"Why are liberals so condescending?" Hits a nerve...

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html?hpid=opinionsbox1"

Read the opinion piece, then the comments. Best entertainment I've had snowbound. This guy (who I never heard of before) and his opinion certainly hit more than a few nerves.

[Anonymous]

Maybe Sarah Palin has the answer to this written on her right hand.

[Anonymous]

The entire GOP field of '08 presidential hopefuls disbelieves in evolution, hence the GOP is dumb?

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/politics08/2008/01/john_mccain_on_teaching_evolut.html

Listen, Google is your friend. Such patent lies only make the author's point.

[Anonymous]

Nice generalization. Would you like to contrast with Rush or Beck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice generalization. Would you like to contrast with Rush or Beck?

I agree. It looks to me as though the word "condescension" is the author's term for the stating of things he disagrees with. As you point out, people on the right are just as condescending, as well as much angrier. Is it really a surprise that political discourse, on either side, is not as enlightened as we'd like it to be?

I did not make it through the whole article; couldn't take its condescending tone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice generalization. Would you like to contrast with Rush or Beck?

Sorry, I missed it - do Limbaugh and Beck toss out evolution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice generalization. Would you like to contrast with Rush or Beck?

Sorry, I missed it - do Limbaugh and Beck toss out evolution?

When people call them Neanderthals it's hyperbole, not a contradiction of evolution.

[Anonymous]

Help me out here - LIberals call Limbaugh and Beck Neanderthals, AND Beck and Limbaugh are called the evolution deniers? I don't get it - and I have two pricey northeast New England degrees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice generalization. Would you like to contrast with Rush or Beck?

Sorry, I missed it - do Limbaugh and Beck toss out evolution?

They are condescending.

[Anonymous]

And then we have Steve Benen, a liberal blogger with Huffington Post and Washington Monthly, responding to a WaPo poll showing GOP gains in public opinion. The title of the piece?
REWARDING IDIOCY

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022334.php

By most measures, Republicans have spent the last year acting like children -- reckless, disturbed children who fiddle with matches and take pleasure in playing in traffic.

For nearly 13 months, GOP officials on the Hill have engaged in unprecedented abuse of the political process, blocking good legislation, offering insane ideas in response to major national challenges, rejecting their own ideas when embraced by Democrats, and generally being an embarrassment to themselves and the country.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:And then we have Steve Benen, a liberal blogger with Huffington Post and Washington Monthly, responding to a WaPo poll showing GOP gains in public opinion. The title of the piece?
REWARDING IDIOCY

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022334.php

By most measures, Republicans have spent the last year acting like children -- reckless, disturbed children who fiddle with matches and take pleasure in playing in traffic.

For nearly 13 months, GOP officials on the Hill have engaged in unprecedented abuse of the political process, blocking good legislation, offering insane ideas in response to major national challenges, rejecting their own ideas when embraced by Democrats, and generally being an embarrassment to themselves and the country.

What part of Benen's quote is inaccurate?

Republican's have made unprecedented use of the filibuster. They have filibustered legislation which they later voted in favor of once cloture was imposed. They filibustered the stimulus plan, yet show up to take credit for stimulus-funded projects. They have supported ideas such a pay-go, but then opposed it when it was proposed by Democrats. I just don't see where anything Steve wrote was wrong.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And then we have Steve Benen, a liberal blogger with Huffington Post and Washington Monthly, responding to a WaPo poll showing GOP gains in public opinion. The title of the piece?
REWARDING IDIOCY

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022334.php

By most measures, Republicans have spent the last year acting like children -- reckless, disturbed children who fiddle with matches and take pleasure in playing in traffic.

For nearly 13 months, GOP officials on the Hill have engaged in unprecedented abuse of the political process, blocking good legislation, offering insane ideas in response to major national challenges, rejecting their own ideas when embraced by Democrats, and generally being an embarrassment to themselves and the country.

What part of Benen's quote is inaccurate?

Republican's have made unprecedented use of the filibuster. They have filibustered legislation which they later voted in favor of once cloture was imposed. They filibustered the stimulus plan, yet show up to take credit for stimulus-funded projects. They have supported ideas such a pay-go, but then opposed it when it was proposed by Democrats. I just don't see where anything Steve wrote was wrong.

The subject is Why are liberals so condescending? - calling your political opponents idiots and children clearly demonstrates liberal condescension. Add "insane" and "embarrassment to the country" and you have icing on the cake. The accuracy, or inaccuracy, of specific charges was not under debate, it is the tone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The subject is Why are liberals so condescending? - calling your political opponents idiots and children clearly demonstrates liberal condescension. Add "insane" and "embarrassment to the country" and you have icing on the cake. The accuracy, or inaccuracy, of specific charges was not under debate, it is the tone.

Condescending, perhaps, but true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The subject is Why are liberals so condescending? - calling your political opponents idiots and children clearly demonstrates liberal condescension. Add "insane" and "embarrassment to the country" and you have icing on the cake. The accuracy, or inaccuracy, of specific charges was not under debate, it is the tone.

Condescending, perhaps, but true.

I think the tone is more anger than condescension.

BTW, does OP think Krauthammer is liberal? Was William Buckley? Pomposity knows no political bounds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The subject is Why are liberals so condescending? - calling your political opponents idiots and children clearly demonstrates liberal condescension. Add "insane" and "embarrassment to the country" and you have icing on the cake. The accuracy, or inaccuracy, of specific charges was not under debate, it is the tone.

Condescending, perhaps, but true.

I think the tone is more anger than condescension.

BTW, does OP think Krauthammer is liberal? Was William Buckley? Pomposity knows no political bounds!

Perhaps, but as a means for political persuasion it stinks! Telling people that you and the government will make better decisions for you, or that it is too complicated for you to understand, or that the libertarian uprising called the Tea Party movement is a bunch of bitter, stupid old racists of questionable sexual orientation is a sure way to turn people off to your message.