Sunday, May 29, 2011

BPIHORL & BSIHORL

Best Paragraph I've Heard or Read Lately....
Liberals believe in derailing any discussion that becomes thoughtful enough that their own ideas are treated with anything but instant acceptance. They believe in marginalizing the opposition as a primary means of exchanging ideas. They believe in prerationalism. “So, we’re all on board, right?” is the only sentiment they see as valid in any meeting-of-the-minds about anything…they don’t know what to do with dissent and they don’t even know what to do with questions.
Except … on that last part, they know what to do. Or at least, they are consistent about what they do. They go to the well. Ridicule. Baseless ridicule, that is. A sneering tone, a few baseless insults, implying that anyone who disagrees with their ridicule and insult is by definition an idiot. So it’s really more of the same.

And the BISHORL comes from Morgan's friend Mike Simone:
If you voted for Obama in ‘08 to prove you’re not a racist, you’ll need to vote for someone else in ‘12 to prove you’re not an idiot.
I know. The second seems at face value to be an example of the first. But I've got things besides quoting Tina Fey or hollering "money grubber" or "quitter" (or slut???) to back that up.

Speaking of that, could somebody point me to someone on Fox News using the kind of language that gets you a week's forced vacation on MSNBC?)

6 comments:

Severian said...

could somebody point me to someone on Fox News using the kind of language that gets you a week's forced vacation on MSNBC?

This is why a part of me will always love Sarah Palin. I'm not at all sold on her as the Rightwing Messiah (I think the "anyone but Palin" vote would cancel out the "anyone but Obama" vote, especially as zero middle class women will vote for her), but she does perform the incalculably valuable public service of getting leftists to actually say for the record what they're all not-so-secretly thinking.

It's like the Ward Churchill brouhaha back in the days. Those sentiments aren't at all shocking to me, I told my appalled non-academic friends -- I'd venture to guess that a "little Eichmanns" crack would pass without comment at 95% of faculty parties nationwide.

I just wish that certain people -- the lovely, muddleheaded "centrist" "middle" -- would start making the obvious connection: this is who they are, and yes, that's really what they think about you.

mkfreeberg said...

(I think the "anyone but Palin" vote would cancel out the "anyone but Obama" vote...)

Ooh, good question there. I have to renounce my obvious biases in order to evaluate it fairly...

...even then, though, I just don't see it. Who's paying five bucks a gallon for gas because of something Palin's done? Of course, her beauty makes women feel threatened, and that's 52% of the vote...but...I still just don't know. Apart from liking Palin, I've never trusted loud people, when the time comes to figuring out how many of them there are. I think if they didn't feel some desperation to inflate their numbers, they wouldn't be loud.

Phil, thanks for the link. I was going to try to make a graphic out of Mike's. Since your skills are far superior to mine, now that I know you're a fan of what he had to say there, I won't bother.

IMO, that would look great on a bumper.

(word verification: herbend.)

philmon said...

Well, ultimately, I don't think things like $5 a gallon gas should be an issue. I know it is, like the opposition makes it no matter who the incumbent is. I wish people would talk in terms of the real issues - that is, are we upholding and protecting the Constitution, or are we doing the Gummy Bear Dance all over it?

If there's something we're doing to that latter end that encourages $5 a gallon gas, then fine, let's talk about that.

As far as Palin is concerned, no, I don't see her as some sort of Messiah, just someone I'd be happy to vote for. Because she seems to "get" the former end. That upholding and protecting the Constitution thingy.

And yes, I'm with you Severian -- one of the main reasons I like her is she seems to have an uncanny knack for pissing all of the right people off.

philmon said...

A bumpersticker someone could actually read ... could be a challenge. Have to think about it.

Cylarz said...

As far as Palin is concerned, no, I don't see her as some sort of Messiah, just someone I'd be happy to vote for.

Likewise. I posted over at RWN awhile back that my hope is pinned on Jesus. I don't need another messiah, nor do I need a political leader to give me "hope."

What I need a political leader to do is get the government's jackboot off my neck, and off the necks of the productive members of our society...so that the latter can get back to innovating, hiring, and enriching their stockholders and raking in obscene profits. You know, the stuff they're supposed to be doing. Seriously.

A co-worker (a particularly ignorant one) recently demanded to know "what I thought Palin was going to do for me." I hardly knew where to begin, because he was asking the wrong question.

It's not what I think Palin is going to do for me. That's the kind of pathetic, pandering question asked by people quizzing Democrats who run for president.

The proper question, rather, is: "What will Palin make government stop doing to me. I want her not for what she'll launch (well, I am hoping for more domestic oil driling)...so much as what she will abolish.

It's impossible to arrive at the right answer when you're asking the wrong question. But the Left doesn't understand that. They'd rather project their gimme-gimme attitude onto everyone else.

philmon said...

It's not what I think Palin is going to do for me.

Eggzactly.

It's impossible to arrive at the right answer when you're asking the wrong question. But the Left doesn't understand that. They'd rather project their gimme-gimme attitude onto everyone else.

This is why what is really needed as badly as holding the leftists at bay at the ballot box is culture change. Which will only happen if we keep speaking up.

And stopping echoes.