Sarah Palin, Genius
No real need to read this guy's column--just look at his picture. It is very informative.
The short version:
Sarah Palin is a genius who carefully crafted the phrase "death panels," intending for the phrase it's very self to stop health insurance reform cold. Which it did. And it's all the fault of liberals because they are snotty and classist and underestimated her because they think she's not smart because she didn't go to Princeton. And besides there will be death panels because any time procedures are evaluated for effectiveness there are death panels.
Uh, lemme just pick out one specific point there to comment on:
No, we think she's not smart because she's not smart.
Girl coulda gone to Oxford, she'd still be an idiot. It's not a matter of education, it's a matter of raw material.
No real need to read this guy's column--just look at his picture. It is very informative.
The short version:
Sarah Palin is a genius who carefully crafted the phrase "death panels," intending for the phrase it's very self to stop health insurance reform cold. Which it did. And it's all the fault of liberals because they are snotty and classist and underestimated her because they think she's not smart because she didn't go to Princeton. And besides there will be death panels because any time procedures are evaluated for effectiveness there are death panels.
Uh, lemme just pick out one specific point there to comment on:
No, we think she's not smart because she's not smart.
Girl coulda gone to Oxford, she'd still be an idiot. It's not a matter of education, it's a matter of raw material.
posted by Winston Smith at
10:59 AM
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From the article:
"They couldn’t believe that Sarah Palin was capable of something as canny as that deadly “death panels” phrase. They couldn’t see that it was a metaphoric shorthand for something real. Instead they thought she was too dumb, that she meant it literally (to have seen the potential for rationed end-of-life care in the bill), and instead indulged in an orgy of disdain for her “crazy,” “ignorant” “lies” and malicious misrepresentation.
No! “Death panels” was a Lenny Bruce black-humored kind of line and she proved herself far hipper than the terminally square liberals who didn’t get it."
Metaphorical shorthand.
And let's not forget the Gold Standard of demagoguery [or let's say, "metaphorical shorthand"] was set by none other than the late great man himself, Edward M. Kennedy:
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy."
Actually, Palin and Beck have a lot of catching up to do.
[According to author Ethan Bronner, Kennedy later sought out Bork's wife to say "I hope you understand it is nothing personal." Decent of him.]
From the HuffPo. Your call.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/24/occidental-college-offers_n_267202.html
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