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What the Left Thinks of You

Posted on | November 9, 2010 | 19 Comments

Verum Serum gives some tasty excerpts of these deep thoughts from a leading “progressive” thinker:

Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the “Godless,” “secular” United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party. . . .
The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. . . .
The millions of partisans who follow Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing televangelists . . . will act to stop teenage sluts from getting abortions, teach n—–s a lesson, and slaughter those spics, dots, and everyone else who doesn’t fit into their vision of what and who is right.

You — the millions of people who listen to Limbaugh and vote Republican — are bloodthirsty totalitarians who endorse the genocidal “slaughter” of everyone who disagrees with you. So says Ted Rall, providing a handy guide to how he sees the two sides in the political Armageddon that looms:

Us: Hard-working, underpaid, put upon, thoughtful, freedom-loving, disenfranchised, ordinary people.
Them: Reactionary, stupid, overpaid, greedy, shortsighted, exploitative, power-mad, abusive politicians and corporate executives

See? That’s who the Left thinks you are, and how they think of their “thoughtful” selves. Only they are “hard-working.” Only they are “underpaid.” You? You’re stupid, overpaid and greedy. (Elsewhere, he calls you “parasites, vampires, hideous monsters.”) And who is promoting Ted Rall’s insightful analysis? Who else, but MSNBC?

MSNBC – where Keith Olbermann is paid $7 million a year.

MSNBC — part of the NBC/Universal division of gigantic global conglomerate General Electric, which is trying to sell it to another behemoth corporation, Comcast, for $30 billion.

Yes, MSNBC — the network that gives voice to the “thoughtful, freedom-loving, disenfranchised, ordinary people” like Ivy League-educated Ted Rall, who matriculated at Columbia University, alma mater of the President of the United States and other members of the downtrodden toiling masses.

Ted Rall: He’s being kept down by The Man.

UPDATE: Watching that video of Ted Rall being interviewed by Dylan Ratigan, I’m wondering why Columbia University (where the tuition is $40,000 a year) can’t teach basic economics. Rall speaks of “1% of the country owning 24% of the income” and “people getting thrown out of their homes, over 10 million of them.”

Ted, they’re not getting thrown out of their homes. They’re getting thrown out of the mortgage company’s homes. It’s not your home until you pay for it. If you’re living in a $300,000 house and you don’t make the payments, that $300,000 house isn’t yours anymore. And it never really was.

Ted Rall and Barack Obama: Columbia University graduates who can’t grasp basic concepts like property ownership.

UPDATE II: “MSNBC totally owes Keith Olbermann an apology.”

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Comments

  • Anonymous

    We own all the guns. Bring it on.

  • OldGrizzlyMama

    They are that afraid of us – simply for wanting smaller government??!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, let them start something so we can finish it.

    As for all of the homes being foreclosed, it is important to remember that it was leftist meddling in the financial markets that caused the recession, that lost the jobs, that lost the homes. If Rall wants to get the gang responsible, he should start with himself and jump off a bridge.

  • Anonymous

    Ted Rall’s economic and social analysis are every bit as awful as his drawing skills. I’ve seen better art from 13-year-olds wearing cat ears.

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  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    What’s a dot? “Spic” I’ve heard of (though oddly never from the mouth of my hate-filled, Bible-thumpin’ preacher Daddy), but I don’t know what a dot is.

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  • Anonymous

    Nothing Ted Rall does rises to the level of thought. Thinking people everywhere are incensed by the association.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a derogatory reference to people from India.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Coffer/1296650908 Chuck Coffer

    Rall is just like every other scumbag at msnbc. When all you have to do is make shit up, why not do it in style? When truth isn’t even a component of your overall thesis, the only limit is the average scumbag’s imagination.

  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    There are people who hate on India people? Really!? Strange.

    You know, the first time I ever heard the word “raghead” was from a leftist friend of mine who was accusing me of raaaaacism after losing an argument with me. (We’re not friends anymore.) I really think lefties sit around dreaming up hateful things they’d love to say, if they weren’t so gosh-darned open-minded, and then they get confused and think they must have heard it from us.

  • Quartermaster

    Is Comcast stupid enough to pay 30 Billion for MSNBC? I wouldn’t think it’s work 30 million.

    Rall produces art? Whodda thunk it?

  • Anonymous

    I actually wouldn’t call him a “leading progressive thinker”. I mean, he’s not leading, progressive, or a thinker.

    Even the alt-weeklies where I live have not carried his cartoons for years now.

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  • http://tomgrey.motime.com TomGrey

    The thing is, like most bullies each individual Leftist is pretty harmless, alone. But they don’t like to be alone, and they’re constantly looking for (in-) groups to belong to, so as to denigrate the other groups.

    And the SEIU thugs beating up people, or showing up en masse at a private house; these are not so nice.

    They are not nice folks. While they won’t use icky guns, they can and will lie about you and try to ruin your life, your job, your car, your house.

    They need to be laughed at, constantly. They are jokes. Ugly, silly, jokes.

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  • http://ak4mc.us/cms/ McGehee

    I always assume anyone who is called a “leading progressive thinker” is in fact none of those things. So while the plain-English meaning of the title clearly doesn’t apply, it’s still useful in an Orwellian sense.

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