This may have only been a group no larger then 30, but no one in the group felt they were witnessing anything surreal. Of the estimated 40,000 people who descended on Capitol Hill, how many of them would have found it abnormal that they were chanting back amateurish political history, oblivious to the pedagogical patterns being implemented?Indeed, Who Would Jesus Tea-Bag?
This event is tribute to the astounding influence of Glenn Beck’s program upon the conservative world. Some conservatives criticize Beck for suggesting that Republicans are no better then Democrats. But the problem runs deeper: Here is a man who packages and disseminates a world view about governance that is totally out of step with reality and history. This world view is being propagated and utilized by religiously inspired populists who pretend that they are imparting ‘knowledge’ to one another when they are really just regurgitating the same lines that they saw from the chalkboard that day.
This worldview lends itself to paranoia. It lends itself to viewing the passage of a healthcare bill not as the unwanted result of a legislative process run by wrong-headed people, but as a sin sent to America by a God who is displeased that we don’t teach abstinence in the schools.
William F. Buckley’s campaign against the conservative fringe in the 1960’s is well-documented. He once wrote: “How can the John Birch Society be an effective political instrument while it is led by a man whose views on current affairs are, at so many critical points . . . so far removed from common sense? That dilemma weighs on conservatives across America.”
Begging forgiveness for America is, as expected, entirely different from Barack Hussein Obama's
World Apology Tour.
The members of the ring would chime in with what they wanted to be absolved for, among them being:You have forsaken your Gawd, & it has forsaken you. Leave the rest of the world out of it.
“Father forgive us: for our arrogance as a nation.”
“Father forgive us: for the arrogance of man.”
“Father forgive us: for our ingratitude.”
“Father forgive us: for allowing the schools to teach our children that promiscuity is better then chastity and purity.”
“Father forgive us: that we’ve let evil into our lives pervasively…whether it be love for money, or love for sex, or love for inappropriate behavior, or love for anything that is not Godly.”
“Father forgive us: for worshiping idols.”
“Father forgive us, for becoming ‘me the people’ instead of ‘we the people.’”
“Father forgive us, for allowing post-modern society to not have any absolutes as you dictated. All things being equal, all lifestyles, all religions, as opposed to your standards.”
“Father forgive us, for allowing our education system to teach our children that they are the ultimate authority instead of you. May you return the Ten Commandments to our nation’s school. Forgive us for not fighting hard the day that they suggested that they be taken out.”
“Father forgive us: for how we feel about Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Obama.” (They laughed at this one, “love the person, not the philosophy” reminded George Washington.)
Liberals will be pleased to know that they also had someone say: “Father forgive us: for how we have taken advantage of other races.” Advocates of paleo-masculinity on AlternativeRight can also be pleased that a woman made the following remarks:
“This is not so much as a ‘Father forgive us’ but maybe it is…The Lord was the head of the Church, and men were subject to being under the Lord, and women were subject to being under men. And even though we are a nation of equals…I want our men to be men again, and stand up and love their country, and love their women, and love their children.”
5 comments:
How arrogant of them to think that the Supreme Being gives a rat's ass.
I think Frum has an inkling of the ugliness that could transpire should the racism of the teabaggers go unanswered. This is the big difference between Frum and, say, Pammy Fakeb00bs.
This is the big difference between Frum and, say, Pammy Fakeb00bs.
Just because he's brighter and wants to get his "I told you so" in does not mean he should pay for his part in the crimes.
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who pretend that they are imparting ‘knowledge’ to one another
Dropping science.
Drops Your Load On The Giant Toad Editor Types:
Oddly, it is the gawd-bovverers who accuse atheists of somehow being arrogant, as if we pretend that we created ourselves.
Frum seems just intelligent enough to realize that delusional conspiracy theories won't quite bring about that permanent Republican (New) majority. We gotta suspect that if he thought it would work, he'd be out there screaming "Fagger!" w/ the rest of 'em.
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