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Jim McClarin
05-29-2010, 09:22 AM
Who are the real "crazies" in our political culture?
By Glenn Greenwald
Friday, May 28, 2010 09:29 ET
Salon.com

One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics. That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is acceptable: anyone who meaningfully deviates from their orthodoxies are, by definition, fringe, crazy losers. Ron Paul is one of those most frequently smeared in that fashion, and even someone like Howard Dean, during those times when he stepped outside of mainstream orthodoxy, was similarly smeared as literally insane, and still is.

Last night, the crazy, hateful, fringe lunatic Ron Paul voted to repeal the Clinton-era Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy (or, more accurately, he voted to allow the Pentagon to repeal it if and when it chooses to) -- while 26 normal, sane, upstanding, mainstream House Democrats voted to retain that bigoted policy. Paul explained today that he changed his mind on DADT because gay constituents of his who were forced out of the military convinced him of the policy's wrongness -- how insane and evil he is!

In 2003, the crank lunatic-monster Ron Paul vehemently opposed the invasion of Iraq, while countless sane, normal, upstanding, good-hearted Democrats -- including the current Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, House Majority Leader, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and many of the progressive pundits who love to scorn Ron Paul as insane -- supported the monstrous attack on that country.

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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/05/28/crazy

TheState
05-29-2010, 10:07 AM
Wow that was a good piece.

angelatc
05-29-2010, 10:27 AM
Looks like that bin might be getting a little more crowded.

HOLLYWOOD
05-29-2010, 11:06 AM
The first few pages of comments are pretty good... lot's of nice counters to the standard indoctrinated zombies with their canned pundit talking points, loyal obeidence to their high priests.

ADMINS... merge the 2 threads