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See commenter 'jrosen07' over there, particularly this comment.

"C'est bien vrai, n'est-ce pas, que les moutons mangent les arbustes?" — Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
by dconrad (dai {point} conrad {arobase} gmail {point} com) on Thu Jun 19th, 2008 at 09:48:20 PM EST
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Vicious fascist seems appropriate.  Every paper in the USA gets these types of letters and posts, sadly.  I don't know if he has been able to get similar letters published or if he has even tried.  One of the things I treasure about ET is that those types do not flourish here.  

I have not followed the blogs on McClachy, only looked at the stories and the cartoons.  For this sort of thing blogs are usually worse than LTEs.  In the 60s this was the province of the John Birch Society, many of whose members, especially those in college, were also in Young Americans for Freedom, up through the muck of which rose one Carl Rove. In the light of that history his moniker of "Turd-blossom" seems more meaningful.  These organizations were fertile sources of future "trickesters."  I suspect that well written LTEs and blogs that confound RW opponents are noticed by the big boys and can lead to a future in RW politics.

Know your enemy.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Thu Jun 19th, 2008 at 10:52:58 PM EST
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One of the most difficult things about the past few years has been watching these people who stick to their positions and failed ideas no matter what. That, along with the realization that when I'm an old man these arguments will still be going on, just as we still have people who defend the Vietnam war today. I have trouble comprehending a cognitive dissonance so vast and implacable. It's hard to imagine, even when I'm looking right at it. I guess you could say that I have cognitive dissonance about their cognitive dissonance. ;)

(P.S. Karl Rove, with a K.)

"C'est bien vrai, n'est-ce pas, que les moutons mangent les arbustes?" — Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry

by dconrad (dai {point} conrad {arobase} gmail {point} com) on Fri Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:05:36 AM EST
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One of the most difficult things about the past few years has been watching these people who stick to their positions and failed ideas no matter what.

Well, they do it for love, and they do it for money.

I suspect that entire multi-generational cohorts, starting with mine, will have to pass away before this changes significantly.  My best revenge would be living long enough to see it happen.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Fri Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:35:39 PM EST
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