August 16, 2009

Maureen, you ignorant slut

I saw this excerpt from a recent Maureen Dowd column a few days ago, and I've seen similar "thoughts" expressed elsewhere recently, and something has bugged me about it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until now.

(Warning, link goes to, um, a Maureen Dowd column.)

The young grass-roots army that swept Obama into office has yet to mobilize now that the fight is about something complicated rather than a charismatic hope-monger. No, they can’t?

Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents, disrupting forums where others have come to actually learn something.
Um, forgive me if I'm just a white malcontent, Maureen, but what was the percentage of black voters in this country that voted for Hopenchange back in November? Who did the majority of Hispanics turn out for, in spite of McCain's (and I'm being charitable here by not using a word that rhymes with, let's say, "gandering") outreach efforts? Oh, and all those enthusiastic young suckers first time voters who turned out? Remind me again who they backed.

People don't like to admit that they were wrong, especially only a few months after they made the wrong choice. Will middle-class black and Hispanic voters come around to the idea that Obama is proposing something that would be disastrous for the country even if we weren't in the depths of the worst economy in decades? Time will tell. The youth voters who really have no idea about how the economy works, not so much.

No matter what the people who show up at these meetings look like or how old they are, I get the sense that they feel like they have a lot to lose if their elected representatives don't pay attention. And they're justifiably angry about that. But keep adding fuel to the fire, Maureen. When you basically imply that these people are a bunch of racist troglodytes (she mentions the "swastikas" thing without any apparent sense of irony) you're sure to win over a lot of the "mob."

Update: You're all fucking crazy. Seriously, click on that link and read something that a conservative humorist like P.J. O'Rourke couldn't have come up with in his wildest dreams.

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