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February 22, 2005

Die Einzige Sprachpunkt!

When I was liveblogging/broadfisking the Nick Coleman show yesterday, I noted something that, inexplicably, I let slip.

It's really the biggest story of the whole adventure.

It took me a while to remember this bit here:

when the Powerstooges call Jimmy Carter a traitor, slime him like a commie stool or kissing/whipping boy, some kind of closeted commie, this isnt' just an attack on Jimmy Carter - this is intimidating of a fascistic kind that is meant to make people shut up in this county...
"Republicans are fascists" is a meme that has assumed near-official talking-point status on the far, far left. It's popping up with nearly-predictable regularity from the left - and I'm talking the mainstream left, here:The examples go on, and on, and on.

Is it a failing of the left's rhetorical skills? Or a meme they're circulating amongst themselves to bolster the base's sense of invincible self-righteousness?

I'm leaning toward meme.

Posted by Mitch at February 22, 2005 06:57 PM | TrackBack
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"nearly" predictable?

Posted by: Brian Jones at February 22, 2005 05:49 PM

Am I the only one who thinks the use of "meme" has increased tenfold in the last month? Maybe I'm just reading too many blogs, news sites and opinion journals. No offense meant. I enjoy your blog a great deal. Just an observation.

Posted by: Barry H at February 23, 2005 10:12 AM
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