I think I’d like to start a revolution. Would you care to join me? Oh…but if you go killing people I’m out. I didn’t really mean a revolution in the literal sense, I just sorta meant something else that wasn’t in anyway violent. Sure I wanted it to sound violent and passionate, but well, when you decided to actually make it violent I didn’t want any part of that.
People are crazy. Me? I’m sane.
Along with the poll on the top left hand page of this blog, we’ll publish a post for those of you who wish to discuss.
So, discuss amongst yourselves.
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Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
Writers generally and bloggers specifically tend to make use of the above referenced literary tool quite often, whether they lean left or right politically.
Today we discover that hyperbole is the same as, if not worse than, actual crimes.
For example, when I said that I wanted to round up all Republicans and shoot them back in September, in admitted haste and out of anger due to the rapid collapse of the economy due to Republican policies (words that I have profusely apologized for ad nauseum for months), I revealed myself to be as bad, if not worse than, an actual right wing murderer who killed three cops as a result of his political beliefs and shows no remorse or regret.
If our “friends” on the right wanted to make a logical argument for the first time in all history, they would compare my hyperbole to that of Glen Beck and Michelle Bachmann. That would be at the very least plausibly analogous, except for the fact that I at least admitted I was wrong and stupid to say what I had said. To date, right wing blowhards continue with their talk of armed and violent overthrow of our federal government with no regret (even today after three police officers are dead because of it. And to my knowledge, no liberal has acted on my words to round up all Republicans and shoot them. Right wing blowhards cannot say the same.
Dave Burris called me out on his blog. I guess it would be discourteous of me not to respond, so here is my response.
The secessionist rhetoric, the revolt talk, and the violent imagery framed as patriotism that right-wing bloggers, pundits, and politicians like Dave Burris use for effect is being taken seriously by unstable people. That is a fact. There are three dead cops in Pittsburgh who testify to the veracity of my observation.
Dave can bluster and level uniformed ad hominem attacks at me all he wants, but no amount of pretend outrage can alter the simple fact. Words have impact.
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Despite non-stop flogging by Rick Jensen, the anti-Jack Markell facebook group seems to have leveled off at around 1,110.
Rick Jensen continues his breathless reports of the group’s astounding growth – but adding 199 people in a week seem rather anemic to me. As a measure of that lethargy, despite it’s 1,110 members there have only been 115 comments on the “wall” and only one comment since 9:00 this morning.
All in all I’m left feeling sorry for people who depend on Rick Jensen for information and not entertainment. To hear Jensen discuss this facebook group, you’d think it was the most active community on the internet tubes.
President Obama steps up to the plate in Turkey and hits a double (continuing a thin baseball meme).
So let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam.
– President Barack Obama
We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country. The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country — I know, because I am one of them.
– President Barack Hussein Obama
She needs mental help, and I’m not kidding.
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.
Re-education camps? Wonder what Orrin Hatch, Serve America Act co-sponsor, thinks about that description? Honestly, whenever I listen to Michele Bachmann I’m half expecting Ashton Kutcher to jump out. And never one to abandon a meme she continues on with everyone should be “armed with knowledge so that they can be dangerous to the views of the Left.” Isn’t she clever!
So, let’s see… not only do we have to worry about the government taking away our guns, we now have to worry about them coming for our children. The list keeps growing, and I won’t hold my breath waiting for someone in her party to call her rhetoric out. They’re obviously a-okay with it.
What concerns me, with talk like this, is what may happen the next time a Children’s Protective Services officer shows up at some crazy’s door.
Via Think Progress:
A reliable Justice Department source advises me that Senate Republicans are planning to “go nuclear” over the nominations of Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if the torture documents are made public. The source says these threats are the principal reason for the Obama administration’s abrupt pullback last week from a commitment to release some of the documents. A Republican Senate source confirms the strategy. It now appears that Republicans are seeking an Obama commitment to safeguard the Bush administration’s darkest secrets in exchange for letting these nominations go forward.
Oh for crying out loud, call their bluff. Frankly, I’m sick of Republican histrionics. Make them filibuster. Truth is they have more to lose over this stunt than Democrats. Let them keep enforcing that Party of No reputation they have going… since it’s working so well for them.
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
– Joe DiMaggio