Never.
This is being touted as an elitist member of the Liberal media getting her foot stuck in her mouth while being snarky to a Conservative ...and it is that to an extent. When's the last time you heard a news reader stop an interview to ask the academic credentials of a Liberal before moving on to their next point?
What this really is though...is a familiar scene, an example of a condescending new england yankee having her assumptions neatly folded up by a Southerner and politely shoved back up her bigoted a**!
Contessa's from new england, holds all the right views and is a member of the progressive establishment...Mo's just a back slappin, good ole boy politician from Alabama for ***'s sake.
Stoopid yankee cow...that's Highest Honors at Duke.
Drawing attention to the paucity of debate from the so-called liberal media is akin to shooting fish in a barrel ... they're a caricature ... a cartoon, but I find myself thinking exactly the same about the Fox brigade ... they don't represent the typical traditional values of the old time Republicans.
ReplyDeleteTake these two clips that, on the surface of it, have nothing in obvious in common; however, I think, on closer inspection, they finger a similar thread of malaise:
Eisenhower's Farewell Address - notable for identifying the threat of the industrial-military complex (one of my favourite speeches and shows words and thoughts are more powerful than performance, grandiose oration and rhetorical flourishes):
http://youtu.be/CWiIYW_fBfY
And Doug Stanhope on the "inbred corporate landscape"
http://youtu.be/S0ZKH2PGA8g
This is much more than that...and Conservatives are guilty of it too when it comes to The South.
ReplyDeleteI remember Krauthammer making a statement after Katrina about how the kinda sturdy yoemen from the Great Lakes region (midwesterners...the sorta plebs a Patrician loves) don't freak out when there's a blizzard. Never bothering to point out that Mississippi which had it's coast line erased and which was dealing with far more destruction than N.O. was moving along just fine...or that the area of New Orleans which flooded was "special" to start with...but one example.
I deal with it from time to time..degree from Yale and all. Once I open my mouth none of that matters.
I don't watch any of these channels all that much. I use to watch Special Report with Britt Hume on Fox...he's retired now but, I never watched any of the evening shows.
To be honest I don't care much for the old traditional Republican party,(certainly not the very old Republican party. It was more anti-Liberal than anti-government. My concern is with Liberty.
The Federal government is so deeply involved in things it has no business being in...the system isn't designed to support...I don't know of anything short of secession (which I support even under the best of conditions) or a general crack up that will fix it.
The first speech I know...the second I'll have to watch when I'm at the house.
As a part of the geographic but not really south (Florida) I know exactly what you mean about the prejudiced against many in the south. I see it first hand a lot. Even our not-really-south state is divided in half, between the more urbanized south and the more southern north and all of our politics are reflected in that division.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, just wanted to say: long time no speak/read, hope all is well, this was an extremely entertaining post which I promptly sent to a few friends, and hooray small government.
Lorraine
Good to see you around. I've been meaning to stop by myself.
ReplyDeleteYou know I was born in North Florida...GO Gators...it's been an issue every since I can remember. I don't know why...money I imagine...the place hasn't split long ago.
That's one way to get smaller government...keep busting places up...glad you enjoyed it.
Hope all is well with you.
Ahhh! See where you're coming from now - my bad: couldn't quite get this one first time around and that's why, now I read my comment again, it really is tangential. To cover my embarrassment, I shall exit from the main body of the party and join the losers in the kitchen to converse a while on matters more germane to my ignorance and return, once again, to the main festivities when the memory of this faux par has been erased by the arrival of the go-go dancers - here's hoping :)
ReplyDeleteTake heart....there will be Go-Go Dancers.
ReplyDeleteYour comments weren't out of bounds...it's an element of all this.
And you can't be expected to know just how deep divisions run in this country. Just stick around.
Cheeky cow, thats brilliant!
ReplyDeleteYou don't often get it wrapped up that neatly.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I did write something longer, but t'internets killed it again, but on reflection that did it just fine, and is probably more than she deserves.
ReplyDeleteBesides, just like mentioning hitler, the minuite you start questioning peoples credentials in a debate, it usually means you are flagging on your argument. No always of course, but if your point is strong enough, you should need to say 'what do you know about it'... that usually left to 15 years old talking to their folks.
Apologies for my long absence, I know it has probably given you sleepless night after sleepless night!
It has caused me to become irregular and has brought back a nervous habit of shaking my head when I talk...thought I'd licked that one 20 years ago but, other than that...no harm.
ReplyDeleteSadly me and Allan had a discussion this weekend about all groups and periodicals that we no longer subscribe to over this same issue. Those that are supposed to be our ideological allies up north...who depend on our votes at any rate...aren't any better about this crap.