tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post8669037047459130909..comments2023-04-22T12:32:24.799-07:00Comments on The House of Substance: ExtremistsSubstance McGravitashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-88824173750441126992009-10-12T22:41:26.241-07:002009-10-12T22:41:26.241-07:00Good to see Young Master Goldberg doing his mommy ...Good to see Young Master Goldberg doing his mommy proud by inviting someone into the conservative house who actually worked to get there.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-36176574586329657812009-10-12T19:05:07.198-07:002009-10-12T19:05:07.198-07:00It is hard to imagine the Beck audience being inte...It is hard to imagine the Beck audience being interested in "page turny not TV things" McGravitas (2009). <br />But when The Great One speaks I guess Pa Kettle would hop into the Four Wheeled Horseless Carriage and skedaddle into town. Returning 4 hours later to tearfully show Ma Kettle "I gots a book Maw, a book".<br />The book is placed reverently on the family mantelpiece to be read a paragraph at a time every Christmas Eve.Another Kiwinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-22485336188597407452009-10-12T18:13:45.636-07:002009-10-12T18:13:45.636-07:00Beck did do a lotta shilling for Liberal Fascism.Beck did do a lotta shilling for Liberal Fascism.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-4350487029322417122009-10-12T17:37:29.516-07:002009-10-12T17:37:29.516-07:00Can he prove that Beck "gets" people to ...Can he prove that Beck "gets" people to buy any books beside Back's own <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/234/16639/" rel="nofollow">mawk</a>, let alone read any?M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-61426320790655780322009-10-12T15:37:19.935-07:002009-10-12T15:37:19.935-07:00Our friend Jonah cannot understand how a right win...<i>Our friend Jonah cannot understand how a right winger who isn't Tim McVeigh might be fairly labeled "extremist"</i><br /><br />That's pretty much the deal right there.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-1527425976057183822009-10-12T14:56:35.959-07:002009-10-12T14:56:35.959-07:00It is difficult, indeed, to defenestrate an indidu...It is difficult, indeed, to defenestrate an indidual from the basement. So Beck's got that going for 'imself.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-41236159221698165352009-10-12T13:30:53.811-07:002009-10-12T13:30:53.811-07:00The great books of Western thought all featured sm...The great books of Western thought all featured smiley faces on the cover.Rusty Shackleblartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-23102722249658337292009-10-12T13:12:33.378-07:002009-10-12T13:12:33.378-07:00By "serious books" he means his own effo...By "serious books" he means his own efforts, I presume.Another Kiwinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-87939327982786056852009-10-12T12:51:54.486-07:002009-10-12T12:51:54.486-07:00...he actually gets people to read serious books i...<i>...he actually gets people to read serious books in ways Buckley never could...</i><br /><br />oh, Jonah, Jonah, Jonah ... it's so easy to just <b>say</b> things, isn't it.ckc (not kc)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-85301956359802197472009-10-12T12:42:54.353-07:002009-10-12T12:42:54.353-07:00Quite interesting, this Goldbergian conflation of ...Quite interesting, this Goldbergian conflation of "racist" with "extremist".<br /><br />Sometimes, as idiot-boy pecks desultorily away at the keyboard, while watching YouPorn in another window and trying to remember who he was supposed to call back, he accidentally and without conscious thought or intention provides us with a glimpse into the all-encompassing ideological fever-swamp of the American Political Right.<br /><br />When they hear people refer to their worldview as extremist, they cannot really understand what's being said, for within their indoctrination an extremist is someone whose politics are to the left of Ronald Reagan, say a Castro or a Clinton or an Obama.<br /><br />So instead of hearing extremist, they hear something else, something that actually does describe them, whether or not it actually functions as a synonym for extremist. <br /><br />Our friend Jonah cannot understand how a right winger who isn't Terry McVeigh might be fairly labeled "extremist", but he knows that the vast majority of his ideological fellow travelers (see what I did there?) are racists, so it is inconceivable to him that, at least in the mind of the collective "left" that is both his nemesis and his straw man, that these can be separate concepts...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-60987470080408427082009-10-12T12:27:42.269-07:002009-10-12T12:27:42.269-07:00I don't believe anyone ever called John McCain...I don't believe anyone ever called John McCain a racist, and he was a popular or semi-popular right-winger for a while there.Rusty Shackleblartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-37599370423801792362009-10-12T12:27:26.322-07:002009-10-12T12:27:26.322-07:00First, that house of conservatism is gonna need so...First, that house of conservatism is gonna need some windows, like with a view outside, before they can defenestrate anyone. Mirrors don't count.<br /><br />And 'rarified' only for some values of rarified.<br /><br />It is to laigh.guitarist manquénoreply@blogger.com