{"id":9973,"date":"2007-10-11T04:53:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T10:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2007-10-11T04:53:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T10:53:59","slug":"ground-chuck-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9973","title":{"rendered":"Ground Chuck [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

HCdl & Spree at Wake\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0up America put some tag-team hurt <\/a>on His Righteousness.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The Virginian also has thoughts<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Also Sister Toldjah<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Callimachus extracts the most interesting part of the narrative-shaping saga in this post<\/a>, whereas the lefty blogosphere is all over this bit of trutherism<\/a> at Think Progress.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0So, we get to track this incredibly asinine meme as it spreads, in real time.<\/p>\n

Speaking of fark, Howard Kurtz\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0argues\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the extremely poor quality of MSM news may be the fault of we consumers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of fark, Michelle highlights respected liberal Ezra Klein’s latest<\/a>, which I’d seen but not seen fit to comment on, at the time.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It’s more interesting now a) because respected liberal blogger Ezra Klein has challenged Michelle Malkin to debate SCHIP, and b) because Chuck Adkins, who had published Michelle’s personal information at his blog then taken it down, claims in Klein’s comments that the reason he removed it was that he was asked to do so by a female reporter from the Baltimore Sun, perhaps the one cited at the end of the article as helping with research, in order not to create any undue sympathy for Michelle.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, an excerpt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The shrieking, atavistic ritual of personal destruction the right roars into every few weeks is something different than politics. It is beyond politics. It was done to Scott Beauchamp, a soldier serving in Iraq. It was done to college students from the University of California, at Santa Cruz<\/font><\/strong><\/a>. Currently, it is being done to a child and his family. And think of those targets: College students, soldiers, children. It can be done to absolutely anyone.<\/p>\n

This is not politics. This is, in symbolism and emotion, a violent group ritual. It is savages tearing at the body of a captured enemy. It is the group reminding itself that the Other is always disingenuous, always evil, always lying, always pitiful and pathetic and grotesque. It is a bonding experience \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the collaborative nature of these hateful orgies proves that much \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which the enemy is exposed as base and vile and then ripped apart by the community. In that way, it sustains itself, each attack preemptively justifying the next vicious assault, justifying the whole hateful edifice on which their politics rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Graeme Frost as Christ-figure.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Or “The Lottery.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe, “They stab it with their steely knives but they just. can’t. kill. the. beast.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What Klein is doing, clearly, is demonizing the opposition.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But he doesn’t see that, because obviously this\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0self-perpetuating mob mentality (reminiscent of the “Cinna the Poet” scene in Julius Caesar) “justif[ies] the whole hateful edifice.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the fark that means.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It is this kind of considered and measured language that makes him a respected liberal blogger, of course, and this kind of pseudopsychological musing, as well.<\/p>\n

Oh, and:<\/p>\n

In what is a rare judicial ruling on what children can see in the class-room, Mr Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201capocalyptic vision\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d presented in the film was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt is plainly, as witnessed by the fact that it received an Oscar this year for best documentary film, a powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced film,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he said in his ruling. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt is built around the charismatic presence of the ex-Vice-President, Al Gore [ed. Bwahahahaha<\/em>!], whose crusade it now is to persuade the world of the dangers of climate change caused by global warming.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt is now common ground that it is not simply a science film \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 although it is clear that it is based substantially on scientific research and opinion \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 but that it is a political film.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Because I hate the environment, man<\/em>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And because we shouldn’t let this SCHIP debate distract us from the imminent flooding of our coastal cities and the mess that is Iraq.<\/p>\n

Hillaryous headline du jour: Clinton vows to check executive power<\/a><\/p>\n

From Redstate: Who’s asking who’s been riding Silky Pony?<\/a><\/p>\n

More measured, coherent thought expressed in crystalline prose, from TRex<\/a>:<\/p>\n

P.S. Righty apostate John Cole at Balloon Juice has dredged up a blast from your past<\/font><\/a> called, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWhen the Left Invades Our Privacy\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/font><\/a> that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s downright hi-larious given your stance on the privacy of the Frost family. Tell me, you little genocidal pinhead, does the cognitive dissonance give you headaches? Make your ears ring? Or are you comfortable with the fact that you are blessed with the moral consistency of a border collie on crystal meth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait . . . I . . . was Malkin the one who asked to see their tax filings?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Should we stop verifying people’s representation of their finances for aid purposes?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Is reporting the same as stalking?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Do you suppose nobody’s done research on Malkin?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Does one give up some of their privacy when they make a national political address?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Does this fit any legal definition of stalking?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 As usual, you’re talking out of your ass.<\/p>\n

More troothiness:\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost <\/a>by Karen Tumulty at Time<\/p>\n

Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne’s fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because “politics ain’t beanbag.” But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the issue of the truth of what the Swiftboaters said, or of Kerry’s congressional testimony or later statements about his service are not material to this term, which constitutes a smear in itself.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But then, Ms. Tumulty isn’t really interested in the truth.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The family are refusing to answer to the media, except those who will transmit information one way.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Says Halsey Frost:<\/p>\n

“My son Graeme has helped put on a human face, that of a young boy, representing the needs of children and families across this nation. We are a hard working family that has stepped forward to support SCHIP. Mudslinging from the fringe has now been directed at the messenger. To be smeared all over the Internet and receive nasty e-mail \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my family does not deserve this retribution. It is both shameful and pathetic.<\/p>\n

“Driven by a most dubious agenda, shortsighted cut-and-paste bloggers, lacking all the facts, have made a feeble attempt at being crack reporters. This is an aberrant attempt to distract the American people from what the real issues are. Hard working American families need affordable health insurance.<\/p>\n

“I find it morally reprehensible, and the act of a true coward, to publicly (world wide) smear a man and his family and not sign one’s own real name to what they have written. I sign my name to what I write.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can agree about the anonymous emails, and I don’t think that the press has any right to insist that the family hand over their financial filings, but it is telling that Ms. Tumulty doesn’t ask them for that.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She’s not interested in the facts.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She is interested in spinning a particular version of the reportage.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly, we’re not going to be getting all the facts.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And Mr. Frost?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You could get a full-time job writing press releases for Senator Byrd.<\/p>\n

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The working poor\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0then.<\/p>\n

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The intermittently working poor\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HCdl & Spree at Wake\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0up America put some tag-team hurt on His Righteousness.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The Virginian also has thoughts.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Also Sister Toldjah.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Callimachus extracts the most interesting part of the narrative-shaping saga in this post, whereas the lefty blogosphere is all over this bit of trutherism at Think Progress. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0So, we get to track this incredibly asinine meme as it spreads, in real time. Speaking of fark, Howard Kurtz\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0argues\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the extremely poor<\/p>\n

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