Stupid Turns to Blabbering
I think Republicans are trying read hard not to be stupid so that Bobby Jindal won’t call them out on it.
But he didn’t mention blabbering, and The National Review leads the way.
Eliana Johnson wrote an editorial criticizing President Obama for using the term “senseless violence” in describing the Holocaust. Of course, more than a few people cringed.
So then she wrote a crazy editorial defending her first editorial from those who wondered why she thought violence made sense.
The hysterical reaction elicited by my post underscores precisely the point I intended to make–that the notion, now deeply ingrained on the left, that violence is by definition senseless and incomprehensible poses an enormous impediment to understanding the world and the forces at work in it.
Being an editorial writer is a hard job because it’s not knowing what to write that’s important. It’s knowing when to shut up. If Ms. Johnson’s editorial makes sense to you, you need to put down the bong and the beer can.
It appears in her attempt to demonize the left that Ms. Johnson has some ‘splainin’ to do about the sense behind a man going into the schoolhouse and shooting little children.
I’m just giving y’all the heads up that babbling is the new stupid.
Thanks to Robert for the heads up.
What would she call violence directed at herself or her family?
1If you go to Jim Wright’s blog he’s written a piece on this too. Well worth the read
2http://www.stonekettle.com/2013/02/senseless.html
I’ll release the bong when you pry it from my cold (it’s 68 in my FL living room), dead (still ticking) hands. Believe it or not, I do understand the aforementioned diatribe. I think it falls into the ‘bitch – bitch – bitchsomore’ category. So Eliana, care for a bit of cheese with that whine?
3They get paid by influential people to spin the story. The only morals they have are cold hard cash. They want theirs and screw everyone else, No matter the consequences of their actions. I think the Mayans were a year or so off the mark.
4She’s a conservative. Violence always makes sense to them.
They just don’t realize how bizarre their fantasy world sounds to everybody else outside their bubble.
5You’re right; editing/writing is knowing when to shut up.
6Even with the bong and the beer can it doesn’t make sense. So I’ll just hang on to them a bit, thank you very much.
7So when’s she going to write that reasonable violence column about Bin Laden’s motivations?
I’m with you, JaneE. Jim and JJ are my two “must reads”.
8If violence were by definition senseless then you wouldn’t need to attach the adjective “senseless” to it.
It’s sort of like the term “senseless Republican.” At this point you don’t need the adjective because it is inherent in the definition.
9LynnN: “inherent in the definition..” Priceless!
The party of stupid and senseless.
10Again, let me remind all. If you need a perfect example of stupid, look no further than Jindal’s “rebuttal” speech of 2009.
His presentation was worse than a third grader’s oral book report.
http://iflizwerequeen.com/2012/11/14/send-your-republican-friends-a-copy-of-the-bobby-jindal-video_q_15175.html
11Daily Kos has discovered where President Obama learned this offensive rhetoric:
“Those who perished as a result of Nazi terror, millions of individual men and women and children whose lives were taken so senselessly, must never to forgotten.”
12Ronald Reagan February 2, 1983