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 | | From: | D. Spencer Hines | | Subject: | The Angry & Entertaining Left | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:33:09 -0000 |
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 | "Back in 2003, The Nation's David Corn faulted us for using the term
"Angry Left": "The moniker is designed as a put-down, one meant to
signal that those afflicted with anti-Bushism are motivated by emotion,
not rationality," he complained.
As we later noted, we meant it as a description, not a put-down. But if
you listen to the Angry Left, they very often describe themselves as
having emotional problems. Here's a passage from an Associated Press
dispatch about anti-inauguration protests:
"We don't feel that Bush's supposed mandate represents us. Maybe this
is just therapy for us for feeling helpless and hapless," said
veterinarian Paul Makidon of Ann Arbor, Mich."
Hilarious! Sounds just like Pogue Gans and Pogue Cook. ---- DSH
And here's some statistical evidence: UC Berkeley recently completed
what a press release describes as "the first attempt to compare measures
of mental health and general well-being among California's general
population on a county-level basis." The study finds that the two
counties with the lowest "mental health scores" are Alameda, which
includes Berkeley, and San Francisco, which is coterminous with the
city.
What else do these counties have in common? They are the California
counties where John Kerry did best: 83% of the vote in San Francisco and
75% in Alameda. You don't have to be crazy to oppose President Bush,
but it doesn't hurt."
James Taranto
The WSJ
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Bingo!
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
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| | From: | Julian Richards | | Subject: | Re: The Angry & Entertaining Left | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:51:34 +0000 |
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| On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:33:09 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
wrote:
>"We don't feel that Bush's supposed mandate represents us. Maybe this
>is just therapy for us for feeling helpless and hapless," said
>veterinarian Paul Makidon of Ann Arbor, Mich."
>
>Hilarious! Sounds just like Pogue Gans and Pogue Cook. ---- DSH
Certainly not Michael (at the very least). He's too busy laughing at
the angry and entertaining right who are a complete shambles here in
the UK.
Paul sits at home wearing his fur hat with a red star sewn to it, next
to a suitcase nuclear weapon given to him by "Control" in the sixties
and was never collected.
--
Julian Richards
medieval "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk
Usenet is how from the comfort of your own living room, you can converse
with people that you would never want in your house.
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