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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 03/28/2010 : 12:43:13
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Read this Jonah Goldberg column in the Chicago Tribune, about the Teabaggers. Of course, we're not supposed to call them "Teabaggers"
| If you read the op-ed pages these days, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the GOP and the conservative movement have been taken over by know-nothing mobs, anti-intellectual demagogues, and pitchfork-wielding bigots. There’s no omnibus label for this argument, but it’s a giveaway that a person subscribes to it if he or she describes the tea-party movement as the “tea baggers,” an awfully telling bit of sophomoric condescension from the camp that affects a pose of being more high-minded. |
This part really cracked me up
| They’re reading Thomas Paine, the founders, and Friedrich Hayek in the perhaps naïve hope that they’ll be able to restore the principles that are supposed to be guiding the system. (To the extent they’re reading radicals such as Saul Alinsky, it’s because they’ve been told that’s the best way to understand his disciple in the White House.) |
From what I've seen, the portion of the Teabaggers who can read aren't going any farther than the WingNut Daily (where Today's headline is
1 in 4 Americans censoring
thoughts under Obama |
I kid you not).
Jonah Goldberg is a tool!
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
 Posted - 03/28/2010 : 13:18:22 [Permalink]
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| pundit (p#365;n'-d#301;t) n: a person who makes a business of not knowing what he is talking about. |
"The Republican agenda is to turn the United States into a third-world shithole." -P.Z.Myers |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2010 : 23:59:18 [Permalink]
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| They're getting so crazy that it's hard to even figure out what their point is, anymore. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2010 : 18:25:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
1 in 4 Americans censoring
thoughts under Obama |
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=132537
Here's the article for that one, this has to be one of the worst cases of cherry picking and bad writing about polls I've ever seen. The direct quotes from the analyst are enough to show even he is way too speculative and a bit sexist. He tries to explain away the fact that women felt they had more freedoms after the healthcare bill by saying that the worry has shifted to men who are the ones worried about paying for it without any justification whatsoever. |
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
-Giordano Bruno
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."
-Stephen Hawking
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable"
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Which Teabaggers Is He Talking About
