P.J. O'Rourke: 'We are seeing the sad end of liberalism'

American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2011 | Rick Moran

[Hotlanta Mike]

In a mostly serious, spot on analysis of New York Times reporting on the Tucson shootings, P.J. O'Rourke wonders if the kind of liberalism promoted by the Times and others hasn't outlived its usefulness in our political debates.

Writing in The Weekly Standard, O'Rourke excoriates several Times writers for their obvious biases before getting to the meat of his critique:

A reaction so disproportionate and immaterial to a news story by a news organization is indicative of trouble in the body politic​-​trouble almost as severe as that which the Times claims the Giffords shooting indicates. I worry that in the tremors and hysteria of the Times we're seeing the sad end of liberalism.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Its institutionalized insanity ...dressed up as education.

[Citizen X_Area 51]

My all-time favorite:

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child —
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
— P.J. O'Rourke

[SW6906]

Love this passage:

"Editorialized the Times: “It is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats.” Interesting how a few small changes would make that sentence appall the Times as much as the Times appalls me: “It is legitimate to hold Muslims and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced 9/11.”"

[MrB]

It doesn’t matter how logically you can think,
if you begin from a false set of assumptions,

you can procede absolutely flawlessly from there,
and arrive at

2 + 2 = wombat. (ie, nonsense)

[oyez]

Anyone notice how the word ‘Tort’ hasn’t come within 4000 miles of the healtcare debate?

That was well planned ahead of time. According to Dr. Dean, they didn't want to cross the trial lawyers.

[RobinOfKingston]

Sad? Not really! I’m ecstatic about it.

Be careful what you wish for. We live in a bi-polar universe. Up-down, left-right, hot-cold, sweet-sour ... etc.

If "liberalism" disappears, something will take its place in opposition to normalcy. It may be better to allow a crippled, ineffectual shadow of its once-raging and destructive self to continue to exist. Schumer chained in place in Times Square ... so to speak ... snarling and spitting at passers-by. Parents passing with their children, warning them, "Watch out, son, don't get too close. The chuck can still hurt you."

[Auntie Mame]

Thanks for the link. What strikes me after reading PJO’s article, and I hadn’t realized it before, is that the libs are not necessarily scared so much of Sarah Palin as they are of the Tea Party. This makes me smile.

[Steely Tom]

I will only believe Liberalism is dead when its last practitioners flee the country for Sweden ahead of the Lynch Mob.

Liberalism will never "be dead" because Liberalism is Death.

[jmacusa]

I’m not. Libs are going to be around forever, like crab grass and toothaches. As long as the colleges and the government schools keep indoctrinating them they’ll be liberals aplenty, unfortunatly..