‘Why Are Liberals So Rude to the Right?’
...All too often the difference between left and right in what should be “polite circles” is quite sharply drawn. Conservatives think liberals have bad ideas and liberals think conservative are bad people. “It’s cool to be rude if you’re a liberal,” Leften Right concludes. Just ask Al Franken, a supposed comedian who became a U.S. senator after a career of ad hominem attacks on his adversaries. He received no pushback for entitling one of his books “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot.” Rush at least apologized for his nasty crack about pro-choice activist Sandra Fluke being a “slut.”...Meanwhile over at Instapundit:
Your civility lessons do not impress me, douchebags.
"Leften Right." Sweet. Jesus.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the book and Fund's bleat about it are a big hit at Bloodthirsty Liberal. Perusing that blog for a few minutes should give you all the context you need on the liveral meanie vs. conservative sweetheart issue.
Glenn Reynolds: Blogging on the taxpayers' dime since 2001!
ReplyDelete(He's got a lot of room to talk about freeloading.)
Leastways then an apple tree or something might grow there.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing Rush was only nasty that one time.
ReplyDeleteactually, a black male cop or teacher would likely be the face of public unions, you unable-to-google-shit-for-brains.silly-person.
ReplyDeleteJohn Fund?
ReplyDeleteWasn't he the one who wanked on Mooselini's shoes?
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And he apologized immediately to Fluke without any external pressure. Furthermore his apology was utterly sincere and rectified his lies and mischaracterizations about her. Can't forget that.
ReplyDeleteAren't these the people who complain that they have to walk on rhetorical eggshells due to political correctness?
ReplyDelete‘Why Are Liberals So Rude to the Right?’
ReplyDeleteBecause it's fun, and you deserve it. Next question, turdball?
For the record, I seem to recall Mr. Franken becoming a senator by winning an election. His poor, pwecious little victim, on the other hand, has continued his daily routine of getting medicated up to his eyeballs and spewing liquid hate into a microphone every day, all so his mule-fucking fanbase can nod along and keep him rolling in underage hookers. When he finally bursts a vein in that studio and they have to borrow the elephant stretcher from the zoo, they damn well better plop him in an unmarked grave, because as God is my witness I will dig it up and hatefuck the corpse.
Oh, third reason-it's cathartic.
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Hey, mule-fuckers have feelings too.
ReplyDeleteI think that's what John Fund meant, right?
Not a great fan of consensus politics I see. :)
ReplyDeleteNo, these are the people who boil an egg and think they're having a whole chicken for breakfast.
ReplyDelete"Conservatives think liberals have bad ideas and liberals think conservative are bad people." Well, he's got part of that backwards; I can't count the number of times I've heard wingers screeching about eeeeevil libs. On the other hand, I see hard evidence all the time about conservatives being bad people -- nasty, hypocritical, selfish, greedy, bigoted, small-souled, mean-spirited people. Of course, I don't think EVERY conservative is like that just because the ones who screech the loudest are.
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I was recently asked by my wingnut mother why I can't respectfully disagree with Republicans. Easy. I don't respect them. Three out of four still express doubts about where the president of the United States was born. Anyone who calls himself a Republican has shit for brains.
ReplyDeleteThe birtherism is bad enough, but it's the monkey trials which cause me to disdain them.
ReplyDelete"Why are liberals so mean? Conservatives are never like that!" say a bunch of people who've apparently never listened to a right-wing talk show.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing cuter than a self proclaimed "recovering liberal"
ReplyDeleteI can’t speak for my paternal great-grandparents (who, as Russian-Jewish
immigrants, probably didn’t vote at all, there or here), but from my
grandparents on down, no one in my family has ever voted for anyone but a
Democrat—with the exception of my father in 1968, who couldn’t bring
himself to vote for Humphrey. He wrote in Eldridge Cleaver. Starting
in 1976, I marched in formation, stumbling a bit like Gomer Pyle, until
September 11, 2001. My first reaction, after sickening shock, was to
thank God that my vote for Al Gore had been in vain.
"If my renegade father's vote for Eldridge Cleaver does not attest to my former Liberal bona-fides I don't know what will. 9/11 changed everything of course, though for a while I could not see, until they installed a window in my abdomen."
You know, guys like these almost have me giving the "I used to be a Liberal but Chappaquidick!" loons a glimmer of respect...
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These idiots try to use civility as a cudgel. Is there a secret wingnut dictionary of which I am currently unaware?
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I do wonder how much time Reynolds spent looking for a similar photo of a black woman, before feeling the pressure of time, relenting and posting the above. At least they still feel privileged enough to poke fun at the morbidly obese.
ReplyDeleteGlen has comments, right? BRB.
Thank god he has not.
ReplyDeleteI would like to dress up in a fat-suit and Rush mask and then keep very, very still in hopes that this comment might rock my world with some of its sweet, sweet necrophilic hatefuckin' love.
ReplyDeleteThe first 'graph...
ReplyDeleteBritain’s Guardian newspaper is resolutely left-wing, but it will often stir up debate with contrary op-ed content. On Monday, it published a neck-snapping piece entitled “Why are liberals so rude to the right?” Its subtitle was “Too many people who lean left would rather crack nasty jokes than actually be liberal and listen to other views.”
Neck-snapping? A piece that amounts to an extensive whinge about not being able to spout the most ridiculous shit and have people pat you on the back for your 'insight'?
These are the same bastards that bitch about soccer trophies?
Who many? Crack nasty (I think you meant funny, bub) jokes? And liberal now seems to mean that I have to listen to your theories on the flatness of the Earth?
Let us not even start on the fact that the author of the original neck-snapper felt compelled to use a pseudonym...
These guys can barely phone it in anymore.
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I think you left out "climb into a coffin" but the rest kills.
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No, no, no. "Nasty, hypocritical, selfish, greedy, bigoted, small-souled, and mean-spirited" is a genuine approach to maintaining a well-ordered society. Where do you libruhls get off thinking they're bad people just because you don't understand their political ideas for improving society through the proven methods of Nasty, hypocritical, selfish, greedy, bigoted, small-souled, and mean-spirited politics?
ReplyDeleteI suppose next you'll be saying that telling fags they're going to hell and wimmins that they should just shut up and make babies, also makes wingnuts "bad people."
I know, right? Conservatives have been politely not saying a word, but we've got nothing better to do than taunt them with his blackness every chance we get.
ReplyDeleteGood lord, man, at least have some sympathy for your cock.
ReplyDeleteClearly nobody here understands that one liberal guy with a hand-lettered offensive sign standing on a street corner in LostLint, Indiana has exactly as much audience and influence as Rush, Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.
ReplyDeleteAnd the linked article is about the head of a small public union, who is being sued BECAUSE of his alleged poor work habits by other union members. Reynolds is such a colossal prick
ReplyDeleteWhy Are Liberals So Rude to the Right?
ReplyDeleteI can only speak for myself, but I was brought up to make fun of idiots because otherwise they'll never have any incentive to get smarter.
Leften Right, Stepin Fetchit...wingtards are really witty with the name-calling, ain't they. Real Oscar Wildes (only not "you know").
ReplyDeleteWell you can't make omelettes without the Prince of Denmark, no wait.
ReplyDeleteAnyone actually go over to Amazon and look at this thing? Couple things. First, it's published through iUniverse, and while I certainly can't judge anyone for self-publishing, it's amusing to me that even Regnery wouldn't touch this thing. Second, due to the giant text size (gotta be sixteen point) and crudely drawn illustration, this thing's only pulling about 200 words per page, which means that the whole book is probably under 30k words. And third, Fund didn't mention it, but this thing is actually humor. Why, here's a sample of the hilarity:
ReplyDelete"Who was that lady I saw you dancing with last night?"
"That was no lady. That was my partner in his chemise."
You may think weird, but if you want to be accepted in our liberal world, you say, "Gorgeous. I think I'll pick one up for my partner."
Ha ha ha! Fags are funny. We conservatives are so respectful of other people! It's all right to say these things, because "gay marriage is not what most people want" (shut up, it's not. I can't hear you). Boy, John Fund sure picked the right obscure book to promote!
Heh, indeed.
ReplyDelete“Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot” was published in 1996. John Fund still has his fee-fees hurt over that? That's his big example? George aWol Bush took a huge shit on the nation and Fund is worried about liberal pushback on a book Franken published in 1996? This is why tea bag conservatives are publicly ridiculed. It's the appropriate response to criminal and obstructionist behavior.
ReplyDeleteLost lint Indiana? How appropriate for the Omphalos.
ReplyDeleteCivility, please. It's "GOP presidential primaries," not "monkey trials."
ReplyDeleteHas John Fund stopped beating his wife/girlfriend?
ReplyDeleteRight - exactly, the guy is not on the public payroll, he's on the union's payroll, and it's the membership that is trying to get rid of him.
ReplyDeleteWhy are liberals so mean? Obviously, it's because they're toadying to their anti-American Kenyan Muslim Socialist Obambi Death Squad organizers. But conservatives only criticize bad policy.
ReplyDeleteNo, but he does it politely without ad hominems in a way that honors traditional norms. Unlike rude liberals,
ReplyDeleteSo, one book written almost 2 decades ago by a comedian against everything ever said or written by Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh, etc because one of them offered a nonpology then continued in the same behavior? Oooookay.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this version of Oscar Wilde: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyepBJXEYJg
ReplyDelete"Conservatives think liberals have bad ideas and liberals think conservative are bad people"
ReplyDeleteThat's because conservatives dance like THIS and liberals dance like THIS. Also because Ann Coulter.
Horseshit's not bad as fertilizer, right?
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of people who get put in a job that they don't deserve and often don't really bother to do, I think of Bernie Kerik, who, as it just so happens, was released from federal prison yesterday; in addition to assorted stunts like screwing Judith Regan in an apartment set aside for WTC rescue workers, he "served" as Interim Minister of the Interior of Iraq at the behest of W (who wanted him to be Secretary of DHS, until the press started looking into his background), and stayed on the job just long enough for his house in the States to be remodeled. He did much more damage during his public career than some minor union functionary with a sinecure.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I see Fund on television I think of this guy.
ReplyDeleteHe was a perfect "lawman" for a kleptocracy.
ReplyDeleteHumorist Leften Wright declares on p. 1 that it's best not to confront liberals with the fact that "the climate has been changing for trillions of years."
ReplyDeleteThe humor evaporates when one realizes that the vast majority of species that have graced the planet are extinct.
"Troglodyte Beauty Contest"
ReplyDeleteConservatives think liberals have bad ideas and liberals think conservative are bad people.
ReplyDeleteSo when conservatives accuse liberals of being baby killers who want 13 year olds to be having sex, that's about bad ideas and not bad people? When the Republican candidate for president says that 47% of the country is just a bunch of worthless moochers who will never take any responsibility for themselves, that's about bad ideas and not bad people? When they say liberals hate freedom of speech and want a priest or a pastor or a rabbi who says negative things about gays to be thrown in jail, that's about bad ideas and not bad people?
Allow me to be rude, as is my wont as a liberal, and invite you to go fuck yourself you disingenuous hack.
'Why are Liberals So Rude to the Right?’
ReplyDeleteBecause that Carl Rogers unconditional positive regard shit doesn't work with psychotics or sociopaths. Really, it's all about what's good for the patient-- that's why we're the liberals.
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ReplyDeleteLiberals aren't so much "rude" as they are honest and truthful about the Right. Senator Franken's books (and M.Moore's) are very carefully researched and vetted by lawyers to avoid any slanderous/untrue statements. (I'd like to see Coulter or sLimebag doing that).
ReplyDeleteRush sLimebag IS a big-fat-idiot. Truth stings.
Our Alinskyite campaign of mockery and ridicule obviously means global warming is a hoax and that Kenyesian policies are wrong.
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ReplyDelete1996! These guys are the most easily bruised specimens in the history of rugged individualism.
ReplyDelete[shows scar] "And I got this one in '89 when my then-hero, fierce anti-Communist Yakov Smirnof, cracked wise at the expense of Vice President Quayle."
Oh, the monkeys won their anti-defamation suit?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that asshole a public employee? I bet he's not willing to give up his cushy job and benefits plus pension.
ReplyDelete"Nasty, hypocritical, selfish, greedy, bigoted, small-souled, and mean-spirited"
ReplyDeleteWell at least it is an ethos.
I was under the impression that the Earth was only 6000 years old.
ReplyDeleteIf there was one liberal guy on a street corner in Lost Lint, Indiana, he would be from out of town.
ReplyDeleteWallace Shawn would be insulted, INSULTED!!! by being compared to Fund.
ReplyDeleteGo fuck yourself.
ReplyDeleteNot an extensive search, no. (To him any nano-second away from the sexbot pictures is a wasted nano-second.)
ReplyDeleteThen will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say, "These wounds had I on 'Colbert at the White House Correspondent's Dinner Day'"
ReplyDeleteYeah, say what you will about the Rules of Acquisition, but at least they're an ethos.
ReplyDelete"Conservatives think liberals have bad ideas and liberals think conservative are bad people"
ReplyDeleteNo, I think conservatives have bad ideas and are bad people. Given that, I don't care what they think about liberals at all.
Depends on your perspective. On the one hand, yeah, our days are numbered. On the other, Leften Wright will be extinct, too, which can only be a benefit to the planet as a whole.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the daughter of his former girlfriend? The one he knocked up and then "civilly" insisted she get an abortion? No, I don't think he's beating her anymore because she left his lowlife ass.
ReplyDelete"That was no lady. That was my partner in his chemise."
ReplyDeleteThere is a joke there about "criminal negligee".
For John Fund things like Newt's list and the entire Fox body of transcripts are down the memory hole.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of amazed (though I shouldn't be) that these guys are willing to still pull out the "thank god Bush was president" shtick.
ReplyDeleteWhereas no-holds-barred capitalism has only been around for 160 years.
ReplyDeleteBelief, my dear fish, the word is belief.
ReplyDeleteRight?!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteI mean these idjits should have been willing to pull out out of the tgbwp shtick, by mid aught 4 at the latest.
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Yes, I can see why Fund wants to keep 'personality' and 'morality' and 'behaviour' out of political debate.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it Lewis Black who said--with some considerable conviction, I might add--that it was Republicans who were the party of bad ideas, and Democrats were the party of no ideas?
ReplyDeleteI think it's pretty clear, logically, that Republicans are the party of bad people with bad ideas (and some inordinately sleazy methods). On the latter, let's be honest here. Ratfucking is not only a Republican invention, it's a time-honored Republican tradition, partly because Democrats wouldn't be associated with a weasel-faced little ratfucker like James O'Keefe, for example, but Republicans think he's a hero.
Yes, Dems are too passive today against the institutional insanity that is teabaggery, but part of that passivity stems from not wanting to descend to the level of Republicans. Who wouldn't love to hear Harry Reid, just once, tell the Turtle Man, "I'm going to kick you in the nuts so hard you'll be wearin' `em for earrings," and mean it?
What's at work here, I think, is that the right wing gets to run things when they're in power and when they're not, and this constant bashing is part of the reason why they do. It's their way of keeping attention centered on them and their bad ideas. Sure, some of it is the analogue of jaded, aging Hitler Youth sitting around pining for the next leader to come along, but, for the most part, it's their idea of establishing dominance.
Therefore, they need a good kick in the nuts once in a while to remind them that they're neither smart nor nice people.
"Sympathy for Your Cock" is my favorite obscure Rolling Stones b-side.
ReplyDeleteThe pseudonym is for plausible deniability, I'm thinking. The author wants to claim "I've been a liberal since birth" or at least "I don't belong to the Professional Guild of Right-Wing Douches", claims that would be imploded if anyone knew who he was.
ReplyDeleteFinally, Franken gave it that title in partial ("Kidding on the Square") irony, poking fun at the actual shit Limbaugh spews every fucking day of his well-compensated, earth-force sucking, Dominican boy-fucking life by turning the tables on Lord Ass-Boil Fatass. Yes, yes, it was terribly incivil of Franken to do such a thing to an "entertainer" like that scum-licking fucktoad, but then, you know, fuck it. Franken punched him right in his man tits and they are still quivering years later, the force of which ripples to flunkies like Fund who still can't believe Harsh Master Rusty had his jowls rung.
ReplyDeleteSuch incivility makes Fund's dogcollar practically meaningless and as a result he's humiliated, constantly, at dinner parties wondering if slurping out of the bowl on the floor has any dignity left at all.
Plausible deniability with an instinct to whinge at every turn when one of us "idiots" is on to their game adds an insult to injury, that they can't seem to recognize.
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If he didn't write that explicitly for the purpose of using it as a preemptive attack on the left to distract his rubes from the growing fascism of the right, less one or two of them notice, then he might as well have.
ReplyDeleteThe comments in that post--- sheesh--- it boggles. I had fun voting up the reasonable challenges.
In exactly the same way that Bull Connor was the perfect lawman for Jim Crow....
ReplyDeleteConservatives think that liberals are brain-damaged elitist traitors who hate America and willingly give aid and comfort to any of her enemies, and liberals think that conservatives have a real weird dedication to bad, cruel, not-worky ideas, and it's easier to shorten that to "most of 'em are bad people".
ReplyDeleteEvery time a wingnut whines about being bullied by liberals. I think of this tea party lady http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6554029
ReplyDelete"trillions of years"? Of course back then it was called Teegeeack, according to the Scientologists...
ReplyDelete"Liberals" are "rude" to the "right" because they are, by and large, unrepentant assholes who have earned it.
ReplyDeletewell, if the comments here are any indication, it appears that just about everyone is rude!
ReplyDeleteLiberals just don't use their brains.
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Continued his daily work to get the medicines his eyeballs and hate spray liquid into a microphone every day, for all fan-fucking mule he could nod along and keep him rolling in juvenile prostitute
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