There’s spin, and then there’s flat-out propaganda. The full WSJ article by Daniel Henninger is behind a subscription firewall, but according to the blurb, “Barack Obama and his perpetually angry Democratic ‘base’ are the outliers on comprehensive tax reform.”
First, according to Gallup — not generally a liberal-friendly polling crew — Americans favor taxing the rich 66 to 32 percent, and they favor raising taxes on corporations 70 to 26 percent. That’s a hell of an “outlier.”
Henninger’s article — which, again, I can’t read in full — appears to be critical of the President’s jobs bill. Again, the Gallup poll shows that most provisions of the bill enjoy the support of a generous majority of Americans. For some provisions this is true even of Republican-leaning voters.
I also like the way the blurb has “base” in quotations marks, denoting irony. What the bleep are they implying by that? And what’s with “perpetually angry”? The rightie thing about anger really needs mass psychotherapy, considering that on the whole they are perpetually among the angriest people on the planet. Yet they see anger all around them (projection, much?) and denounce it. Calling Democrats “perpetually angry” trivializes their arguments; Democrats don’t like our ideas because they’re always angry about something. Just ignore them.
Well, back atcha, boobies.
The audience at yesterday’s debate boo’d a gay Army soldier who asked a question from his base in Iraq about whether the candidates “…intend to circumvent the progress that’s been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?â€
BOO’D! An ACTIVE soldier!
“Patriot’s” my ass!
Wait, let me take that back…
Maybe we need to inform gay soldiers that Republicans have a new DADGB policy when asking questions of their candidates.
DADGB = Don’t Ask, Don’t Get Boo’d.
Madness! Nothing but madness…
The majority of Americans are outliers… as seen by the Wall Street Journal. It’s the relativity of perception.
The WSJ is an outlier; and maybe the WSJ is lying out loud.
Excellent psychoanalysis, Maha. “Trivializing” can also be referred to as “minimizing” and – in counsel-speak – “discounting.”
I’ve noticed that if you want to know exactly what a Republican believes, substitute “Republican” in pretty much anything written by a Republican for the word “Democrat.” Well over 95% accuracy.
There are none so blind as they who will not see.