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The Spectacle Blog
A chill wind blows.
In light of the horrific murder of a security guard by an alleged extremist at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, liberal pontificator Paul Krugman of the New York Times is the latest unhinged pundit to join in the left’s campaign to silence conservatives and libertarians.
His latest column is filled with lies and distortions about the discredited, now-withdrawn Department of Homeland Security report on “rightwing extremism” that labeled all conservatives, libertarians, and returning veterans as potential terrorists and directed law enforcement officials across the country to act.
Shame on him.
Krugman should remember that the hate-crimes legislation that the left has been hysterically demanding for years could one day be used against him.
(I had a vigorous discussion yesterday about the shooting and the left’s reaction to it with progressive talker Thom Hartmann on his show yesterday.)
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Sam Hankin| 6.12.09 @ 11:18AM
Hey Matt,
We haven't spoken in a while. Email me so we can go to lunch. I'm still at HDR.
--Sam
Crusader| 6.12.09 @ 12:11PM
Can we really say we didn't see this coming? I made the not so bold prediction after Tiller was killed that left-wing kooks would start to pontificate that his killing justified the memos. Is it really that hard to see what's going on? A couple people sacrificed for the greater god of spreading socialism. Opposition needs to be silenced. Have an abortionist killed here, shoot up a Holocaust museum there, then blame it on Rush or O'Reilly or Ron Paul. The sheeple will lap it up and baaaaah for more restrictions on speech in the name of "safety." I still say they're not finished. An NAACP HQ or maybe a mosque is next.
Geo| 6.12.09 @ 12:44PM
You people are fucking insane!
Oldefarte| 6.12.09 @ 1:12PM
No, Geo, Janet Napalitano is f*****g insane! As to the left's use of this DC killing [and also the Kansas killing] as political weapons just goes to demonstrate that they will stop at nothing to achieve their political purposes. Truth be told, I would not be surprised if the left's hands were not somehow involved in one or both of these tragic occurances. Their perverted morality extends to the TV late night jokes about Palin's daughter; raiding Mormon churches and throwing feces and urine at congregants over the California Prop 8 issue of gay marriage; humiliating, cursing and destroying the career of Carrie Prejean [Miss USA contestant]over their radical views on marriage; burning/destroying Hummer vehicles on car dealer lots because of the vehicles' MPG issue; bombing [does the name Ayers/Weathermen come to mind?] office/government buildings in the 1960's over their dislike of the Vietnam War; making outrageous movies, TV programs, and accusations based upon their extreme political philosophy;etc. The liberal left is in several words, RADICAL EXTREMISTS!!!!!!
Missy| 6.12.09 @ 2:38PM
Von Brunn is a registered DEMOCRAT! It's ridiculous to say he's a right winger--especially with the anti-Semitic drivel Rev.Wright just spewed.
Didn't Krugman leave Stanford because of a personal scandal? The guy's a dirt bag.
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Mike | 6.12.09 @ 4:21PM
Rush Limbaugh wants the President of the United States to fail. Our country is at war and we are facing the worst economic crisis since the great depression and Mr. Limbaugh wants the current administration to fail. Is he called a traitor by the "patriots" on the right? No. All the right has been doing since Obama's inauguration is offering up relentless criticism, name calling and demonization. When people who clearly have an extreme right wing ideology commit crimes, right wing commentators hyperventilate in their attempt to deny that their is any connection between the hatred they spewed and the horrible crimes we have seen committed. The ridiculous among these right wing commentators, like Limbaugh, insist that criminals are really motivated by left wing ideology. Black is white and white is black.
George, regarding some on the right you correct. They are insane.
Missy: What scandal? I tried to find out about the scandal to which you are referring. The best I could come up with was the time he was consulting with Enron, a job he resigned when he joined the NYT.
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Mariano | 6.12.09 @ 5:38PM
With so much about the Holocaust in the news recently let us not, ever, forget that the supposed atheist champion of reason, Sam Harris, actually blames the Jews ourselves for all of our suffering including the Holocaust:
“The gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth.”—“The End of Faith,” p. 93
This post elucidated the point:
http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2009/05/from-zeitgeist-to-poltergeist-part-5-of.html
grzmlyk| 6.12.09 @ 7:36PM
Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail at destroying the country. Mike wants Obama to succeed at destroying the country.
Just wanted to clarify.
Missy| 6.12.09 @ 7:39PM
Any PATRIOT would want Obama's Marxist takeover to fail. You're obviously a traitor.
Von Brunn is a DEMOCRAT like you, Mike. His actions were your left-wing anti-Semitic hatred on full display; just like Obama's personal minister, Jeremiah Wright.
Krugman's scandal was personal, a moral matter--probably something you'd approve, libtard.
Missy| 6.12.09 @ 7:45PM
Save your BS, libtard--after 8 years of BusHitler, deal with some Obamassiah criticism. Whine, whine, whine. Loser liberals.
grzmlyk| 6.12.09 @ 8:05PM
It's clear that the media will never criticize Obama. He could slit the throats of five random woman at the National Press Club Dinner and you wouldn't hear a peep about it anywhere the next day in the Mainstream media.
Popular culture worships him and politicians and business fear him. He has succeeded in becoming a "beloved" dictator in four months.
Gotta hand it to him; but his success speaks far less of his talents and abilities - he is the epitome of mediocrity and the apotheosis of narcissism, after all - than it does of just how depraved America has become that we would elevate such a nihilistic non-entity filled with nothing but anger, predudice and ambition to a position of unprecedented power.
People like Krugman and Mike are most useful idiots. I wonder how they feel about their great contribution to existence: as stepping stones for a common thug.
Conservatives will have the last laugh, of course. But by that time there'll be nothing of America left to salvage. We'll be sufficiently sovietized such that America's chief product will be misery.
And even the Krugmans and Mikes of the world will eventually wake up. Well, maybe not Krugman and Mike, but those who haven't undergone lobotomies will.
Wait - there are no liberals who haven't undergone lobotomies, are there? Please tell me no one with a functioning brain still thinks this guy is good for America and the world.
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Angel| 6.13.09 @ 12:25AM
grzmlyk, couldn't you have put five random 'men' in your sentence regarding the National Press Club?
Geez, sometimes you men are so creepy.
grzmlyk| 6.13.09 @ 11:41AM
Well I certainly think Obama's creepy. And that's one of his more appealing traits.
But to your point: I wanted to get in the misogyny angle.
Obama hates everyone, of course, but he's a traditional chauvinist - remember some of the cracks he's made, calling distaff (that's "female"to you, Angel) reporters "sweetheart?"
If Bush had done that, the press would have castrated him on the spot.
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House of Eratosthenes links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Basil Plumley| 6.13.09 @ 11:53AM
@ grzmlyk
What you don't understand is that the Media and their Liberal sycophants grovel before their master.
When they are satisfied with their groveling they come here to enlighten us with their presence.
grzmlyk| 6.13.09 @ 11:59AM
I agree completely.
Who knew that the number one publication all of the media subcribe to is "Tiger Beat?"
How do they expect to be taken seriously when it is obvious that they view Obama through the filter of what amounts to a collective adolescent crush?
Newsweek is trying to figure out how to put Obama on the cover more than 52 times next year.
Basil Plumley| 6.13.09 @ 1:46PM
@ grzmlyk
You said-Newsweek is trying to figure out how to put Obama on the cover more than 52 times next year.
Their solution will be easy; put a full frontal picture of Obama on the front cover and put a full rear picture of Obama on the rear cover.
Thus, the Left can worship and kiss Obama's front and rear.
Angel| 6.13.09 @ 3:03PM
Basil--lol
Angel| 6.13.09 @ 3:11PM
grzmlyk: Oh, I see your point. I'd have understood you sooner if you had said, "He could have slit the throats of five 'Socially Conservative' women...." Liberal guys like 'Bob' think we're freebies or something (like Sarah).
Whatever. I'll disabuse them of that notion.
Angel| 6.13.09 @ 3:20PM
I wasn't sure if you'd insulted me until I looked up 'distaff'--not really, just kidding.
I still don't like the look of that word, though. If we're distaff, does that make men staff?
grzmlyk, care to share origin/motivation behind your handle? I'm not trying to be nosy, just curious, okay?
grzmlyk| 6.14.09 @ 2:09AM
Hi Angel: No, I wasn't insulting you - I was, however, hedging my bets as I thought you might be insulting me. Such is the nature of these politically-charged sites that "snark" is the going currency. Actually, I hate being snarky, but I feel that too often conservatives play by "Marquis of Queensbury" rules even as liberals have carte blanche to eviscerate us, and so I tend to fight fire with fire and do the old literary jujitsu by outsnarking the snarks.
The "grzmlyk" handle's origins stem from a whacky group of Monty Python-esque guys I hung out with in high school. They would stand up and do sort of anti-cheers at basketball games. One was, "gimme a 'G!", gimme an 'R!', gimme a 'Z!", etc. The idea was that it was a nonsense word that was virtually unpronounceable, so when they got to, "What's that spell?" the bemused crowd would be further bemused. Flash forward to dawn of the Internet age, when I had to take user names for various sites and found that most were already taken. So rather than become another "bob 239" or "fred 445," it came to me that "grzmlyk" probably wasn't taken - and so the moniker was born.
grzmlyk| 6.14.09 @ 2:17AM
Angel:
By the way, I think "distaff" goes back to middle English, and I would not be surprised if its origin lies in the allusion to anatomy that it appears to be. So it's not about sexim, just a descriptor: one sex has an "outie" and one has an "innie."
However, not having delved into the origins of the word, I am making an assumption.
grzmlyk| 6.14.09 @ 2:23AM
Basil:
Well, that's one solution, and a good one at that. No doubt there is not a square inch of the Big O that isn't worthy of osculations.
I was thinking Obama might simply declare a year to consist of 72 or even 100 weeks by royal decree. Surely, by simple force of will he could effect such a change in the earth's orbit.
The State is All, Obama is the State, All Hail Obama, etc. etc.
So Angel: what's the origin of your moniker?
James Simmons| 6.14.09 @ 5:34AM
If the reference to DHS is accurate then I would tend to disagree with it. There is more to say however.
I am of the opinion that, in cases where we see violence, the perpetrator is almost always of the right wing philosophy. We liberals tend to be tolerant and non-violent. We tend not to agree with the desirably of owning guns for protection and things like that. We tend to want to discuss issues going deeply into nuance and meaning whereas a right winger will tend to be impatient with this thoughtful approach preferring instead to speak in "one liners" which so often make no sense.
Here's an example:
Did you ever see the bumper sticket which reads:
"God said it, I believe it, that settles it"?
This is the mind of a typical right winger. This mindset allows no room for an exchange of ideas nor does it suggest that the proponent is thoughtful, considerate, honest or anything at all like Jesus teaches us to be.
This is what I have come to see from the right. Now someone is trying to sell the idea that a leftie did the crime at the museum?
Well guess what folks, lefties don't use guns to settle their problems. They eschew violence.
Sorry Limbaugh. You lose on this one buddy.
If anyone wants to debate this please do so in a mature manner giving verifiable references for your opinions.
James Simmons| 6.14.09 @ 6:22AM
OK I just finished reading the Homeland Security Report and here is a perfect example of my claim that right wing guys do not care to look closely at what they read but prefer to knee jerk and go ape with only partial information.
I'll just give one example. Under the topic mentioning "returning veterans" it specifically states DISGRUNTLED returning veterans. But see? The word "disgruntled" is left out making it sound like the author means that all returning veterans are trouble.
Remember the kid who did the federal bldg in OKC? He was a disgruntled veteran. Not a regular one but a sick one.
So right wing guys if you want credibility start paying attention to what you believe, support and say, please.
Note: It is sooooo typical of Hannity to "accidently" fail to leave out a key word that changes meaning. He knows well enough that those who listen to him do not double check what he says. If fact, if you all did, he's be off the air.
For a change be careful righties. Do your own thinking. Control emotionalism and think think think.
Here's the link FYI
www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
Basil Plumley| 6.14.09 @ 2:08PM
@ James Simmons
Why don't you define "disgruntled" before you celebrate your "aha!" moment?
Better yet, do you know a "disgruntled" returning veteran when you see one?
Ergo, don't you have to watch all of the returning veterans to see who exhibits "disgruntledism"?
I got to tell you; when you libs are stuck on stupid, your arguments are hilarious and illogical.
Stupid; one word, just like disgruntled.
For once James; try to "think think think".
Angel| 6.14.09 @ 3:10PM
Grzmlyk: You were hedging your bets because you didn't know if I was insulting you--that's so funny.
No way am I going to insult a male Conservative, (you're on my side)--but because you're a guy I still feel that you're fair game to be teased. ;) Sorry, it's the juvenile delinquent in me--I never grew out of it.
The origin of my moniker? Isn't it obvious by now?
My Daddy called me Angel--it was his nickname for me. He's gone now but 'Angel' always reminds me of him. He was hilarious.
What's with that James guy anyway? Freak.
Grzmlyk| 6.16.09 @ 12:23AM
Hi Angel:
I doubt you'll come back here - I forgot which article I had commented on, and you know how it goes. But I did want to check up on you and your moniker. :-)
Well, I 'm glad we're on the same side. As for James, it's funny - who does he think starts all the riots at the World Economic Form, G-7, G8, World Bank meetings and virtually every there is mob violence in the world? It ain't righties.
I don't know - I'll never understand the fundamental distortion of reality that is the liberal mind. It's as if they decide they just won't believe human nature is what it is anymore - as if they don't like the rain, so they go out during a rainstorm and insist they're dry. And all of their soaking wet friends agree to agree to pretend they're dry.
I'm not a conservative because I feel morally superior, and certainly not because I'm a hater (is James even serious, I wonder? His posts are risible). I am a conservative because I know that when you drop an object it lands on the ground. And just as I accept the immutability of the law of gravity, I accept the immutability of the reality of human nature that I see; I don't push it off in favor of the illusion I want to see - one that flatters my vanity. That's how we differ from the James's of the world.
Hope you are well.
Angel| 6.16.09 @ 1:32AM
Grzmlyk, you're a doll, like so many of the great guys who blog here.
It's worth navigating through all the troll nonsense to meet so many terrific Conservatives.
You've been fun, thank you.
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Adult Toys | 9.14.09 @ 4:40PM
Sounds like a little fight fire with fire situation.
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