tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post881807911196810762..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32340303309800621472014-05-21T13:44:07.479-04:002014-05-21T13:44:07.479-04:00And then there's the story about the ballplaye...And then there's the story about the ballplayer who really walloped one out of the ball park. The ball flew over the bleachers, soared above neighboring buildings, came down two blocks away, took a wild rebound off a fire hydrant, and went crashing through the shop window of a Hobby Lobby.<br /><br />The next morning's lead headline in The Blaze said:<br /><br />VIOLENT LEFT WING BALL PLAYER<br />SMASHES HOBBY LOBBY WINDOW<br /><br />Yours very crankily,<br />The New York CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-42515190968716996202014-05-20T17:09:08.730-04:002014-05-20T17:09:08.730-04:00If it turned out that some member of Michelle Obam...If it turned out that some member of Michelle Obama's family said something unpleasant, the wingnutters would be condemning her for NOT taking them to task.<br /><br />Their default mode is opposition.Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13596469589202275982014-05-20T15:55:34.604-04:002014-05-20T15:55:34.604-04:00"But right-wingers can be set to frothing at ..."But right-wingers can be set to frothing at the mouth even by a headline that's self-evidently misleading. Rage addiction will do that to you."<br /><br />They're even worse than Pavlov's dogs!<br /><br />Anything "Obama," sets them to frothing.<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-20397140057305199892014-05-20T15:46:08.772-04:002014-05-20T15:46:08.772-04:00I've been thinking about this a lot in combina...I've been thinking about this a lot in combination with the awfulness of the commencement speeches and the history of right wing student/child bashing. There is just a lot of this rage against younger people at this point. Its a sign that they really feel that they are losing authority and control over society and that this has started with (and been encouraged by) children being educated and democrats encouraging children to think for themselves and rebut their elders.<br /><br />There's a long history of this kind of suspicion of educated children and of education itself, of course, which they elide with memories of the hitler youth and perhaps communist youth groups. The daughter of the New Hampshire guy who was just forced to resign after calling the President the "N word" is a good example of the kind of excuses the right wing makes for its own side, btw. She explicitly said her father should have kept his mouth shut but that "everyone" has a family member who is "curmudgeonly" and that his heart was in the right place and who is to judge, anyway? Old people, amirite?aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-31365113664251625582014-05-20T15:16:01.663-04:002014-05-20T15:16:01.663-04:00I love how each headline got progressively shriek-...I love how each headline got progressively shriek-y. Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17390791792685104671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75247789453629242922014-05-20T14:40:55.733-04:002014-05-20T14:40:55.733-04:00Any doubts that the GOP is driven almost solely by...Any doubts that the GOP is driven almost solely by racism are put to rest any time they react to Michelle Obama saying something.<br /><br />They have the fig leaf of being able to say that the president is making far-reaching, long-lasting policy. But they're against kids eating right and getting exercise if "Moochelle" (which is not at all a racist construction) is for it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137423464577067869noreply@blogger.com