Topic: Hate-Bush Goofballs
I’m surely not the first person who has wondered about this, but still it’s a point worth pondering.
In the wake of the Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan, which the enemy claimed was aimed at Vice President Dick Cheney, the lefty blogosphere erupted into a perfect storm of vicious hatred—against the Veep. At the Huffington Post it got so bad that they had to close the relevant discussion thread, and this morning I see that they’ve deleted most of the ugly comments.
That Dick Cheney is the evil mastermind of the quasi-fascist Bush Administration is, of course, a staple of progressive blog commentary. In the lefty fever swamps, you can’t swing a copy of the Nation without hitting someone who’ll grab you by the sleeve and scream in your ear that the nefarious Cheney planned the 9/11 attacks—doubtless with the undercover assistance of the wicked Jews. But how many angry progressives actually believe all that sort of stuff?
I suspect not many. Oh, they’re angry, all right—but what gets them all hot under the collar is plain old reality. The world simply refuses to arrange itself in the way that progressives prefer. So they get mad. And all that anger needs a target. So they invent bogeymen, e.g. Chimpy McBushitler.
The dishonesty of contemporary progressivism is a broad-spectrum phenomenon: not only intellectual, but emotional as well. Which is a fancy way of saying that all that anger radiating from the lefty blogosphere is as phony as a Clinton crying jag.
