Wednesday, September 03, 2008
TigerHawk comment of the week
Perhaps it is because I'm sitting in the President's Club in Newark drinking beer while waiting for my flight to Boston, but this struck me as a great comment (in response to the the suggestion from lefty historian Gary Wills that Sarah Palin pull an Eagleton):
Do you ever get the feeling that, in Western society, there really are basically two tribes, and it's not that they don't see eye to eye, it is that they live on two entirely different planets?
It gets scary not when you watch the left chuck every single solitary thing they have ever said about "privacy of families", "female empowerment", and "experience doesn't matter that much" over the side in a heartbeat. I mean.... politics.... whatever.
What gets scary is when you realize that they honestly, genuinely, in their core, do not feel the SLIGHTEST bit of dissonance when they do so. The idea that they are saying the exact opposite of what they have said for years simply never even enters their radar screen.
And when they look at everything we ALL know about John McCain, even some things we don't like and some things that might cause him to lose, does any sane person on THIS planet think that throwing Sarah Palin under his own bus (currently uncrowded in comparison) is something that is going to happen? Yeah, McCain can handle flaming carriers, broken arms, fractured spines.... spitting on offers to go home if it means dishonor.... but a couple of US Magazine covers and catty news anchors are going to send him cowering under a desk, begging Mitt Romney or whoever to make that woman go home and come save him?
Again.... what freekin' PLANET do these people live on??
--druu222
Well, in the case of the lefties hammering away at Sarah Palin for her and her husband's medical decisions and child-rearing, neither Mars nor Venus!
8 Comments:
By 
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Wed Sep 03, 07:01:00 PM:
The explanation may be that sometimes people are simply defined by their lack of comprehension of the scope of things. Many times people have to 'fold back reality' to suit their understanding of it. This sometimes entails overlooking the details to make the big picture comfortable to themselves.
It remains the challenge of humanity to reach to the furthest extents of reality and grasp what they can to enhance human knowledge. Similarly, we need to review what those around us describe as reality and discern whether their perception is fully encompassing or is somewhat short of the full grasp.
More or less, we would really, as human beings, do well with a definitive test for stupidity versus intelligence. Observation may be the beginning of that research. Stupidity is as threatening as any army, and it truly needs to be identified. Of course after that, delivering the truth may be a bit of a challenge, given that the recipients will likely be unable or unwilling to acknowledge the absolute truth of it.
By , at
Wed Sep 03, 08:24:00 PM:
So I just watched Sally whateverthefuckhernameis talk about her piece on why Sarah Palin is a bad mother, etc.
And I'm wondering ... where was all the outrage when Hillary was taking the lead on the healthcare thing back in February 2003? The wife of any politician is a HIGHLY social responsibility. She travels and attends so many functions she gets her own secretary. How does that person, who indeed has a second full-time job to go with being a mother, differ from the Vice President, or even the President? Chelsea turned 13 in 1993 (seems like an important time for mom and dad to be engaged).
Hillary passed it off as taking a village, or nanny. So I'm not seeing the difference with Palin.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Wed Sep 03, 08:39:00 PM:
Wasn't there an 'Internet famous' essay about two tribes written like, 3 years ago to this effect?
Found it. Here it is.
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000129.html
By Andrew X, at
Wed Sep 03, 09:33:00 PM:
Wow. That druu222 must be an extraordinary example of humanity. If only the world consisted of more people like him, it would be a better place! What an incredible asset to the human race he is.
I bet Sarah Palin would divorce her husband in a heartbeat if she ever met druu222. There's just no doubt.
You go druu!
By , at
Wed Sep 03, 09:36:00 PM:
Druu222 ... that deserves a HEH!
By Andrew X, at
Wed Sep 03, 09:40:00 PM:
BTW Dawnfire, all kidding aside, I just noticed you sorta put me into the same basket with Bill Whittle (ejectejecteject).
That essay is called "Tribes" and I guess I was channeling him a smidge without realizing it. I am not worthy to even SAY "I am not worthy" of being compared to Bill Whittle. And for everyone else who has not read that essay, drop what you are doing now and do so. Seriously.
By , at
Wed Sep 03, 10:12:00 PM:
I think we have a Vice-Presidential candidate to run with DEC.
I give you....dru222.
Huh? :)
Seriously, on point comment. Well said. TH is sharper than he looks.
-David
By , at
Thu Sep 04, 09:10:00 AM:
"What gets scary is when you realize that they honestly, genuinely, in their core, do not feel the SLIGHTEST bit of dissonance when they do so. The idea that they are saying the exact opposite of what they have said for years simply never even enters their radar screen."
This is actually pretty common in the world -- it's situational reality. I used to see it all the time in the Chinese press, and I see it more and more here over the last 20+ years. It is sort of the natural state on Mankind (and other mammals esp. cats) and for awhile, the purpose of education was to overcome it. But given the state of education, it's not surprising it's made such comeback.
C. A. Johnson
