Got a Good Terrorist Joke?
The Hoover Institution's Peter Schweizer argues that we should be ridiculing the terrorists, not just demonizing them.
He's got a point -- although perhaps President Bush has had to keep reminding the people of the very real threat we face because the press seems disinclined to do it.
He's got a point -- although perhaps President Bush has had to keep reminding the people of the very real threat we face because the press seems disinclined to do it.
posted by LadybugUSA at 7:23 AM
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"Their membership dwindled into obscurity"...as they decided to become Republicans after LBJ poked them with the sharp stick of civil rights legislation.
Once again, facts outweigh leftist propaganda masquerading as attempted humor.
It appears more likely they (KKK) became Democrats. 90% of Southern Democrats voted against the "Civil Rights Act." (92-11)
80% of Republicans voted for the Act. (152-96)
71% of Democrats voted for it. (152-96)
(N=290 voting from a possible 420.)
One could even say the Act would not have passed for Johnson without Republican votes. A larger percentage of conservatives voted for the Act than liberals.
Sorry, Republican numbers were 138-34.
(See www.congresslink.org for an historical account of the Act.)
Bach is correct. The Democratic party in LBJ's time was the home to southern racists. It was after LBJ pushed through the civil rights legislation that the South began to turn.
He said so himself: "I've just handed the South to the Republicans for fifty years, certainly for the rest of our lifetimes."
And it's true. Every racist I've ever known is a staunch Republican. That said, I am not implying that all Republicans are racist, which is a much fairer shake than Democrats get around here as the blogger does her best on a daily basis to hang anecdotal atrocities from the far left around our necks.
Wow, why are you guys so worked up? I didn't call you racist. Did it touch a nerve?
I believe it did with Pete especially, who either missed my point about the racial realignment of the parties after the '60s or chose to ignore it. This is something I've always detected just under the surface of Pete's writings -- a fury tinged with certain overtones.
And this from a man who ridicules others for their emotions.
Okay, I'll say it...Every racist I've ever met is a Democrat. I guess I just live in a alternate universe from Duke and Twisted.
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From a comment Pete made on December 17, 2005...
"Fortunately, when we went to school, God was still in school, and facts were more important than emotions. She still bought into the "warm and fuzzy" emotionalism while in her early 20's, that you profess, - then used her good sense to reason things out and left the Left!"
As on other occasions, you ridicule others for their emotions (of the heartstring ilk) but you are guided as much by yours (of the angry white man ilk). The difference is negligible.
And yes, pioneer, like many other Republicans, you dwell in a universe of your own creation.
No, Pete, I don't hang on your every word. I'm just illuminating your selective memory.
I am not going to defend any of the people you list -- not because any of them are necessarily racist -- but because I don't need to. I didn't create them. They do, however, have a right to their opinions...just like you.
For the record, I am as repulsed by Jesse Jackson as I am Jesse Helms. In fact, I'd pay a fair amount to see the two of them locked in a room together.
Does anyone know what Dodger is talking about?
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Wow, so your list is rather long, and growing. As I see it, if they're black and not right wingers, then they're racist?
In the old comment of yours I dredged up, I detected a sense of nostalgia for the "good old days," when "God was still in school," etc. By your own admission, you are aging, so your school days would have been before desegregation.
I'm sorry, Pete, that you have had to endure such upheaval.
"As I see it, if they're black and not right wingers, then they're racist?"
It seems the left treats every black person who is not a liberal as a house slave.
What was your point? And how did it address the idea of using ridicule along with demonization to reduce the appeal of terrorism?
So just how much would you undo if you could, Pete? How far would you go back in time to restore all that you say liberals have destroyed?
Your bitterness becomes you.
Greg, I just thought it was worth pointing out that each side of the political divide has its undesirable fringe elements, and that constantly looking for these extremes and then making the opposition either defend or disavow them is an unsophisticated and pointless activity. It requires little more than the cold and cynical heart of an opposition researcher.
And it short-circuits any real debate, which is maybe the point.
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