Notice a pattern?
The Republican “Taliban wing,” as some Democrats dub the rabid Tea Party militants, was determined to break up any budding Obama-Boehner bromance.
This is but one example in a series of similar comments about jihad, Hezbollah, Taliban, suicide bombers, etc. (here and here) in the NYT and Politico. What do these slurs have in common? Are we observing a rather nasty pattern of religious bias among the so-called enlightened commentators? HT: BOTW
August 3rd, 2011 at 4:54 pm
James Taranto, in ‘Best of the Web’, has part of the answer today:
“… “Terrorist,” “racist,” “uncivil,” “insane,” the list goes on–in this context, these words have no real meaning. They are mere epithets. The Obama presidency has reduced the liberal left to an apoplectic rage. His Ivy League credentials, superior attitude, pseudointellectual mien and facile adherence to lefty ideology make him the perfect personification of the liberal elite. Thus far at least, he has been an utter failure both at winning public support and at managing the affairs of the nation.
Obama’s failure is the failure of the liberal elite, and that is why their ressentiment has reached such intensity. Their ideas, such as they are, are being put to a real-world test and found severely wanting. As a result, their authority is collapsing. And if there is one thing they know deep in their bones, it is that they are entitled to that authority. They lash out, desperately and pathetically, because they have nothing to offer but fear and anger…”
The key to understanding the Left’s slander and rage is knowing that modern liberalism is a reactionary theology facing an existential threat from a democratic movement.
August 4th, 2011 at 3:11 am
There is also this:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/08/01/tucson-newspaper-political-cartoonist-fantasized-about-obama-sending-s
A Tuscon newspaper cartoonist fantasizing about 0bama sending the SEALs into the Capitol to kill TEA Party sympathizers.
One wonders if their rage will morph into violence?
August 4th, 2011 at 3:56 am
Wait! How can these be epithets for the Obama administration? I thought he wanted to dialogue with groups like Hezbollah and the Taliban without precondition? That should be good, no?
August 6th, 2011 at 5:43 am
I noticed one thing about the writings of lefties: They always mislabel everything.