Well, save the Terry family and lots of families of dead Mexicans. And maybe the Mexican government. And those who are worried about an unaccountable Administration, a complicit and compliant press, and rogue operations meant, in the end, I’m convinced, to undermine our own Second Amendment. But then, that’s just me nitpicking.
What Ms Kohn — a sometimes FOX contributer and liberal commentator — really meant to say was, nobody who matters gives a shit about Fast & Furious. That is, the liberal press, progressive activists, and those who insist it should be they who get to manufacture, finesse, and drive the cultural narrative, including, importantly, the news cycle, beginning with what comes to be counted as important news (Congressional hearings on the Libya debacle, featuring the murder of an Ambassador? Page 3, NYT), and ending with what ultimately is considered news to begin with.
But what’s slowly dawning on people like Sally Kohn is that the left — while it still holds the major legacy media — is losing its ability to contain and constrain news it hasn’t itself first “contextualized” for the American public. And this causes them to lash out: I’ve said this for a long while now, but if you refuse to play their game, their rules no longer apply, and their power simply evaporates.
They aren’t the terrifying flaming skull of an angry great and powerful Oz. They aren’t fate.
They are a hivemind of grievance politics and authoritarian impulses that can only harm us if we keep allowing them to cast themselves as a legitimate opposition party within a constitutional republican system, one built around individual sovereignty, private property, the rule of law, equality of opportunity, and unalienable rights.
They aren’t. They are progressives. Marxists. Fabian socialists. Liberal fascists. And there is no compromising between the ideology driving those totalitarian worldviews and the founding principles put in place by our Constitution to protect us from just such calculated and systematic usurpations of our liberty.
And if we had any collective sense as a nation on the brink, the thing we wouldn’t give a shit about is anything anyone of these would-be tyrants has to offer in terms of principles of governance.
Me, I’m already there. But then, I’m a cockroach, a Visigoth, a fringe extremist teabagging nativist racist who fears the gays and hates the womens and wishes to see poor hard working Mexicans shipped off to faraway melon patches. After they’re done cleaning my house, tending my children, washing my dishes, and picking my coffee beans and lettuce, of course.
(h/t JohninFirestone)
In the larger picture of things, she’s probably right, and more’s the pity.
It comes from only giving a shit when a Republican can be blamed.
As Randy Weaver’s wife and the Koresh kulties could tell you,
if Michael Ledeen and J. J. Angleton would ever get off the effing Ouja Board!
I grew up in the suburb of an east coast city; that suburb and city was ordinarily familiar to me. When I first traveled to work or live in other great east coast cities (older cities) I was often staggered by the places, wandering or driving about exploring, caught up in wonder at the complexity, at how these strange places came to be what they are, and most of all at the freedom of action that had to be present to enable that possibility to manifest in beings: buildings, streets, people, economies — a freedom I could even then see was now gone, disappeared and replaced by rigidities, absurdities and their fractures.
Loose us.
Calling out right wing’s absurd conspiracy theories is quickest way to become target. Sheesh.
*snif*
Was it a mistake or a manufactured issue, Ms. Kohn?
And, if I read you right, t’s “resolved” because, SHUT UP!
and, “BINDERS!”
It’s quality insights like these that almost assure her a future gig moderating a Veep debate —or maybe even the Town Hall format!
There are tens of millions of us who give quite a big sh*t about F&F, and Ms. Kohn has explicitly written us off as non-entities. And yet she’s the victim claiming the moral high ground, because those of us she flippantly wrote off had the audacity to stand up and be counted, and to push back against her empty-headed assertion.
Up is down. Black is white. Philo is Clyde.
She’s pretty thin skinned for a big Amazon of a lesbian gal who likes to lip off on teevee and in print. I once watched itty-bitty Megyn Kelly verbally beat her like a red-headed step-child in one of her afternoon segments. Sally sat there snapping her mouth open and shut like a big mouth bass.
Not so tough now, eh Sally?
Manliness has never been easy — far from it, it’s downright dangerous to life and limb, indeed, likely played no small part in Brian Terry’s presence on the battlefield. Sally should maybe oughta reflect where she wants to go.
Yes, she ought to. Of course, getting one’s jaw broken by someone who doesn’t particularly care to be called names will adjust an attitude tout de suite.
Sally Kohn sounds more gratified than mortified at having drawn fire over her boneheaded opinions. Feh. Lesbian or not she can’t get through her day without making men look at her — and the fact they’re snickering rather than leering or pining doesn’t educate her in the least.
I guess I should know who she is.
She provides a good exemplar of progressive thought, of course. But likely she is almost famous for being almost famous, and the whole Lesbian thing is likely part of it all for diversity’s sake.
To paraphrase a character in The American President (I know): “With all due respect, ma’am] the American people have a funny way of deciding on their own what is and what is not news.”
Did someone say Hive Mind?
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