Joe Cooper
2018-01-16 18:07:08 UTC
In a memorable scene from the 1986 blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, Paul
Hogan and his reporter girlfriend are taking a nighttime "walkabout" in
Manhattan when a thug suddenly steps from the shadow and demands their
money. Warned that the intruder is brandishing a knife, the cool-as-a-
cucumber Dundee says, in his broad Australian accent, "That's nawt a
nyfe!" Then, whipping out his own larger, sharper one, he states,
"That's a nyfe!"
His quip got a big laugh from the audience and the movie thug got the
message. But when President Trump used a similar retort in response to
brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un substituting nuclear
"buttons" for knives his hostile liberal audience was anything but
amused.
The liberals never are, of course. Donald Trump has become more than a
distraction to Democrats. He has become an obsession and an object of
unswerving ridicule and hate.
Not that the presence of deep-seated rancor in American politics is
anything new. For all the historic greatness of Abraham Lincoln, myriads
of Americans, including Northern liberal Republicans, cheered at the news
of his assassination. But the embodiment of the liberal hatred for Trump
seems beyond anything our divided country has hitherto experienced.
What began as ridicule e.g.. Comedian Seth Meyers's quip "I didn't know
Donald Trump was running as a Republican; I thought he was running as a
joke" eventually flared into "fire and fury" not just because of the
disappointing 2016 election results, but because they came as such an
utter surprise. In the church of political opinion, the future of the
Democratic Party had been left ignominiously standing at the altar.
The crack liberal ground-gamers and gung-ho gurus had made the mistake of
thinking they knew which way the political winds were blowing simply by
staring, blindsided, through the looking glass. After that costly
miscalculation, the disconsolate Democrats hated themselves. In short
order, they found it more promising to transfer their self-loathing to
the person of Donald J. Trump. They chose not to bury the hatchet, but
to bury the new president. In that manner, they hoped to dig themselves
out of a terrible political blunder that could cost them big time for
years to come.
In some ways, they've had their work cut out for them. In others, Donald
Trump has all but handed them his own head on a platter. Their game is
being played mostly around what the president has said, not what he has
actually done. They have taken a convenient page from Hillary's
political handbook the insistence that words matter while ignoring the
consequences of one's actions.
What people say rather than what they do meshes conveniently with the
gestalt of political correctness. Al Gore is personally a notorious
over-user of energy, but that does not matter, because he says the right
things on the subject of global warming. Hilary Clinton publicly
humiliated Bubba's lovers , but what mattered is that she said she
encourages women to come forward to confront male abusers. In feminist
marches, Hollywood honchos bear banners that say they support women in
the entertainment industry. Yet they chose for years to knowingly hobnob
with sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein.
The lodestar for liberal piety is "In the beginning is the Word."
Whatever the outspoken, plain-talking Donald Trump utters immediately
labels him as a racist, misogynist, bigot, fool, idiot, or whatever.
Under the circumstances, one would think a sharp guy like the president
would judiciously close his trap and quit baiting theirs! Yet his latest
controversial remarks have landed him in enough hot water to possibly be
blamed for the shutdown of the government in coming weeks.
The anti-Trump blame game is played with a special set of unequal rules.
On the one hand, Democrats righteously pose as sensitive, high-minded
scolds when rebuking Trump's remarks. On the other, they feel justified
in verbally brutalizing him and sometimes his family with obscenities
that would make a sailor blush. Political affiliation, it seems,
determines whether a blunt speaker is the scourge of the earth (Donald
Trump) or the salt of the earth (Robert De Niro.) Unfortunately, the
incessant preaching on the subject of "who we are" as a people did not
quit with the last president or with his finger-wagging would-be
successor.
The way Democrats truculently confront Trump stands in ironic contrast to
the manner in which they behave toward other world leaders. The
murderous mullahs of Iran are feared and bribed. The Middle Eastern
princes are bowed to. The presidents of European countries are gushed
over for their perceived egalitarianism. The North Korean butcher is
gingerly humored. When Trump outright called him a short, fat rocket
man, shivers of trepidation tingled along the leftist spine. But calling
our president "Adolf Hitler" a dictator who assassinated millions of
innocent people is okay by them. I wonder if the journalistic hotshots
actually grasp the fact that if The Donald were truly Der Führer, they'd
long ago be yesterday's news.
So the battle has been joined between the Democrats and their nemesis.
Their emotional arsenals stand loaded to the rafters with their weapon of
choice: hate. They have become an army of Ahabs on a single-minded hunt
to harpoon and end the political life of the Great White Whale in the
White House.
Many Republican are sick of all the hatred from the left, which they seem
to find shallow-rooted, temporary, and void of reason. I fear they
underestimate it, for the roots have only extended deeper and are now
spread wider over the political landscape. As to the question of whether
such hatred is "reasonable," it hardly matters.
Source: http://bit.ly/2mDq19C
Hogan and his reporter girlfriend are taking a nighttime "walkabout" in
Manhattan when a thug suddenly steps from the shadow and demands their
money. Warned that the intruder is brandishing a knife, the cool-as-a-
cucumber Dundee says, in his broad Australian accent, "That's nawt a
nyfe!" Then, whipping out his own larger, sharper one, he states,
"That's a nyfe!"
His quip got a big laugh from the audience and the movie thug got the
message. But when President Trump used a similar retort in response to
brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un substituting nuclear
"buttons" for knives his hostile liberal audience was anything but
amused.
The liberals never are, of course. Donald Trump has become more than a
distraction to Democrats. He has become an obsession and an object of
unswerving ridicule and hate.
Not that the presence of deep-seated rancor in American politics is
anything new. For all the historic greatness of Abraham Lincoln, myriads
of Americans, including Northern liberal Republicans, cheered at the news
of his assassination. But the embodiment of the liberal hatred for Trump
seems beyond anything our divided country has hitherto experienced.
What began as ridicule e.g.. Comedian Seth Meyers's quip "I didn't know
Donald Trump was running as a Republican; I thought he was running as a
joke" eventually flared into "fire and fury" not just because of the
disappointing 2016 election results, but because they came as such an
utter surprise. In the church of political opinion, the future of the
Democratic Party had been left ignominiously standing at the altar.
The crack liberal ground-gamers and gung-ho gurus had made the mistake of
thinking they knew which way the political winds were blowing simply by
staring, blindsided, through the looking glass. After that costly
miscalculation, the disconsolate Democrats hated themselves. In short
order, they found it more promising to transfer their self-loathing to
the person of Donald J. Trump. They chose not to bury the hatchet, but
to bury the new president. In that manner, they hoped to dig themselves
out of a terrible political blunder that could cost them big time for
years to come.
In some ways, they've had their work cut out for them. In others, Donald
Trump has all but handed them his own head on a platter. Their game is
being played mostly around what the president has said, not what he has
actually done. They have taken a convenient page from Hillary's
political handbook the insistence that words matter while ignoring the
consequences of one's actions.
What people say rather than what they do meshes conveniently with the
gestalt of political correctness. Al Gore is personally a notorious
over-user of energy, but that does not matter, because he says the right
things on the subject of global warming. Hilary Clinton publicly
humiliated Bubba's lovers , but what mattered is that she said she
encourages women to come forward to confront male abusers. In feminist
marches, Hollywood honchos bear banners that say they support women in
the entertainment industry. Yet they chose for years to knowingly hobnob
with sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein.
The lodestar for liberal piety is "In the beginning is the Word."
Whatever the outspoken, plain-talking Donald Trump utters immediately
labels him as a racist, misogynist, bigot, fool, idiot, or whatever.
Under the circumstances, one would think a sharp guy like the president
would judiciously close his trap and quit baiting theirs! Yet his latest
controversial remarks have landed him in enough hot water to possibly be
blamed for the shutdown of the government in coming weeks.
The anti-Trump blame game is played with a special set of unequal rules.
On the one hand, Democrats righteously pose as sensitive, high-minded
scolds when rebuking Trump's remarks. On the other, they feel justified
in verbally brutalizing him and sometimes his family with obscenities
that would make a sailor blush. Political affiliation, it seems,
determines whether a blunt speaker is the scourge of the earth (Donald
Trump) or the salt of the earth (Robert De Niro.) Unfortunately, the
incessant preaching on the subject of "who we are" as a people did not
quit with the last president or with his finger-wagging would-be
successor.
The way Democrats truculently confront Trump stands in ironic contrast to
the manner in which they behave toward other world leaders. The
murderous mullahs of Iran are feared and bribed. The Middle Eastern
princes are bowed to. The presidents of European countries are gushed
over for their perceived egalitarianism. The North Korean butcher is
gingerly humored. When Trump outright called him a short, fat rocket
man, shivers of trepidation tingled along the leftist spine. But calling
our president "Adolf Hitler" a dictator who assassinated millions of
innocent people is okay by them. I wonder if the journalistic hotshots
actually grasp the fact that if The Donald were truly Der Führer, they'd
long ago be yesterday's news.
So the battle has been joined between the Democrats and their nemesis.
Their emotional arsenals stand loaded to the rafters with their weapon of
choice: hate. They have become an army of Ahabs on a single-minded hunt
to harpoon and end the political life of the Great White Whale in the
White House.
Many Republican are sick of all the hatred from the left, which they seem
to find shallow-rooted, temporary, and void of reason. I fear they
underestimate it, for the roots have only extended deeper and are now
spread wider over the political landscape. As to the question of whether
such hatred is "reasonable," it hardly matters.
Source: http://bit.ly/2mDq19C
--
"The Marxists, communists and fascists of the Democrat Party have
launched a strategy of deception, projection, and a new generation of
brown shirts who fanatically believe that their violence is honorable,
and necessary, to save America from some kind of a Fourth Reich
perpetrated by the GOP." (Douglas Gibbs )
"The Marxists, communists and fascists of the Democrat Party have
launched a strategy of deception, projection, and a new generation of
brown shirts who fanatically believe that their violence is honorable,
and necessary, to save America from some kind of a Fourth Reich
perpetrated by the GOP." (Douglas Gibbs )