Matt Taibbi on the modern conservative.

[JohnnyRingo]

I took the privilege of lifting these two paragraphs from Taibbi's recent RS article: "Scott Walker, God's Gift To The Democratic Party". I thought it employed Taibbi's knack for using the perfect words to sum up exactly what the GOP represents. Mr Taibbi wrote this to make a point that Republicans consider literally half the country a domestic enemy:

The entire narrative of modern conservative politics casts the United States as a fast-disappearing Eden of freedom and democracy that's under siege both here and abroad, surrounded by a constellation of enemies united (for some never-fully-explained reason) in their passionate hatred for the simple, God-fearing, freedom-loving American.

It's not just terrorists who hate us for our freedom, but lefty college professors, dilettante Hollywood actors, undocumented immigrants sucking up tax dollars in the form of entitlements, Al Sharpton, Jonathan Grube, feminists, environmentalists who want to forcibly abort babies to keep more room free for trees, scientists who think global warming is real, the Manchurian President Barack Hussein Obama, etc.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/scott-walker-gods-gift-to-the-democratic-party-20150227#ixzz3TNh7SQYL
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The rest of the piece is satisfying as well.

[longship]

1. Whenever one invokes dillittante in a political context...

You know that person is full of shit.

Drops microphone...

[SoLeftIAmRight]

4. Spoken like...

someone who does not know who reads The Rolling Stone.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. "Dilettante" is in context to artists in filmdom...

...as perceived by conservatives, not in reference to politicians:

"A dilettante is a person who enjoys the arts or someone who engages in a field without investing the usually required effort."

As we know, conservatives feel Hollywood types are unqualified to comment on social values by dint of their unearned celebrity status. Perfect word IMO.

[haikugal]

2. Bookmarked, Thanks for posting this.

[GusBob]

3. "Scott Walker, a man born to be slaughtered in a general election"

Love it

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Right Wingers have a LONG list of people they would kill if they were given the "go" order.

[ChazInAz]

6. I noticed something.

Last year I was rereading a guilty pleasure of my misspent youth: Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. With their rampant racism and white-knuckled paranoia, they sound exactly like the fever-dream screeds of the typical conservative pundit. They make about as much sense, when compared to the real world.

[phantom power]

10. you might find this interesting:

Fu Manchu makes an appearance.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/why-zombies-why-now-what-our-obsession-with-the-living-dead-says-about-us/

[midnight]

7. kick.

[Scuba]

9. Kickety kick kick.