Kathy Shaidle
Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury, now entering its 11th year online. Her latest book is Acoustic Ladyland
New Meme: Glenn Beck EXACTLY Like Dead, Forgotten Trash TV Host from the 80s (who was a Democrat)
If progressives wonder why they began to falter at the end of the 20th century, I can tell them.
Analogies.
The great battles for black, workers’, and female rights having been (mostly) won. So-called “liberals” started calling themselves “progressives” at the precise moment they began, perversely, living in (and off) the past.
As the stakes got smaller — a side effect of the shift in the Left’s locus from the streets and the factory to the academy — the rhetoric became more comically overblown.
So a girl demanding admittance to an all-male military school was held up as the Rosa Parks of the Citadel. (After dragging the school through an expensive lawsuit, and winning, the stupid chick dropped out her first week).
Some New York transvestites at a Mafia-run bar got maudlin drunk after Judy Garland died then attacked some cops — and “Stonewall” was held up as synonymous with “Selma.” Baby seals were just like Bangladesh babies, with snow.
This popular post was originally published January 24, 2011. Be sure to check out Part 2.
“It’s come to this: Cracked.com is the paper of record.”
Almost every longtime blogger seems to coin a catchphrase. Instapundit gave birth to “Heh.” My fellow Canadian blogger Kate McMillan regularly dubs chronically toxic historical figures “not dead enough.”
I started calling Cracked “the paper of record” in 2007, when I rediscovered the poor man’s MAD Magazine after it transitioned to an exclusively online presence. read more…
I write a lot about conservative talk radio, so (alas) I have to keep track of the Left’s hair-raising, borderline insane attacks on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and other hosts.
Here’s a round up of some of the biggest and craziest (unsuccessful) campaigns to destroy these powerful and popular pundits.
First up: the latest attempt to brand a talk radio host a “racist” fails miserably…
Issue of Cracked circa 1975
On Monday, I wrote about my disappointment when one of my favorite websites, Cracked.com, published a limp exercise in apologetics called “5 Ridiculous Things You Probably Believe About Islam.”
Any website posting one dopey article in three years is actually a hell of an accomplishment. I just hope its the last one of its kind.
But I’m not confident. Here’s why:
“It’s come to this: Cracked.com is the paper of record.”
Almost every longtime blogger seems to coin a catchphrase. Instapundit gave birth to “Heh.” My fellow Canadian blogger Kate McMillan regularly dubs chronically toxic historical figures “not dead enough.”
I started calling Cracked “the paper of record” in 2007, when I rediscovered the poor man’s MAD Magazine after it transitioned to an exclusively online presence. read more…
I write a lot about conservative talk radio, so (alas) I have to keep track of the Left’s hair-raising, borderline insane attacks on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and other hosts.
Here’s a round up of some of the biggest and craziest (unsuccessful) campaigns to destroy these powerful and popular pundits.
First up: the latest attempt to brand a talk radio host a “racist” fails miserably…
‘The President’s Analyst’ (1967): When America’s biggest enemy was… the phone company?
I’ve told you before about my mixed feelings regarding Trailers from Hell. As a fan of crappy cult films, I look forward to their weekly selection of old movie trailers, which feature commentaries by established directors and other industry insiders. read more…
You’d never know it from this week’s “toxic commentary about toxic commentary,” but there was a time when progressives considered talk radio hosts brave martyrs for truth.
Back in 1984, an outspoken, belligerent Denver talk radio host on the brink of national stardom was shot to death by gunmen who had blatant political motives.
The incident inspired a Pulitzer Prize nominated play that was recently revived on Broadway to great acclaim, along with other plays, movies and TV plots.
Did I mention that that rude, obnoxious, opinionated, provocative — some might even say “toxic” — talk radio host was a self-described liberal? No? Sorry…
Jane Fonda has a lot of nerve, no shame and, evidently, a mutated irony gene.
Or perhaps old age is finally catching up to the faded beauty, and her memory is failing… read more…
Since some people liked my earlier post called “8 Things I Wish I’d Known (or Remembered) When I Was a Leftist,” I’ve written a sequel of sorts, about the valuable lessons I did learn back then.
None of this is deep or profound (except maybe some stuff I quote from other people) but these insights have stood me in good stead during my time here on “the other side.”
Phyllis Chesler writes here at NewsReal Blog:
On February 24, 2011, the distinguished Lars Hedegaard, the President of the Danish Free Press Society and the International Free Press Society, [and Jesper Langballe, a member of the Danish Parliament] will stand trial for telling the truth about Islamic gender apartheid. (…)
Please note: Islamists did not launch their legal prosecution. Their own countrymen, in the language of “political correctness” and in the guise of opposing “hate speech” did so. (…)
According to Mohamud and Winkel Holm, both MP Langballe and Lars Hedegaard have long ago “emphasised that they did not intend to accuse all Muslims or even the majority of Muslims of such crimes.
This has made no impression on the public prosecutor.”
So why do we insist upon using that unwieldy formula, “not all Muslims…”? read more…
Since some people liked my earlier post called “8 Things I Wish I’d Known (or Remembered) When I Was a Leftist,” I’ve written a sequel of sorts, about the valuable lessons I did learn back then.
None of this is deep or profound (except maybe some stuff I quote from other people) but these insights have stood me in good stead during my time here on “the other side.”
