Posted on 04/27/2013 12:51:45 AM PDT by neverdem
One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly. Take the brothers Tsarnaev, the incendiary end of a Chechen family that in very short time has settled aunts, uncles, sisters, and more across the map of North America from Massachusetts to New Jersey to my own home town of Toronto. Maybe your town has a Tsarnaev, too: There seems to be no shortage of them, except, oddly, back in Chechnya. The Tsarnaevs’...
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We’re more fatalistic about it: After Major Hasan gunned down 13 of his comrades and an unborn baby, General Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, assured us that it could have been a whole lot worse:
“What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.”
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America is the abortion mill of the developed world. In Western Europe, the state is yet squeamish enough to insist that the act be confined to twelve weeks (France) or 13 (Italy), with mandatory counseling (Germany), or up to 18 if approved by a government “commission” (Norway).
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We’re collapsing our own skulls here — the parameters in which we allow ourselves to think about abortion, welfare, immigration, terrorism, Islam shrink remorselessly, not least at the congressional level. Maybe if we didn’t collapse the skulls of so many black babies in Philadelphia, we wouldn’t need to import so many excitable young Chechens. But that’s thinking outside the box, and the box is getting ever smaller, like a nice, cozy cocoon in which we’re always warm and safe. Like — what’s the word? — a womb.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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Yes, the skull is collapsing.
One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly
Exactly!
Mark Steyn is exactly the kind of immigrant we need. We need more Mark Steyns and fewer undereducated, social services-consuming democrats. However, the immigration reform being considered will likely repel countless number of the former and bring us millions more of the latter.
“Newspeak”
Excellent article.
>>One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly.
Over and over and over, and we are unable to counter it effectively.
>>One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly.
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But that's the way its supposed to work, don't ya see, they are the Democrat (Marxist) farm team!
“What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.”
Diversity with intellignce is a good thing.
Diversity with ignorance is a bad thing..
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His concentration is on insightful views of important events and social issues. His work should focus more on the political views of celebrity experts, and furthering the agenda of the present administration.
He exhibits common sense. How he managed to slip by the bureaucrats and attain citizenship is a mystery to me. /S
Keeping us numb and dumb until thier ready
>>One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly.
Over and over and over, and we are unable to counter it effectively.
If you counter “it” you are acknowledging “it”. If you acknowledge “it” you are letting “it” know that “it” is a threat. If you simply “ignore” it and don’t debate “it”, “it” has no power over your life.
“One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly”
Zackly!
And using the term “mainstream media” when there is nothing mainstream about them only plays into their hands. The accurate term is the “Corrupt Liberal Media” with “Corrupt” being the operative word. Other handy terms are “presstitutes” instead of the press and “coverupage” instead of coverage.
The Corrupt Liberal Media is the life blood of the left and if the above terms became household words it would hit home with the presstitutes in the 5th Estate.
‘’One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly””
When I talked about the conservative BLUE states some moron came along and insisted that I call them red states.
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