...the good ole days... when opposition to the President, comparisons to Hitler and even overt death threats were seen to be... something other than racism or bigotry or extremism by the elite?
10. Posted by
914 | March 31, 2010 2:00 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
914:
"Dissent is no longer "patriotic" because 'things are different now'."
Well weve all lived under the heavy boot of socialism aka soft tyranny for a year now! HOW DOES IT FEEL AMERICA? Do we go on accepting this BS??/ Or do we give them the BOOTS in November? ha ha ha
10. Posted by
914 | March 31, 2010 2:00 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
13. Posted by
Chip | March 31, 2010 2:07 PM | Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
Chip:
You would think, that with all the whining our left leaning friends here at wizbang have been doing recently, about us on the right condemning the "extremists violent element in the right wing" that they would be first to come to this post and vehemently condemn the views in this video.
You'd like to think that, but you'd be wrong.
13. Posted by
Chip | March 31, 2010 2:07 PM |
Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
The reason libs cannot see that their own hate filled and violent elements are wrong. They are unable to see anything from anyone else's point of view. They are unable to get out f their own head intellectually and try to see how the other side sees things.
Conservatives and libertarians don't appear o have the same problem.
This does a good job of explaining the irrational adherence to ideology that obama has. No matter how bad things get his answer is move further left. He is mentally incapable of seeing things in any other way.
15. Posted by
jim m | March 31, 2010 5:39 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
17. Posted by
WildWillie | March 31, 2010 7:11 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
WildWillie:
Wow! How about the one lady about 4 mins. in saying there "has to be something else besides elections".
I truly believe the left side of the spectrum is plain nuts and the left MSM fed that hatred. But now, no-no, we can't do that. What utter low lifes. ww
17. Posted by
WildWillie | March 31, 2010 7:11 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
18. Posted by
914 | March 31, 2010 7:24 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
914:
Whats worse... Not being able to annunciate "Newquulurr" Or not knowing how many states are in the U.S.?
To Harvard idiots like Barry and the golddigger, as long as somebody else pays thier way, they are the most thoughtful self obsessed pieces of shit this side of Manson.
18. Posted by
914 | March 31, 2010 7:24 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren't like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect to class, these schools are largely--indeed increasingly--homogeneous...
At the same time, because these schools tend to cultivate liberal attitudes, they leave their students in the paradoxical position of wanting to advocate on behalf of the working class while being unable to hold a simple conversation with anyone in it...
But it isn't just a matter of class. My education taught me to believe that people who didn't go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren't worth talking to, regardless of their class. I was given the unmistakable message that such people were beneath me. We were "the best and the brightest," as these places love to say, and everyone else was, well, something else: less good, less bright. I learned to give that little nod of understanding, that slightly sympathetic "Oh," when people told me they went to a less prestigious college.
...
I also never learned that there are smart people who aren't "smart." The existence of multiple forms of intelligence has become a commonplace, but however much elite universities like to sprinkle their incoming classes with a few actors or violinists, they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic. While this is broadly true of all universities, elite schools, precisely because their students (and faculty, and administrators) possess this one form of intelligence to such a high degree, are more apt to ignore the value of others. One naturally prizes what one most possesses and what most makes for one's advantages. But social intelligence and emotional intelligence and creative ability, to name just three other forms, are not distributed preferentially among the educational elite. The "best" are the brightest only in one narrow sense. One needs to wander away from the educational elite to begin to discover this.
In at least one case, I can think of a graduate of Columbia and Harvard who completely fits the point of this article... especially the part in it about how once you're in you can't hardly flunk out. (It'd still be very interesting to see Obama's transcripts. What sort of grades DID he get?)
But Obama DOES have one very emblematic trait of the 'Elite'. The folks who can't outrank him or rank with him education-wise, aren't even worth considering.
20. Posted by
JLawson | March 31, 2010 8:11 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
21. Posted by
jim m | March 31, 2010 8:37 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
jim m:
It took me just 3 months to hear a conversation amongst college bound HS seniors where this disdain for anyone who attends a non-Ivy League school was apparent.
But what I have found more striking is that when you see the large numbers of local students who get into these universities they really aren't all that special. They are really no different from a Northwestern or a University of Chicago except for that incredible arrogance.
21. Posted by
jim m | March 31, 2010 8:37 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
23. Posted by
Bruce Henry | March 31, 2010 11:16 PM | Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
Bruce Henry:
Where's the footage of Al Gore telling these guys that they are Real Americans who should put GOP Congressmen "in the crosshairs" before they can "destroy America as we know it?"
You must have left off the part where prominent Democratic politicians egg these guys on with words like "watering the tree of liberty" and "totalitarian." And where the House Minority Leader of the time claims that Bush is leading the country to "Armageddon."
Oh, and remember that time that Bush was addressing a joint session of Congress and a Democrat yelled "You lie!" in the middle of his speech? Good times, huh?
Both sides have nutjobs, Rick. The difference is, prominent Congressional Democrats (and former VP candidates) didn't encourage this kind of rhetoric. GOP Congressmen (and a former VP candidate) are not only encouraging it, they're participating.
23. Posted by
Bruce Henry | March 31, 2010 11:16 PM |
Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
27. Posted by
olsoljer | April 1, 2010 9:55 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
olsoljer:
Re post #20
After all these years, someone has exactly put their finger on it......."they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic."
That's why we are in such a freakin mess, you can analyze all you want, and the answer is most likely PERFECTLY correct. But this is not a perfect world so the answer isn't worth shit. Fortunately most of us "unwashed hordes" practice RATIONAL THINKING. (And will reflect that in November)
27. Posted by
olsoljer | April 1, 2010 9:55 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
BH - "Oh, and remember that time that Bush was addressing a joint session of Congress and a Democrat yelled "You lie!" in the middle of his speech? Good times, huh?"
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." -Senator Joe Biden
Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis." -Senator Hillary Clinton
"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." - Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)
"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" - Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers
"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." - Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights
"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." - Rev. Al Sharpton
Good times huh BH?
31. Posted by
Marc | April 1, 2010 5:02 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
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Comments (31)
Steve' where'd you get that... (Below threshold)1. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 12:15 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Steve' where'd you get that funky parka?
1. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 12:15 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 12:15
2. Posted by Tango | March 31, 2010 12:25 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Post Sept ads bonanza.
2. Posted by Tango | March 31, 2010 12:25 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 12:25
3. Posted by Speller | March 31, 2010 12:39 PM | Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
I remember the W. Bush era as though it were yesterday.
Actually, the same thing happened during the Reagan era, which I remember well, too.
Leftists are haters.
Well Democrats, I hate you back.
Turnabout is fair play, says I.
3. Posted by Speller | March 31, 2010 12:39 PM |
Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 12:39
4. Posted by Eric | March 31, 2010 12:52 PM | Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
They're all racists. They only hate Bush because of his skin color.
4. Posted by Eric | March 31, 2010 12:52 PM |
Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 12:52
5. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 1:11 PM | Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
"They're all racists. They only hate Bush because of his skin color."
That and his mispronunciation of "nookuler"..
5. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 1:11 PM |
Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 13:11
6. Posted by Eric | March 31, 2010 1:17 PM | Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
"That and his mispronunciation of "nookuler".."
That also might explain why Jimmy Carter lost in 1980. He prounounced it the same way.
6. Posted by Eric | March 31, 2010 1:17 PM |
Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 13:17
7. Posted by GarandFan | March 31, 2010 1:38 PM | Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Dissent is no longer "patriotic" because 'things are different now'.
7. Posted by GarandFan | March 31, 2010 1:38 PM |
Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 13:38
8. Posted by Cheney W. Halliburton | March 31, 2010 1:39 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
I like to go birdwatching with a pair of binuculars.
8. Posted by Cheney W. Halliburton | March 31, 2010 1:39 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 13:39
9. Posted by Wayne | March 31, 2010 1:41 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Which is worst than Obama's mispronunciation of corpsman?
9. Posted by Wayne | March 31, 2010 1:41 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 13:41
10. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 2:00 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
"Dissent is no longer "patriotic" because 'things are different now'."
Well weve all lived under the heavy boot of socialism aka soft tyranny for a year now! HOW DOES IT FEEL AMERICA? Do we go on accepting this BS??/ Or do we give them the BOOTS in November? ha ha ha
10. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 2:00 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 14:00
11. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 2:03 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
I left the 2nd paragraph out, cause I did not want little stevie to shit his britches on grandma's favorite chair.
11. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 2:03 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 14:03
12. Posted by Michael Laprarie | March 31, 2010 2:05 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Wow, I saw Jesus at 1:20.
12. Posted by Michael Laprarie | March 31, 2010 2:05 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 14:05
13. Posted by Chip | March 31, 2010 2:07 PM | Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
You would think, that with all the whining our left leaning friends here at wizbang have been doing recently, about us on the right condemning the "extremists violent element in the right wing" that they would be first to come to this post and vehemently condemn the views in this video.
You'd like to think that, but you'd be wrong.
13. Posted by Chip | March 31, 2010 2:07 PM |
Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 14:07
14. Posted by Cheney W. Halliburton | March 31, 2010 4:01 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
14. Posted by Cheney W. Halliburton | March 31, 2010 4:01 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 16:01
15. Posted by jim m | March 31, 2010 5:39 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
I posted this link in the other thread but I think it is appropriate here to.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-should-conservatives-deal-with-the-lefts-disrespect-and-lack-of-empathy/
The reason libs cannot see that their own hate filled and violent elements are wrong. They are unable to see anything from anyone else's point of view. They are unable to get out f their own head intellectually and try to see how the other side sees things.
Conservatives and libertarians don't appear o have the same problem.
This does a good job of explaining the irrational adherence to ideology that obama has. No matter how bad things get his answer is move further left. He is mentally incapable of seeing things in any other way.
15. Posted by jim m | March 31, 2010 5:39 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 17:39
16. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 7:08 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
C'mon stevie, brag a little! You look great on camera!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
16. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 7:08 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 19:08
17. Posted by WildWillie | March 31, 2010 7:11 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Wow! How about the one lady about 4 mins. in saying there "has to be something else besides elections".
I truly believe the left side of the spectrum is plain nuts and the left MSM fed that hatred. But now, no-no, we can't do that. What utter low lifes. ww
17. Posted by WildWillie | March 31, 2010 7:11 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 19:11
18. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 7:24 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Whats worse... Not being able to annunciate "Newquulurr" Or not knowing how many states are in the U.S.?
To Harvard idiots like Barry and the golddigger, as long as somebody else pays thier way, they are the most thoughtful self obsessed pieces of shit this side of Manson.
18. Posted by 914 | March 31, 2010 7:24 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 19:24
19. Posted by jose | March 31, 2010 7:45 PM | Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
Yes, this is how farging stupid you imbeciles look to the rest of the nation.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100412/kim
Idiots.
19. Posted by jose | March 31, 2010 7:45 PM |
Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 19:45
20. Posted by JLawson | March 31, 2010 8:11 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
But Obama DOES have one very emblematic trait of the 'Elite'. The folks who can't outrank him or rank with him education-wise, aren't even worth considering.
20. Posted by JLawson | March 31, 2010 8:11 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 20:11
21. Posted by jim m | March 31, 2010 8:37 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
It took me just 3 months to hear a conversation amongst college bound HS seniors where this disdain for anyone who attends a non-Ivy League school was apparent.
But what I have found more striking is that when you see the large numbers of local students who get into these universities they really aren't all that special. They are really no different from a Northwestern or a University of Chicago except for that incredible arrogance.
21. Posted by jim m | March 31, 2010 8:37 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 20:37
22. Posted by Upset Old Guy | March 31, 2010 9:00 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
914, Re # 16. - remember D.J.'s second coded message, Soylent Steve?
22. Posted by Upset Old Guy | March 31, 2010 9:00 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 21:00
23. Posted by Bruce Henry | March 31, 2010 11:16 PM | Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
Where's the footage of Al Gore telling these guys that they are Real Americans who should put GOP Congressmen "in the crosshairs" before they can "destroy America as we know it?"
You must have left off the part where prominent Democratic politicians egg these guys on with words like "watering the tree of liberty" and "totalitarian." And where the House Minority Leader of the time claims that Bush is leading the country to "Armageddon."
Oh, and remember that time that Bush was addressing a joint session of Congress and a Democrat yelled "You lie!" in the middle of his speech? Good times, huh?
Both sides have nutjobs, Rick. The difference is, prominent Congressional Democrats (and former VP candidates) didn't encourage this kind of rhetoric. GOP Congressmen (and a former VP candidate) are not only encouraging it, they're participating.
23. Posted by Bruce Henry | March 31, 2010 11:16 PM |
Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 23:16
24. Posted by Upset Old Guy | March 31, 2010 11:21 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Bruce Henry, would you cry, "Fire" in a crowded theater if there actually was a fire in the theater?
24. Posted by Upset Old Guy | March 31, 2010 11:21 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 23:21
25. Posted by Bruce Henry | March 31, 2010 11:54 PM | Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
How Old are you, Upset Guy? Not still driving, are you?
25. Posted by Bruce Henry | March 31, 2010 11:54 PM |
Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
Posted on March 31, 2010 23:54
26. Posted by Tsar Nicholas II | April 1, 2010 12:06 AM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Accusing a liberal of being hypocritical is like accusing water of being wet.
26. Posted by Tsar Nicholas II | April 1, 2010 12:06 AM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on April 1, 2010 00:06
27. Posted by olsoljer | April 1, 2010 9:55 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Re post #20
After all these years, someone has exactly put their finger on it......."they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic."
That's why we are in such a freakin mess, you can analyze all you want, and the answer is most likely PERFECTLY correct. But this is not a perfect world so the answer isn't worth shit. Fortunately most of us "unwashed hordes" practice RATIONAL THINKING. (And will reflect that in November)
27. Posted by olsoljer | April 1, 2010 9:55 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 1, 2010 09:55
28. Posted by _Mike_ | April 1, 2010 10:24 AM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Bruce Henry:
Former Democrat Vice-Pres (Al Gore):
"He betrayed our country!!!! He played on our fears!!!!!" (SCREAMED at the top of his lungs)
Current Democrat Pres Obama (and proxies):
"Get in their face."
"Hit back twice as hard."
28. Posted by _Mike_ | April 1, 2010 10:24 AM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on April 1, 2010 10:24
29. Posted by Cheney W. Halliburton | April 1, 2010 10:30 AM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
29. Posted by Cheney W. Halliburton | April 1, 2010 10:30 AM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on April 1, 2010 10:30
30. Posted by 914 | April 1, 2010 11:29 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Accusing a liberal of being hypocritical is like accusing water of being wet"
Or accusing pope Barry of being about hope or change.. Ha ha ha ha ha
30. Posted by 914 | April 1, 2010 11:29 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on April 1, 2010 11:29
31. Posted by Marc | April 1, 2010 5:02 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
BH - "Oh, and remember that time that Bush was addressing a joint session of Congress and a Democrat yelled "You lie!" in the middle of his speech? Good times, huh?"
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." -Senator Joe Biden
Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis." -Senator Hillary Clinton
"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." - Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)
"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" - Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers
"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." - Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights
"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." - Rev. Al Sharpton
Good times huh BH?
31. Posted by Marc | April 1, 2010 5:02 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on April 1, 2010 17:02