Posts Tagged ‘question authority’
10. The protestors of Occupy Wall Street will get a free education in seeing what happens when the one-percent no longer gives a shit and no longer chooses to fund the welfare state while being cast as villains.
9. For sociologists, Obama’s reelection provides a unique opportunity to witness the curious phenomenon of liberals who once took such great pride in questioning authority now imploring us all to shut-up and obey our masters.
8. The movie “Idiocracy,” once regarded a somewhat obscure comedy, will finally be hailed as a prophetic vision of the future and the true work of genius that it is.
7. We have now been diagnosed, which is the first step in seeking treatment. America has chosen to double-down on the failed policies which brought us four years of rising unemployment and crippling deficits. If the definition of insanity is said to be “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” then we can now diagnose America as clinically insane.
6. In successfully campaigning to reelect the president, the old media gets a lot of the credit at the cost of all of their credibility. After spending every last dime of their credibility, they may have hastened their own extinction, but at least they can take solace in this – with no more need to campaign for Obama, they can treat him just like a child treats a toy they’ve grown bored of and spend the next four years taking him apart.
5. Barack Obama once mocked the idea of American Exceptionalism by saying, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” For too long America has been subject to the undue burdens of being the last great hope for freedom in the world. Now Obama and those of his ilk have all the opportunity they need to make America completely unexceptional. Enjoy the newfound lack of responsibility that comes being unexceptional, America!
4. Obama got what he wished for in winning a second term as president. Defining moments from our last four two-termers include Katrina, Impeachment, Iran-Contra and Watergate. While it’s too late to warn Obama to be careful what he wishes for, at least we can say, enjoy it while it lasts.
3. While readers themselves ranked Atlas Shrugged as the greatest book of all time, most literary critics despise the book. With Obama reelected, we no longer have to read through an 1,100 page book to see what happens to America when the masses elect the Marxists and the looting runs rampant.
2. The most famous book written on the Roman Empire is Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Now historians of today can witness firsthand the most famous period in our history.
1. Those lucky enough to have been alive when America was the most prosperous nation on Earth can enjoy the looks of disbelief on their grandchildren’s faces when they tell them the stories of how things were back before America joined the third world.
It’s ludicrous to try to pin a lunatic’s actions on the “overheated rhetoric” of today, as if the politics of today are any more devisive and vitriolic than any other time. The slander and mudslinging of the 1828 election, now that was some real personal hate in that election. In contrast, the debate I’ve witnessed over the last two years has been almost completely centered on ideas, mainly focusing on the size and shape of our ever-expanding government.
In trying to bolster their claim that the anger and division are unprecedented, the media would have you believe someone saying a bill should be “shot down” or a candidate “targeted” in the election is the first time ever politicians have spoken of shooting down a bill or targeting a candidate in the election.
The reason the media feeds people this lie is because outside of FoxNews, for the vast majority of the mainstream media, it’s THEIR GUY who holds the presidency and their party who until this month had complete control of Congress. Ironic that the same mainstream media whose hearts would be with rioters protesting Vietnam, Iraq or even the WTO would now describe a peaceful gathering of Tea Party protesters WITHOUT A SINGLE ARREST as an ANGRY MOB. LOL.
So for the liberals whose mindset could once have been summed up in a two-word bumper sticker like “Question Authority”, the liberal mantra now seems to be, “DO NOT QUESTION.” Do not question the size and shape of your almighty government or we will call you a RACIST, an EXTREMIST or a TERRORIST.
The mainstream media already had it’s collective mind made up that they would make the headlines about TEA PARTY RAGE and the initial reports took pains to underscore how Giffords had won a contentious election against a TEA PARTY candidate. Once details on the guy started coming in, like a monkey trying to pound a square peg into a round hole, the mainstream media kept trying to force the narrative to fit.
News reports picked up on a classmate’s twitter feed, quoting her as saying the shooter was “a pot smoker” and an army reject, LEAVING OUT THE FACT THAT SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS “VERY LIBERAL” AND “LEFT-WING”. They carefully skipped over that part of it. The Associated Press tried to leave the impression that he was a tea partier by saying he was “obsessed with the American flag” WHEN THE VIDEO SHOWED HIM BURNING AN AMERICAN FLAG. Oh yes, let’s leave out that critical bit of reporting, the fact that he was BURNING an American flag, because that doesn’t fit the tea party profile, so we’ll just say he was “obsessed” with the American flag.
Loner? Yes. Societal Reject? Yes. Batshit moonbeam crazy? Definitely. Product of an unprecedented level of discord in our politics? That's ludicrous.
So when it’s finally undeniable that a guy who lists the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books no longer fits the “crazy Glenn Beck follower” profile the mainstream media was so desperately hoping for, when it was clear he belonged not to the Tea Party, but the Bat Shit Crazy Party, the mainstream media was then forced to take a different approach. They tried to pin the blame on the Tea Party in a new way by forcing the narrative that it’s the “unprecedented level of discord” that’s to blame (how dare those tea partiers question our benevolent leaders!) as if there really could be something new under the sun, as if protesting the government NOW is somehow different than when they themselves were protesting the government in the past. The only difference between now and the past is, for the vast majority of the mainstream media, protesting the government now means protesting THEIR beloved president.
There is no unprecedented level of discord. It’s a media invented lie, and I think they know it’s a lie, because surely they teach history to journalism majors.
Fact is, it’s the same sort of crazy that reared it’s ugly head in just about every other era, just the same as it was with the lunatic “disgruntled job seeker” who killed Garfield in 1881, the anarchist nut who killed McKinley in 1901, the loser who couldn’t fit in anywhere so he decided to kill Kennedy in 1963 and all the crazies of the failed attempts before, inbetween and after. *
Don’t believe media’s attempts to blame the horror in Arizona on the lie that we live in times of unprecedented political discord. The mainstream media just hates the fact that anyone would dare question THEIR president.
* I leave out John Wilkes Booth because he may have been the only American presidential assassin who probably would have failed the crazy test. He supported an evil institution of slavery, his heart was filled with hate, but he’s the one of the entire bunch who didn’t seem certifiably crazy.