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Under-the-Bleachers Blogger Externalizes Rage, Demands to See Speedo Picture

Posted on | September 24, 2010 | 98 Comments

Susie Madrak’s conference-call complaint that the Obama White House treats liberal bloggers like “the girl you’ll take under the bleachers but you won’t be seen with in the light of day,” has become the hottest topic on the ‘sphere. The premise of the conflict is itself a conundrum, as Allahpundit says:

Mind you, the purpose of the call was for Axelrod to beg the nutroots to help get rank-and-file Democrats excited to vote in November. . . . Aren’t lefty bloggers already doing everything they can to scare the hell out of their readers about the coming GOP wave? Didn’t Kos, whose site is big enough to have generated an annual conference attended by top Democrats, just publish a book comparing conservatives to the Taliban? What more do you want them to do, Ax, immolate themselves in grief?

Aleister of American Glob compares Madrak’s situation to Flounder in Animal House, and Left Coast Rebel says:

The story here is not that the ‘professional left’ is pissed with Obama. The real story here is that far-left, pseudo Bolshevik smear merchants like those at Crooks and Liars are given access to the White House in any shape, matter or form in the first place.
And the fact that a blogger at Crooks and Liars has her you-know-whats in a bunch? Give me a break, she’s a fringe-kook, that would probably make Ward Churchill look moderate.

She’s obviously got anger issues of the sort that raise the question, “If a tree falls in the forest, and there are no Republicans around to blame, who does Susie Madrak cuss at?”

Singling me out among the bloggers laughing at her absurd rage, Madrak writes, “Imagine, this guy thinks I’m ugly!”

Did I ever say any such thing? I merely remarked on “the demonstrably greater pulchritude of [conservative] lady-bloggers” — a neutral, objective fact – and certainly I did not offer myself as anyone’s aesthetic beau ideal.

You don’t hurt my feelings by telling me I’m ugly, a fact I happily admit. Once at a keg party, some redneck looking for a fight walked up to me and said, “I don’t like your face.” To which I responded, “That makes two of us, buddy. I never liked it much myself.”

Here’s the difference again, you see? I’ve written at length about this problem:

Good mental health is characterized by optimism and a sense of agency — that is to say, the belief that we are ultimately in control of our own lives. The sense of agency is critical to success and happiness in every area of life, in large part because it is necessary to self-improvement and problem-solving.
Everyone encounters failure and disappointment, but a person who believes that his life is within his own control will respond to such setbacks in a positive, constructive way — analyzing the cause of the failure, seeking ways to improve, determining to work harder to overcome disadvantages and remedy personal deficiencies. A psychologically healthy person therefore must accept responsibility for his failures and shortcomings just as willingly as he accepts reward for his successes and abilities.
While it is true that other people sometimes contribute to our failures by undermining our efforts, it is also true that our successes generally require the assistance of others. Factors which are genuinely beyond our control tend to even out over time. In a free and prosperous society, few people are so disastrously disadvantaged as to have no hope whatsoever of improving their lot in life.
Thus, it is psychologically unhealthy to blame others whenever things go wrong in our lives, but this is exactly what “therapeutic morality” encourages.
Attempting to comfort people by flattering their sense of blamelessness — “It’s not your fault” — therapeutic morality ultimately undermines the vital sense of agency, in effect telling people that they are neither culpable nor competent. It promotes the notion of innocent victimhood, the blameless self, and encourages people to avoid responsibility for their failures by wallowing in self-pitying rationalizations.

Maybe it’s not your fault you’re ugly, but it’s nobody else’s fault, either. Yet how often have we seen this phenomenon of unattractive women who spend their lives angry at the world, as if their ugliness were somebody else’s fault? Indeed, this phenomenon has a name: Feminism.

Excuse me for invoking Undeniable Truth of Life No. 24, but that’s what feminism is really all about. Complaining about the “oppressive patriarcy” is just an externalization of resentment, a self-pitying rationalization: “I’m not as pretty or popular as other women, therefore, I’m a victim.”

You’re not a victim. You are, in fact, drastically overprivileged — a citizen of the most free and prosperous nation in all human history, abounding with unprecedented opportunity.

Your problem, Susie Madrak, is your pity-party mentality, wherein the inevitable unfairness of life is perceived as some sort of conspiracy against you. As my late father often told me, whenever I’d complain that something seemed unfair, “Boy, whoever told you life was supposed to be fair?”

Hardship is God’s way of teaching us to be more grateful. Why should we sit around brooding over our shortcomings and disadvantages, when we have so many blessings and opportunities?

Yet when you look at someone happy and successful, Susie Madrak, all you feel is envy and hatred. We aren’t surprised, because such is the basic ideology of liberalism.

The poor are poor, you believe, because the rich are rich. You conceive grandiose schemes to rectify this inequality, and your desire to feel morally superior to others inspires you to this narcissistic conception of politics: Those who do not share my egalitarian vision are stupid and selfish, whereas I am intelligent and generous.

That conception not only explains your rage at Republicans, Susie Madrak; it also explains your confused rant at Axelrod. If your absurdly ambitious policy schemes prove unworkable and unpopular — if your ridiculous agenda of Hope and Change and Rainbows and Unicorns turns out to be a big fat failure — well, that failure certainly cannot be your fault, can it?

You fell for Obama’s act hook, line and sinker. It has clearly failed as policy and is evidently on the verge of failing as politics, and now the only thing you can do is look for scapegoats.

Blame Glenn Beck! Blame Sarah Palin! Blame David Axelrod!

See? It’s not your fault. Nothing is ever your fault. Because you’re a liberal and therefore blameless.

Why does David Axelrod treat you with contempt? Because you deserve it. See, Axelrod got paid — and paid very well — to sell Obama’s act to you chumps. The fact that you bought it, and then went out to sell it to other people even more gullible than yourselves, only goes to show what natural-born chumps you are. Or to cite Professor Reynolds’ response to a similar example:

JON STEWART ON OBAMA: “I thought he’d do a better job.” You did, huh? Based on what, his extensive experience? Rube.

If I may quote your own words back to you, Susie Madrak:

Hey, you. Shut up and sit down. Yes, you.

You’ve got nothing to complain about, ma’am. You are the author of your own disgrace, having devoted years to the advancement of false ideas and false leaders. Rather than blaming the people who have deceived you, or blaming yourself for believing their lies, instead you continue to blame the same old bogeymen: Republicans, Christians, “Corporate America,” capitalism, patriarchy, etc.

Hell’s bells, you even blame me! Well, let me remind you of something you wrote a few years ago:

I rarely comment on what right-wing blogs do. They’re witting tools of the Republican smear machines, they just make shit up. So I ignore them.

Perhaps you should resume that policy.

Maybe I’m notoriously ugly now, but once upon a time, I didn’t look too shabby in a Speedo.

Made you look, didn’t I?

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  • http://leatherpenguin.com/wordpress TC@LeatherPenguin

    “So in your version, you get to ignore the basic tenets of Christianity without having to actually practice any?
    What an interesting perspective. It’s like buying a bicycle, never actually riding it but pronouncing yourself a “cyclist.” If only Lance Armstrong had known.
    And you have none of that self-doubt or pesky “conscience” stuff that those other lesser Christians bother themselves with, either.”

    Beyond the “Wow, the nuns woudda killed me if I wrote that!” aspect of yer verbiage, I gotta ask: “it’s about teh thong, iddint?”
    You want an “interesting perspective,” you calamatous cow? Someone ON YOUR SIDE leaked this, and you’re getting all trolly on Stacy’s porch.
    Oh, BTW, what the hell do you mean by this: “Maybe one day you’ll have an epiphany and convert — to real Christianity.”

    Last time I looked, Chesterton didn’t write thye Book.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    Oh my God: Susie’s a Concern For Your Soul Troll!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    Oh my God: Susie’s a Concern For Your Soul Troll!

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Bill Clinton

    Susie Madrak
    September 24th, 2010 @ 10:34 am

    Pray, tell.. What tenets are those? Enlighten us.. please.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Bill Clinton

    Susie Madrak
    September 24th, 2010 @ 10:34 am

    Pray, tell.. What tenets are those? Enlighten us.. please.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Heh.. Whoops.. Sock off.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Heh.. Whoops.. Sock off.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    Are there no depths to which you will not sink, Susan?

    First you attempt (rather lamely) to excoriate RSM for not showing you southern chivalry, as if you’re the type of person that either deserves or appreciates it. Please. You’d throw a feminist fit if anyone ever flattered you so.

    Now you’re attempting to judge others on the authenticity of their religion? You’re not even remotely equipped to begin that task.

    Whats the matter with you? Bored? Can’t get anyone to roll you back under the bleachers?

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    Are there no depths to which you will not sink, Susan?

    First you attempt (rather lamely) to excoriate RSM for not showing you southern chivalry, as if you’re the type of person that either deserves or appreciates it. Please. You’d throw a feminist fit if anyone ever flattered you so.

    Now you’re attempting to judge others on the authenticity of their religion? You’re not even remotely equipped to begin that task.

    Whats the matter with you? Bored? Can’t get anyone to roll you back under the bleachers?

  • Becky

    haha! That’s all you’ve got, Susie? Trying to hurt him by telling him he’s not a good Christian? I almost hesitate to laugh because it seems so desperate. You actually could have scored some “hitting them with their own rule book” points if you had stuck to the chivalry thing and stopped right there. Waaay too late now.

    As for that whole Chrisitanity thing, maybe you ought to try it. Nothing else in the universe is capable of washing so much bitterness from of your angry soul.

  • Becky

    haha! That’s all you’ve got, Susie? Trying to hurt him by telling him he’s not a good Christian? I almost hesitate to laugh because it seems so desperate. You actually could have scored some “hitting them with their own rule book” points if you had stuck to the chivalry thing and stopped right there. Waaay too late now.

    As for that whole Chrisitanity thing, maybe you ought to try it. Nothing else in the universe is capable of washing so much bitterness from of your angry soul.

  • RebeccaH

    Susie Madrak’s evocation of “southern chivalry” seems sarcastic and condescending. I, for one, am offended. I believe Susie is a bigot.

  • RebeccaH

    Susie Madrak’s evocation of “southern chivalry” seems sarcastic and condescending. I, for one, am offended. I believe Susie is a bigot.

  • JeffS

    I’m fascinated by your version of Christianity, in which others are routinely and viciously attacked for the crime of not agreeing. So in your version, you get to ignore the basic tenets of Christianity without having to actually practice any?

    This from the person who has to remind herself not to “choke the living shit” out of Republicans who quote from the GOP’s “Pledge To America”.

    “Pot, kettle, black” comes to mind, since you don’t hold yourself to the same standards you want us to follow in regards to your tender ego. But double standards is what lefties do best, after all.

  • JeffS

    I’m fascinated by your version of Christianity, in which others are routinely and viciously attacked for the crime of not agreeing. So in your version, you get to ignore the basic tenets of Christianity without having to actually practice any?

    This from the person who has to remind herself not to “choke the living shit” out of Republicans who quote from the GOP’s “Pledge To America”.

    “Pot, kettle, black” comes to mind, since you don’t hold yourself to the same standards you want us to follow in regards to your tender ego. But double standards is what lefties do best, after all.

  • http://www.crooksandliars.com Susie Madrak

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

  • http://www.crooksandliars.com Susie Madrak

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

  • JeffS

    Oh, Susie is indeed a bigot, Rebecca. She hates anyone who dares disagree with her.

  • JeffS

    Oh, Susie is indeed a bigot, Rebecca. She hates anyone who dares disagree with her.

  • JeffS

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

    So, can I read to you from the GOP’s “Pledge to America”? Without fear of being choked, I mean.

  • JeffS

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

    So, can I read to you from the GOP’s “Pledge to America”? Without fear of being choked, I mean.

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  • Mikey NTH

    No, you didn’t make me look. self-preservation kicked in big-time.

  • Mikey NTH

    No, you didn’t make me look. self-preservation kicked in big-time.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

    People who have a good working relationship with God generally do not have to pledge not to choke the living shit out of those with whom they disagree politically. They do not refer to those with whom they disagree as mentally ill. They do not call those with whom they disagree liars and latent slave-owners.

    And they most certainly do not say things like “Fuck you, and fuck the elephant you rode in on.”

    I can get away that sort of shit because I’m an atheist, and I never pretended to be anything but. For someone to pretend to be a Christian after those little displays of rage and hatred is just patently offensive.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

    People who have a good working relationship with God generally do not have to pledge not to choke the living shit out of those with whom they disagree politically. They do not refer to those with whom they disagree as mentally ill. They do not call those with whom they disagree liars and latent slave-owners.

    And they most certainly do not say things like “Fuck you, and fuck the elephant you rode in on.”

    I can get away that sort of shit because I’m an atheist, and I never pretended to be anything but. For someone to pretend to be a Christian after those little displays of rage and hatred is just patently offensive.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    Christians don’t call those with whom they disagree mentally ill unless they actually are mentally ill, I should have said.

    Considering the way the Democrats have emptied the asylums the last 50 years, it’s no surprise to find a lunatic in charge of a high traffic Leftard blog.

  • http://www.coldfury.com Randy Rager

    Christians don’t call those with whom they disagree mentally ill unless they actually are mentally ill, I should have said.

    Considering the way the Democrats have emptied the asylums the last 50 years, it’s no surprise to find a lunatic in charge of a high traffic Leftard blog.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

    Jeez, she reminds me of the pimply-faced and fugly, four-eyed girl in high school who went around bragging about she would grow up to be a feminist lawyer/activist who thought she had decimated the unenlightened with lame comebacks like that and who would find herself on a Friday night hugging her stuffed bunny and drinking Tab to wash down the diet Oreos.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    I should have added: ‘…while watching Maude’.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    God bless you all. I really mean it.

    Jeez, she reminds me of the pimply-faced and fugly, four-eyed girl in high school who went around bragging about she would grow up to be a feminist lawyer/activist who thought she had decimated the unenlightened with lame comebacks like that and who would find herself on a Friday night hugging her stuffed bunny and drinking Tab to wash down the diet Oreos.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    I should have added: ‘…while watching Maude’.

  • http://redinktexas.blogspot.com Rorschach

    “Burning question” Stacy? Yes, I’d say “Burning” is definitely the right word when asking what is wrong with her….. but then again you should have worn protection anyway…. You don’t know who else may have had her under the bleachers… She did say she was the town ho didn’t she?

  • http://redinktexas.blogspot.com Rorschach

    “Burning question” Stacy? Yes, I’d say “Burning” is definitely the right word when asking what is wrong with her….. but then again you should have worn protection anyway…. You don’t know who else may have had her under the bleachers… She did say she was the town ho didn’t she?

  • Atilla

    Some say that screwing fat chicks, under the bleachers, is like riding a moped…fun but don’t ever let your buds see you do it.

    Now screwin’ a fat chick, under the bleachers, with an attitude/personality like Susie’s….we’ll your probably better off with farm animals.

    jus’ sayin’

  • Atilla

    Some say that screwing fat chicks, under the bleachers, is like riding a moped…fun but don’t ever let your buds see you do it.

    Now screwin’ a fat chick, under the bleachers, with an attitude/personality like Susie’s….we’ll your probably better off with farm animals.

    jus’ sayin’

  • J.M. Heinrichs

    ““The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” – G.K. Chesterton”

    And Miss Madrak demonstrate Mr Chesterton’s point.

    Cheers

  • J.M. Heinrichs

    ““The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” – G.K. Chesterton”

    And Miss Madrak demonstrate Mr Chesterton’s point.

    Cheers

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    She probably went willing under the bleachers with Bill Clinton too..

    That should tell you all you need to know about Sooie Susie.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    She probably went willing under the bleachers with Bill Clinton too..

    That should tell you all you need to know about Sooie Susie.

  • http://www.southernwolf.net S. Wolf

    I wouldn’t take her under the bleachers, even.

  • http://www.southernwolf.net S. Wolf

    I wouldn’t take her under the bleachers, even.

  • http://primordialslack.com Joan of Argghh!

    The MadDreck is almost an avatar of the Left’s penchant for projection. And yes, there is projection on both sides of the psychological spectrum, but the Left owns the Dark Ops side: everything done by the opposition is suspected of evil intentions, outright malevolence and manipulation of the most murderous kind. The Left projects onto the Right a final and awful desire to kill, maim, and destroy the weak. But mostly, it comes across the same way children think: they see responsible parents making difficult choices, but the child has, as yet, no real-world experience to help them interpret what those choices mean. They grow up blaming their parents for all sorts of injustices until a good counselor helps them to mature their interpretation filters into a semblance of reality: their parents had love and concern for their kids and wanted them to be self-sufficient in a difficult world.

    “They’re monsters!” cries the little boy-child, Obama.

    “They’re mean and un-Christian!” cries the little MadDreck writer.

    Now, class: why do we hate Pollyanna Right-wing types? That’s right, they’re always believing we can do more than we can, never affirming our victimhood and disadvantages; they’re always prompting us to think for ourselves and smile at our incredible good fortune in life’s lottery. What sort of warped imagination can look on the horror of living in the U.S. and not see the pain and suffering, and not cry massive tears of shame and guilt? Why won’t they pity us? They’re monsters!

    And of course, if we point out the actual harm that the Left’s acting-out has produced, if we point out the actual murder and mayhem visited upon the world because of progressivism’s immature desire to remake the world into what it can never be as long as humans think they can MAKE other humans behave, well then, we are blamed for being un-Christian.

    And we wonder why our parents said that children should be seen and not heard.

  • http://primordialslack.com Joan of Argghh!

    The MadDreck is almost an avatar of the Left’s penchant for projection. And yes, there is projection on both sides of the psychological spectrum, but the Left owns the Dark Ops side: everything done by the opposition is suspected of evil intentions, outright malevolence and manipulation of the most murderous kind. The Left projects onto the Right a final and awful desire to kill, maim, and destroy the weak. But mostly, it comes across the same way children think: they see responsible parents making difficult choices, but the child has, as yet, no real-world experience to help them interpret what those choices mean. They grow up blaming their parents for all sorts of injustices until a good counselor helps them to mature their interpretation filters into a semblance of reality: their parents had love and concern for their kids and wanted them to be self-sufficient in a difficult world.

    “They’re monsters!” cries the little boy-child, Obama.

    “They’re mean and un-Christian!” cries the little MadDreck writer.

    Now, class: why do we hate Pollyanna Right-wing types? That’s right, they’re always believing we can do more than we can, never affirming our victimhood and disadvantages; they’re always prompting us to think for ourselves and smile at our incredible good fortune in life’s lottery. What sort of warped imagination can look on the horror of living in the U.S. and not see the pain and suffering, and not cry massive tears of shame and guilt? Why won’t they pity us? They’re monsters!

    And of course, if we point out the actual harm that the Left’s acting-out has produced, if we point out the actual murder and mayhem visited upon the world because of progressivism’s immature desire to remake the world into what it can never be as long as humans think they can MAKE other humans behave, well then, we are blamed for being un-Christian.

    And we wonder why our parents said that children should be seen and not heard.

  • feba

    A little late, but better late than never.

    Why is it that I feel no real anger towards the left, but rather a sense of resigned sadness. A distinct impression that those of Ms. Madrak’s ilk are, quite simply, unreachable? What it must be like in that tiny little mind, to have to go through the indescribably complex mental gymnastics to justify positions, beliefs and philosophies that are risible on their collective (oops, sorry, will try not to do that again ;~)) face. To spend day after day after day breathlessly beating on the walls of her mind in the dank, dark cold.

    For you Ms. Madrak, I offer this. It’s not mine, but I think it will serve you well: If you’re in your 20′s and haven’t got a heart, you’re a Conservative. If, by the time you reach your 30s and you still haven’t got a brain, you’re a Liberal.

  • feba

    A little late, but better late than never.

    Why is it that I feel no real anger towards the left, but rather a sense of resigned sadness. A distinct impression that those of Ms. Madrak’s ilk are, quite simply, unreachable? What it must be like in that tiny little mind, to have to go through the indescribably complex mental gymnastics to justify positions, beliefs and philosophies that are risible on their collective (oops, sorry, will try not to do that again ;~)) face. To spend day after day after day breathlessly beating on the walls of her mind in the dank, dark cold.

    For you Ms. Madrak, I offer this. It’s not mine, but I think it will serve you well: If you’re in your 20′s and haven’t got a heart, you’re a Conservative. If, by the time you reach your 30s and you still haven’t got a brain, you’re a Liberal.

  • Dicken

    RSM moved in for the kill::==))Fucked Under the Bleachers How Liberals Got Screwed by Hope and Change.

    Blog Fu master (in speedo) sliced her to bits and sent her away bleeding from every pore. Poor MadDreck, pick someone your own cup calibre next time.

  • Dicken

    RSM moved in for the kill::==))Fucked Under the Bleachers How Liberals Got Screwed by Hope and Change.

    Blog Fu master (in speedo) sliced her to bits and sent her away bleeding from every pore. Poor MadDreck, pick someone your own cup calibre next time.

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