Sarah “The Schnook of the North” Palin. Listen to your own advise: ‘Stop making stuff up!’
What’s the old adage? Lincoln, wasn’t it” ‘It’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re a fool than open it and remove all doubt.’
‘Nuff said!
Thanks for starting my day off right Maha!
Digby, over at Hullabaloo, had a Tom tomorrow cartoon yesterday that just destroyed the health care hecklers and “birthers”. As I posted over there, progressives should never lose their sense of humor or their ability to laugh st the other side. Humor can be a powerful weapon and conservatives are clearly at a disadvantage, as they have no sense of humor.
Or, you could cry. This meditation/lament is from David Michael Green’s My 1933 Nightmare:
The events of recent decades have been ominous.
The events of recent weeks more so.
It’s not so much, I guess, the visage of obese, over-fifty, white men angrily wrecking even the tattered remnants of the democratic process in this country that is most disturbing. We’ve seen that before.
I think it’s the willful ignorance translated into incoherent, and in fact ironically self-defeating, rage that I find most discouraging. Can we really live in a country populated by so many fools, people who can so readily, proudly and belligerently be made into tools of their own destruction? Can the greatest political, economic, cultural and military power on the world’s stage possibly be so incredibly backward at its core?
Consider this passage: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
These words were written by a person who might well now be vice-president of the United States, had the economic crash of our time come a few months later…
So, okay, maybe that horror scenario is not so novel. After all, Nixon was in the White House for six years. And what was George W. Bush, really, other than Sarah Palin in trousers?
But what seems to me new about this moment is the political road rage, the thuggishness of masses of Americans who not only are venting about insane nonsense, not only are undermining their own interests acting as marionettes of laughing corporate predators, and not only are taking down democracy around themselves in order to do so, but are in fact also destroying the entire Enlightenment project of rationality-based management of public affairs as well. The single most frightening characteristic of this movement, to my mind, is that fact that no amount of evidence or logic could persuade these folks to abandon the lies they’ve attached themselves to, like a pit bull clamped to the leg of some poor SOB’s pants….
“conservatives are clearly at a disadvantage, as they have no sense of humor.”
That’s debatable.. Rush Limbaugh’s little song Obama the Magic Negro was hailed by conservatives as an hilarious and knee slapping bit of humor.
Swami,
To them all you need to do is start off the joke, “So, these two Rabbi’s, a “n”, a Spic, three dykes, and two fags walk into a biker bar…”
They will wet themselves. No punchline needed. Just the premise…
Sarah “The Schnook of the North” Palin. Listen to your own advise: ‘Stop making stuff up!’
What’s the old adage? Lincoln, wasn’t it” ‘It’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re a fool than open it and remove all doubt.’
‘Nuff said!
Thanks for starting my day off right Maha!
Digby, over at Hullabaloo, had a Tom tomorrow cartoon yesterday that just destroyed the health care hecklers and “birthers”. As I posted over there, progressives should never lose their sense of humor or their ability to laugh st the other side. Humor can be a powerful weapon and conservatives are clearly at a disadvantage, as they have no sense of humor.
Or, you could cry. This meditation/lament is from David Michael Green’s My 1933 Nightmare:
“conservatives are clearly at a disadvantage, as they have no sense of humor.”
That’s debatable.. Rush Limbaugh’s little song Obama the Magic Negro was hailed by conservatives as an hilarious and knee slapping bit of humor.
Swami,
To them all you need to do is start off the joke, “So, these two Rabbi’s, a “n”, a Spic, three dykes, and two fags walk into a biker bar…”
They will wet themselves. No punchline needed. Just the premise…