This is Goldberg’s path to civility? Human sacrifice?

Is this all we are? Is this what we have become?

Yesh.

Are there any right-wing manias-of-the-day left that can’t be re-read as Monty Python skits? The Michael Ledeen/Ayatollah Khomenei thing reminded people of the Bring Out Your Dead Sequence, and Michelle Malkin did the Dead Parrot sketch a while ago by standing in front of an ex-mosque and claiming that it hadn’t been destroyed…

Cue Gilda Radner: GAHD, Todd, yer so IMMA-CHOOR.

“…[I]ntended as satire, humor, or anything else…â€?? How about deliberately hurtful?

Do these people ever stop to engage their brains? How can someone be “deliberately hurtful” to people that don’t even read their blog? I guess he stopped clutching his pearls for a moment – but only a moment! Now we must return to the party line which says millions of Catholics will cry themselves to sleep tonight because of Amanda Marcotte’s “deliberately hurtful” remarks.

Moran goes on to say:

Malkin: “Meanwhile, the nutroots are waving their guns around in triumph.� Yep. Firing off their weapons in celebratory triumph like all the other primitive peoples of the earth.

Hey, that sort of thing is deliberately hurtful! Stop it!

That’s not nearly as precious as Dan’s embarasingly revealing follow up post

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/02/dueling_stateme.html

Best line on that one from teh Dan?

“As I discovered in college – play a radical feminist just right, and many end up eating out of your hand. I think most of that venom is little more than protection, anyway. ”

Now we know the genisis of that fixation…..

Using different words to the same end is not a change. They were always that lame.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/02/edwards_is_toas.html

“If you lack the courage to stand up to a few foul-mouthed, unhinged bloggers, clearly you don’t have what it takes to stand up against America’s enemies”

Witness his glorious insight liberal heathens and repent

I hope Terry Moran got some fucking grief.

They learn debating techniques through practice. The problem is that they have no thinking skills whatever so they can’t tell if they’re winning or losing. So they have to rely on the other person’s facial expression, or general reaction, and on a handful of vague rhetorical clues (i.e. lots of words and links means I’m winning).

Now, sooner or later they come up with something so stupid, hypocritical or evil that it leaves the other guy totally gobsmacked. They interpret the sudden silence as meaning that they have scored a point. So they memorise the thing they just said so they can repeat it later.

The consequence of this is that after a number of years of this kind of practice at “debate” they start to resemble… people like Rick Moran. It becomes natural to them to act like this because they know that it gets a reaction. The problem is that the reaction they get is not what they think it is. And ordinary people who don’t know anything about the issues start to believe that what they say must be at least half true because they just seem so certain.

Or… they’re venal bloodthirsty liars. Your call.

Oh, there’s still the plucky D’Souza, equating liberals with Islamic radicals because Islamic radicals hate liberalism. And there’s Jonah Goldberg with his smiley-face Hitler book equating liberals with Nazis.

But that was yesterday, or last week. Now they’re “bored” with partisanship. They’re above it. They want to be “more than” that. Rick Moran laments the lack of “nobility.” Jonah Goldberg finds it too “easy” and therefore “uninteresting.”

From the operatic hubris of “we’re an empire now, we create our own reality” to the feeling person’s “Is this what we’ve become?”

It’s right on cue: the consolations of philosophy and the concern for civility as the losing team loftily points out that there’s really nothing substantially significant about putting a ball through a hoop “to begin with.”

It’s not that these people have no shame (although they don’t). It’s that they have no substance. All they do is posture. No wonder they love Bush: a moral eunuch and an intellectual child listening to “God” and fending off the truth with both hands. These are his cheerleaders. It would be high comedy and good, nasty fun if people weren’t getting killed while they play-act and pretend to think deeply while pandering to the stupid, the corrupt, and the sadistic.

Um, did any groups other than Donohue’s four-person operation run from a Midtown office within a ten-minute cab ride of the nearest cable news studio?

Perhaps Rick’s little brother is a bit pissed off at the grief he got for doing him that favor yesterday.