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onager

(9,356 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2015, 12:46 PM Apr 2015

GOP shill disses GOD

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Kathleen Parker again. Considering her usual writing, this is amazing. Like she didn't get the memo or something.

The nerve of her, attacking the sincere religious beliefs of Xian Fundamentalist Republicans!

Republicans don’t get a pass. Heaven forbid they should call out someone who wants to inject biblical end-times into political debate. Obama the jester didn’t hesitate. Poking fun at Michele Bachmann’s recent remark that he would bring about the end of days, Obama quipped: “Now that’s a legacy!”

With a joke, Obama exposed the absurdity of such thinking. But the joke would have been far funnier and provided a greater sense of relief had a Republican said it.

Alas, this will never happen — and not because Bachmann is no longer in office. She still speaks to and for a large swath of Republican voters, which means that the GOP is doomed to pretend that 2,000-year-old prophesies are perfectly relevant to today’s geopolitical debate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/baltimore-comedy-and-courage/2015/04/28/ac457134-edee-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html

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GOP shill disses GOD (Original Post) onager Apr 2015 OP

She is vermin! Arugula Latte Apr 2015 #1

I'll gladly welcome her to our exclusive club! n/t trotsky Apr 2015 #2

Great that she addressed that... F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #3

I wonder of she, and a lot of her compatriots, progressoid Apr 2015 #4

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

1. She is vermin!

Reply to onager (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 12:50 PM

Apr 2015

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

2. I'll gladly welcome her to our exclusive club! n/t

Reply to Arugula Latte (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 12:57 PM

Apr 2015

F4lconF16

(3,747 posts)

3. Great that she addressed that...

Reply to onager (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 01:09 PM

Apr 2015

But the rest of that article, not so much. Kathleen Parker is a terrible writer, for one thing. Then there were things like this:

My guess? Whites are too uncertain of the proper way to express their anxiety and would rather not risk the potential backlash. Trip lines are everywhere. Even this paragraph feels risky.

Yes, you are so brave for calling out whites who don't say anything about race. What a special person you are. So risky. And I think she's totally wrong about why they're not speaking out, too, but that's another issue.

On the other side of the coin, we all want to call the criminals who have been looting, burning and targeting Baltimore police officers “thugs,” but only African Americans — Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — would dare to say it.

Um, no. We don't. You do. Want to know why whites haven't been calling blacks thugs? Because it's racist.

Few are the Democratic women who will find (or express) fault with Clinton. It is the rare African American who finds fault with Obama.

What a crock of shit. That is all.

Nice to see the attacks against the fundies, though. A pleasant surprise.

progressoid

(50,748 posts)

4. I wonder of she, and a lot of her compatriots,

Reply to onager (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 01:26 PM

Apr 2015

are finally realizing how pandering to the fundies is no longer to their benefit. Those moral majority voters are becoming an albatross.

Or maybe she just used that example to pretend to be "fair and balanced", since most of her diatribe was aimed at Democrats and minorities.

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