Ahhh Democrats! You can always count on them to blow a gasket just when you need them.
Posted on 08/21/2004 2:15:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
They’re at it again, the right wing creeps who are happy to smear democrats, and even their own, like John McCain, are now one of their slimeballs, former Gov. Mark Racicot is suggesting that Kerry is losing it, that he’s wild-eyed, irresponsible.... Scott McClelland says Kerry is "losing his cool., should not be an excuse to lash out at the president with false and baseless attacks."
Atrios quotes Racicot describing Kerry."I think they have comepletely unhinged..." and suggests that they used the same strategies, in 2000 to attack John McCain and to suggest he was unstable.
This labeling of a healthy fight-back response, or healthy emotional expression is what they did and encouraged their surrogate media whores in the networks to do when they played, hundreds of times, the footage of Howard Dean, which we now know was bogus, with a false sound track.
For years, these sleazyoid right wingers have used thirty party organizations to attack from a distance. But now, the democrats, the left and progressives have outsmarted these whining, dirty-trickster liars. More money has been raised on the left than on the right. So all of a sudden,
the right wing is whining an calling legal 527 PACs that run ads "Shadowy organizations." Well geez, these lower than whale shit right wing liars invented the third party sponsored attack ads. Hell, Bush won the primary by allowing the same people funding and putting together the weasel liar swift boat attack ads to create ads attacking John McCain.
But I want to talk about the way toxic right wingers attempt to label, calssify, profile democrats as crazy, angry, upset, unstable, "wild-eyed" or manic.
You see it again and again.
There may even be a smidgeon of truth to it. But I see it from a different perspective. A major percentage of right wingers are repressed, control freaks. They not only want to be tight-assed, they want to control everyone else’s sphincters too.
In my world, expression of a reasonable range of emotion is good. It’s healthy. But the anal control freaks who seem to think they represent normal people have grabbed this idea that they can attack democrats who express emotion, and they can use suggestions that democrats are emotionally unstable, too easily angered, even crazy.
But let’s look at how these sphincter police control their presidential pep rallies. They only allow people who sign loyalty oaths in to see the president. The set up pathetic questions that pander to the fundies (fundamentalists) and extremists who make up the base of Bush’s re-election hopes. They encourage cheering when Bush bashes Kerry and when Bush or set-up questioners talk religious pablum/prattle. They are afraid to allow protesters, afraid to allow the un-decided, afraid to face hecklers. The main emotions the Bush people manifest are fake enthusiasm pumped up by fake stump question and answer groups, and.... fear, fear, fear and more fear.
The strange thing is that Bush and his people have been working fear for years-- to sell guns and resistance to gun control. to sell the fear of terrorism... and now it’s clear that under their sales strategy, under their use of fear to keep their base controlled, they are fearful. No, that’s not strong enough. They are gutless cowards. Bush in particular is apparently the most spineless of the bunch, afraid to face up to reporters, even crowds of ordinary Americans. I don’t know why his sycophants and fundie supporters see him as a strong leader, able to combat terrorism. He’s missing two basic ingredients of a strong leader-- the balls to face the people.
But it’s not just fear. Recently, an Irish reporter didn’t let up on him when he tried to evade her serious questions with weak banter. He was outraged and complained about her. Talk about fragile. Then, more recently, he was asked questions about his connections with Enron president Tom Ken Lay, and he got so angry he walked off the stage. A few days later, word in washington was that he was taking antidepressants and maybe tranquilizers.
So let’s talk about emotions. Kerry may be a bit justifiably pissed at Bush and his scum-sucking, lying Viet Nam vets who have sold out the honor of all veteran’s medals to take down Kerry for Bush’s and Karl Rove’s long time friend and funder Bob Perry, who’s primarily paying for the ads. I think that’s healthy. But Bush bouts of anger, his chronic no-balls attitude towards facing Americans who have something to say that he doesn’t want to hear makes him a big fat loser. I think this is something to tell the people you meet-- that Bush is a coward, that they are supporting a spineless coward, afraid to face the people, and while we’re at it, he’s the most hated and despised person in the history of the world.
The attacks on Kerry’s military record and his emotional health are good ol’ fashioned attack ad politics. Add that up with the constant barrage of lies and you have the primary strategy of the Bush campaign-- lies about Kerry, about the economy, about ecology and stepping on the souls of fundies who have been manipulated into a political corner with social wedge issues .
One presidential spokeswoman, Nicole Devenish, another blonde liar (Anne Coulter is one of many iconic vapid, lying, whorish blonde republican spokeswomen,) of the Bush/Cheney campaign, says that the Bush campaign is not even sure that the swift boat vets ad will help the Bush campaign. This, vapidly idiotic remark, of course is aimed at the handful of Bush-morons who have not yet learned that Fox is the official, approved Bush station. EvenLou Dobbs smirks and tells her he doesn’t think so.
But the talking heads for Bush aren’t trying to convince the anchors or the left. They’re working on the vulnerable independents, perhaps the ones who are themselves uncomfortable expressing emotion, perhaps those who don’t know the difference between hearty, energetic enthusiasm and manic insanity, between reasonable anger and intemperate childish impatience will support Bush. But more and more, all the machinations of the republican attack machine are being seen for what they are-- cynical, dishonest, expecting the least and worst from Americans.... But things are going to change.
This was written about eight hours before leaving, at 3:30 AM for a long needed, well deserved vacation. So I apologize for the nastiness and invective that I allowed into this article-- not to the targets of the invective, but to you the reader, if you found it too ugly, intense or aggressive. My vacation should soften my intensity and hopefully I’ll be back to my usual brilliant metaphors and analogies, instead of this base nastiness. But I do admit, it felt good. Damn, Cheney’s had a bad influence on me.
Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is editor of www.OpEdNews.Com living in Bucks County , PA. He also runs the Winter Brain Conference where Attention Deficit “disorder” or “difference” is a primary them of the meeting. You can find over 150 additional articles by Rob Kall at this Archive
Methinks the man doth protest too much, too profanely!
Round the bend, indeed!
Ahhh Democrats! You can always count on them to blow a gasket just when you need them.
Rob Kall is MMmeeLLllLltttTTiiinnnnnnggGGGGgggGGGggg!!!
Admittedly, this is a sidebar to the article, but really. Republican spokeswomen are lying & "whorish?"
Of course not, but to me it sounds like Ann might have grounds for damages for that one...
Oh, but the way--I saw that interview. The childish writer is just invoking wishful thinking. Bush was a gentleman, and invoked the wonderful bible verse of Luke 6:42--
"How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
It was perfect, and the reporter was speechless.
Indeed. This is the worst attempt at a professionally written opinion piece that I have read in some time. My assumption is that this is from someone's blog, and this certifiable lunatic didn't get paid for this crap. My guess is that in an alternate universe in which the Donkey Party was running a Himmler-Heydrich ticket, this guy would find something bad to say about Republicans all the same.
Jesus, what bilge!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I understand your concern, Mr. Kall. However your big disadvantage is that this is planet Earth.
Sticking jabs like this into a completely unrelated piece is the kind of rubbish I expect out if 8 yearolds on the playground. Kall needs professional help.
You know where their heads are, no wonder they have the anal fixation.
I get the feeling you have said all that needs saying about Kall & Co.
"I get the feeling that Rob Kall might indeed know a little something about emotional instability."
He definitely forgot to take his Prozac.
Also, Kall needs to obtain the services of a surgeon,
Why?
Kall needs to have some eyeholes implanted next to his belly button, so he can see out.
(Anne Coulter is one of many iconic vapid, lying, whorish blonde republican spokeswomen,)Sticking jabs like this into a completely unrelated piece is the kind of rubbish I expect out if 8 yearolds on the playground. Kall needs professional help.
Indeed! When we last saw Mr. Karr, he was holding court before his fellow liberals:
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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And how ironic that Kerry's daughter just received a Fulbright scholarship to study abroad........
The words were honest altho they were dishonest???????
This writer is a raving, illiterate maniac! He can't even string a complete sentence together properly--and people pay attention to him? Good grief!
-"...democrats as crazy, angry, upset, unstable, "wild-eyed" or manic.
You see it again and again. "-
Those are the only meaningful words in the entire piece. Why is it that lefties always "sound" about 22 years old when they write? They just can't exhibit maturity at any age.
It is easy to casually dismiss, as I myself have done countless times this political season, such dog-droppings as the one Mr. Kall has left on our doorstep. However, there is so much hatred, so much rage against conservatives contained in pieces like this that I honestly wonder what these people would do if they ever gained political power. They may not be able to spell "Gulag", but something tells me they'd gladly create one for all of us. (Makes me want to go to the range for a little target practice this rainy morning).
I'd love to hear from the poster as well as my fellow Freepers on this issue. It's really getting Helen Thomas out there.
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