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Pitchforks and Pistols
by Rick Moran
His name is Charles Blow - no
really, it is. I don't know exactly what he does for a living because this
op-ed that
appears in the New York Times today doesn't give us a clue. Perhaps he
is the official liberal hand wringer. Or maybe he is the designated
hysteria monger for the left.
Whatever he does, it is apparent
he needs a change of underpants after trying to scare the crap out of
the left with visions of bloody revolution, right wing terrorism, and
conservative mobs running amuck:
Lately
I’ve
been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed
with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood
of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry,
betrayed and besieged. And some of their “leaders” seem to be trying to
mold them into militias.
 At
first, it was entertaining — just harmless, hotheaded expostulation. Of
course, there were the garbled facts, twisted logic and veiled hate
speech. But what did I expect, fair and balanced? It was like walking
through an ideological house of mirrors. The distortions can be mildly
amusing at first, but if I stay too long it makes me sick.
But,
it’s not all just harmless talk. For some, their disaffection has
hardened into something more dark and dangerous. They’re talking about
a revolution.
What sparkling analysis! What
scintillating observations! What wit! What insightful reasoning!
What a crock.
Mr.
Blowhard is a liar. If he read more conservative commentary than what
he has linked above, I will eat my William F. Buckley Memorial Skimmer.
If he had, he would not have had a column to write. No one at NRO has
called for a "revolution." No one at The Weekly Standard has written
anything remotely resembling a tract that pronounces conservatives
"isolated, betrayed, and besieged. I haven't even heard Rush Limbaugh
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Charles Blow has the
second best media name after Peter Schmuck. But
Schmuck isn't, whereas Blow does. His big mistake (lie) is
that he's
been perusing reckless conservative blogs run by ersatz european
monarchs, and still getting it wrong. They're not calling for a
revolution unless the secession movement fails. The GOP
establishment
media would never be so bold as to call a spade a spade.
PS Rick - If Glen Beck ran in a
(open to all registered Republicans) plebiscite, against GOP
leadership like that which forced the VA
GOP Chair to resign because he wanted to " pursue an agenda
dominated by conservative social issues," rather than " reach out
to more moderate voters," I think Beck wins, or ought to.
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