Stopped making sense
What Digby says:
We kind of knew the righties would start melting down when it became clear to them that they are fat and ugly and nobody likes them, so to speak, but the contortions required these days to even try to understand them isn't usually worth the bother. Somehow insane religious fundamentalists in other countries are the fault of those of us who oppose insane religious fundamentalists in this country. Or something.
To show the emptiness of D'Souza's rhetoric, let's go to that old trick called "change a few word around and see how it reads:"
Where that leaves us at this point in history is unclear. We can hope that as the majority of Americans continue to reject the ideas of the far right, we can get on with important things. There are, in fact, people who want to harm us, so it would be helpful if our executive branch would abandon its stubborn insistence on escalation in Iraq and start dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, for starters.
The First Amendment protects the speech of nutballs like D'Souza, Coulter and Malkin, but it doesn't place an obligation on large corporate media oligarchies to spread that speech. It's called editorial judgement.
It took a while, but Dinesh D'Souza finally came out and agreed with this thesis in his book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11:In conservative fantasy land, the desire to blame liberals and progressives (dirty bleeping hippies in blog shorthand) is so strong that one of their leading "authorities" can't even construct a premise that makes any sense.
The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11 ... the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the non-profit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.
We kind of knew the righties would start melting down when it became clear to them that they are fat and ugly and nobody likes them, so to speak, but the contortions required these days to even try to understand them isn't usually worth the bother. Somehow insane religious fundamentalists in other countries are the fault of those of us who oppose insane religious fundamentalists in this country. Or something.
To show the emptiness of D'Souza's rhetoric, let's go to that old trick called "change a few word around and see how it reads:"
The cultural right in this country is responsible for causing 9/11 ... the cultural right and its allies in Congress, the media, Washington, the non-profit sector and the evangelical churches are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.Makes about as much sense.
Where that leaves us at this point in history is unclear. We can hope that as the majority of Americans continue to reject the ideas of the far right, we can get on with important things. There are, in fact, people who want to harm us, so it would be helpful if our executive branch would abandon its stubborn insistence on escalation in Iraq and start dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, for starters.
The First Amendment protects the speech of nutballs like D'Souza, Coulter and Malkin, but it doesn't place an obligation on large corporate media oligarchies to spread that speech. It's called editorial judgement.
