GOP Convention 'Colossal Hoax,' Party 'Trades in Human Horridness,' New York Times Columnists Say

NewsBusters.org ^ | September 3, 2012 | Clay Waters

[Kaslin]

Sunday brought an overload of New York Times columnists, including former reporters, calling the previous week's Republican National Convention a celebration of lies and extremism on abortion and gay marriage.

Times columnist and former White House correspondent Maureen Dowd was given more room than usual to rant about Paul Ryan and the Republicans in her Sunday column, "Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball." After calling the Republican Convention "a colossal hoax," she said of Paul Ryan's speech, "the altar boy altered reality, conjuring up a world so compassionate, so full of love-thy-neighbor kindness and small-town goodness, that you had to pinch yourself to remember it was a shimmering mirage, a beckoning pool of big, juicy lies...." Dowd concluded that "....Ryan’s lies and Romney’s shape-shifting are so easy to refute that they must have decided a Hail Mary pass of artifice was better than their authentic ruthless worldview."

Former White House correspondent Frank Bruni's Sunday column, "Excluded from Inclusion," was all about how he and his fellow gays didn't see themselves in Tampa:

What the Republicans painstakingly constructed here was meant to look like the biggest of tents. And still they couldn’t spare so much as a sleeping bag’s worth of space for the likes of me....you certainly didn’t see anyone openly gay on the stage in Tampa. More to the point, you didn’t hear mention of gays and lesbians. Scratch that: Mike Huckabee, who has completed a ratings-minded transformation from genial pol to dyspeptic pundit, made a derisive reference to President Obama’s support for same-sex marriage. We were thus allowed a fleeting moment inside the tent, only to be flogged and sent back out into the cold.

Keeping to the Times's theme of Republican extremism on social conservative issues, Nicholas Kristof's Sunday column found only one party extreme on abortion: "Scaring the Voters in the Middle." The text box: "Amid Republicans extremism on abortion, where does Romney stand?"

[Kaslin]

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[Arm_Bears]

The convention must have hit a home run the way the Libs are going on about it.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Freaks.

[ogen hal]

The pinhead lib’s are a laugh riot...always good for a laugh. Losers. Bwahahahahahahaha!

[Yosemitest]

The Libs can't stand the truth, because it reveals their destructive ways.

Call it "THE EMPTY CHAIR CONVENTION."

Rick Klein, Senior Washington Editor ABC News, just tweeted this photo of the stage the Democrat convention will be held on.

... Klein's photo reveals screens that serve as television backdrop behind whomever's speaking -- and ... Democrats intend to show an artificial sea of faces in order to make the convention hall look a whole lot fuller than it might be.

...Look closely, they have three tiers of adoring, enraptured Obama-worshippers at the ready should they need them.

There's talk and concern amongst Democrats and their Media Palace Guards that ... President Obama might not be able to fill the stadium. There's reports that Democrat operatives have been reduced to handing out free tickets to the event at bars -- in a frantic last minute attempt to fill seats.

... Long before Clint Eastwood forever branded Obama an "empty chair," the President's been plagued by ... no longer being able to pack a house. ...

...Team Obama's been forced to save face and not risk a repeat of that calamity with the hilarious spin that President Greek Columns has now chosen to campaign before smaller, more intimate crowds.

... Thankfully Obama need not worry about filling his convention hall. We live in a magic age of illusion, one manufactured by Democrats and their media allies who constantly tell us a failed president currently sitting with an approval rating of 43% is still popular.

... If the people won't come to see The One, The One will simply ... manufacture his own adoring multitudes.

This article was edited to fit the 300-word requirement for "an excerpt".
You might want to read the full article here.

More information:

Dems Giving Away Tickets to Obama's Speech By Patch Staff, August 31, 2012.

Obama Launches Campaign in Empty Arena by Alexander Marlow , 5 May 2012.

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval

Rick Klein, Senior Washington Editor of ABC News, just tweeted out this photo

[matt04]

Is Maureen Dowd Necessary?

[tanknetter]

Maureen Dowd is cited. Rules, folks, rules!

[blueunicorn6]

“And sent back into the cold”?.....in Tampa?.......Florida?.....what an idiot. He writes for the new York times? Somewhere, there is a cement wall crying out for the spray paint can wisdom of Bruni.

[Vaquero]

The horridness is the Dhimmicrat Plantation that takes healthy viable human beings and terms them into welfare cockroaches

[blueunicorn6]

Hey Maureen! Your brother Elwood is looking for you! He wants you to bring a chair for his rabbit to sit on!

[EEGator]

[EEGator]

[EEGator]

[StAnDeliver]

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is a tale. Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

[Yardstick]

It amazes me that a prominent columnist in America's flagship newspaper can be so over-the-top wrong/crazy about, you know, everything.

[profit_guy]

[Windcatcher]

When Mike left her something clearly broke in her mind and the damage was irreparable.

[Fightin Whitey]

Imagine how hideously unhappy the dowdy Ms. Dowd must be to have transformed her once ordinary, even presentable face into such a hideously unhappy mask.

Imagine the poison she secretes to her shrink.

[profit_guy]

That was the best picture I could find of her. This was the second best:

[RKBA Democrat]

The gop “extreme” on abortion? You mean like wanting to get rid of it and actually doing something to accomplish that end? We should be so lucky.

The left is even more unglued than usual. They really need to quit fooling with the contents of grandmas medicine cabinet.

[Fightin Whitey]

Mmm-mmm-mmm! Who couldn’t wait to get home for that??

lol

[goldstategop]

You're NEVER going to hear New York columnists remind us of how Far Left and out of the mainstream the Democrats are.

"Extremism" is only a term reserved exclusively for Republicans.

I'm no fan of Mitt Happens but you gotta feel sorry for him. People on the other side stoop so low they can't even give Republicans credit for holding a good convention!

Then again, its another reminder the MSM is in the tank for Obama and will be through Election Day.

[Cronos]

“altar boy... hail mary..” — sounds like one of the fr RF mono-topics should have written that for the DNC...

[UCANSEE2]

(Thanks for posting the article)

BRUNI: “ We were thus allowed a fleeting moment inside the tent, only to be flogged and sent back out into the cold.”

Well... you demanded the ‘flogging’ part. You act like those who complain about the mud after they prayed for rain.

[UCANSEE2]

I hear the DEMS want to prove commitment, so they are still planning to FILL the STADIUM.

[MrB]

So, because our ideology doesn’t celebrate homosexuality, promiscuity, and killing babies,

we’re “horrid”?

I’ll take “horrid” and let Someone Else judge me.