Sometimes you just have to laugh at the Pauline Kael-like left. It seems that leftists in America are either mentally stunted or living in such an enclosed, bubble-world that they cannot discern reality from their own fantasy. Such is the case with the faux shock expressed by one Chuck Blow (presumably his real name) from The New York Times whose latest article is filled with the horror that some on the American right might not wish much success for a president of the United States. One must laugh at this man’s alarm and wonder if he missed the last eight years where Bush, Cheney — and at the end, even today, Palin — were hung in effigy, where the past president was wished a long and torturous death, and where the left wanted untold horrors visited upon them and all Americans that support Republicans?
Charles’ sudden awakening to the passion that politics brings is amusing if only to the extent that it is so empty of any introspection. It is hilarious that Chuck only just now had his eyes opened to enflamed political rhetoric and talk of the grave concerns for this country by many millions of his fellow Americans. Sad, in the end, that this guy thinks such vitriol has only just now come from the American right as if born fully grown and never-before-seen.
Chuck must surely have been in a coma since the year 1999.
Blow starts out with what must be considered “humor” in the world of the extreme left. The Times columnist says that he has been consuming as much conservative media as possible “interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol.” To that I can only say that I welcome him to the real world. After all, the far left American Old Media has had real Americans reaching for that venerable acid reducer since the 1960s… not that he’d know this being part of the problem and all and seeing as how he doesn’t get out of that left-wing bubble much.
Blow goes on to worry that conservatives are so incensed with the anti-American direction that the most liberal Senator in Congress, now president, is taking the country that some may even be contemplating “revolution.”
Blow goes on to detail a few voices that have ruminated aloud about that approaching possibility. Folks like Chuck Norris, Glenn Beck and Representative Michele Bachmann (R, MN) are cited. Apparently he is suddenly all scared for the USA.
All this talk of revolution is revolting, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.
He then cites Bill Maher, of all people, as an antidote to this troublesome sentiment. Remember, it was Bill Maher that wished for Vice President Dick Cheney to be blown up by terrorists! Apparently, Blow was safely in his bubble when Maher made that murderous wish out loud. Yeah, Maher is a great person to turn to as the calming, sensible and grown-up influence to counter hate-speak!
In any case, Blow is all a’twitter that so many Americans are upset at the direction of the country with some espousing a desire to “take back our country.”
But it all gives me a really bad feeling.
Like I said, apparently our lefty friend Blow is in a Kael-like bubble. It was New York theater critic Pauline Kael that was shocked back in the 70s that Richard Nixon could ever win the presidency. After all, she didn’t know but one person that was for the man. So, since she didn’t know any such Americans existed, how could he possibly have won an election? Such is the bubble the left enclose themselves in womb-like and safe from all opposing opinion.
So, Mr. Blow is all exasperated and a’feared of all this “revolution” talk, upset that any American might express dissatisfaction over a president’s actions, shocked… SHOCKED I tell you… that anyone could possibly want to “take back our country.”
One can only laugh at his blindness.
After all, for the last eight years lefty website after lefty newspaper after lefty Congressman and community leader have been outspoken in their hatred of Bush, Cheney and Palin. Any number of lefty writers and web postings can be found wishing for them to be killed or at the very least jailed. The DailyKos and the DemocraticUnderground is filled with leftists arguing to “take back our country” by installing their kind of anti-American, far left, Eurocentric ilk. We even had an ex-vice president screaming out in fake alarm that Bush “played on our fers” and that “he betrayed this country.”
Apparently, Mr. Blow never noticed such talk before?
So, why don’t you give Chuckie an email to let him know that you’re here and you think he is a bit silly for his inability to have noticed the past eight years of hatred from HIS side: chblow@nytimes.com.
Tell him I said hey.
(Photo: The New York Times)
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
"dark and dangerous"?
streiff (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 8:58AM EST (link)isn’t that lacist?
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
I'll try to comment with a past cartoon...
TobyToons (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:12AM EST (link)I did this cartoon before I had a diary on RedState, but it is almost an illustration for the diary entry above…
If the image doesn’t show, please feel free to delete this comment.
-Toby
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” -Adam Smith
Excellent choice Toby!
Susannah (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:17AM EST (link)55555 - GREAT
Jack_Savage (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:18AM EST (link)Pretty much says it all….
55555
djemi (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:22AM EST (link)Funny.
“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy
Excellent
itrytobenice (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 5:16PM EST (link)A picture is worth a thousand words.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
I will email him my recent diary about the 2008 election coverage....
Susannah (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:16AM EST (link)….In fact, I’ll do it right now before I leave. It is full of about fifty links that contain numerous examples of hatred coming from the far-left (link is below).
http://www.redstate.com/susannah/2009/03/23/why-the-media-coverage-of-the-2008-presidential-election-sucked/
Are our columnist learin?
McGruff Monday, April 6th at 9:34AM EST (link)If you contact him, ask if they have a spell checker at the NY Times.
Columnist Biography: Charles M. Blow
Charles M. Blow is The New York Times’s visual Op-Ed columist. His column
appears in The Times every other Saturday.
Too easy
Deskpilot (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 8:56PM EST (link)My 79 y/o Irish mother, her 4 children and 9 grandchildren could see that 5,280 feet away, without their glasses’s
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can still read it in English, You’re Welcome
Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)
Join the RedState Strike Force
Really I admire them...
MelZ (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:41AM EST (link)I wish I lived in a world where everything I do is right and every really wrong thing I or my cohorts do, I don’t recognize as even happening.
It is utterly amazing to read the left-winged blogs. A “white supremicist” kills a few people and -that is what is wrong with America, this is Conservativism at its best. But a rapist and a cop killer with parades going on in support of him gets no mention. A mans shoots somebody and happens to have an Ann Coulter book in his home? Oh that’s grounds for several days of visious blogging…
I use to think it was just poor journalism, I now realize it is a wonderful Willy Wonka World they live in and some day when I decide to abandon all of my morals and convictions…may just join them. I promise they don’t have the ulcers or the blood pressure I have.
And, btw, thank you to RedState for always bringing all important stories to the front page and holding our Conservative “leaders” accountable.
MelZ
Playing off of the Coulter angle...
mikefisk (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 9:55AM EST (link)…Coulter mentions the general idea behind the Obama presidency in her book Godless, namely regarding the “Doctrine of Infallibility”.
The far left uses people with unique backgrounds as human shields / meat puppets with which to deflect criticism of their noxious policies. The Jersey Girls, Christopher Reeve, John Kerry, Max Cleland, Joseph Wilson… and now Barack Obama.
Obama’s Doctrine of Infallibility is particularly effective, as it is grounded in one of the most sensitive third rails of American cultural relations – the scepter of racism. Anyone who opposes The One, regardless of the basis of their criticism, can instantly be deemed a racist from the permanent victim/parasite class, who can then, sensibilities protected, request more largess from their benefactor, to be paid for by force through the pockets of those whom they seek to silence.
It’s a sad day in this country when victimhood and eternal supplication is a cottage industry in and of itself, but that’s the route we seem to be headed toward (couldn’t those “brave and uncowed” victims of oppression at least write an off-Broadway play and produce at least something of dubious social merit for all their trouble?). Going Galt has never been so tempting.
“Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant.” – Michael Fisk
9.25, -4.77
Just as he is "shocked there is gambling in Casablanca"
texas214 (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 11:19AM EST (link)Every time I read one of these buffoons I can’t help but think of that line from Casablanca. They are either just stupid, which I doubt, or more likely just disingenuous.
PS. what the heck is a visual Op-Ed columnist?
One edit to Mr. Huston:
bannedtroll Monday, April 6th at 12:46PM EST (link)The womb is no longer a safe place to be – may want to use another analogy next time.
I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.
Why? It's the truth. nt
Steph C (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 2:51PM EST (link)“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
abortion reference(nt)
blooch Monday, April 6th at 3:52PM EST (link)“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
The problem with selective memory or the re-writing of history
robmikpet (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 1:51PM EST (link)are the ignorant morons (sorry no other words to use) who vote for Dems.
How many 14, 15, 16 and 17 year olds to young to vote in 2008 will vote in 2012 with the knowledge THAT ONLY REPUBLICANS are mean and nasty to the President.
How many newly created illegal immigrant citizens will think the same thing?
Rush Limbaugh says the most expensive commodity in America is ignorance.
At the risk of Godwin-ing the thread...
mikefisk (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 2:01PM EST (link)…what was it said about a lie repeated loud enough and often enough?
“Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant.” – Michael Fisk
9.25, -4.77
Charles Blow = tool; and a blunt one, at that
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 4:08PM EST (link)what an f-ing rube. Can anybody actually say that crap with a straight face?
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
hey Joe Blow...heres a mash from the DKOS...it's got like 75 rec's and counting...
speciallist (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 4:24PM EST (link)i won’t bring it here…
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg269/jordiegirl_photos/byebyebush.jpg
♫ Playin' Graftin Y'all, I Love To Graft You All ♫
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 4:34PM EST (link)♫ ♫ & nbsp; ♫
Now, Graftin Y’all is my favorite sport,
If I don’t get my way, I just use the court,
I get to be the king of those I own, through Obama Messiah, and his socialist throne,
I love slam-dunks, take me some loot,
My favorite play is the back alley-coup,
I like the bankroll, I like the give-me-dough,
Yeah I’m Graftin Y’all, I’m Charles Blow.
♫ ♫ & nbsp; ♫
♫ Playin’ Graftin Y’all, I Love To Graft You All ♫
♫ Playin’ Graftin Y’all, I Love To Graft You All ♫
I don't want to hear
harlan Monday, April 6th at 8:31PM EST (link)…from another black person regarding obama.
Blacks have proven their partiality with a ridiculously overwhelming vote for him in ’08.
All blacks are unreasonably invested in him regardless of his performance, or lack thereof. They only hurt themselves in the eyes of all Americans with this mindless advocacy.
"All blacks"?
noufa Tuesday, April 7th at 12:22AM EST (link)Read & learn:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell033109.php3
Think before you type. You’re embarrassing yourself & hurting my party.
“Obama is not a centrist. He was never centrist. He is a uniter. He does reach across the aisle. But he always do so in pursuit of progressive ends.”
-Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones 1/31/08
Pulling out the Political Guide to Media Perception....
Husker (Diary) Monday, April 6th at 8:34PM EST (link)According to the Political Guide to Media Perception:
Richard Poplawski was a troofer & frequented Stormfront.
noufa Tuesday, April 7th at 12:52AM EST (link)I’m not blaming those groups for Poplawski’s actions. But for the past 5 years, leftists hailed these paranoid idiots as “good conservatives” solely because they hate the government & opposed the Iraq war.
We REPEATEDLY warned them that these fringe voices did not deserve a platform! We did a darn good job of denying them access to the Republican microphone.
“Obama is not a centrist. He was never centrist. He is a uniter. He does reach across the aisle. But he always do so in pursuit of progressive ends.”
-Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones 1/31/08