This is a really good post; thanks for the link. Just one comment:
"I know I'm being hard on Kinsley, but… is he dishonest? Or is he really this simple-minded?"
I don't think he's either one, and I don't think he has "an ulterior motive" either. He's just unable to see past his own "reasonableness" and his comfort in hanging out with the powerful -- sort of a slightly lefty version of David Brooks, convinced that using a lot of $5 words and nodding wisely equals having actual thoughts in his brain.
The dog whistle here is so loud that they can probably hear it on Sirius. And a complaint of "laziness" coming from a governor who resigned halfway through her term would be funny if it weren't so insulting -- not just to Obama, but to anyone with half a brain.
"In fact, al-Zarkani believes that it is foreign elements who are making trouble"
I'm really surprised she didn't say "outside agitators" instead of "foreign elements." The scene changes but the racist BS remains the same.
You mean "their own decisions and choices" after Madison Avenue gets through bombarding them, every second of their lives, with paeans to exactly the instant gratification you decry? Do you have a solution for stopping the brainwashing, or are you just too busy being a moral scold?
"Civil trials are not required, and conducting the[m] in NYC is especially heinous."
There's a difference between what's "required" by the corrupt interpretation of the laws about captured enemies fostered by your hero Republicans and what's right, which evidently you have no idea of. Furthermore, was it "heinous" for the British to try and convict the 7/7 bombers in a London criminal court, or for the Spanish to do the same to the Madrid ones in Madrid? Or is it just "heinous" when Americans actually live up to their own ideals?
There's a great Gary Larson cartoon in which a dog puts a "Cat Fud" sign on the open door of a washing machine and watches a cat approach it. The dog is saying, "Oh please, oh please, oh please...", and in these circumstances, so am I. I just hope it doesn't affect the Rays' chances in the postseason.
What, and Obama's mother's family weren't white Anglo-Saxon Protestants? Considering that he is distantly related to a truckload of famous white Americans, including both President Bushes and Darth, er, Dickhead Cheney, how exactly does this "inheritance" thing not apply to him?
This is a really good post; thanks for the link. Just one comment:
"I know I'm being hard on Kinsley, but… is he dishonest? Or is he really this simple-minded?"
I don't think he's either one, and I don't think he has "an ulterior motive" either. He's just unable to see past his own "reasonableness" and his comfort in hanging out with the powerful -- sort of a slightly lefty version of David Brooks, convinced that using a lot of $5 words and nodding wisely equals having actual thoughts in his brain.
The dog whistle here is so loud that they can probably hear it on Sirius. And a complaint of "laziness" coming from a governor who resigned halfway through her term would be funny if it weren't so insulting -- not just to Obama, but to anyone with half a brain.
"In fact, al-Zarkani believes that it is foreign elements who are making trouble"
I'm really surprised she didn't say "outside agitators" instead of "foreign elements." The scene changes but the racist BS remains the same.
You mean "their own decisions and choices" after Madison Avenue gets through bombarding them, every second of their lives, with paeans to exactly the instant gratification you decry? Do you have a solution for stopping the brainwashing, or are you just too busy being a moral scold?
"Homeland Security" -- you mean the Sicherheit der Heimat department, ja?
"Civil trials are not required, and conducting the[m] in NYC is especially heinous."
There's a difference between what's "required" by the corrupt interpretation of the laws about captured enemies fostered by your hero Republicans and what's right, which evidently you have no idea of. Furthermore, was it "heinous" for the British to try and convict the 7/7 bombers in a London criminal court, or for the Spanish to do the same to the Madrid ones in Madrid? Or is it just "heinous" when Americans actually live up to their own ideals?
There's a great Gary Larson cartoon in which a dog puts a "Cat Fud" sign on the open door of a washing machine and watches a cat approach it. The dog is saying, "Oh please, oh please, oh please...", and in these circumstances, so am I. I just hope it doesn't affect the Rays' chances in the postseason.
What, and Obama's mother's family weren't white Anglo-Saxon Protestants? Considering that he is distantly related to a truckload of famous white Americans, including both President Bushes and Darth, er, Dickhead Cheney, how exactly does this "inheritance" thing not apply to him?