Jane Smiley goes on a rant about “Bittergate,” proving how acerbic and alienated the cosmopolitan have become:
You know, I just spent seven and a half years disagreeing with the administration that has given us an unprecedented military and economic mess. I saw it coming, it came, and in some ways it was worse, and promises to get worse, than I foresaw. I the course of these seven years, I have had my patriotism questioned and demeaned fairly often. I was even put in a book, as one of a hundred people who were hurting America. When I got into this book, my relatives worried that I would get shot by some rightwing nut, even though several of them were and are rightwing nuts themselves (and they carry guns). All this time, though, I considered myself a patriot and a loyal American because I was able to see the destruction that was being wreaked upon the nation, and in particular, upon the middle and working classes, by the Republican liars and war criminals and job outsourcers and health care destroyers and army wreckers and infrastructure ignorers and media whores and agriculture blackmailers (see this month’s VanityFair).So now, Barack Obama tells the truth about conditions as we know them–that the countryside and the small towns are dying in many places in our country, and that the corporatocracy doesn’t care enough to do a thing about it. He points out that immigrant-baiting, gay-baiting, gun-baiting, and religious pandering have helped to destroy those towns and that countryside, that those being destroyed have been cynically enlisted by their very own destroyers to provide the votes that help accomplish the destruction. And this is what Senator Hillary Clinton says about it: “Senator Obama’s remarks were elitist and out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans.”ÂÂ
Read the rest of this self-righteous twaddle, if you can stomach it.
Shamelessly stolen from Beth C. at McCain BlogsNice of her to reference Dolly Parton in the title, though
(Enoch_Root)
Um, what? How would any of those things “destroy” small towns, even if they really were going on?
Jane is a class-act moron. She must have looking in the mirror when she went on her rant. It has been 40+ years of socialist-liberal-democrat stupidity that has wrought the damage to this nation.
Yep. She is indeed a moron.
I must have missed that day’s paper when corporate America was put charge of keeping around just the right number of small towns of just the right size to appease Jane Smiley. And how, exactly, does gay/immigrant/gun-baiting destroy them?
The comments in Smiley’s piece are priceless.
“Unprecedented…economic mess.”
I’m guessing she either doesn’t know what “unprecedented” means or she doesn’t know anything about economics.
Or maybe (c) both of the above.
and agriculture blackmailers (see this month’s Vanity Fair).
Vanity Fair as agricultural issues arbitrator. Right.
corporatocracy
Hm. I need in on that. Where do they hold meetings?
Read the rest of this self-righteous twaddle, if you can stomach it.
Uh, no thanks. The two paragraphs of fantasy fiction of Smiley’s you quoted was quite enough.
Yo PA is going Rethuglican this year.
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Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom put an excerpt from the piece written by Jane Smiley. He describes it as “proving how acerbic and alienated the cosmopolitan have become” and he is correct in that assessment. She has a propensity to the dumb even though…
And Obama would sprinkle magic pixie dust into the Pittsburgh air and turn it into the Land Of Chocolate, right, Jane? Because he cares…
Jane, you ignorant, etc. Obama said the exact opposite. He said that the destruction of the towns CAUSED the people to hug their guns (because, and I quote, “you can count on” guns!), their Bibles and their KKK hoods, not the other way around. You know, I think this Jane Smiley person might be a dim bulb.
At some point someone needs to clue Ms Smiley to the concept that she needs a therapist badly. She also needs to learn that the rest of us do not think that we need the government to solve our problems for us. We got along for a long time without the government doing it all for us and I am sure that we can still do it.
I made the mistake of reading her full column and a bunch of the comments. I cannot believe that there are that many deluded fools in the country.
What gets me is that our LLL dem “betters” seem to think that if they say something, then that is all they have to do, problem solved, no further action required. As we can see from all the successes of the Great Society, that does not work but apparently the lesson is lost on them.
Jane’s not big on “diversity” or maybe she’d know a bit more about rural America.
She wrote a book called “Moo”, I seem to recall, John. So there’s that.
They’re called Democrats.
I cannot believe that there are that many deluded fools in the country.
They’re called Democrats.
They run Pittsburgh/Allegheny County/Pennsylvania.
So did anyone in that book of 100 peoples get offed? Don’t tell me we’re 0 for 100.
– Maybe we should try to be a bit more magnanimous here. Expect the crushendo of manic frenetic babble, clothes rending, and hair pulling to grow in intensity as the general election nears. I will be sorely disappointed if we don’t get to see some fine examples of SecProgg heads exploding when this election is over.
– The Dems are split right down the middle, and unlike most political groups, they have so much “tolerance” for countering points of view, they will strangle each other, claw each others eyes out, rather than unite.
– The trVth about the “big tent” finally exposed. What was that they were crowing not so long ago. “The chickens come home to roost”. Heh. Heh heh.
why is she afraid of change?
How did all of my Michigan get put on that map as if the whole State was represented by the Detroit-Ann Arbor-Lansing triangle? Sorry JohnAnnArbor, you and Pat Santy are a rare species in A2
She took offense at what, some pulp political book? One that has dropped out of consciousness as fast or faster than Gleen wld’s book will? She took that seriously? And I am supposed to take her other opinions seriously…why? Because she has a high emotion about her opinions?
Look – teenyboppers feel deeply and have deep attrachment to their emotions – doesn’t mean I take their opinions seriously (experienced uncle here) as they change like a weathervane in a tornado.
The old phrase ‘take a chill pill’ has special resonance for Miss Smiley, methinks.
geoffb: I hope you are including me in that ‘sane person thing’ for Michigan, though I live in Lansing.
Ah, Jane Smiley — remember her infamous slur on the majority of Americans in 2004, when she blamed the defeat of John Kerry on “the unteachable ignorance of the Red States.” Yow! But, isn’t that basically the same thing Obama said a few days ago? ‘If you don’t believe in what I say to believe in…there must be something WRONG with you!’ Sounds pretty ELITIST to me, in both cases.
I live in one of those little towns and the truth is Ms. Smiley does not like people like us very much. So what does she care?
As for unprecedented mess, all I can say is she is an idiot. I mean really, do these people even know what a bad time really is?
Hmm, must’a been a book about Hillary’s calves.
WHY hasn’t ANYBODY said something about the Ophry church. She has two million members and it is all new age stuff that we don’t need God anymore
Oprah is harmless is why. Four outa five doctors agree, dontcha know.
Have you heard the one about Hillary’s pig?
No.
What I love is that her rant is directed at a fellow traveler. Refreshing, no?
I left a comment on the Huffpo that until I read her article I thought Obama was the most out of touch with America that I had heard…
Bill Clinton one day while he was President approached the Marine One helicopter with something under each arm. The Marine Corporal standing guard realized as the Presidnet approached that they were pigs.
The Corporal snapped a salute and said, “Nice pigs, Sir.”
Bill stopped short and address teh young Marine. “Son, I’ll tell you what. These aren’t just pigs. These are genuine Arkansas Razorback hogs and I’ve got two. One for Hillary and one for Chelsea. What do you think of that?”
The Corporal, still holding his salute, replied, “Nice trade, Sir!”
That’s a good one. :)
What is LEFT of Democratic Party is in for an even bigger “surprise” in November. It’s called REALIGNMENT ELECTION. There have only been 3 in our nation’s brief history. Effectively~ RE is when a Party is annihilated,and virtually disappears from the American political landscape. Deservedly in this case.Thanks to pseudo messianic Billary-ites;and Orwellian SnObamaniacs (cum their racist,elitist, anti-American homies). Thank God Pope Benedict XVI is coming Tuesday to plead with USA to renew our faith in the Good God who has so blessed this good nation. Arthur McVarish, Houston
Nothing wrong with a little optimism I say.
What amazes me is that the things they accuse the Republicans of “stirring up” are issues largely pushed by the left. Who pushes for gun control? Who pushes to redefine marriage by judicial fiat?
Illegal immigration is an exception — a bipartisan bit of fuckwaddery — but the pattern is pretty solid. Basically, the claim is that, by opposing left-wing policies, the Republicans are stirring up the Bubbas and faking them into ignoring their “economic interests”.
“How dare you not just go along! How dare you oppose us!”
Do you think she knows that it’s not the “bitter” part that has us rednecks pissed off?
For people who often complain about the crass materialism of American society, they get awfully upset when ordinary Americans don’t vote their economic (material) interests and vote based on something else.
“What is wrong with these rubes? Why don’t they act according to my prejudices?”
At the Getty mansion in San Francisco.
that the countryside and the small towns are dying in many places in our country, and that the corporatocracy doesn’t care enough to do a thing about it.
Except to move their factories there and out of the big cities. And 2000 years of Democrat mayors have so so well in not destroying my hometown of Philadelphia.
Of course, now I live in a small, rural mid-western town, so I’m just a God-bothering racist.
Oh, Arthur, you optimistic rascal, you.
Congressional districts are much better tailored to the local population and its, um, tendencies. Large cities are invariably blue and they will remain so. Democrats will continue on serving their constituents in most, if not every major city in the US.
Remember too, this is a party that managed to avoid being held accountable for being racist and pro-segregation. In fact, quite the opposite, they have managed to transform the narrative such that they become the party the party “freed Blacks a second time” as they fought against the racist Republicans. This is a party which simply rewrites history when it needs to and it is ably assisted by the MSM and academia in doing so.
Democrats are not going away.
Unfortunately for Arthur, the fictitious turtle monster is too busy arguing about the wedge strategy to notice a real, honest-to-Huckabee godbotherer in this thread. The bait, it seems, will not be taken.
I rest confidently that this woman–and her many many co-religionists–shall more or less ensure the election of the party they oppose. which, makes me very very happy. No small matter, because Bush’s crappiness should more or less guarantee a Dem victory. Except, fortunately, the Dems are all insane.
Civil Society(corporatocracy) police. They get a lot of money and it’s Harvard. They think the US government is for jobs and money.
‘Vanity Fair’ is for when dems lose. Plame is an example(of course a lot of people died the day after her admission to being a CIA operations officer, para militarily trained). I bet the agriculture thing is foreign policy issues(I don’t think they’ll kill over the bill because it’s ‘soft power’ and ‘Civil Society’).
Catholics put Bill in office.
So now, Barack Obama tells the truth about conditions as we know them…
I believe it was Ronald Reagan who said,
It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant; it’s just that they know so many things that aren’t true.
Here’s a book on the movement if anyone is interested. I think investigators found it interesting until they found some CIA agents:
http://riseofglobalcivilsociety.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=71
DWo – I think you should go have your prescription checked. Now.
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She wrote a book called ‘Moo’, I seem to recall, John.”
Yes, it was about a fictional college in a midwestern cow-town. Hence the title. New York liberals who would rather die that live in such a town thought the book was witty and perceptive.
DWo.
Wo.
New York liberals suck… I mean, as a Midwesterner, the thought of even saying something like “I’ll ping you” kinda makes us, well, feel like throwing up a little.
As to the myriad claims of “brushing with the Stars”, I must humbley note that I graduated from the same “elite” school, gr. 7-12, as did Jane Smiley – John Burroughs School,St.Louis, Mo..
Jane was a few years behind me, and, despite the small numbers of class-mates, I remember her little – which could have just been my problem. But it now appears that I have, perhaps inadvertently, also opened up an even stronger lead over Jane – as proven if only by the fact that when one compares nothing to something, it can only get worse.
I have often wondered if Jane Smiley’s surname was a pseudonym, perhaps the result of an ironic nickname.
Now that I know, it seems Proof No. 6 of God’s Existence, and Proof No. 8362419509773513 of His sense of humor.