MY SPECULATION: A classic case of narcissism?

MY SPECULATION: A classic case of narcissism?

Don’t you have to attach a piece of toast to one side and a cat to the other to get a perpetual motion generator?

Nah, just stick a small tv tuned to Fox down there and off they go. It’s not perpetual motion, but the supply of wingnut inanity being what it is, we shouldn’t have to worry for some time.

Wingnut sees draft protest.
Wingnut assumes that protesters are too stupid to realize that we have a volunteer military
Wingnut reacts to presumed liberal foolishness.
OOPS: wingnut proven to be idiot when protest turns out to be something else entirely.

You see this all the time with global warming deniers and creationists. They make some observation about the science that they think proves their point, only to be shown that they don’t know squat about the science!

Don’t you have to attach a piece of toast to one side and a cat to the other to get a perpetual motion generator?

Find me a right-winger who can quote Smith’s critiques of capitalism and capitalists.

For that matter, find me one that can quote much of anything of his in context and accurately.

From teh wiki…

Smith used the phrase “invisible hand” only twice in his work. The first use was in “The Theory of Moral Sentiments.” (1759, Part IV, “Of the Effect of Utility upon the Sentiment of Approbation” Chapter 1 Paragraph 10, as follows:) The rich only select from the heap what is most precious and agreeable. They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.

Smith also used the phrase “invisible hand” in a later work, in chapter two of the fourth book, “Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries.” His usage was in the context of a problem, in Smith’s view, posed by free and open markets among nations. If markets were free and open, the question arose how would a nation (such as Great Britain, the nation Smith cared about) keep its capitalists from moving their capital out of the nation and into other countries where labor could be bought for cheaper. The answer, Smith says, is that they will act with a view toward their own particular nationalistic interests which happen to correspond with the “public interest” at home. In this way, by “preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry,” the capitalist will in a sense be “led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.” Later writers, both supporters and detractors, repeated this phrase far out of proportion to Smith’s own usage and also out of context, with an entirely new meaning not intended by Smith.

Both instances seem quaint at best if one tries to apply them to a modern reality, and neither is in the same galaxy, much less the same ballpark as how wingnuts bandy the phrase about today. I suppose we can just add him to the list of motherfuckers whose bones we can strap turbines to so as to solve our energy problems as they spin in their graves.

Besides, obviously, orca dick.

You mean a free willy?

flamenco dancers, a cigar balcony.

I must have glossed over this. The Weekly Standard sure knows how to party.

What can you say about a man whose idea of luxury is flamenco that he hasn’t already said about himself? Besides, obviously, orca dick.

People are willing to agree to disagree.

And even more willing to grovel before an obese, multiply-divorced drug addict if they cross him.

…they were on the forefront of dethroning Joseph Lieberman as the conscience of the senate.

Hollywood is part of Connecticut?

…whether they be Leiberman democrats or Scoop Jackson liberals, whether they’re Blue Dog democrats…

Whether they be Leninists, or Trotskyists, or just plain Marxists, these Republican haters just hate them!!

He always suspected that school had been against him, a conspiracy theory that was eventually confirmed by a friend’s mom who confessed to him that the principal had called her into his office to turn her against the young Breitbart.

A “conspiracy theory” is validated by one person’s claim? Also, I’ve watched Hollywood movies with more realism than this story. Also.

We had finally arrived at Weekly Standard party which was, Mr. Breitbart agreed, pretty Hollywood in its excess. Four floors, every kind of booze, flamenco dancers, a cigar balcony.

Of course, a party for the entertainment industry would have less excess, and fewer homosexuals.

His current crusade is bigger than the industry, indeed he would argue that is the biggest story of our time, one so hot reporters don’t have the stones to touch it.

American torture, a war based on lies, ignoring a global climate crisis, deregulation of the financial industry leading to economic ruination, children forced into armies — trivial piffle!

And people just assume, well that’s Hollywood, that’s the voice of the American people… and asserts its political power not through any sort of electorate…

From mentioning (not quoting) Adam Smith, to claiming that financial success does not equal popular support. People, I give you the Full Wingnut Reversal!

To hell with Red states, to tell [sic] with anyone who disagrees.

Red states are home to those poufy art-house movie theatres (note Euro spelling!) whilst the blue coastal cities spend all of their ticket money on Hollywood action flicks.

… something’s been at play for the last 40 years.

The terrorist fist jab at the 1968 Olympics changed America forever!

That the same thugs and bullies that made it so that the left is dominant and monolithic on the college campuses, did the exact same thing to Hollywood, that it’s coordinated…

No sane person of fighting age would ever reject needless war! They were brainwashed by Jane Fonda, before she became George Soros!!1!

The actors have adopted a political sensibility that’s European leftist.

Union-represented workers with uncertain employment prospects have leftist views! Whooda thunk it?!?

Yet these people live here and then the lecture the American people on how politics should be done.

So totally unlike Mr. Slightblart himself.

There’s a reason why you have prequels of sequels of Freaky Friday.

The ghost of Adam Smith has more substance than this guy.

So people are crafting the product to try and sate the opinion makers.

Tailoring product to customer is the essence of anti-capitalism.

Creativity is dying! Hollywood is fundamentally uninteresting,” he said.

We only obsess about what bores us.

There was something exciting about the entertainment industry back in the 70s and 60s, there was a vitality – it’s dead now.

When Robert Altman was making M*A*S*H? When Al Pacino was sticking a knife in the corpse of the Hayes Code with “Cruising”?

[The Hollywood left] is a stale group of people who are recycling the same old bad ideas that don’t work.

Don’t work is the new capitalist success story.

‘You can come out. The war’s over. We’re not fighting the Japanese anymore; you can come off the island.’

He’s referring, of course, to the tale of the Japanese soldier who never got Hirohito’s Surrender Now! memo.

He said that so far the media has not figured out what to make of him, but that there was nothing mysterious or ambiguous about his cause. He wants decency to prevail.

Him, Rev. Haggard, and Senator Vitter. Also, Rep. Foley. Also.

A movie could have a direct message with Maggie Gyllenhaal …

“Rocket Boys” taught hard, strapping, cut young high school boys to hate America, by striving for technological supremacy over the Commies.

I think they hate the idea that it’s a mystery, that for every 10 people that are open there are a 100 that aren’t open about and that they know that we’re meeting each other that we’re seeking each other out…

Cripes, I am the straightest straight boy alive. I couldn’t dance to save my life, my idea of interior decor consists of unframed posters and shelves of engineering books, and the woman who cuts my hair dictates the style, because I have no clue. Even my vestigal gaydar pegged to “11″ after a few sentences of this.

I’m so ashamed of myself that I’m going to ahead and change the channel now.

Prolly at that expensive private school, too.

The “mechanics of the arrangement” between two self-hating closet cases is already well-known, and usually tragic. I hope Mrs. Rev. Haggard Blarghblart practices safe sex.

MSMs are the worst. They ruin two sexes’ love lives – stand-offish, disinterested, and piously masculist about sex with women, aggressively noncommittal, permanently awkward and virginal, and potentially violent with men. And all so they can lock themselves in the closet and play 50s daddy in public. It’s like grinding up priceless oil paintings to make plastic Hummel figurines.

At least Breitbart seems to have some kind of committed relationship on both ends, though. It’s almost enough to forgive him for helping Matt Drudge play Internet Limbaugh. (Why do liberals still care about Matt Drudge, anyway?)

Oh, I think I see – like this poor bastard?

Now you’re thinking with marine mammals!

Oh, and that Huckabee doggerel? Doesn’t scan for shit.

I think the Grunge Era strangled American attention to meter in its bed, and Lord knows Republican is the new punk.

Yeah, show people pointless death and destruction, violent murders of innocent strangers, carried out for no reason but political and religious hatred, and they’ll begin to think that war is not a good thing. Real (i.e. Blightblart) ‘Murkins raged with hatred against, um, well, Those Other People. (Can’t be against the Saudis; Bush wouldn’t allow it, and anyway the Saudi government kills people for immorality, so they must be great. Hence Iraq.)

In retrospect, the most striking thing about the reaction to 9/11 was the amount of prodding and tendentious merchandising that was required to whip people up into a war frenzy instead of their usual murderous armchair-LeMay behavior. Breitbart and his people had a lot of work to do to turn the American flags hanging from every window into little swastikas.

My favorite part of this accusation, though, is the direct parallel between these nasty all-powerful hippies responding to 9/11 within the week – in geological time, the blink of an eye – with unnatural contempt for killing people with airplanes, and poor innocent political prisoner to the Upper East Hollywood elite Donald Rumsfeld (later given a triumph by universal acclaim by his army, which was obviously suppressed by the liberal media) nobly opining a long time after 9/11 (24 whole hours!) that Iraq would be an easier front to open against the Arab hive mind because it would afford more stunning night-view vistas to the doughty public starved for just war by the Democrat Party.

See, when I say these things I’m pretty much setting myself directly up for disappointment, because later on they’re going to say the same thing in a blunter, more crass and stupid way. Peak wingnut is a monument to human stupidity.

40?

Observing longhaired young men tossing Frisbees on the University of Michigan campus during the late 1960s, the psychologist said—with a confident gleam in his eye—that he knew what caused this odd behavior. “It is your supermarkets. You have 20 different brands of soap, and who can tell which is best? The result is neurosis.”

MOAR FRISBEES!

And even this is a gross distortion of the truth. While there were many skeptics, even so, right after 9/11, the Bush administration had the support of all but the most outlier of leftists – everyone was giving him the benefit of the doubt. It wasn’t until he started lying us into Iraq over a full year later that people started to actively oppose him.