What is the complaint?
Puzzling mix of complaints and sarcasm in the otherwise rambling presentation of Progressive celebrity Stephanie Miller before a most friendly Mineapolis, Minnesota audience on Saturday 23 (turned out to see the darling of Minnesota, Ed Schulz, who apparently has a very high opinion of Ed Schulz). Miller seems in search of an adversary, or a demon, or something virile and stupid on the other side of her political ambitions. It is a struggle for the traditional and articulate Progressives to discern or manufacture or locate or resurrect the useful idiot savant of the right-wing burlesques and their Confederacy Lite companions that reigned the long day-for-night years of 95-07, and that dominated the nightmare for idiot years 01-09 with the Orc King George Bush. Miller searches and searches. Metaphor fails her. Miller seizes the Prop 8 demon and it slips into melting ice. Miller mocks Brown and Lieberman and fails to connect them to the GOP monster. Miller sounds her frustrations. Miller is clever, savvy, politically deft, smart, quick, conventionally smutty, easily attractive in what she insists is a Size Zero dress because of her mercury poisoning ordeal, yet she is not able to find a target worthy of her weapons. The target is POTUS. But that cannot be permitted. The elephant in the room has turned into a jackass in the room, a jackass that looks a lot like her father's (Bill Miller, Barry Goldwater's VP running mate in 1964) Democratic Party, LBJ's too, and she cannot shoot at it. Puzzle. "You know me, it's been a depressing week. ...this is a good thing for us. ...you can't just say, oh, we got him elected, now we're done.... like I say, sending Al Franken doing a kick-ass job... we love you Minneapolis!" The GOP is a museum piece. It cannot feel the kicking that Miller enjoys kicking (presuming she is enjoying kicking her father's surrogate). The Democrats in the White House are lively and obtuse and knuckleheaded, but she won't or can't or musn't attack. Puzzle again.
SHE'S NOT FUNNY. SHE'S NOT CLEVER. SHE'S NOT WORTH LISTENING TO.
She is boring and almost as full of herself, if possible, as Obama is of himself. She has no insight into anything. Apparently, she never heard that when making a guest appearance you're supposed to prepare material. Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is her prepared material and it just sounds like she's winging it because IT SUCKS. However, having nothing to say doesn't bother her, doesn't stop her. She keeps swinging for the bleachers. Yes, it's been a suck ass week not so much because of MASS, but because POTUS tried changing the conversation around to avoid MASS. The change wasn't Populism, but desperation -- followed by a 4% drop in the stock mkt.
Glad to hear everybody else is having trouble posting. I thought I, alone, was being censored. But I don't believe that crap JB posted about Chinese ops -- if there are any ops (or Chinese CP bots, whatever that is) . It's phishsy all right, but the stench comes from the lrft
Yeah, that whole Chinese CP bot thing sounded borderline nuts to me, too, unless Mr. Batchelor was making some sort of obscure joke.
Mockery is the only weapon allowed to the plebes (in so-called civilized societies, that is). To mock someone is to acknowledge that one is lower than dirt. POTUS can't be mocked because it implies something which no one believes.
The "Snarky" class, not really the chattering class, are a core constituency of Obama and the left. They like to blame evil conspiratorial networks of republicans, kind of hard to blame the vast right wing when they run everything.
The republicans are evil argument has not worked well since Nixon. The bogeyman under a liberal's bed is always a white conservative male, Evangelical or Catholic. Weird kind of bigotry.
Friends in the Information Security field tell me Chinese CP or their proxies are hacking into everything. Looking, probing for weaknesses.
"Friends in the Information Security field tell me Chinese CP or their proxies are hacking into everything."
Perhaps I was unfair to Mr. Batchelor. I had heard about the attack on Google and so on, but assumed that even Commie geeks have better things to do than probe the websites of former-novelists-turned-moderate-GOP talk show hosts. Has anything this widespread ever happened before?
It occurs to me that just as an earlier generation joked bitterly about how we sold the Japanese the scrap metal that they turned into weapons to kill our soldiers with, we might someday make similar gloomy wisecracks about how we brought Chinese students into this country to teach them the skills they needed to bring down our cybernetic infrastructure.
All off-topic, I know, but better than talking about an unfunny comedienne.
Never heard of her. Hope to never hear of her again.
Most of the lefties I know aren't smart. The ones who have achieved financial success mostly got where they got via good connections. Never underestimate the power of good connections.
Just ask the President.
Who the eff is Stephanie Miller?
The daughter of Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate.
L'esprit d'escalier strikes again: I should have added in my best Paul Harvey imitation, "And now you know...the rest of the story!
THIS WEB SITE MAY BE UNDER CYBER ATTACK ...
But it's just as likely to pro-Obama stooges as it is Chinese bots. Either way, does that put us chatty types in danger?
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