Even better, he digs out all the holier than thou comments from the Fascifist Gramscian Syndicalists such as Atrios and Kos mocking the whole concept of self sufficiency. (Well, OK, it probably gives them too much credit for actually having brains to call them Gramscian Syndicalists -- some of them are simply flighty emotive dupes; and they may not be self-aware Fascifists but more on that later.)
Anyway, what leaped out at me was a nice little 1-2 comment punch from Francis and sf responding to Cold Fury's post:
Can you say "psychological projection"?Francis W. Porretto 9/4/2005 2:15 pm
– You know, it never occurred to any of our leftist friends in the blogosphere or the MSM, that maybe Secretary Ridge went to the trouble of preparing a readiness web site with emergency kit lists, in the public interest. It never occurred to them that it could be anything other than partisan fear mongering. –
But this is because, were they in Ridge’s place, the use of the office to enhance their power, prestige, and partisan objectives is the only thing that would concern them. We always suspect and fear in others the darkness we know to be at the core of our selves.
And then "sf" chips right in out of the "hole":
sf 9/4/2005 3:48 pmI call this the "MSMemory Hole" (in honor of Orwell, of course -- look up at that masthead folks). It's actually another form of projection in that the reason they don't believe anyone will call them on such risible hypocrisy is that many of them are simply unaware of it themselves. As emotives with basement level emotional intelligence scores (foul-mouthed Mayor Ray Nagin seems to be their current front man) they simply don't have the discipline to even check what they're saying from day to day for consistency.
Nice work!
Before the internet existed, Dems and leftists could (and did) say any outrageous thing they wanted without having to worry they’d ever be called to account, because they knew their Dem/left friends in the MSM would never publicize any spectacular goofs or outrageous comments.
While the latter is still true, fortunately for our nation the internet lets us find what they wrote and drag it out into the sunlight for all to see.
They’re like children caught doing something wrong: ‘No, really, I didn’t do it. It was, uh…my invisible friend Ralphie.”
Surely on an intellectual level they know that the ‘Net stores their past writings, but their old habit of saying anything outrageous to knife the GOP hasn’t changed yet. Oh well..
After all, that wouldn't make them feel good.
And even if they did, they "project" that us righties are too stupid to call them on it.
I would suspect it's their intellectual brethren at Yahoo and Microsoft that are busy working to widen that Memory Hole.
My yardstick on when we'll actually have a chance to reverse this insanity is when Orwell's "Pacifism and the War" finally becomes widespread reading. It's barely over a page and is not all that highbrow:
The life of a clique is about five years and I have been writing long enough to see three of them come and two go — the Catholic gang, the Stalinist gang, and the present pacifist or, as they are sometimes nicknamed, Fascifist gang. My case against all of them is that they write mentally dishonest propaganda and degrade literary criticism to mutual arse-licking.
The problem of course, is that the Fascifist Gang has not yet gone lo all these many years -- and have managed to flush Orwell himself down his own Memory Hole!
Or as I've updated its name: the remodeled but perhaps even more dangerous "MSMemory Hole".
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