Antiestablishment radicalism on the right has been stoked by the reactionary hysteria of the establishment spokesmen like Frank Rich.
Yeah, because more and more evidence is coming out that the loon was a lefty, his "ideology" is suddenly something to be ignored, or somehow twisted into right-wing aligned.
But the DNC map was powerless and weak.
Palin's map was dark magic. It infected the brains of a guy who never saw it and didn't care about politics. He went on a murderous rampage, entirely under the power of his evil puppettress.
And people who read the NYT consider themselves wise and well-informed.
Either Rich and the Left know full well there is a disconnect between their actions and the evidence OR they all suffer from a kind of collective insanity regarding this issue. Normally I would argue against a collective insanity just because it isn't likely that large numbers of irrational people would coincidentally come to the same conclusion. But that does seem to be the case here.
That said, I would suggest that we take that conclusion one step further and speculate that instead of insanity, we are looking at a kind of collective or mass hypnosis...and not insanity.
While many of us knew that Obama was using neurolinguistic programming in his 2008 campaign, I have to wonder when and how he planted the post-hypnotic suggestions for this kind of behavior.
Normally I would think this entire proposition would be a silly stretch of logic, but, in this case, there is simply no other explanation.
As an additional point, if the Obama team planted post-hypnotic suggestions such that a certain event would trigger a certain pre-planned response (like blaming conservative vitriol in this case), there is an argument to be made that the Obama team also planned and carried out the event that would trigger such a response.
Frank Rich: Living proof of what happens when you throw out the baby and keep the bathwater.
I have yet to see the level of hatred expressed by the left just a few short years ago. There is no need to go back 40+ years to find the left awash in their hateful, violent rhetoric. There is nothing Palin or the Tea Party has done that would come close to the vile slime thrown by Democrat politicians the their supporter throughout the 8 years George Bush was President.
Yet merely posting a map with a cross-hair sight image is enough to set the liberals into fits of indignation. Any criticism of Obama and the Democrat's efforts to transform our country into a Marxist utopia is equated to inciting violence and terrorist actions. The left and their media mouthpieces have gone mad with their hatred of Palin and any who dare to oppose their absolute control of our lives.
According to Obabma, we need to tone down the political rhetoric. We need to all just get along while they are free to wage class warfare and rewrite the Constitution beginning with the 1st Amendment. We are still a free people who do not need to be led by a group of elitist snobs who think they can tell us how to behave.
Step one for evil liberals is to 'deal with this issue with compassion ( liberals lack compassion - it's just a lie to cover the truth - raw manipulation) by saving all of us from the mentally ill. There are laws on the books now to deal with the Loughners of the world - cities and states don't use them because it cost money. What liberals are trying to do is politicize mental illness so conservatives can be defined as mentally ill for not agreeing with liberal ideas. Being against homosexuals is very close to being considered a mental illness even now. Wanting to have a gun in your home will be class as 'mentally ill' by liberals if they can use this crisis to achieve their goals in new ways.
Totalitarian first world cultures have used this tactic to take out opponents. Germany, USSR, etc... countries that are past the easy point of taking opponents out back and shooting them ( like Iran or North Korea ) have found 'mental illness' to be the tactic of choice.
Dems do NOT have good intentions... ever.
Frank Rich = corpulent restaurant critic = cafeteria view of the world
Hey Frank, you dumb as a bag of rocks, Rich I’ve got two words for you. Eric Fuller.
We expect nothing better from Rich but to have the formerly trusted people on Fox continuing to attack Sarah for daring to defend herself is beyond the pale.
Frankie! Set the bong down and step away.
Dem, Progressive, and libtard ranks are utterly filled with delusional, blathering idiots. =.=
This sounds very similar to Dan Rather’s reluctant and partial walk-back when it became clear that the Bush National Guard story that he aired was a total hoax.
And, it was clear that Rather launched that fabricated story and outright lie about 6 days before a national Presidential election in an attempt to throw the election. He deserved more than just being fired by CBS.
Uh-huh. Sound like anybody you know, Frank?
Maybe somebody who writes for the New York Times and has a name that rhymes with Rank Frich?