Well, heck. Just as Blanche Lincoln gets through apologizing for calling the wing-nuts at the Ross-Snyder health forum un-American, the subject of my column for tomorrow, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer put this op-ed in today’s USA Today calling the very thing un-American. To be precise: They say drowning out opposing views is un-American.
The word didn’t slip out extemporaneously. Some clown actually wrote it for these two, and they actually left it in.
I wonder if Blanche got fed that claptrap by some Democratic strategizing spin doctor. Some days I think Democratic strategists are complete idiots.
It simply is not un-American to be uninformed and loud-mouthed about it, and you’re not going to win any political points by flirting with formal disapproval of free expression.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:03 am
From everything I’ve heard, including your who?-lil-ol’-me? about “being informed and loud-mouthed about it,” I can safely say that mobs of predominantly white, middle-aged conservatives who arrive en masse, shouting loudly and long enough to drown out the the speaker and anyone else who opposes their opinion, is un-American. You wouldn’t allow leftists to do it. You’d have then arrested and held in pens like you did at the NYC republican convention.
If you are a conservative, I suppose it’s okay to shout at your microwave or your children, or your dog, but when you shouted so loudly against a democratic representative from Maryland at a Town Hall meeting the other day, you were all too stupid and loud to know or care what he thought of Obama’s healthcare plan. He opposed it. Just like you.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:12 am
You are right, Mr. Brummett. It is not un-American to be uninformed and loud-mouthed about it. I see plenty of Arkansans being uninformed and loud-mouthed about it all the time. There is no division of the guilty by race or age or gender.
The truth of the matter is that this “uninformed and loud-mouthed about it” syndrome comes from a place of insecurity – a place of feeling as though one must justify their own ideas and opinions. Why does someone feel as though they should justify their ideas and opinions? Futhermore, I’d suggest that by simply adding volume or mass does nothing to justify the original idea or opinion. If it did, wouldn’t the insecurity – the cause of the justification – dissipate, as well as the need to increase volume and mass?
At that point, could the insecure look into increase knowledge? That, actually, might be helpful.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:36 am
What an embarrassment to Arkansas that the first elected leader to use these words in this recent spate of anger comes from our own Senator Blanche Lincoln. Party politics aside, to use those words in addressing people who are unhappy and dare to voise their opinon is beyond the pale.It smacks of McCarthyism. Sadly, it is one of our elected politicans that will be credited with it. Of course the local state Republican party is and will continue to make political hay out of this. Sadly, they are just as bad or worse. The words many of them have used recently, put them in the category of close-minded people. I find it fascinating that I keep hearing that Trevor Drown the independent from Russellville will split the party vote. Well the state GOP gave up theirright of any kind of ownership to be the conservative voice when they failed to run anyone aginst Pryor and the other Democrats in the last election. And they continue to give up that right when they have offered no candidate for Governor or two of the three Congressional Seats. The only one they choose to have a candidate run for is Senator Lincoln’s seat. Talk about cherry picking. And of course it has become a dog pile of eight stuffed shirt. The State GOP, no leadership, no guts, no glory.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I relish in the feeling that we have struck a nerve with the Left. If we hadn’t, and if they didn’t perceive our message as strong, they would simply ignore us. They are attacking because they are worried, and that is exactly where we hoped we would be at this point. I know nobody who is arriving at these things en masse. I know of nobody who is being organized by the GOP – in fact, all of the activists I know are disgusted with the GOP and vocal about that as well. I know of nobody being “funded” to attend rallies or town hall meetings. I only know of people complaining about how much it is draining from their personal budgets but trudging forward because they love this country. Forge on, MOB! I’m proud of you!
August 12th, 2009 at 11:32 am
xyz, your statement exemplifies the “mob”, there is no content, there are no solutions, no facts–it’s just screamed empty cliches about loving america. blah, blah.
free market health care will die because it doesn’t work and it’s only natural that dinosaurs (people getting rich in the current system) struggle against the force of evolution.
the sad/funny thing is watching the ignorant vectors (infected with memes of these dinosaurs) defending the plutocrats who’ve infected them. they look like gray-haired, noise-making bobble-heads thumped by fox.
excuse the name calling but, if we can’t laugh at them, we could only cry for them.
norgi, arkansas free press