Posted on 09/02/2015 10:32:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Today we'll talk about how to write a New York Times op-ed in 45 minutes or less. We all like labor-saving tips!
The main point to keep in mind is that your op-ed is not intended to elucidate, educate or amuse. These are status pieces meant to strike a pose, signaling that you are a good person.
After reading your op-ed, readers should feel the warm sensation of being superior to other people -- those who don't agree with you. The idea is to be in fashion. It's all about attitude, heavy on eye-rolling.
(1) Psychoanalyze conservatives as paranoid and insecure. Liberals -- who, to a man, have been in psychoanalysis -- enjoy putting people they disagree with on the operating table and performing a vivisection, as if conservatives are some lower life form.
Thus, for example, an op-ed in this week's Times by Arthur Goldwag was titled "Putting Donald Trump on the Couch."
This should not be confused with Justin A. Frank's 2004 book, "Bush on the Couch," offering a detailed diagnosis of Bush's alleged mental disorders.
Nor should it be confused with a column that went up on Daily Kos the day after I wrote this column, psychoanalyzing me. (I'm just glad I snubbed the guy in high school.)
Goldwag explained: "Mr. Trump's angry certainty ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
I thought there were only three steps:
Lie.
Lie.
Lie again.
by formerly part-time conservative Ann “eat babies for Trump” Coulter
Huh? I thought her name was Ann “queers are cool!” Coulter.
Whoa! Annie never talked about Mitty like that!
IIRC, Ann’s endorsement of Romney in 2012 came across as a reluctant decision of the best of a bunch of bad choices. And then did her best to be enthusiastic about it. At least that’s how it came across to me.
I don't have links to all the threads, but Ann Coulter was all-in for Mitty ... and EMBARRASSINGLY SO ...
And before Trump appeared on the scene, she was pimping for a THIRD run for Mitt?!
Yes; I was just talking about her initial endorsement for him. After that, it came across me as sticking with her brand, which is loud and bombastic and self-assured. After that, I dunno.
But that’s just what I saw. *Shrugs*
Well done, Ann.
I've been saying this for years. Liberals have all their opinions delivered to them every day by the NY Times.
The reason they were so panic stricken when Jon Stewart went off the air, is that now they have nobody to deliver their daily snark of derision. Bill Maher just doesn't get the laughs.
This column highlights the very reason on that the Commie left incessantly carps on the ‘Mental health issue’.
Let’s be blunt here - they marinate in their socialist echo chamber convinced of their righteousness of their cause. They think that Marxism is the preeminent and ‘fair’ way of a society should be run - by them of course. And since Marx developed his perfect theory of economics and politics that is the proper way of thinking and being.
Ergo, any one who opposed them is WRONG and just plain crazy - and you get pejoratives like ‘RWNJ - Right wing nut job’ and other petty insults that incessantly question our sanity.
Thus when our Comrades borne of the Democratic National Communist party bring up the subject of ‘mental health’ with regard to our commonsense rights (like the civil right of self defense) What they really mean is that Just being Conservative is proof enough of our unfitness to possess any firearms. Reading between the lines of their near constant refrain on mental health means their ultimate goal is to deprive their political opposition of this power that is a restraint on the government.
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