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Monday, March 09, 2009

"You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home."
Posted by Jill | 6:09 AM
Wow. Former evangelist Frank Schaeffer gives an entirely new meaning to the expression "born again":
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the "architect" America just hired -- President Obama -- to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.

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How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!

With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party -- you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today's fifth column sabotaging American renewal.

It's really too bad that CNN is cancelling D.L. Hughley Breaks the News. Perhaps it's interviews like this:



...which interfere with the network's mission to siphon viewers away from Faux Noise while ignoring the longtime CNN viewers that are quietly changing the channel, which tipped the scales.

I'm not with Schaeffer in the notion that you have to support a president whether you voted for him or not -- at least not blindly. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, even I reluctantly had to put faith in George W. Bush, not because I believed he was anything other than the idiot he was, but because we had no choice. But as we've seen, when a president fails, we all fail.

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Blogger zencycle said...
I think hughley is getting canceled because it's a lousy show. I've tried to watch it a few times, and DL is simply too uninformed to seriously politically interview his guests. I'm not say he's not smart enough, I'm saying he doesn't know enough. Besides that, his 'humor' isn't funny. It's not in poor taste, and it isn't mean, it just isn't funny. I'm about as liberal as they come, and was excited to see his show when it first aired. After a few episodes however, it really is just a bad show.

That point made, I think you missed the best part of DLs interview with Schaeffer - it was something like:

'the people who buy anne coulters books and listen to rush are a small minority of the electorate. They're loud so they get all the attention. it's like a subway car with 100 people. You have a raving drunk at one end, and a flasher at the other, while all the rest of the people are decent folk.'

Now _that_ was funny!
I'm not sure of the exact verbiage, but that was the gist.
3/9/09, 11:25 AM  
Blogger Bob said...
There's still something screwy about Frank Schaeffer - I think his upbringing permanently damaged him. I dislike the disconnect between Reagan & the current Repugs, as if Reagan's good manners made all the difference.
3/9/09, 5:49 PM  
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