Posted on 06/25/2005 8:00:59 PM PDT by Lorianne
IN a well-known spoof of a typical talk-radio exchange, two callers debate a fatuous point. The first says: ''Right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up with this country being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.'' The second caller retorts, ''Well, I meet a lot of people, and I'm convinced that the vast majority of wrong-thinking people are right.'' A conservative housewife, listening to the blather, snaps, ''Liberal rubbish!'' and turns the dial. It's a shining example of what, in a country with a less sophisticated sense of humor, might be called Monty Python Toryism.
In ''South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias,'' Brian C. Anderson, charts the rise in respectability -- or, at least, of visibility and audibility -- of ''proudly anti-elitist'' right-wing thought in America's public dialogue over the last two decades, a development that was spearheaded by Rush Limbaugh in the late 1980's on talk radio and has since spread to other media in a process Anderson calls ''FOXification.'' To him, the popularity of the stingingly anti-P.C. cartoon series ''South Park'' signals the advent of a new generation of Americans who refuse to accept public censure for their scornful attitudes toward gay men and lesbians, Native Americans, environmentalism and abortion rights. In an effort not to gloat, he cloaks his descriptions of this triumph in the humble fleece of the common man (Limbaugh is, for example ''a college dropout'' who ''had put himself through a rigorous self-education, mastering an array of issues'') and champions talk radio as ''the first media forum in which ordinary Joes can actually get a hearing for their complaints about what liberals have wrought in America since the 1960's.''
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That was one incoherent mess. My only comment is that Liesl Schillinger should not write book reviews while drunk.
I can guarantee you that my life has been more eventful than O'Donnell's. The most eventfulness he ever has was blowing a gasket at O'Neill on Scarborough's show for pete's sake.
Don't forget the Dukes of Hazzard!
They've written his obituary more times than we can count. They pronounced him dead after Bush 41 was elected, after Clinton was elected, after the GOP captured the House in '94, after Clinton was re-elected, ...
But every time they gleefully pronounce him finished, he refuses to do what they demand and just go away - instead, he just gets bigger and more popular then ever. And that just drives them stark staring batshit.
Twenty years from now, they'll still be ranting and raving about Limbaugh, just like they'll be foaming and clattering about the "stolen" 2000 and 2004 elections. If liberals didn't obsess forever about every real and imagined slight and insult they've had to endure, they wouldn't be liberals.
Oh, casinos, bribery for casinos, Kenniweck(sp?) man, "Holy Sites" that are claimed when somebody tries to build
in otherwise ignored areas, mascots with Indian names....
bump
These are not folks like the sophomoric jester Jim Carrey who couldn't even complete high school which as a society we've generally considered MINIMUM education. There are multitudes of reasons folks do not finish a college or university education. Cost is certainly a factor for many, lack of a challenge, disinterest, family obligations and many other factors may be in play. A degree is not a mark of integrity or intelligence like (perhaps) it once signified.
I'm tired of "college dropout" being used as a slur when you have Ivy League educated MORONS like John Kerry destroying America and university-educated sycophant "journalists" like Katie Couric lapping up socialist bile and acting as shills and transcription services for their leftist brethren.
I know, I know... this is a NYTimes hit piece so I should just ignore it.
The reason I use the term "Native Americans" is that the name "Indian" already belonged to other people long before Europeans discovered America. It's not that I like the term "Native American", it's that I don't know what else to call the first settlers of this continent.
Actually, I love to tell people that I am a high school dropout. Their reaction is priceless.
At least two Nobel prize winners in biology share the distinction...
Dr. exDemMom
Good for you! Very refereshing to read that.
Liberals are like teenage children. They just can't believe disagreeing with them is NOT the same thing as failing to understand what they're saying.
You know it's got to crease their shorts that the whole drug thing didn't do him in ;o)
well, to be cautious, one might consider that the myriad R rated movies dilute their genre's per-movie profit margin, and the slim pickin's of G rated films concentrates that genre's per-movie profit margin. A side effect of supply and demand.
may I PLEEEEEASE add that to my profile-page quote section? that made me LMAO.
Consider it yours ;o)
>>And how did "Native Americans" get thrown into the mix? I'm an Indian (see, I don't subscribe to the N/A moniker that they've imposed on us) and I'm known around these parts as the most anti-PC guy there is.
You've been punked by non-Indian Ward Churchill, and others of his sort, some of whom are Indian, many of whom are not.
Mark
pssst... For those of you who don't know, that was a South Park reference...
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