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10/28/09
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Get on it Souza, you hack! #barackobama
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I haven't seen one like this yet... #barackobama
10/28/09
@Lizawithazee: Or this. #barackobama
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Are you younger than 40? You aren't getting Social Security! #barackobama
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This is an example of a reflexive, if oblique, defensive response to those who dare question the sages of the Obama administration. Would it kill you just to say, you know, Sullivan has a point? #glennbeck
10/28/09
The reason he gets so much vitriol is that he's a big fat self-loathing hypocrite who would lick the taint of any righty who would grant him social acceptance. Of course, once he gets such access, he demands that they change to suit him, and then flees into the night when his beer goggles wear off. (And that's just a quote from his barebackcity ad!)
Note how his shameless sucking up to the neocon right and the Roman Catholic Church morphed into support for Obama and (correct) interpretation of the Bible on homosexuality for examples of this.
He thinks Dick Cheney is sexy. He's opposed to public health care, I guess because he can afford it, which is quite a gamble to take when you've got HIV.
Yuck. #glennbeck
10/28/09
10/28/09
So why is Mao's rancid evil not self-evident for a person like Dunn? Because she retains a double standard for far left totalitarianism over far right totalitarianism.
This is an assumption. Even if I were to agree, then how does that apply to other admirers of Mao like John McCain, George W. Bush, Barry Goldwater, etc? Or are only rightwingers smart enough to recognize that Mao is a pretty awful human being who accomplished things that nobody thought he ever could?
Now if Sullivan's saying that there are far left groups that sympathize with far left totalitarian regimes then yes, that's a self evident truth. Just as far right groups sympathize with far right totalitarian regimes. That's one of the things that makes them the far side.
If Dunn comes out tomorrow as a Mao apologist of some sort, then sure, I'll come right out and agree with Sullivan. I actually like Sullivan and his blog - but that doesn't mean I haven't seen him write plenty of silly things. #glennbeck
10/28/09
Especially since, for Sullivan, it's all about money. "Let 'em all die in a hospice, I can afford my life-extending drugs! And I'll get on barebackcity and take a few more out while I'm at it!"
That's the attitude of the person your defending, bitch! #glennbeck
10/28/09
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If you're reading the NYT rather than giving it cold looks at the newsstand, then you should already know by now how Castro got to be President and who's a dictator where and how bad.
However he got there and however badly he runs it, truth is Castro IS the President of Cuba and that's something even the govt of the US, left or right, has had to deal with. You can hate it as much as you want (and you can't possibly hate it as much as generations of Cubans) but you can't wish it away or protest it away. And it's not being soft on Castro to recognize his title - it's "confronting the truth". #glennbeck
10/29/09
Also you sound like a raging homophobe. #glennbeck
10/29/09
Unless he changed his mind again. #glennbeck
10/28/09
In my younger, college days I had many conversations with trust fund Marxists who spoke of Mao in admiring tones. If I pointed out the fact that he was one of the three worst mass murderers in history, and that that might discount whatever political philosophising he did, it was often met with patronizing condescension, like one was speaking to a small child. #glennbeck
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I don't think I'm incorrect in saying that Mao has been, at various points, a hero of some on the left.
I think we can agree, however, that Glenn Beck is a complete and utter loony toons dipshit. #glennbeck
10/28/09
I'd be interested in knowing exactly how much of the Mao (and other commie dictator love) can be chalked up to simple romanticizing, as opposed to full-on belief in every ideal and every act of the regime in question. This is another thing that is routinely glossed over by right-wing nutcases, that I don't have to be behind Mao or Castro or whomever else entirely in order to find something valuable or stirring in what they did. And honestly, the distinctly American insistence that a single bad act nullifies every sensible thing a person might otherwise say or do has really begun to get old.
10/28/09
Maybe The Little Red Book really was the accessory to have in the 60s but The Motorcycle Diaries are it for my generation.
Plus, I don't think they romanticize the same way between East and West - Mao is always presented as a father figure while Che is the bad boy your father disapproves of.
Of course, I have no explanation for Hugo Chavez. Wtf is that about? Portly megalomaniac love? #glennbeck
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Should the ways we contextualize Mao and Hitler be different? That's never really the point when we're talking about context. The fact is that they are different. Hitler hits far closer to home, and in a far more indelible way, than Mao ever will.
Anybody else find it telling how wingnuts are always off on a tangent about Mao, Stalin, Castro/Che? It's like they know that the political right will always, in some sense, own Hitler, and so they're trying to build up a stable of left-wing Hitlers to act as a counterbalance or some shit. #glennbeck
10/28/09
[andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com] #glennbeck
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Darn. I was hoping for one of those endless meme-threads.
Despite his strict diet, Andrew Sullivan can only handle so many diabetes. #glennbeck
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Not if pay czar Ken Feinberg has anything to do with it. #annieleibovitz
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Yeah, and isn't he black and white? He would have fit right in.
It's a lovely image. #annieleibovitz