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talkpolitics2010-05-08 02:17 pm
paft.livejournal.com) wrote in talkpolitics2010-05-08 02:17 pm
How to Discreetly Feed The Beast
Recently, Eric Cantor provided a textbook example of how the GOP has been countenancing (and therefore encouraging) extremist rhetoric while pretending not to countenance (and therefore encourage) extremist rhetoric.
Here, Cantor makes a statement that’s been demonstrated to be untrue in the seconds before he made it, and is again demonstrated to be untrue by the audience reaction after he makes it.
“No one thinks the president is a domestic enemy.”
No one? Someone just said he did -- and a bunch of other people just applauded him for it.
A “forthright response” would be to say, “No, the president is not a domestic enemy merely because we disagree with his policies.”
But Cantor just couldn't say that. He knew being that "forthright" might have gotten him booed off the stage by those "no ones" who've been incited by the inflammatory rhetoric the GOP has been banking and encouraging for twenty years.
Right Wing Heritage Foundation Speech 5/4/10
Audience member at Heritage Foundation: My question is – and this is something I personally don’t understand…. in light of what Obama has done to leave us vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to our outside enemies, to slight our allies. How…what would he have to do differently to be defined as a domestic enemy?”
(Laughter and applause from audience.)
Eric Cantor (smiling, after waiting for the claps to die down) Listen, let me respond very forthright to that. No one thinks that the president is a domestic enemy. (boos) It is important, it is important, it is important for us to remember, we have the freedom of discourse in this country. And the president’s policies, the administration’s priorities, in my opinion, do not reflect the common sense conservative traditions on which the greatness of this country was built…
Here, Cantor makes a statement that’s been demonstrated to be untrue in the seconds before he made it, and is again demonstrated to be untrue by the audience reaction after he makes it.
“No one thinks the president is a domestic enemy.”
No one? Someone just said he did -- and a bunch of other people just applauded him for it.
A “forthright response” would be to say, “No, the president is not a domestic enemy merely because we disagree with his policies.”
But Cantor just couldn't say that. He knew being that "forthright" might have gotten him booed off the stage by those "no ones" who've been incited by the inflammatory rhetoric the GOP has been banking and encouraging for twenty years.
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Unless people actually go to your blog and read that, they don't know it. So if someone who reads that site started posting in this comm who didn't know you link in your blog, they'd think you were copying word-for-word from there. Afterall, how many people read the blogs that belong to the people posting comments? Not everyone does.
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Well, that's the thing. They don't. And that's why she posts them here.
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This is her own "essay". Why would anyone care that she has it posted to a site none of us visit?
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I'd have no problem with it if she didn't word it exactly as she does on the other site she posts at or if she used extra information other than what she posted in the other entry. Fact of the matter is that it's still a copy and paste job from another site and not an original entry posted by her.
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That's absurd -- it's just cross posting her own materal.