Plunging Towards Gomorrah
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Progressive Ostriches
Jun 25th
I love the blogosphere. It’s awesome that everyone who has an opinion can share it. However, if you’re going to share your opinions be prepared to have them spotlighted, especially if it’s on the Cannibal Huffington Post. Today I came across a comment from TN60 that I thought was funny and delusional enough to share on The Daily Plunge.
I always saw the police state of AZ as the worst of the worst for Republicans, and it would stir up the Latino voters to go the voting booth. You are definately going to see it in TX and Colorado and California, as well. That is why you see Bloomberg joining Murdoch on immigration. Murdoch can’t afford to lose his Conservative base who watch Loony clowns.
Then you have the whackos in NV, Ky and Utah, talking about civil rights and cutting Medicare and S/S and there goes the old people. The young people who were behind Obama’s win, wanted change, and so far, due to Republicans Obstruction, they will get behind Democrats, because Republican Rule was what they came out in numbers to defeat. Black voters already know that Republicans are not in their corner and they have voted Democratic in large numbers for years.
If the Democrats can manage to turn the anger at the Republicans as the party of everything BIGs, and not for the “little people”, I see reduction in Repbulican numbers in November.
Where do you begin? This comment plays on every paranoid delusion that exists on the left. It even has the “youth vote” myth. As I’ve stated before, most progressives do not care about illegal immigration. They view illegal immigrants as an untapped voting bloc that the racist Republicans will not allow. That’s why brain-dead outlets like the Huffington Post are comfortable letting convicted felons post as long as it reinforces their worldview.
Politics on the Blogosphere
Apr 6th
One piece of conventional wisdom that started a few years ago is the idea that liberals dominate blogs. A few years ago this was true when the United States was living under the cruel dictatorship of President Bush. Progressives needed a place to post their laments about faux voter fraud, global warming, and the plight of the American homeless. Liberal blogs were a dime a dozen. Back in 2006 there were all kinds of theories as to why liberals were blogging.
One suggested reason is that more liberal blogs have comments and promote individual blogs, participation and more which bring more repeat and continuous traffic. Also, it is possible that progressive/liberal and anti-war blogs are read in countries other than the United States; this may not be as likely for the conservative ones. The other theory is that the party in opposition has more to complain about, strategize about and work on than the party in power. In that case, I will revisit this article if things change in November of 2008.
It seems clear which of the theories above is correct. Now that Obama is in the White House the blogosphere looks a lot different. Conservative blogs are now gaining more traffic. The National Review’s blog, The Corner, is now the second most popular political blog right behind the Cannibal Post (AKA Huffington Post). That’s no small feat considering the amount of money the Queen of Cannibalism spends on her site. Then there are progressives who feel that liberal blogs are superior because they’ve learned “to be reverent.” No, seriously.
Now compare that concept to the writing style of your favorite liberal bloggers. Notice the sense of awe and reverence? The respect they have of language and a turn of phrase to convey the inter-connectedness of life?
None of that exists in the rightwing blogosphere. I’ve read the so-called A-List conservative bloggers and their essays are rife with fear, stereotypes, and embittered presumptions.
This was written by em dash who earlier in her reverent post called the Bush Administration the “crooks, thieves, and miscreants inhabiting the White House.” That type of rhetoric is certainly presumptuous, bitter, and shallow, but I’ll leave it up to someone else to convey the inter-connectedness of life. As far as fear is concerned the left is just as guilty of using fear tactics as the right.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken
Give us your overpopulation, health care sob stories, homeless rediscovery, DDT, and global warming nonsense. How did the President pass his pork filled stimulus bill? Of course, he used scare tactics. For someone like em dash who is high on intellectually superiority it’s amazing how naive she is when comes to simple politics. I guess that’s just another widely accepted stereotype on the left.
More Palin Derangement…
Feb 12th
I still haven’t figured out what it is about Sarah Palin that drives people on the left bonkers. My only guess is that they must feel that she is some kind of political threat. Let’s face it, when a mainstream figure (and Palin is mainstream despite the left’s derangement) like Palin is subject to constant partisan attacks it means the person as viewed as a threat. Ronald Reagan, easily the best President since Eisenhower, was hated on the left. In fact, most people on the left still struggle to say anything nice about Reagan. At the time Reagan was dismissed as an old forgetful idiot by liberals. Check out this description of Palin in a recent entry on the Huffington Post.
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
Has there ever been a worse human being in American politics? Where is this coming from? I’m not sure how anyone on the left can complain about “terrible human beings” as long as disgraced Democrat John Edwards walks the Earth. John Edwards is a living, breathing example of everything wrong with politicians/lawyers and Paul Slansky is concerned about a former governor from Alaska?
Super Bowl Winner: Google
Feb 8th
Club Soda did a great job summing up the political ramifications of an actual Green Police. Last night’s Audi ad was great because it appealed to both groups. Please read David Roberts’ article today in the Huffington Post. The same site that brought the world Katrina Cannibalism has this take on the Green Police ad:
The ad only makes sense if it’s aimed at people who acknowledge the moral authority of the green police — people who may find those obligations tiresome and constraining on occasion, who only fitfully meet them, who may be annoyed by sticklers and naggers, but who recognize that living more sustainably is in fact the moral thing to do. This basically describes every guy I know.
In other words David Roberts is okay with a police state as long as it suits his political beliefs. This is the great thing about totalitarianism. Someone ultimately gets to be in control. Everything is cool until someone has a gun in your face telling you to stop emitting C02.
Anyway, the point of my post today is to discuss what I thought was the best advertisement last night during the Super Bowl.
Google’s Parisian Love ad is simple. Google’s service is simple. The ad told a story and the sole focus was the brand. From a marketing perspective it was perfect. Evidently Microsoft’s search decision engine Bing is slowly gaining traction. Google has never advertised like this before. Plus, the fact there was a Google ad and nothing for Apple must make someone unhappy.
where is wasserman now?
Jul 19th
The last time I checked in with Harvey Wasserman it was August, 2007. Back then he was worried about President Bush canceling the 2008 election.
We must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention. The real question is not how or when they might do it. It’s how, realistically, we can stop them.
I guess Wasserman’s defense is that he stopped Bush from stealing the election? Of course no one tried to cancel the election; it’s just insane talk. Wasserman could be simply ignored but his idiotic rants are posted on various sites including the Huffington Post. Plus, he’s had articles published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. The man is a textbook example BDS. For example, just take a look at his June 24 article titled OOPS! We rigged the Iran/Florida-Ohio vote count AGAIN!!
Blackwell and Bush then used a lethal mix of black box machines, faulty scantrons and hijacked ballots to finish the job. Blackwell worked with Diebold, ES&S, Triad, and other electronic magicians that let him disappear or switch all the votes he needed with a few keystrokes at around 2am election night. His high-tech IT henchman, Michael Connell, has since died in a mysterious plane crash.
This is an article that’s supposedly about the Iranian election, but it just serves as an outlet for another crazy rant by Wasserman. It’s unbelievable that five years later people are so insane that they believe the 2004 election was stolen. If Wasserman was really concerned about voter fraud shouldn’t he have been in Minnesota? Where is his outrage about ACORN? It doesn’t exist because Wasserman is in a closet wearing a tin foil hat waiting for nuclear winter.
