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The Other McCain does the dirty job
of watching Michael Moore's
recent movie Capitalism: A Love Story. The movie is (of course)
tendentious. But also just plain bad. And Moore's also doing
a poor job of hiding the sheer ugliness of his thoughts:
A preference for blame over understanding is a hallmark of prejudice. There’s not really that much difference in hating “the rich” and hating any other group of people.Using loaded language about “greed” and labels like “Corporate America” isn’t any less prejudicial than talking about how Mexicans are sneaking over the border to take away American jobs. As a matter of fact, Democrats spent a lot of time the past year talking about “outsourcing” and “shipping jobs overseas,” which is really just another method of xenophobic blame-shifting: The Foreigners! Are Taking! Our Jobs!
Why don’t we recognize the language of the Left as expressions of prejudice? Why is demonization of ”the rich” accepted as a substitute for actual understanding of how the economy works?
The showing was on Current TV, recently in the news for making Moore's buddy, Al Gore a pile of money. Is that irony? I can never tell.
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A couple
weeks back, we looked at the comments of NH state rep Cynthia L.
Chase, who deemed the
participants in the Free State
Project to be New Hampshire's "single biggest threat".
That bit of progressive demonization got quite a bit of publicity, even
outside the Granite State.
In a brilliant move, some Free Staters got together and sent
Representative Cynthia a… lovely thank-you
bouquet.
But wait, that's not all: the editorial writer from my local paper, Foster's Daily Democrat, was not amused.
We understand, that as with any fledgling movement, there needs to be a growing-up process. But childishly delivering flowers to Chase as a thank you would indicate the FSP has a ways to go.Foster's apparently has a bee in its bonnet about the FSP, one that induces complete humor-impairment in its writers. Sad!
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But, despite the flowers, Tim Condon of GraniteGrok
recommends
that Cynthia call her therapist lest she happen upon this
Forbes article about Free Stater Mark Warden
and his Porcupine Real Estate.
(Mark is exactly the kind of person Cynthia considers to be a "threat".)
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Did you watch the Golden Globe awards last night? So didn't I.
But apparently it consisted of wealthy Hollywood denizens telling each
other stories about how
brave they are.
There's this quote I remember. It starts: "You keep using that word…"
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