The Left's Dual Diagnosis: BCDS

It appears Bush Derangement Syndrome wasn't cured with his two terms being over, the illness has grown and now includes  any and all Conservatives. What's his face, Keith Olbermann went after Michelle Malkin in a fever-pitched misogynist rant.

Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart’s Page A1 conservatives-are-horrible-ogres article led MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to liken me tonight to a “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” and to rail about my “fascistic hatred.”

And as Mark Steyn points out, everyone else is after Rush Limbaugh for things he seems to have never said. Maybe it's time we got the NIMH working on this in hopes that the liberal mind isn't a complete waste. Or, perhaps there are at least a few borderline moderates we could still save.

So where are these racist soundbites? Where's the audio? Where's the transcript? Name the year. Heigh-ho, say CNN's Rick Sanchez and the rest of the basement-ratings crowd. Not our problem: It's for Limbaugh to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's never said it. We're too busy fact-checking anti-Obama jokes to fact-check our own reporting . . .

Comments

[Abe Stanton]

Still, it wasn't good practice on Malkin's part to publish the false info about the childrens' book author. She has not, as far as I can tell, apologized to the author.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Olberman is a racist,misoginyst bigot and a wierdo. Shorter; typical demonrat

[Rob Crawford]

"Still, it wasn't good practice on Malkin's part to publish the false info about the childrens' book author."

What false information?

[MarkJ]

Abe,

Where's your evidence for this? Put up or shut up.

[mike191]

Rick Sanchez writes like he drives-hit and run.

[Mark Turner]

Questioning political authority and "speaking truth to power" is only acceptable when liberals do it, and they don't need to apologize or be held personally and individually responsible for their actions or words. When conservatives do the same, they are ignorant racists, hate-mongers, etc. This drill is getting really old now. If people aren't buying what you're selling, it might be that your product is faulty, impractical or inferior; your salesman is clueless or untrustworthy; and/or that your sales pitch is not compelling. The left needs to stop the sanctimony about people who disagree with them being too ignorant to understand, too absorbed with hatred, etc. If their ideas were so great, they would have been wholeheartedly embraced by mainstream America long ago.

[Southen Values]

Their ideas have been embraced – see the results of the 2006 & 2208 elections. I would add that only around 20 % of voters identify as Republican. That speaks volumes about “brand”.

[seekeronos]

Only 20%, huh?

Not too far off from when the late, great Ronald Reagan ramped up his then seemingly unlikely campaign against none other than Jimmy Carter.

[Southern Values]

Seek

Mathematically that’s correct, but the times are different. Carter got elected because of Watergate and a desire of the country to move away from the GOP controversy. He was seen, not incorrectly, as ineffectual and that is, I believe, the primary reason he lost in 1980. You may not agree with my opinion that the Bush years were a disaster. Fair enough. What I don’t see happening, yet, is the level of dislike outside of the hard Right for the Obama and the Dems. There’s so much bad news and uncertainty about, that if, as I posted before, he / they end up improving the economic viability of a majority of Americans, movement Conservatism will not recover soon.

[xerocky]

"I would add that only around 20 % of voters identify as Republican. That speaks volumes about “brand”. "

I don't think that during the Bush years the MSM were able to do some serious damage to the Republican party. But that said, how many people consider themselves conservative rather than liberal?

"What I don’t see happening, yet, is the level of dislike outside of the hard Right for the Obama and the Dems. There’s so much bad news and uncertainty about, that if, as I posted before, he / they end up improving the economic viability of a majority of Americans, movement Conservatism will not recover soon."

I see the cracks all over the place, even among people who work for the NYT and live in Park Slope. Trust me, the cracks are starting to show. Do you really not get a sense of how unpopular Nancy Pelosi is, outside of the "hard right"?
As I've posted before, don't hold your breath waiting for Obamas economic policys to start kicking in.
I truly think that the problems that we currently have are bigger than him, add to that that he's a spendaholic and it's simply not helping.

[xerocky]

I'm sorry, that first line should have read "I don't doubt"

[Southern Values]

I not a political scientist or a serious statistician, so I’m sure my opinions are clouded by my own up bringing and life’s experiences. That said, the current world situation ( two wars ) and the dire economic prospects command that the average American focus more than they have in the past on the cause of this mess. We can probably agree up to this point that there is heightened concern for our present situation.

Now is where we’ll start to drift. It used to be a political axiom that the American public voted with there pocket books. Now I’m not so sure.

Here’s want I don’t get about the conservative opinion on health care. I see significant opposition to health care reform ( it’s actually insurance reform ) in the rural areas of the country where there is a high percentage of uninsured people. Programs like Medicare enjoy very high support in those areas. The government run health care canard is false. The government will not provide the health care ( unlike say the VA, which is true government run health care ). The government will provide an insurance option that, market dynamics being what they are, will require the insurance companies to become more cost effective. How is this a bad thing? Now different arguments can be made on the how this will be paid, but these don’t argue for not doing it. Why does the rank and file right live poor but vote rich?