Sunday, August 05, 2012
Every attempt to find the dumbest thing in liberal world
this week just led to another, and another, each dumber than the last. Picking
just one to rant about became a task of epic proportions, so two of them it is.
In no particular order…
A Chicken
The name Adam Smith has a storied history, particularly
in economics. Now, that name has a smudge on it thanks to Adam Smith of
Arizona. This Mr. Smith became infamous on Wednesday for his uncontrollable
hatred for anyone who might disagree with him on the issue of gay marriage.
That’s fine. Far be it from me to attempt to deny him that which he seeks to
deny others – the right to their opinion. But, in this reality TV/YouTube age
where nothing is worth unless the world sees it, Smith decided everyone on Earth
needed to see just how enlightened he is, so he filmed his “activism.”
What he thought would be seen as a triumphant moment for
progressives ended up being what it was – a middle-aged man misdirecting his
irrational anger over a difference of opinion towards a teenager simply trying
to make a buck at her local fast-food restaurant. Anyone watching it could see
how disgraceful it was…except Adam Smith, who had to have watched it before he
uploaded it to the Web.
Within a day, the controversy had blown up. Smith got
what he was seemingly after, to be famous. But he got something else …
something he clearly was unprepared for.
Smith was fired from his job the next day and,
shell-shocked, issued a video apology to the girl he attacked for daring to work
for a corporation run by a man whose thoughts differed from his.
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Smith, he did lose his
job. But he did it to himself. I got the same feeling when I saw former NFL
quarterback Gus Frerotte celebrate a touchdown by headbutting a wall and giving
himself a concussion. You just look at it and think, “What the hell did you
expect? A parade?”
There are no “middle-aged men being mean to teenage
girls” trading cards, so it’s not really a skill he could have marketed. Which
is too bad because he could use a job about now.
On the bigger issue of being mad at a company over the
opinions of the guy at the top, I say this: Get a life! If you need validation
of your sexual orientation, or anything about yourself, from a fast-food restaurant,
there isn’t enough therapy in the world to help you. That being said, if Best
Buy ever comes out against white socks with black low-top Converse Chuck
Taylor’s I’m going to lose it on the Geek Squad!
Another Chicken
In politics, as in life, you can tell a lot about people
by who they choose to lead them. For example, Republicans in the Senate chose
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. He’s a perfectly fine human being, but not the
most conservative nor the most charismatic, by any measure. So, you get what
you get with someone like that – he’s good most of the time, particularly when
he’s going to lose a vote anyway, but he’s quick to cut the legs out from under
people in his own party when it suits his needs (see the debt ceiling debate a
few years ago).
Then you have the Democrats.
For their leader, they chose Nevada’s Harry Reid. Reid is
a member of the old school Congress – someone who came to Washington with
relatively modest means and somehow, through curious “land deals” with shady
characters, managed to become a multi-multi-millionaire while being a “public
servant.” The “old school” I was referring to was the time of nearly open graft
in the late 19th and early 20th century.
And it’s not just Reid’s malleable ethics on personal
financial issues; his character leaves a lot to be desired. That Democrats
would choose him for their leader says a lot about their character.
When I worked in the Senate, I had two senators tell me
Sen. Reid was the most untrustworthy man they’d ever known. They told me this
in private conversations, so I won’t say who they are. But both had been in
Congress a long time, so this was saying something.
This week Reid says he received a phone call from a
“credible source,” who claims knowledge of Mitt Romney’s taxes from his days at
Bain Capital and claims Romney paid zero taxes for the better part of a decade.
By the time Reid told the Huffington Post about this, he had “a number of
sources” claiming Romney paid no taxes. But he wouldn’t elaborate.
Not content with the ink and airtime his first round of
BS got, Reid took to the Senate floor to claim “the word is out” that Romney
hasn’t paid any taxes. So a single source had become “a number of sources” in
one day. A day later, the “number of sources” became “the word is out,” as in
everybody knows. The “word” came “out” from him. But did the media ever ask
about this? Did the media ever let journalism get in the way of good
rumor-mongering when it comes to attacking Republicans? Of course not.
Given the studies recently that show the connection between
head trauma and long-term effects on brain function, perhaps Sen. Reid’s days
as a boxer are catching up to him. Or maybe he’s just a pederast.
You may be asking yourself, “What?!?!?” Well, I’ve heard
some rumors Harry Reid is a pederast. These are made-up rumors on Twitter,
clearly presented as such … but I heard them. I can’t tell you where I first
heard this rumor because I don’t remember. There were a lot of people spreading
it, though. Sen. Reid refuses to address the rumor.
More curiously, Romney has come out and said Reid’s
accusations against him are BS. But Reid has yet to comment on whether he’s a
pederast.
Again, I have no proof Senator Harry Reid has a strange
sexual attraction to young boys or whether he’s acted on his perversion, I’m just
relaying what I’ve heard. Sen. Reid said, in the great liberal tradition of
Republicans being guilty until proven innocent, it’s up to Romney to prove he
paid taxes (even though the IRS seems strangely satisfied that he has). Under
that thinking, it’s up to Sen. Reid to prove he isn’t a serial pederast.
Bonus Stupid
Dave Sirota is a writer who (apparently) has written a
couple of books about something progressive or other. He is the kind of guy who
wakes up every day and randomly calls someone in the third-world to apologize
for being an American. Well Dave, the rest of us feel the same way…about you.
The title of his piece (of …) on Salon, “Don’t chant
U.S.A.! It’s liberal Americans’ Olympic dilemma: How do they root for their
countrymen without being jingoistic?” tells you everything you need to know
about Sirota … except that he doesn’t have a long gray ponytail (at least not
now). There’s more stupid in this piece than I have the energy to convey. It
perfectly encapsulates the liberal mindset. Imagine Brittney Spears
pontificating on the meaning of life, square it, and you’re getting in the zip
code.
He’s proof of what I call “Michael Stipe’s Disease.”
Named after the lead singer of band REM, Stipe always seemed just miserable.
Not because of anything going on in his life, but because someone, somewhere
was suffering. It’s a tragic disease that afflicts liberals, causing them to
sit around coffee houses with their laptops and Charles Bukowski books and
judge anyone who smiles or laughs. They often can be overheard saying things
like, “I don’t know how you can sit there laughing when people are being
killed/going hungry/suffering in whatever the liberal cause celebre country of
the moment is. They’re also the people who talk constantly about how race
doesn’t matter, that we need to move beyond it, but manage to keep a mental
spreadsheet of the ancestry of everyone they’ve met and mention what kind of
hyphenated-American they are in every story they tell. In short – jerks.
Tragic…and couldn’t happen to nicer people.
That is all, go about your week.
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