This leads to another persistent flaw in Limbaugh logic: How can you claim to love your country, yet hate so many of its citizens? It turns out that people of color, women and folks who vote with the “Democrat Party” are all part of the very same nation that Limbaugh professes to love. And yet, he seems to have a never-ending ability to spit bile at his fellow citizens, constantly hurling invectives at those with whom he disagrees. Professorette? (His term for me.) Infobabe? Feminazi? And we can’t forget Limbaugh’s treatment of Sandra Fluke. Even better, watch Colbert’s take on it here.
There is nothing in the hate speech of Limbaugh that corresponds to any of the best ideals of our nation. We were better off getting our civics lessons from the satire of Colbert.
Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society. Her latest book, co-authored with Remy M. Maisel, is, Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics.Certain members are voicing their desire to screen the Seth Rogen-James Franco buddy film “The Interview,” either at their place or the president’s. Since Sony has given (limited) permission to theaters to air the film, the necessity of an official government screening has sort of diminished in importance. That doesn’t mean it’s still not perfect for members of Congress to think that watching a movie is the highest duty they have as statesmen.
California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, whose district represents much of the film industry, has taken the privilege of offering up the Capitol Visitors Center screening room to Sony Pictures for a screening. “As Chairman of the Entertainment Industries Caucus,” Sherman wrote in a letter to Sony Entertainment’s CEO Michael Lynton,“I believe we should stand in solidarity with Sony Pictures and the American film industry. Threats from a dictator in North Korea should not stop Americans from seeing any movie. We have a responsibility to stand up against these attempts at intimidation.” A responsibility! Sherman added: “This is also about educating Members of Congress. Everyone is talking about The Interview. I think it’s important for Congress to know, and see, what we are talking about.”
Reader, we don’t have much interest in seeing “The Interview.” What we would love to watch, though, is members of Congress watching “The Interview.” Get as many of them in there as you can, and record their faces as Seth Rogen farts in James Franco’s mouth and then they also poop on each other, etc. The whole national legislature in shock as they wonder wait why did we fight so hard to watch this? except for Rep. Steve King, who’s pointing at the screen and repeating all the jokes, howling in laughter.
MORE SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN.
Actually the black teen birth rate, like the crime rate, has been falling for years; the arrest, incarceration and police misconduct rate has not.
O’Reilly soared to new heights of demagoguery after the murders of Ramos and Liu, calling De Blasio an “incompetent pinhead” who “should resign,” because he expressed sympathy for the people who protested the failure to charge Eric Garner’s killer.Walmart’s propaganda campaign against OUR Walmart exposed.
In the beginning of the year, leaked documents exposed Walmart’s propaganda campaign against those organizing for better working conditions through the group OUR Walmart. The leaked presentations revealed how corporate Walmart coerces its managers into thinking that unions are out to hurt workers. In one of the presentation’s slides, Walmart wrote sample opinions managers could share with workers, such as “I think unions are a waste of money. You can speak for yourself,” and “In my opinion, unions just want to hurt Walmart and make it harder to run our business. ”
Then there’s the PBA’s Patrick Lynch, who shocked New York when he was caught telling his officers, in the wake of rising public criticism of Garner’s killing, that they should follow the city’s “stupid rules” when policing “our enemies” and use “extreme discretion.” He went on: “The rules are made by them to hurt you. Well now we’ll use those rules to protect us.”
Lynch’s us vs. them politics is dystopic and dysfunctional in a country where police are accountable to civilians, as well as in a city where a majority white police force “serves and protects” mostly people of color. It was appalling when Lynch’s members turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio at the funeral of Rafael Ramos, which De Blasio attended at the request of Ramos’s family. But it comes from Lynch’s belief – genuine or self-justifying, I can’t be sure – that the city owes its current safety, even its prosperity, to his cops.
In a revealing October Newsweek profile, Lynch callously blamed Eric Garner’s own bad choices – selling loose cigarettes and, it seemed, being overweight – for his death. And he blamed New Yorkers for being overly concerned about Garner and insufficiently grateful to police for protecting them.
“Maybe we’re forgetting what it felt like to be afraid,” he said bitterly. The writer seems to agree, arguing that “cops serve as an uncomfortable reminder of what it takes to make Brooklyn a playground for the Lena Dunhams of this world.” Lynch, he writes, “thinks that maybe it got too ‘good on the streets,’ and that people have forgotten that they need the police.”
This leads to another persistent flaw in Limbaugh logic: How can you claim to love your country, yet hate so many of its citizens? It turns out that people of color, women and folks who vote with the “Democrat Party” are all part of the very same nation that Limbaugh professes to love. And yet, he seems to have a never-ending ability to spit bile at his fellow citizens, constantly hurling invectives at those with whom he disagrees. Professorette? (His term for me.) Infobabe? Feminazi? And we can’t forget Limbaugh’s treatment of Sandra Fluke. Even better, watch Colbert’s take on it here.
There is nothing in the hate speech of Limbaugh that corresponds to any of the best ideals of our nation. We were better off getting our civics lessons from the satire of Colbert.
Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society. Her latest book, co-authored with Remy M. Maisel, is, Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics.Certain members are voicing their desire to screen the Seth Rogen-James Franco buddy film “The Interview,” either at their place or the president’s. Since Sony has given (limited) permission to theaters to air the film, the necessity of an official government screening has sort of diminished in importance. That doesn’t mean it’s still not perfect for members of Congress to think that watching a movie is the highest duty they have as statesmen.
California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, whose district represents much of the film industry, has taken the privilege of offering up the Capitol Visitors Center screening room to Sony Pictures for a screening. “As Chairman of the Entertainment Industries Caucus,” Sherman wrote in a letter to Sony Entertainment’s CEO Michael Lynton,“I believe we should stand in solidarity with Sony Pictures and the American film industry. Threats from a dictator in North Korea should not stop Americans from seeing any movie. We have a responsibility to stand up against these attempts at intimidation.” A responsibility! Sherman added: “This is also about educating Members of Congress. Everyone is talking about The Interview. I think it’s important for Congress to know, and see, what we are talking about.”
Reader, we don’t have much interest in seeing “The Interview.” What we would love to watch, though, is members of Congress watching “The Interview.” Get as many of them in there as you can, and record their faces as Seth Rogen farts in James Franco’s mouth and then they also poop on each other, etc. The whole national legislature in shock as they wonder wait why did we fight so hard to watch this? except for Rep. Steve King, who’s pointing at the screen and repeating all the jokes, howling in laughter.
MORE SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN.
Actually the black teen birth rate, like the crime rate, has been falling for years; the arrest, incarceration and police misconduct rate has not.
O’Reilly soared to new heights of demagoguery after the murders of Ramos and Liu, calling De Blasio an “incompetent pinhead” who “should resign,” because he expressed sympathy for the people who protested the failure to charge Eric Garner’s killer.Walmart’s propaganda campaign against OUR Walmart exposed.
In the beginning of the year, leaked documents exposed Walmart’s propaganda campaign against those organizing for better working conditions through the group OUR Walmart. The leaked presentations revealed how corporate Walmart coerces its managers into thinking that unions are out to hurt workers. In one of the presentation’s slides, Walmart wrote sample opinions managers could share with workers, such as “I think unions are a waste of money. You can speak for yourself,” and “In my opinion, unions just want to hurt Walmart and make it harder to run our business. ”
Then there’s the PBA’s Patrick Lynch, who shocked New York when he was caught telling his officers, in the wake of rising public criticism of Garner’s killing, that they should follow the city’s “stupid rules” when policing “our enemies” and use “extreme discretion.” He went on: “The rules are made by them to hurt you. Well now we’ll use those rules to protect us.”
Lynch’s us vs. them politics is dystopic and dysfunctional in a country where police are accountable to civilians, as well as in a city where a majority white police force “serves and protects” mostly people of color. It was appalling when Lynch’s members turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio at the funeral of Rafael Ramos, which De Blasio attended at the request of Ramos’s family. But it comes from Lynch’s belief – genuine or self-justifying, I can’t be sure – that the city owes its current safety, even its prosperity, to his cops.
In a revealing October Newsweek profile, Lynch callously blamed Eric Garner’s own bad choices – selling loose cigarettes and, it seemed, being overweight – for his death. And he blamed New Yorkers for being overly concerned about Garner and insufficiently grateful to police for protecting them.
“Maybe we’re forgetting what it felt like to be afraid,” he said bitterly. The writer seems to agree, arguing that “cops serve as an uncomfortable reminder of what it takes to make Brooklyn a playground for the Lena Dunhams of this world.” Lynch, he writes, “thinks that maybe it got too ‘good on the streets,’ and that people have forgotten that they need the police.”
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