Uckballs posting as well. Hmmmm….could we have another Auntie alias going here?
Posts like this bring to mind that movie "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison singing "Why Can't A Woman Be More Like A Man?" Mooks like Mitz want the Republican party, which should remain diametrically opposite the Democrats, to become Democrat Lite. That is their fondest desire. All this will do is alienate all conservatives, throw the party into a turmoil until it finds its own center and virtually ensure Democratic victories forever after, or at least until conservatives can reorganize and either come up with an alternative party or take the party back from the liberal infestation. We can't let that happen – keep the Republicans as conservative as possible and don't let them turn into a pale, weak version of the Democratic party.
Where's Krugman's cat? In a previous article, it showed a picture of him holding his cat, Dr. Evil-style. Maybe he was hungry?
Hey, if the left shoe fits…
Oh good, a link to a left-leaning law professor's site where him and someone else did a long-winded analysis of Malkin's book where she was talking about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
Fail 1: Either failing to understand or deliberately obfuscating the difference between a concentration camp and an interment camp.
Fail 2: Doing the same while comparing the US being at war with an entire nation of a certain ethnicity with the US being attacked by relatively few extremists of a certain religion.
Fail 3: Being what you are.
Complete failure all the way around. You must be so proud of yourself. Actually you probably are, which would be Fail 4.
You have a point. There are self-reinforcing processes by which roles are assigned. There are sound reasons that conservatives are defensive, and it is not merely Krugman. He is only one man, but when you get prominent journalists aggregating people like that (using the same links of reasoning, incidentally, that lead to racism) it's certainly worth pointing out very clearly how wrong they are.
I think I agree, that in responding to the growth of discriminatory behavior, it's important to modulate one's response. Preparing for a defense against the entire 'left' is more likely to suggest to herds of leftists, who don't necessarily share Krugman's discriminatory ideas, to identify with him.
(Blah, prose awkwardnessful 5 am)
Pay no attention to the Leftard mouthpieces. They are simply carrying out their marching orders to try to finish off conservatives while Overlord Obama rams progressive poison down America's deep throat. Not gonna happen. Conservatives are rising up to take back the country while the feckless fascists are beginning to deflate.
Krugman the Thugman is actually a washed-up wimp whose time is almost over. Like other ObamaZombies, he's running on empty and desperate for brains.
You're a hoot. Your comment reads like typical lefty lunacy. Every time I read your comments, I'm reminded why I left the Democratic party liberals are mind-numbingly ignorant..
"The Government should fear the people, not the people fear the Government. If I am deemed an extremist, so be it."
Quoting "V for Vendetta" ( a movie popular with liberal critics) to applaud conservatism?
That's a brilliant comeback against a Far Left liberal!
I'm convinced liberalism is a mental disorder.
Here's a gem from Ebert's hit piece on O'Reilly via BH link (I call it a hit piece because Ebert is hiding behind the guise of lamenting about 'political dialogue' and 'propaganda', yet seemingly finds distasteful tactics only with O'Reilly).
He said, "There was a time when ordinary Americans would have been deeply offended by the way O'Reilly speaks about their President–any President."
Where to even start with THAT. I've read newspaper archives; Lincoln was shredded, as probably every president has been.
Did Ebert ever write that sentence (replace O'Relly's name with, say, a liberals's) from 2000-2008?
Liberals delusion is so profound, it defies belief.
That's true.
Tiller's ex-mentor in abortion, Bernard Nathanson, admitted he would have shared his protege's fate if hadn't become a pro-life activist. Read more here:
http://familylifenz.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/form...
Abortion does no one any good whether it's mothers, babies, or the abortionists.
Don't know about the movie, I was paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson's quote. "When the people fear government, it is tyranny. when Government fears the people, it is liberty".
@JRG3
"Instead of debating individual ideas on their merits (or lack thereof) or extremist individuals, they irresponsibly smear an entire spectrum of people who they neither know nor understand. They share a mindset with the racists of the 50s. They are political/cultural bigots."
We're seeing this in my hometown of DC, in which Democrat homosexual activists are applauding residents not being able to vote on the definition of marriage.:
http://www.frcaction.org/washingtonupdate/taxatio...
This is ironic since:
1. These activists don't see how racist it is for rich White folk celebrating a mostly black city (DC) not having the vote. A White Republican would be CRUCIFIED for acting in such a bigoted manner.
2. These activists are always the ones declaring "White Republicans want to steal the Black vote." Yet, I don't hear any Republicans in DC cheering this decision.
After this stunt, can you really blame many Black voters, Democrat or not, for thinking "homosexual "marriage" = tyranny"?
@John Simpson
I agree that the GOP standing by the principles instead of fleeing from them is the way to go.
For example, in my hometown of DC, Democrat homosexual activists are applauding residents not being able to vote on the definition of marriage.:
http://www.frcaction.org/washingtonupdate/taxatio...
This is ironic since these same activists are declare "Republicans want to steal the Black vote." Yet, it's DEMOCRATS who deny the voting rights in mostly Black city, the District, because we might vote the "wrong" way (i.e., for traditional marriage).
I won't go into the obvious racist, slavery overtones of this scenario.
Don't tell me a conservative Republican couldn't now win on a "Democrat = enemy of voter freedom" platform?
Madelyn, I just checked Google to see if Roger Ebert condemned the KILL BUSH hate speech on the Left in the past that should have 'deeply offended' both Roger and ordinary Americans. Couldn't find it. Again, seems to be short memory or selective outrage, take your pick. Maybe he should stick to movie reviews.
BTW There's been a tremendous amount of backlash against Krugman, Rich and the rest of the Dead Tree Press and MSM over this blanket indictment of all righties almost identical to mine. Tipping point, maybe? Still got to keep after them, though. Morons should always be called out for their idiocy.
The Right in the US has been steadily becoming more extreme since 1980? 30 years of ever-increasing radicalization?
Ha ha. JFK's Inaugural Address has more in common today with conservatives than liberals. It's liberals who have steadily become more extreme and radicalized.
Fail 1: Not a lot of difference there. Look it up.
Fail 2: You pretty much haven't noticed what Malkin's book is about: notice the cover at all?
Fail 3: That is closer to what Malkin's book is about: the crime of being the wrong person.
So yes, we see a right-winger wanting to round up all Muslims under the guise of a poorly-researched defense of the rounding up of Japanese, including American citizens.
Keep complaining about the fascism guys.
well, it could alway be a 155- so count your blessings! Good battlefield intel is one thing, cloak and dagger stuff is something else entirely- and this bunch doesn't get the true value of humint… to their (and our) peril…
Roger that…
and, thanks to 'W' and the amazing bunch of battlefield commanders that came of age in the last eight years it'll be in good stead for quite a while…
SUA SPONTE as well, brother…
it seems to us that it was Barry's hero FDR that decided Japanese Americans were not racially trustworthy. Interesting the disconnect between the worship of the quasi-dictator Roosevelt and the 'terrible' policies of WWII… many historians give FDR a pass on this.
Where does that contradiction fit with your convenient political take?
You say you feel like you're walking around with a bullseye on your back, eh? Well it must be nice for that bullseye to be RHETORICAL instead of an ACTUAL bullseye.
The ACTUAL irony here is you complaining about being tarred with a broad brush as being an extremist – it is not factually correct. I have yet to hear anyone, especially those cited, who is saying that ALL conservatives are extremists. No one is. No one. What we are saying is that you are TOLERATING extremists and extremist rhetoric on your side in very much the same manner as Islamic extremists are tolerated and excused in the Middle East. Sorry but it's true. You just can't quite condemn them straight up. And that's damning.
But you see, you know you can't win that honest argument because it's devastating. So you have to (I assume you think cleverly) claim that the left is accusing YOU of extremism in order to score a (false) win.
I'm sorry but acting as though we're talking about you when we talk about these rightwing terrorists is an admission of complicity.
I think you meant 'scientifically disproven theory of Darwin's.' Polonium halos, genetic entropy, Cambrian Explosion followed by less genetic diversity today, the continual extinction of species, Punctuated Equillibrium–a theory made to get around the evidence, humans having too much intelligence, Haeckel's embryological fraud, the peppered moth fraud, the Java Man fraud, Miller-Urey experiment useless, the RATE experiments, still existent collagen in dino bones which puts an upper limit of 30K years on the Age of the Earth…..
But you see the difference here is that we reject the Unabomber and don't follow it up with excuses and pretending that trashing his ideology has anything whatsoever to do with us. I'm not getting upset that you're trashing him. YOU, however are getting all wound up over the "lone wolves".
That's funny, nickname. So, by defending myself from charges of extremism, I'm an extremist myself? You must have missed the lead quote by Krugman, about how the dividing line between mainstream conservatives and the black helicopter crowd is virtually erased. What is that saying? Broad brush, maybe?
By the way, did you even get past the bulls-eye line? And how much did you tolerate the KILL BUSH extremist crowd for the last eight years? That wasn't one lone nutjob, BTW. That was a whole subculture. Oh, but that was all okay because Bush was Hitler, right? And it's okay to kill fascists?
I can see why you have a -53p rating. Everyone else seems to have the same contempt for you as I have. Or is that just because you only come to blogs like this because you're a glutton for punishment?
Nobody is blamng ALL conservatives for Tiller's death. People are blaming that minority that stoked the flames of violent hatred that the mentally disturbed and criminally pathological feed on in order to commit violent crime.
Name ONE violent crime that was spurred on by anyone on the liberal side. Name any tragedy that came as a result of a so-called left-wing talking head on television.
Now on the flip side, you can best believe that guys like the one who killed Tiller and Stephen T. Johns were daily listeners of right-wing drivel.
Don't you guys think it's time to take some responsibility and THINK before you speak?
Or is that just too complicated for a far-rightist?
Exactly JT…the liberal left ALWAYS seem to blame conservative media for killing people…this is nothing new and shows me how little accountability they wish to have for their actions…like children mis-behaving…The Dr Tiller murder although is tragic, did not garner the attention it got…nope. It didn't…he was not a hero…if he was, then please give a Nobel prize to Dr.Kevorkian…at least he allowed patients to have a CHOICE…
I am not surprised at the pathetic "Gimme, gimme gimme" hands stretched out to get money they don't deserve…
Yes, he's only got a doctorate in economics and a Nobel prize. A complete moron compared to the third-tier stand-ups, unproduced wannabe screenwriters and has-beens who post on Big Hollywood's front page.
I agree with the sentiment, but………….
This article is clearly not long enough. If you'd expand on your thoughts and elaborate a little more maybe you'd drive your point home.
lol
Have you no shame Paul Krugman? You work for the NY Times that knowing covered up the all the Killings that Joe Stalin did. PS many Jews and non Jews were murdered by Joe Stalin
You certainly have that passive/aggressive attack technique down pat, don't you? A favorite of modern liberals, I get it all the time. It allows you to frame your position as if you are morally superior, and there fore judge of reason, while avoiding the subject matter.
And exactly why do you have contempt for me? Because I argued back? What the hell is that all about?
I think I have some cheese that would go excellently with your whine. Oh, wait, it's made in France. You conservatives hate "over there" don't you?
The fact is, you 25%ers have spent your entire political careers marginalizing yourselves. Time to reap what you're sown. Just try and manage to do it with a little less crying about the successes of your policy of nativistic , exclusive, pompous ideology. What did you expect would happen if you run on platforms supported exclusively by the white, christian and empowered that make up your base? Why should the majority fall in line to the drum you've beaten since Reagan?
From“Time” Magazine, Volume XXIII, Number 13, March 26, 1934 (cost – fifteen cents) in the section entitled “Foreign News”.
“Having organized, reorganized, consolidated and reformed everything in sight Nazi Germany last week turned to the delicate matter of Big Business. With typical Nazi eclat, newshawks (sic) were commanded to appear at the Ministry of Economics where they found The Herr Reichminister Kurt Schmitt in the correct costume for a Nazi economist: the black tunic and tight leather belt of Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard.
“ ‘The main purpose of this reconstruction,’ said Minister Schmitt ‘is to co-ordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . (sic, appeared in article as written) Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike (sic) upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation.’
“With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry was to be divided into a dozen groups: (list available/ekg). Each group will have a leader, not elected by the industry, but chosen by the Nazi authorities. Appointed chief leader last week was one Phillip Kessler, director of Bergmann Electric Co. and almost unknown outside his own industry.
“The German press took up much space drawing parallels between this new ‘Law for the Organic Upbuilding (sic) of German Economy ” and the National Recovery Act in the U.S. Such comparisons were anything but clear to U.S. observers. No codes have yet been drawn up under L. O. U. G. E. When they are, they will not come from t he industry but will be handed to the industry by the Government. NRA has only the shadow of actual authority. L. O. U. G. E. authority is absolute and clearly stated. Any member of any of the twelve industrial groups who rebels against his Leader may be fined any amount and sentenced to a year in jail. The purpose of the NRA. so far as it is stated in the law is to revive private business. The purpose of the L.O.U.G.E. Is to advance a new concept of society.
“All Nazi Schmitt’s reiteration of ‘coordination and working for the State” could not disguise the fact that German tycoons and not the government will run L.O.U.G.E. The tycoons will be those who were shrewd enough to support the Nazi Party with handsome subscriptions in the days of its infancy. A case in point was the reappointment of Dr. Krupp von Bohlen as Leader of the First Group. Even that cherished Nazi ideal, abolition of department and chain stores to protect small shopkeepers was quietly shelved under LOUGE. Only one fact gave Dr. Schmitt pause last week: ‘We have today many old fighters with firm Nazi convictions, and we have many capable economic leaders, but unfortunately only rarely are there qualities joined in the same person.’
Now who does that sound like? Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama?
The "Kill Bush" crowd you refer to was never mainstreamed by the "liberal media". Never. That is the point – that FOX and the radio haters are mainstreaming the extreme right.
So when we point out the dangers of the extreme right – you freak out and get REALLY defensive, and I mean REALLY defensive. I'm sorry but that's incriminating.
Here's a question for you: who on the right is TOO extreme? I will be happy to reciprocate, but I have a feeling that there isn't all that much on the right which is too extreme for you guys and that is the point. Claiming that we are tarring all conservatives with a broad brush is a distraction from a real dialogue.
Randy! Watch out for the black helicopters! That's what the left uses to "finish off conservatives while Overlord Obama rams…poison down America's…throat."
I mean seriously, do you know what you sound like? Hyperbole can be effective, but man, any credibility your argument might possibly have is shot right to hell (and you come off as a nutjob) because you chose invective over debate. Not the best way to represent a party that's accused of all being like Randy Chandler, if you ask me.
Lets not forget that real victories aren't won by getting Republicans elected anyway. If a Republican wins the election, but then they push socialist (RINO) agendas, I haven't really been represented. The real victory is in getting a conservative elected.
The best thing leftists can do is get the Republican party to move to the left. That way, even when they lose elections, they still get the socialist policies they want enacted. Why would we trust the opposition's advice anyway? (Oh, I'm sure they have all Republicans and conservatives best interest at heart.) If/when the Republicans became just another version of the Democrats, I won't want them to win either.
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If I may answer (and I don't speak for Mr. Simpson), but the people that are too extreme are the ones who commit violence. However, most of the recent violence, I think, is unfairly being assigned to right wingers. The Octo-nazi was by no means a right winger, and I can't think of any Christians/conservatives who believe that Dr. Tiller's murderer should not be punished to the full extent of the law, although they may not have a huge amount of sympathy for Dr. Tiller himself. And I belive those are two recent events that have led to this broad-brush painting.
Now are you willing to condemn Bill Ayers, his associate Barak O (praise be upon his name), Islamo-facists (including the recent murderer of the Army recruiter), eco-terrorists and the Prop-H8 crowd?
I didn't trash the right over Ted Kaczynski. I corrected a mistake. You seem to be getting all wound up.
If the perception that correcting a mistake is an attack is common to the entire right wing – hope not – then perhaps we see why the Bush era was such a catastrophe.
Poor leftist slug !
Interesting the disconnect between the worship of the quasi-dictator Roosevelt and the 'terrible' policies of WWII… many historians give FDR a pass on this.
Which historians give FDR a pass on this? It was a crime, and the historian – not just lawyer – I linked to above thinks so as well.
In any case Malkin's book is an obvious embarrassment – read the link and see if you think she even did original research – much as she is to a political movement that wants respect.
Marko, I agree but I think it's more than that. I think it's also a means to an end. The left is passionate about their goals, their identities as individuals is wrapped up in their politics and as a result they will do anything to win, expecially if 'losing' implies their inferior.
How is it that you and others like you continually cite a poll from an ABC news website as proof of what the conservative/liberal make up of the country is? Gallop (who is actually a polling agency) already disproved the so called 25% myth earlier this week. But even disregarding that entirely, just try to apply a little logic. How many people in the country actually bother to check the ABC news website, then how many of those would bother with a silly little online poll? It's not even close to a representative sample. For most that get their news online ABC or any of the other networks are about the last place they bother to look, so it's not even representative of the online crowd.
Please….please….please….just try thinking for yourself. Dust off the ol' brain, put down the email you've gotten from Mitch or Barry and just TRY to think for yourself.
Bubba, The Malkin book you need to read is UNHINGED. Right up your alley!
Yasser Arafat, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter have Nobel Prizes too. And Goebbels had a doctorate. Really impressed, wr1.
Ya, okay, Steve. Let's just be happy with morons like you calling us white Christian sexist racist bigot Nazi homophobic GW denying co-conspirators in lone wolf murders. And I've been in a dozen more countries than you ever have, I'll bet. Half of Europe, all of Asia (except Kims liberal paradise), and four countries in Africa. Ya, we're all parochial maroons. And we're pompous?
Thanks again for proving everything I've said. And let's see how Republicans do in 2010, after LibDem Lefties have totally trashed the economy and country. Whatever's left of both, that is. Again, thanks
That's right, because the first thing I do when ranting at length is equate my opponents with Hitler and that's crazy.
For one, NN, you said my being defensive proved I was an extremist. WRONG! Like I said in my piece, we conservatives condemn radicals all the time.
I have a link to a piece I wrote against the far right 'nirthers. When have you or anyone on the Left condemned the brutality of William Ayers or mass murder of Che, instead of making cultural icons out of them? But don't get defensive. That would only prove you're an extremist, using your logic. If it can be called such.
literally all of them; not to mention the demonization Of Gen Curtis Le May who was carrying out FDR's orders when the 8th Air Force reduced Germany to rubble. Michelle Malkin is a right wing bomb thrower and is entitled to her opinion, which few actually agree with… and ultimately Paul Krugman is a fascist, and a fairly nasty one at that.
So it's possible to like neither…
I equated a statement Krugman made calling us all the helicopter crowd with one Hitler made about putting all your political opponents into one category. Do I need a hammer and nails to get that through your thick skull?
No wonder lefties resort to calling us names! Simple thought process a little too complicated for ya? Or is it just conditioned reflex now, like six-year-old madrassa students?
"Liberal Vitriol And Hate" toward REAL AMERICANS in the era of Obozo's economic terrorism
literally all of them;
Attention: just provided a link in which two actual honest-to-god historians take issue with FDR for allowing internment, you have provided no names whatsoever.
and ultimately Paul Krugman is a fascist, and a fairly nasty one at that.
He is a fascist because…
Mr. Simpson-
Please don't put words into my (virtual) mouth. Re-read my post for me, and tell me exactly how many times I called you "sexist", a "bigot", a "Nazi", or "homophobic". I'll ignore the lone wolf thing because it's just silly. Further, please don't impute arguments that I don't make. While it clearly validates your marginalized conservative rage, it is not an effective way to communicate.
Learn to debate without insults, hyperbole, and non-sequitors (I'm still trying to understand why you included the travelogue) and we have an opportunity to discuss viewpoints that, while wide ranging, will always have some common ground. From there, we're halfway to an agreement that will satisfy both viewpoints!
Or, continue to spout invective and marginalize yourself further! See which one gets you further.
Finally, bring on 2010 and your Palin-bot. Every time she opens her mouth Regan rolls over in his grave.
I equated a statement Krugman made calling us all the helicopter crowd with one Hitler made
Yes you did. I agree entirely. That you don't see that this starts from the point of lunacy is funny.
It's part of what makes "GROW UP!" even funnier.
Funnier still is that you don't seem to have read Krugman's entire column, as he points out how ridiculous it is to call the Democratic Party socialist: you do it in the column above, and it's nutty. You demonstrate Krugman's point.
Pompous. White Christian. Nativistic. Exclusive. France-hater. Never left the country. i.e. parochial. Marginalized conservative rage. Spout invective. Are you sure your name isn't Paul Krugman?
I've seen this movie before, Steve, and it sucks. In fact, this piece was my thumbs-down review. How much more left-wing elitist contempt do I have to hear from you to know where you're coming from?
Because he sound like Hitler, LOL!
Bless my heart so do you!
I agree with this article, but if conservatives don't get it together we're doomed. The liberals are close to taking over altogether.
At least it was a calm discourse and reaction to the actual subject matter! That's an unusual occurance for the lefties!
Hey, you argue just like Jonah Goldberg! Let's see — Hitler was a fascist, Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore vegetarians are all fascist! Now Goebbels had a doctorate, so all PhD's are Nazis. And people whose politics you don't like won the Nobel Peace Prize so now winning the Nobel in economics is not a sign of intelligence, especially when compared to someone whose greatest intellectual accomplishment is, for instance, posting that Sean Penn is icky.
I realize this works with the "where's the birth certificate?" crowd, but you might want to see how it flies in the real world. Here's a hint — that massive protest against Letterman you guys were all cheering for? Fifteen people showed up.
The american taliban strikes again
Looks like there's gonna be a brawl, playin something good?
HELL YEA! rolling stones, street fightin man . GEEEEEE SEEVEEENN.
Steve, thanks for looking out for me but no thanks. It is a fact that the Dems and progressives are trying to gut the Republican party and finish them off while they are down and disorganized. Obama is in fact ramming through his far-left agenda in record time. And it is poison for the nation.
My comments were hyperbolic. The time for subtlety is over. We don't have much time for ponderous debate. We know what they're up to. It's time to rile people up and get them doing something other than debate. The thugs we're up against don't even alow debate. You think they care what you really think?
It's time to act. But you've made your point. Maybe I should write bumperstickers instead. I rather like the "hungry for brains" line.
Peace, Steve. But first let's give 'em hell.
Steve, thanks for looking out for me but no thanks. It is a fact that the Dems and progressives are trying to gut the Republican party and finish them off while they are down and disorganized. Obama is in fact ramming through his far-left agenda in record time. And it is poison for the nation.
My comments were hyperbolic. The time for subtlety is over. We don't have much time for ponderous debate. We know what they're up to. It's time to rile people up and get them doing something other than debate. The thugs we're up against don't even alow debate. You think they care what you really think?
It's time to act. But you've made your point. Maybe I should write bumperstickers instead. I rather like the "hungry for brains" line.
Peace, Steve. But first let's give 'em hell.
Our Obama boy Steve — like a lot of Lefties — is scared of us. It's right there between his hostile lines. Hey Steve, we don't quit. The day we quit is when those black helicopters you mentioned fly out of your nether region.
1. Concentration camp as is popularly known, one where people were herded together for slaughter. Internment camp, where those considered a potential threat are gathered until it is determined they are not a threat. Yes, not much difference there, thus the usual media references to the Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp.
2. Have you read anything but the cover, or the analysis you linked to? Right at the end of the analysis section "In Defense of Internment, Part 11" one finds:
On page xxx of the book's Introduction ("A Time To Discriminate"), Michelle tells us to "[m]ake no mistake": she is "not advocating rounding up all Arabs or Muslims and tossing them into camps."
There are many places in the analysis that outright say Malkin is not asking for such internment, frequently within the context of "why not?"
A reasonable person would conclude you have obviously stated Malkin thinks American Muslims should be rounded up in concentration camps. You have attempted to justify it by linking to an analysis that says repeatedly she has not. Furthermore from "In Defense of Internment, Part 4" there is criticism of those attempting to link the like of the Nazi death camps to the Japanese American internment camps by using the term "concentration camps," which you are doing by using the term despite the modern understanding of the meaning of the term. Double Fail 1 and 2.
3. As in being white, being male, being a conservative, and any combination thereof? That certainly is a trend among liberal thought, where what you are means your opinion does not matter and you are hereby automatically dismissed, as were the Japanese Americans during WWII. Double Fail 3.
And a bonus Fail for concluding that a "right winger" is wanting something the analysis you yourself linked to says she did not, indicating you have not even read your own source.
So far you have doubled down on Fail while increasing your loss. Care to wager again?
he is a fascist because he believes in A) big government, and the bigger the better- capitalism is a tool to be tightly controlled, and he doesn't tolerate any dissent- sounds like Mussolini style fascism to us, and what links are you talking about? a few revisionists? Classicists such as William Shirer thought it necessary… Krugman is a nasty person and can be Hitlerian, so we agree with Mr Simpson on this.
The only link we see on your (fairly tiresome) post is the Malkin thing.
1. Concentration camp as is popularly known,
FDR referred to the Japanese camps as concentration camps.
On page xxx of the book's Introduction ("A Time To Discriminate"), Michelle tells us to "[m]ake no mistake": she is "not advocating rounding up all Arabs or Muslims and tossing them into camps."
Er, yeah, that's why she wrote a book defending the rounding up of a specific ethnicity in wartime and put an Arab terrorist on the cover next to a Japanese guy. Pull the other one.
3. As in being white, being male, being a conservative, and any combination thereof?
Yes, I'm sure you face the threat of being put into a concentration camp.
And a bonus Fail for concluding that a "right winger" is wanting something the analysis you yourself linked to says she did not, indicating you have not even read your own source.
Eric's awfully careful about his language. You need to read it again.
I'll argue with you any time. You lose in an entertaining way.
The only link we see on your (fairly tiresome) post is the Malkin thing.
I should follow this up: That link that you find so hard to follow leads to writings by Eric Muller and Greg Robinson who have written extensively on the internment. They are honest-to-God historians. Michelle Malkin is not.
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never said it was hard to follow, Eric Muller and Greg Robinson are left wing revisionists who believe war is 'illegal'. If you listened, instead of pushing your agenda, you would see that we have no use for Malkin as well. And yes, you are tiresome…
1. As was noted in the analysis, "concentration camp" was used at the time. Since the term has come to represent Nazi-like death camps its use to refer to internment camps is highly inappropriate. Further, the "twisted cross" was a valid religious symbol back then, it has even turned up on Native American as well as other indigenous art. By your reasoning you would be justified to use a swastika as a decorative element. Best of luck with that.
So you continue to point to an analysis that repeatedly says she is not advocating putting American Muslims and Arabs in internment camps as proof she wants to put American Muslims and Arabs into internment camps? Fascinating, in the same way it is interesting to monitor the decomposition of roadkill.
3. Nice. We are already being herded into an ideological concentration camp. It seemed to me you were referring to a "crime," as Japanese Americans were not actually convicted of anything while being gathered, they were being labeled simply for what they were. Which is certainly happening to anyone who is white, male, and/or a conservative.
I need to read it again? I have no proof you even read it once.
If you consider what you are achieving to be winning, feel free to go into debt and buy lottery tickets. I guarantee by your definition you will win big.
never said it was hard to follow
Obviously it was as they are two historians who disprove your absurd "literally all of them" claim. And again you have provided the names of no historians who give FDR a pass.
It's nice that you don't like Michelle Malkin. Perhaps you should note that she gives FDR a pass.
1. As was noted in the analysis, "concentration camp" was used at the time. Since the term has come to represent Nazi-like death camps its use to refer to internment camps is highly inappropriate.
Oh dear. Perhaps it's as inappropriate as starting your article off with a Hitler quote: yes or no? Anyway I apologize for the offense I've caused you.
So you continue to point to an analysis that repeatedly says she is not advocating putting American Muslims and Arabs in internment camps as proof she wants to put American Muslims and Arabs into internment camps?
Absolutely, in the same way that white power adherents publicly say they don't hate anyone, they just want the right to be proud of their race. It's a lie.
3. Nice. We are already being herded into an ideological concentration camp.
Yay! Now we see that "concentration camp" gets to be used when you're upset, but its correct use is not allowed when someone else disagrees with you! Wonderful comedy. And once again, this is exactly the kind of nuttiness Krugman is writing about: you're the guy invoking a concentration camp because someone disagrees with you.
I'm sorry, that's just awesome.
Logic doesn't work for you? John said that Nobel Prizes and doctorates don't prove anyone's wisdom or intellect. You somehow read that to mean that having such credentials prove they aren't intelligent or wise. No one ever said that, but of course reading comprehension isn't a strong suit for you on the left.
I will say however that winning a Nobel Prize outside of the hard sciences these days does require the winner to hew to a pretty strict leftist/PC political philosophy. Oh, and the real protest against Letterman will be his falling ratings. You guys are big on spectacle. We just get the job done.
no, they are left wing revisionists, and didn't you read the post? Is not William L Shirer a historian? There is nothing absurd about our claim; it is you who are trying to push a string… FDR is a liberal icon and is never held accountable for fighting the war- if he were a Republican he would be constantly vilified. By playing a gotcha game, you just become annoying. The gentlemen you mention are not held in high esteem by serious WWII scholars, but that's not your agenda.
You didn't like Mr Simpson's comparison of the virulent fascist Krugman to Hitler and went off on this Malkin tangent. Speaking to you is not very rewarding, for you dissemble and obfuscate. So, please stop with the redundancies of your replies. If you have nothing new to add- your historians are not in our book- then go where all the trolls go…
no, they are left wing revisionists
No they are historians. We can do this all night but one teaches history so you pretty much lose.
Here are some more historians:
http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=40982
FDR is a liberal icon and is never held accountable for fighting the war-
Look, you just do not read history. Ever.
You didn't like Mr Simpson's comparison of the virulent fascist Krugman
You represent a data point in favour of Krugman's argument.
Jesus, Bubba, You're obsessed! You have your own goddamn blog, lame at it is. Is that why you come here? Because nobody goes there? Or do you tire of the echo chamber.
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Lastly I stand by my Hitler quote. Just like you sit by your Bushitler poster every time you try to transfer the mush in your brain onto a keyboard
Very nicely done! The juxtaposition between Fascism and Barrynomics is chilling, indeed.
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they are not historians, loser- they are lawyers; left wing revisionist lawyers- who believe, like you, that war is 'illegal'. We surveyed your 'list'- once again a bunch of leftist academics and- once again- lawyers- who believe that a world wide government with universal laws would somehow trump warfighting; this goes back to Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations.
There is nothing new or cutting edge of your pretentious posturing. We have opened both links- it's a campaign against the hapless Malikin- and various legal arguments against deterrment. We have read and studied history all of our adult life, and would gladly compare backgrounds with the likes of you. Krugman is an evil little troll, much like yourself- and the only data point is your irrelevancy. Simply repeating assertions- you have never logically addressed the fascist charge against the useless troll- underlines both the speciousness of your flawed premise and empty rhetoric posing as pertinence.
So, you can claim a 'victory' that you've neither fought, nor won… and, one suspects, that losing is something you are intimately familiar with…
they are not historians, loser- they are lawyers
Once again, you don't seem able to read. It doesn't matter how long your response is, Greg Robinson will still be a professor of history. Other historians on the list will be historians as well.
From Krugman: And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.
The point is proved: you insist evidence is not evidence and that calling someone a left-winger takes care of any possible argument.
Simply repeating assertions- you have never logically addressed the fascist charge against the useless troll
Sure I have: there isn't a charge of fascism against Krugman that can be taken seriously except by nuts which again is Krugman's point.
You may wish to study free trade and see whether Krugman is for it or against it.
I read the article and about 12-15 responses. Whole lotta Kool-aid being drunk out there.
Seems that their is no accountability on the right for their hateful, racist rhetoric and incitment of violence targeting immigrants, blacks, latinos, gays, muslims, jews, doctors etc. This is just more of the same ducking and dodging. When the Bush Adminstration report came out last month highlighting the rise of right-wing extremism, the GOP and other conservative groups and mouth pieces protested. How spot on that report turned out to be.
Krugman got the nobel because Bush the younger was president. No politics to see here, move along. Yep ONLY intellectual merit, keep moving…
Lastly I stand by my Hitler quote.
Of course you do: how could you demonstrate Krugman's point otherwise?
Let's call her A. Fascist- a very accurate term. I still want pie!
we can read just fine, and plowed through the litany of left wing revisionism posing as history. Question: Just what do you know? what to you bring to the table? you sit on a very high horse but hide like all cowards behind a vacuous anonymity. Paul Krugman had some economic ideas that were contrary to his ideological fascism- and one suspects thatyou share his fascistic conceits as well. You never have made a salient point, other than to express displeasure with Malkin and fawning over Krugman.
The question remains: what, and who are you and exactly what point are you trying, so ineloquently to make?
The question remains: what, and who are you and exactly what point are you trying, so ineloquently to make?
Someone with such poor comma placement shouldn't hassle others about ineloquence.
In any case, the point is the Simpson article is hilarious for Simpson's inability to separate his black helicopters from his conservatism. As noted in my very first comment.
It's also fun to see you grapple with facts and language. What, pray tell, is "ideological fascism" as opposed to fascism (which happens to be an ideology)? Answer: "ideological fascism" has more syllables so you think it makes you look smarter. How eloquent!
you really are a tool, aren't you? A misplaced comma has little to do with your lack of eloquence, and it is equally amusing to see you dodge, weave, dissemble and obfuscate. The 'black helicopter' thing is your invention, and one more thing- because you didn't understand it in the first place- his 'ideological
fascism' is in some contradiction with some of his economic theories which were not all wrong. Once again, nitwit- what do YOU bring to the table other than a reptilian repulsiveness?
A misplaced comma has little to do with your lack of eloquence
It pretty much does, yes.
The 'black helicopter' thing is your invention
No, it's Krugman's description, which appears to apply since you keep throwing around this word "fascism" which you have yet to demonstrate that you understand.
his 'ideological
fascism' is in some contradiction with some of his economic theories
Part and parcel, genius, part and parcel.
Once again, nitwit- what do YOU bring to the table other than a reptilian repulsiveness?
Corrections, obviously.
Again. Roger, thank you for proving my case. Nothing like Reaffirmation with Cerebral Smalley
When all is said and done, Al Gore will be one of the richest men (snake oil salesmen) in the world. When crap and trade is in place, he'll sit back and tap into this ridiculous flow of money and laugh at all the gullible people. It reminds me of the villain from Mission Impossible II. Create the disease and sell the cure.
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