{"id":4491,"date":"2009-03-31T08:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:54:07","slug":"when-all-motives-are-base-all-thoughts-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4491","title":{"rendered":"When All Motives Are Base, All Thoughts Are Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angie Harmon, the model and former Law and Order <\/em>star and “out” Republican in Hollywood, said something the other day<\/a> that started me thinking.<\/p>\n

She was decrying the impulse among Obama’s supporters in Hollywood to brand criticizing the President as “racist”.\u00a0 Of course we’ve seen this before; during the campaign, countless Democrat activists tried to position “not voting for Obama” as “racism”.<\/p>\n

But he won!<\/p>\n

But the dynamic continues:<\/p>\n

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Here’s my problem with this, I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist,” Harmon told Tarts at Thursday\u2019s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. “But it has nothing to do with it, I don\u2019t care what color he is. I\u2019m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he\u2019s gonna do that and change and change, so okay \u2026 I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These are many of the same people who whinged that their “patriotism” was being impugned over the past years (although none of them can ever <\/em>show an example of this when asked.\u00a0 Never).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harmon’s remarks brought to mind an appearance I had with Rep. Phyllis Kahn of Minneapolis on Marty Owings’ “Radio Free Nation” a few weeks ago.\u00a0 The topic was gay marriage.<\/p>\n

Now, gay marriage isn’t exactly my hottest-button issue; if we don’t win the War on Terror and save the economy from the ravages of a decade of government\/market cronyism and the canoodling of a neo-socialist administration, then gay marriage will be the least of the stresses facing the traditional family.<\/p>\n

But I asked Kahn, a gay-marriage supporter: “What do you make of the fact that voters have categorically rejected gay\u00a0 marriage, even in liberal bastions like Oregon and California?”<\/p>\n

Her response: “There’s\u00a0a survey that shows 60% of voters today would vote against the Bill of Rights!”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I ignored the irony that this was a woman who’s spent a career going above and beyond the DFL’s drive to flense the Second, Fifth and Tenth Amendments, and who’s spent 36 years in the Legislature serving as a front-woman for an educational-industrial complex that’s dumbed down Minnesota students to the point where I’d be surprised if a tiny minority could recite the Bill of Rights in the first place.\u00a0 But I did point out that even if I accepted the accuracy of that “survey” (or its existence – and I accept neither, but I digress), it’s a non-sequitur; specific states in all their diverse glory\u00a0did <\/em>vote, repeatedly on on the record, in states conservative, liberal and whackdoodlesque, to reject the idea.<\/p>\n

And yet she repeated that exact refrain several more times during the appearance.\u00a0 “You can reason with Lufthansa; you can also reason with livestock, for all the good it’ll do you”, PJ O’Rourke once wrote.\u00a0 I thought of that as I listened to Kahn repeat the meme over and over – and then shook it off.\u00a0 This was not bovinity.<\/p>\n

It was part of the Dems’ attempt to control the language.<\/p>\n

If you dissent from The One, you’re a racist.\u00a0 There’s no nuance asked or granted; your motives are no different from a Klansman’s.<\/p>\n

Have a principled objection to the notion of Gay Marriage? Your nuances – wanting to separate religion from contract law, your actual beliefs – are of no interest.\u00a0 You are no different than people who want to beat protesters or burn heretics at the stake.<\/p>\n

And of course, this follows nearly a decade of “them” accusing “us” of…well, you know.<\/p>\n

Dissent isn’t patriotic.\u00a0 It’s a sign of moral turpitude.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – and don’t you dare call them unpatriotic!<\/p>\n

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