Posted on 11/07/2013 12:38:04 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
There you go, making me laugh when I'm trying so hard to rage.
It must be that “cognitive dissonance” their trying so hard to hang on conservatives.
It must be that “cognitive dissonance” their trying so hard to hang on conservatives.
Oops! “they’re”
I’m sure that there is some psychological theory about why I made a spelling error...
CC
I bet these fellows don’t know a Tea Party conservative.
Yes! Exactly.
Wow... that is total projection. That is the exact description of the liberal/leftist mindset.
NEW YORK—Bill Moyers has apologized to former U.S. Interior Secretary James Watt for referencing a quote, which has been wrongly attributed to Watt for years, during a speech Moyers gave last December upon receiving an award from Harvard Medical School. The text of the speech has since appeared in several newspapers and on numerous Web sites.
“I said I had made a mistake in quoting him without checking with him,” Moyers told E&P today. “I should have done my homework.”
Moyers, a well-known journalist and recently departed host of NOW on PBS, said he phoned Watt yesterday and faxed him a letter stating his regrets. Moyers wrongly referred to Watt during a speech in New York on Dec. 1, after Moyers received an award from Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment.
During the speech, Moyers said, “Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, ‘after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back’.”
They always start with the assumption that liberals have the “correct” point of view and go from there. I love how they think conservatives are the authoritarians and liberals are independent thinkers who don’t have “leaders.” (Unlike conservatives who all get their views from Fox and Rush). The one thing I agreed with is that conservatives have a lower tolerance for that which disgusts them.
Their discussion about children was creepy.
I’m sure they saw nothing wrong with all the children groups singing to Obama....
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Parents who want to discipline their children....
And especially the part where they ask study subjects about how they raise their kids - it will be a way to learn about their politics without them catching on to how we interpret it.
I would bet that they would run in fear if a nice person introduced themselves as a TEA Party member.
Can science explain why libtards are governed by emotion in wanting to provide healthcare to all and then squeal like little piggies when the bill for other people’s free stuff shows up on their “improved” expensive healthcare plan?
Good grief. I’d never heard that.
Is there an executive summary? That article gives me a headache. All I can think of when reading the intro to the interview is how utterly wrong the premise is: “The Republican Brain: the Science of Why They Deny Science – and Reality”
The lefties are the ones denying science! As RR once said, you can’t reason somebody out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. Labeling people as imbeciles or insane worked well for their heroes like Hitler and Stalin, too.
And the “giggle” they had about “intelligent” conservatives was typically adolescent. They seem to have stunted intellects - must be from hanging out at those institutions of higher learning and never holding down a real job.
I'm not sure about that. Have you seen how many separate vacays they take? When he has time off, he'd rather spend it on the links than with his kids.
So what we have here is Bill Moyers & Company, a journalist working for Mother Jones, brought to us via Salon, all rolled up into one hopelessly earnest, brow-furrowing orgy of amateur psychiatry as rife with projection as a disco glitter-ball. Good grief, the cast alone is worth a giggle.
We are informed by this liberal clown car that opposing a fellow who wants to impose socialist medicine on a country by pure political bludgeoning, forcibly suppresses dissent, locks the citizens out of facilities they've paid for any time he damn well pleases, collects private communications, financial transactions, health and other personal data on every citizen and places it into a central repository to be exploited for political advantage, abuses his control of federal tax authority against anyone who might be organizing dissent; in short, to oppose this arrogant, lying, despicable, autocratic wretch is "authoritarian", and their own unmistakable tendency toward fawning, boot-licking, and fainting in ecstasy every time Dear Leader throws an imperial glance in their direction is somehow "independent".
Speaking the English language to these people is useless because there is no common vocabulary. The basic disconnect is not an insensitivity to suffering as posited here but a conviction that it is not the government's function to address it; that, in fact, the government tends to increase suffering rather than ameliorate it. This is really not difficult.
Give it up, folks. There is no mental pathology here for you to work into that ridiculous set of false premises and hysterical appeals to emotion over reason that constitutes the liberal worldview. You get to choose truth or narrative, and you've chosen narrative. We're not ever going to come to any agreement. We're not even going to have a meaningful dialogue. For evidence of the latter I point to the article above. You simply can't make that fit intelligent discourse.
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