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November 3, 2008
Intellectual Violence
The headline is a relatively common phrase and has most recently been employed by Digby as a description of what we can expect from the far-right should Senator Obama win tomorrow. We should also expect to be using this phrase over and over and over to describe the far-right as such.
Digby was referencing wingnuts like Malkin who was screaming about the reports of Joe the Plumber being vetted and investigated -- even though Malkin herself engaged in creepy stalking of 12-year-old Graeme Frost during the SCHIP debate. Vetting Joe the Plumber = bad. Stalking a child at his home = awesome.
So if Senator Obama wins and doesn't reverse the Bush policies right away, I'm half-expecting the Republicans to call for investigations of the Obama White House on charges of eavesdropping, torture and the illegal occupation of Iraq. Intellectual violence.
It's already underway with this "vindicated" attack and the coal industry attack. This morning, Joe Scarborough was at it again about the vindicated thing. "I've never heard a politician be so arrogant!" he cried. He's deliberately misunderstanding the meaning of the word, and it won't be the last time we'll hear this sort of disingenuous cynicism.
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Posted By Bob Cesca | November 3, 2008 5:59 PM
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I just became a NASCAR fan:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/junior-johnson/the-most-important-race-o_b_140467.html
Send this to everyone in your contacts list.
Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie08 ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 3, 2008 6:52 PM
Bob your posts are coming so fast today I can barely keep up. How about that thread dude?
Posted by: Poleezz at November 3, 2008 6:56 PM
Not "intellectual violence" --- "counter-intellectual violence". It's my hope that if Obama wins, he and Democratic leaders use their "bully pulpit" to call out right-wing ideological hatred for what it is, and continually push back against media corporations that sponsor editorial commentary of that nature. Devastating good-humored derision should be a primary tactic for pushing back against right-wing ideological belligerence. In other words, I hope Democrats will stop being pantywaists as wingnuts try to continue their domination of the public dialog. Haters should be ostracized and the sponsors of their media "product" should be boycotted with intent. Or that's what I think, anyway....
Posted by: StuporMundi at November 3, 2008 7:02 PM
Yep he was the one who got famous running moonshine.
Posted by: Poleezz at November 3, 2008 7:02 PM
My my...someone who sees things my way. Thanks Stupor.
Posted by: Poleezz at November 3, 2008 7:03 PM
Poleezz: thanks for noticing. Here's hoping....
Posted by: StuporMundi at November 3, 2008 7:08 PM
If MSNBC is going to have left leaning hosts like Keith and Rachel (whom I am in love with), why the fuck can they not put a least a down the middle show on in the mornings.
I would love to watch Stephanie Miller in the morning like they had when the guy in the cowboy hat got canned.
Between Joe's b.s. outrage and Republican water carrying, and Mika's love affair with Sarah Palin, no amount of Harold Ford and Mike Barnacle can save that show.
Give me Steph and Jim and Chris.
Posted by: Terry4505 at November 3, 2008 7:09 PM
Give me Captain Kangafuckingroo. Anything is better than Scar.
Posted by: Poleezz at November 3, 2008 7:13 PM
We hate him, but we watch him. Almost everyone I know watches Morning Joe and no one I know actually likes it....
Posted by: ceu at November 3, 2008 7:16 PM
LFOD:
Aw... we all know Junior Johnson is endorsing Obama because Junior is black, right?
Whaaa? He's not?
Posted by: PackyJ at November 3, 2008 7:20 PM
Bob - this is an interesting concept. I just watched the most bizarre bit of Orwellian nonsense here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/willie-geist-campaigns-fo_n_139858.html
There, a staged search for McCain supporters on the Upper West Side of New York yielded (predictably) no interest. Joe and Co attempted to spin this into impending violence. Worse - some people actually believed that there was some impending violence after seeing the video - and hearing Joe say it was so.
If we have let our intellectual capacity to discern truth from fiction in even the most plain and obvious ways, we have a long way to go to dig ourselves out of this darkness.
QT
Posted by: QueenTiye at November 3, 2008 7:22 PM
yep, the moment Obama takes the Oath, we'll be back to the Black Helicopters and anti-government paranoia of the RW talk radio militia-crowd. It's like they've been in hibernation for the last 8 years.
Posted by: Leeman67 at November 3, 2008 7:22 PM
Joe Scarborough was at it again about the vindicated thing. "I've never heard a politician be so arrogant!
Wait, he wasn't talking about Palin?
Posted by: Bill Delyon at November 4, 2008 2:49 AM
Hey y'all, believe it or not, there are a lot of LIBERAL NASCAR fans.
Junior Johnson is one of the coolest cats to ever wheel a stock car, as well as one of the most successful owners once he jumped out of the car.
He got his start running NASCAR straight from being a moonshiner, thats where he learned about fast cars and how to go fast.
He's a classic american.
He's even got moonshine for legal sale out there these days...
Posted by: Bill Delyon at November 4, 2008 3:00 AM
