From Little Green Footballs:
This is just sad. Generations of anger passed on by abuse and beatings resulted in hateful demagogues like Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin, who pass on the legacy of abuse to their own children and preach it to others on Fox News.Ya gotta be careful about this, but sometimes it's just too plain to ignore.
Coupla things:
1) I have no idea if Malkin or Hannity were ever actually on any kind of team at any level other than PeeWees or whatever, but I'm thinking if they had been, then they'd know that a good coach never ever abuses his players. And that a great coach can be stern and hard-ass and flinty and demanding and and and - but he makes sure his players know he likes (even loves) them and that he respects them; and that he'll teach 'em what they need to know so they can do what seems impossible while never simply commanding them to do something they're not capable of doing; or gets them hurt or makes them look or feel lousy in front of their peers.
2) DumFux News is not putting this up to complain about The Wimpy Libruls and how all this PC crap is making us weak - although that last bit - making us weak - is the key. Remember, this shit doesn't happen by accident. This is on Fox air for a reason, and at the risk of making too much of a leap, and drawing too obvious an analogy, here it comes.
The message is: Here at Fox, we know all you little people out there are suffering and taking a tremendous beating, but you need to suck it up, ya buncha cupcakes. Look at Sean and Michelle. They're in really peachy circumstances; they're wealthy and pretty and powerful; and they took the beatings. Why should you be exempt? You don't wanna be a moocher. You don't wanna be unworthy of what you get. You wouldn't want something for nothing, would you? Of course not. So if you deserved a better job (or a job at all) or some kind of security for your retirement, then you'd already have them because you would've earned them. This is a meritocracy after all, and so you get what you deserve. If you earn cookies then you get cookies. If you earn shit then you get shit - and you can be grateful we care enough to show you the error of your ways. We're just trying to get you to be better people (like us).
(In the end, it gets turned around to mean: if you're taking a beating, it's because you deserve that beating)
Hey - you voted for us - the beating is obviously what you wanted.
Can there be any question about why Republi-Cons and Theo-Cons go so well together?
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