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Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 04:33 PM by Adam Kirur
Fine antonyms, those. So fine, in fact, that more and more Republicans, along with their Beckerheaded Hordes, are tossing them about willy-nilly, using them in every other sentence as if newly-learned "Words for Today," embracing them with such ardor as to constitute what I can only describe as a series of linguistic threeways.
Who'd have thunk that Michele Bachmann could be the Linda Lovelace of lexicological politics?
But those words, like so many others employed by the right, are code.
I'm recalling a scene from the movie Reds, wherein Jack Nicholson, playing a weary and increasingly-cynical Eugene O'Neill says, "Ah, Russia. You know, whenever I hear some young, starry-eyed convert to The Cause talk about Russia, I can't help but think to myself, 'Watch out: A new version of Irish Catholicism is being offered for your consumption.'"
Well, that's exactly how I feel whenever I see one of these astroturfed, out-of-district (and here I thought conservatives were against busing!) drones barking the L-word and/or T-word at the town halls. To my mind, it translates as, "Hi, I'm a gun-worshipping, climate change-denying, the-Bible-is-literally-true-even-the-self-contradictory-parts 'Christian' who simply cannot handle the fact that there's a gosh-darn NEGRO in the White House!"
For, when one truly considers it, what other explanation can there be? Where were these people?
I mean, seriously, where WERE these people???
When George W. Bush was spending money like there was no tonight, let alone tomorrow, where were they?
When Dick Cheney was taking the laws of the country and waterboarding them to fit his own, twisted conceptions, where were they?
When John Ashcroft was putting the Constitution into the shredder, where were they?
When Scooter Libby was committing TREASON, where were they?
When America was being led down the garden path to a wholly-unnecessary war in Iraq, the premises of which could be called laughably false but for the fact that the deaths of 4,000+ American troops and God-only-knows how many Iraqis really aren't all that funny, where were they?
When, for eight years, on every aspect of foreign, military, domestic, fiscal, cultural, legal, and ethical issues these suddenly-"outraged" people were being lied to by their own government, WHERE WERE THEY?
And where...do they get...the unmitigated...gall...to show their racist, ignorant, willingly-disinformed, anti-democracy, anti-American, and yes, anti-LIBERTY faces in public today???
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