Piers Morgan and ilk laughing, mocking and denigrating Mitt Romney as a “religious fanatic” for quoting from Psalms in a commencement speech at University of Southern Virginia, where the students are 92% Mormon.
Maeve Reston opines that Romney didn’t connect with Single Women(tm) because he’s just so “into his marriage and kids”.
How icky is that!
Unless it is Obama, the Family Man, of course.
it’s ok by me if people want to mock Mitt Romney but nobody is more fanatical than whorish dead baby pimp Piers Morgan
except maybe Michael Bloomberg I guess
Has anyone in the Democrat Media Machine matured past adolescence? Good grief.
That was a rhetorical question, right Spiny?
After watching Anderson Cooper snicker through a report about the TEA Party in which he repeatedly referred to them as “tea-baggers”, I decided not to even give them the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Quoting the Psalms?!? HAH!
Everyone knows you quote Proverbs or Ecclesiastes at a graduation.
Unless the school is run by the Whore of Babylon.
They quote from Wisdom or Sirach.
Stoopid Mormons.
That’s just typical reaction of far-Left culture to traditional American values. Denigration and mockery, a progg’s answer to what allowed (and encouraged) them to achieve their current perches today.
If they had to do their lives over again, starting fresh, conceived today by a couple of ‘their’ favored liberals, it’s likely none of ’em would make it further than their local cutting room’s stainless steel basins.
I find this a little scary, this being called a “religious fanatic” for using a bible quote in a speech.
Well, along with the rest of what’s going on in the country.
Could just be my persecution complex though…
One of the first things I noticed when I got to Cornell in the mid 90s was that the term “religious fanatic” was considered redundant.
I’ve been asked how I could spend 5 years at Cornell and still be all religious and stuff, as if an Ivy had some kind of fail-proof argument against God.
All I heard was this:
1) RACISM! SEXISM! HOMOPHOBIA! for which religion is solely responsible.
2) But what about the Crusades?
3) And what about the Inquisition?
That was the extent and the depth to which religion was argued against. Boy, what kinda brainwashing I musta had to resist THAT.
In reality, the most persuasive argument is that if you’re religious, you can count on being mocked, reviled, ridiculed, and Never Taken Seriously.
Peer pressure, in other words.
I figure that if peer pressure is a stupid reason to join up with religion, it’s an equally piss-poor reason to leave.
So here we are.
Personally I expect anti-religious bigotry to get worse before it gets better. Much worse.
For a minute there i thought maybe they were laughing at Morgan’s ratings.
Jesus said that following his teachings would be dangerous, that we would be persecuted for it.
I’m with Spies on this; it will get worse.
It’s pretty bad right now. But, I agree that it will get worse.
so you might have to stand in front of a tank?
Having a large family sounds like it might be a good retirement plan.
Certainly better than trusting in Social Security.
There is an Evangelical group that the Duggars (the family with 19 or 20 kids) belong to that is called Quiverful. They want their members to have as many children as possible. Here I thought Catholics and Mormons were in the kiddo business, but they’re taking it to design limit.
so you might have to stand in front of a tank?
Dunno. Before it gets there, we’ll find it hard to get a job if the hiring is done by people who hate the religious, and it becomes generally acceptable to shun us.
Because of the homophobia, primarily.
Or the homophobia-phobia. Whatever.
The marginalization will continue, but at the same time, the blue-to-red state migration will pick up the pace. If we’re lucky, there won’t be enough blues in power in Austin or Salt Lake City to prevent those states (and others) from becoming Red Havens.
SLC is blue? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since so is Tulsa and OKC. Any place that has access to social services seems to attract blues.
the proggtards are funny. don’t “believe” in G-d or country. believe in whitey obama and hairplugs instead.
Remember, nr: Ask what your country can do for you, not what you can do for your country.
Here I thought Catholics and Mormons were in the kiddo business, but they’re taking it to design limit.
Although the LDS church doesn’t prohibit contraception, there are many LDS families who decide on their own to eschew it, figuring that they’ll “take as many kids as the Lord sends us.”
No, not that the Lord is going to make you suddenly infertile after three kids, if that’s His will, but the couple is willing to have kids until the fertility runs out on its own.
BTW, these kids are well-adjusted and happy, and they grow up to be productive citizens. The idea that they don’t “get enough attention from their parents” is hogwash: kids just need a “village” to grow up in, and that village consists of a ton of siblings, headed by mom and dad as managers, not as pals and definitely not as helicopters.
It works. Unless the parents are pathological to begin with, and then you get Westboro.
We out-live, out-reproduce, and out-earn all of y’all.
Ojo!
“we’ll find it hard to get a job if the hiring is done by people who hate the religious, ”
they hate a large consumer base. disconnect from them.
Yup. We have the great big families, too. Although we are have a number who have decided to use artificial birth control rather than natural family planning. When I was growing up, it wasn’t unusual to see families with six or eight kids. I knew one with fourteen.
SLC is blue?
Sorta. Salt Lake county is only 36% LDS, but Utah county (Provo, BYU) is much higher, as are the rural counties. The proggs congregate in SLC proper (mostly the Avenues and the area near the U of U), so the mayor of SLC is often a moonbat. They also have taken over Park City (very hip place to live) and Moab (slickrock, mountain biking, and New Agey schlock).
One of our four reps to the House is a Dem, though a fairly conservative one (Matheson). He voted against Obamacare, IIRC.
You know how it is: the proggs coalesce in the capital cities because that’s where the power is. Their activist selves tend to over-influence legislation (all the while screeching THEOCRACY! any time the more conservative position asserts itself).
Mormons already have an inferiority complex: we know how un-hip we are, having been told by all the cool kids in Utah (radio DJs, high school teachers, opinion columns) that we’re so square it’s offensive. Don’t you DARE preach to us, they shriek. And the larger popular culture supports their PoV, so we cower in our humiliation, having been put in our place.
If there’s a mass migration of reds into Utah or Texas or anywhere similar, some blues will leave, but the rest won’t give up their precious positions of power, whether it be gubmint power or their sneering perches in the social hierarchy.
disconnect from them.
Weber State University went through a five-year period when no LDS were hired to faculty positions.
Not. One.
Because the provost was a rabid anti-Mormon h8r who felt perfectly justified in keeping Those People away from his precious university. When the new uni president found out, he fired him. (My mom was secretary to the president during that time, so that’s how I know.)
In one technical-writing firm, I was told much later that one of the reasons I wasn’t tossed out of consideration was that I didn’t put my mission on my resume as “leadership experience.” That indicated to them that I wasn’t one of Those Kinds of Mormons—you know, the kind that actually believe?
Turns out that I was, but that didn’t stop people from engaging in Mormon-bashing in my presence. Didn’t even occur to them that they were being rude, because it’s OK to bash Mormons at any time and in any place, because it’s the only reasonable thing to think. And we have to take it because we totally deserve it.
OT but fascinating: Niall Ferguson, having annoyed the hell out of the Leftist Establishment (by not only goring Keynes for his economic theory, but by doing so by mentioning Keynes’ somewhat ghey gayness) is buttressed by Tyler Durden.
I can relate, di. I once asked for permission to have the morning off to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday. When I showed up an hour or so after we usually started with ashes on my forehead, I got mocked and told that I probably slept in and that I had just gotten some ashes out of my fireplace. In other words, who did I think I was kidding?
What do all four of these corridor things have in common?
Texas!
I wish Niall Ferguson hadn’t apologized. He should be entitled to his own feelings, after all.
so standing in front of a tank is foreseeable?
Along the never underestimate lines, never underestimate the moral corruption of the Obazma administration: a more empty human regard you may hope to never see.
(What the massacre looks like on the ground. Warning, these are as evil a set of images of ethnic cleansing — the murders of men women and children — as can be imagined, so brace before you look.)
Who in their right mind puts a camera in front of Marc Lamont Hill? Don’t even get me started on the sorts who’ll put their kids in front of him.
Especially if you raise kids that aren’t losers. I’m pretty sure Mitt and Ann will be OK.
Someone explain to newrouter that bucking the military, in which you do not have the same rights as those not in the military, and bucking the culture are two different things.
It’s really easy to say that someone should join the military and deliberately violate orders and get a court-martial and have their lives permanently damaged to make a point about freedom of religious expression. I wouldn’t advocated that anyone lie down in front of that bulldozer.
I’m going to guess “homosexual” wasn’t the word Ferguson used about Keynes. Nevertheless, that is I think a valid insight into Keynes.
Quite valid and brushes away a lot of the hocus-pocus around Keynesian economics.
Ferguson says I’m wrong.
We’ll compromise. Ferguson was only half-stupid, which means I’m only half-wrong to think Ferguson’s half-stupid observation is a (half-) valid one.
Sounds good to me.
Kind of a pathetic bleg here:
If any of you good people have commenting privileges over at Zero Hedge, would one of you mind telling a certain James Cole to buy the damn book.
Many thanks
he said, only half-sarcastically.
Stay away from Memeorandum. Half their page is links to columns chastising Ferguson for being a homophobe.
I tend to believe what Ferguson said originally is what he meant. Then he wussed out later.
Precisely.
Ferguson is the closest thing to a non-leftist celebrity public intellectual, so it’s understandable that certain people would want to see him defenestrated.
I think he meant it too, Cranky, but I also think that after some reflection he decided it wasn’t the telling point on Keynes’s shortcomings that he thought it was at the moment. Fear for his Harvard sinecure probably played no small role in his further reflections. The fact that he mentions Keynes’s wife’s misscarriage, however, precludes me from thinking he wussed out completely.
It would probably be a distraction to note that no one has ever followed Keynes’ model. He posited that one save money during times of high productivity and then use that saved money to stimulate during times of low productivity. Modern governments have always overspent and then spent even more for “stimulus” during times of low productivity.
I doubt he would agree that that is a good idea.
Note that I am not claiming that he was correct. I tend to doubt it.
lots of cranky, no balls
fuck off.
me i’m at the point now that i laugh at the proggtard’s tank.
it ain’t about you and your opinion
I’m pretty much at sea here, so let me put my Captain McCluskey hat on before I start speculatin on a hypotisiss
When we talk about Keynes, aren’t we really talking about Galbraith? At least in the American context?
The tank doesn’t care that you’re laughing when it runs you over, newrouter.
oh you xtians go read about the martyrs in spain with the religion of peace. effin’ proggtard century 7.0(oh ad not about moe)
“The tank doesn’t care”
do you care? does the tank driver care? mr. german dude are you peeping “tank violence”?
If I end up standing in front of a tank, a la Tianamen Square, it will be because the country has become a police state with the proggs in charge, and they’ve decided—again—to exterminate those damned Mormons.
My ancestors endured persecution from the U.S. gubmint; it would be an honor to follow in their footsteps.
“they’ve decided—again—to exterminate those damned Mormons.”
ah no:
FBI Informant Reveals Weather Underground Advocated “Killing 25 Million Americans.”
Nobody knows what became of Tank Man. But has anybody even thought to ask what became of the tank commander? I wonder.
I’ll care when it’s time to care.
And that time will be when the tank is literal, not metaphorical.
yea like a :
A TIME FOR CHOOSING
And instead of killing 25 million Americans, what did they do? Poisoned minds and crippled an economy through a celebrity protege.
Give them time, they’re not done yet.
“I’ll care when it’s time to care.”
sooner makes personal planning easier.
“And instead of killing 25 million Americans, what did they do?”
set it up for the current proggtard cycle. fast and furiously
Standing in front of a Tank/Athwart History/Going-Galt/Secession/Nullification
none of those were among the things Reagan was talking about.
The idea behind Choosing is to have a choice, an alternative vision. It also means accepting that your alternative might not be the choice the People choose.
To go back to your metaphor, I’m not oppossed to standing in front of the tank, if standing in front of a tank is all there is that’s left to do, but I won’t do it needlessly or precipitously either.
” all there is that’s left to do”
if you stand up to the “tank” now they retreat. you want them to retreat. you want to defeat them soundly.
there is not a “choice” with proggtards. defeat them
it is fun fighting pikachus. there comes a time to fight the proggtarded. now is the time.
Even as a metaphor, that only makes sense if you specify with what you intend to stand up to them with.
It seems to me you’re getting into WHAT. ARE YOU. PREPARED. TO DO!?!?! aaaargh gaaah gurgle gurgle territory, and your only plan is to win an academy award for spitting ketchup.
Actually, no, it isn’t.
Okay, General Bolivar. What’s your plan?
He will taunt them. If that doesn’t work, he will taunt them again.
Why not? It worked for the French.
The question is, would it have continued to work, had the police not arrested John Cleese?
And in the nick of time, too!
at this point any plan would be wholly and completely an act of faith
y’all should be like pigs in mud
It’d be nice to see at least one LeftLibProgg – Obama – OFA – KOS – MMFA-paid operation that’s being run top-down and carried out by minor-league grunts defeated, or at least harassed and countered by the ‘good guys’. But it’d mean getting hands dirty in Twitter or Facebook. I don’t do Facebook, but I’ve been fighting these bastards for a year now. They HATES! me.
#StopRush
at this point any plan would be wholly and completely an act of faith
Unlike other plans that deal with the unknowable future…
i detect sarcasms
“When we talk about Keynes, aren’t we really talking about Galbraith? ”
Gilbreth, on the other hand, had no shortage of offspring.
WRT tanks: the classic view is that Molotov cocktails work way better than standing in front of them. I don’t know if that’s still the case. Might be worth finding out.
OPSEC, nr. One does not discuss strategy or tactics, even hypothetically, in the open.
I am a devout agnostic, but I find myself defending Christianity quite a bit among by lefty friends. It inevitably leads from the above lectures to Jesus and dinosaurs and old men on thrones in the clouds and so on.
My response then is “so have you studied religion at all after you left Vacation Bible School?” That almost always shuts the discussion right down.