tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post6924450840759274866..comments2024-01-13T08:49:14.041-08:00Comments on Myrhaf: The McGovern ExampleMyrhafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16340507405537605164noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-6581250445238592672008-08-18T19:41:00.000-07:002008-08-18T19:41:00.000-07:00Regarding the Democrats and their efforts to make ...Regarding the Democrats and their efforts to make it seem as if the Republicans win elections because they are smear-artists, how about the Left's latest smear tactic. The word they have now coined to capture the Right's alleged smear machine is “swiftboating.”<BR/><BR/>I saw Michael Kinsley use it in a Time or Newsweek column recently. I did not read the whole article, but from what little I read from it, the Republicans apparently perpetrated a complete smear job against John Kerry. The Swiftboaters, of course, were Kerry’s fellow soldiers in Vietnam who made a movie about his actual smears of them in the Vietnam War.Joseph Kellardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05792444138935346026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-54851393946000125792008-08-18T18:01:00.000-07:002008-08-18T18:01:00.000-07:00I'm setting myself up with those serious/non-serio...I'm setting myself up with those serious/non-serious pics. My liberal theatre colleague, Nate, who left a comment a few weeks ago, said all my posts make him laugh. If I got any other liberal commenters, I'm sure they'd make the same witticism, to the point that I'd get tired of reading it and delete those captions. But fortunately for me, liberals avoid blogs they don't agree with. I've had less that 10 comments from leftists in this blog's almost three-year history.Myrhafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16340507405537605164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-78545195175026035702008-08-18T17:21:00.000-07:002008-08-18T17:21:00.000-07:00I have already started pointing non-Objectivists t...I have already started pointing non-Objectivists to this blog for commentary on why I can't vote for either crapulous (it's a word. I just wrote it, and I'm sure someone else will agree it's a word, and by the standards of the day, that makes it true) candidate.<BR/><BR/>I wasn't kidding when I said you're dead on. And I enjoy the questions I get when people ask me about the serious/non-serious Myrhaf pics!<BR/><BR/>Also, <B>nleutbgq</B> is a word because Blogger is making me enter it to post this comment. I can't tell what it means, though, because none of my "friends" on the YouHooTubes and the MyFace know what it means. Therefore, it must not be important. QED.C. Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05860759500684485756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-6921361749703234812008-08-18T16:03:00.000-07:002008-08-18T16:03:00.000-07:00Thanks for the vote of confidence, Jim. But if wor...Thanks for the vote of confidence, Jim. But if word of this blog gets out, then it will no longer be our little secret...Myrhafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16340507405537605164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-58041491560336694202008-08-18T15:48:00.000-07:002008-08-18T15:48:00.000-07:00Suggestion for everyone, if you aren't already doi...Suggestion for everyone, if you aren't already doing so: start dropping links to Myrhaf's posts in comments at other blogs. There are a lot of people who ought to see this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-41095729436622417252008-08-18T15:14:00.000-07:002008-08-18T15:14:00.000-07:00To each their own, I guess.But now that I have a p...To each their own, I guess.<BR/><BR/>But now that I have a phrase... I can see a logo, a website, a campaign, t-shirts, oh man!<BR/><BR/>"The Great Rapprochement". That's awesome! I hope you will not whince too much when it shows up in my blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-4612895732772258282008-08-18T13:07:00.000-07:002008-08-18T13:07:00.000-07:00Thanks, AC. I don't know if I would want Great Rap...Thanks, AC. I don't know if I would want Great Rapprochement to happen, if only because of what it would say about the current state of American culture.Myrhafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16340507405537605164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-42126512579382582432008-08-18T07:26:00.000-07:002008-08-18T07:26:00.000-07:00Myrhaf,I want to echo c. august's praise for you a...Myrhaf,<BR/><BR/>I want to echo c. august's praise for you as well.<BR/><BR/>It has been a real treat reading your posts the past few weeks. You have helped state explicitly several ideas I have been fighting with recently.<BR/><BR/>I also am concerned about some future marriage of environmentalism and religion. However, I am rooting it to come, the sooner the better. I really like the idea of having all of my enemies on one side for once.<BR/><BR/>-ACMichael Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17857304768575062509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-39308914467463541012008-08-18T06:12:00.000-07:002008-08-18T06:12:00.000-07:00Thanks, C. August. You make an excellent point abo...Thanks, C. August. You make an excellent point about the "feel-good election." That is important to the New Left. They hate disagreement and independent thinking. This, I believe, is a result of progressive education, which strives to socialize students. Progressive education creates a mentality that only feels good if they are going along with the group. When an independent thinker challenges the group-think, leftists tend to respond not with rational argumentation but with intimidation.Myrhafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16340507405537605164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19129587.post-60504687186563605142008-08-18T06:00:00.000-07:002008-08-18T06:00:00.000-07:00Man, Myrhaf, your posts on this election have been...Man, Myrhaf, your posts on this election have been dead on. You're one of a very select few commentators I want to regularly read on this topic. <BR/><BR/>Living in Massachusetts, I see daily examples of your point that "the left's obsession with smears is based on a profound contempt for the American people." This view infuses the speech and actions of regular suburban leftists I see at the coffee shop every morning. It's like a whole-body sneer. Their response to any attempt to question the ideas at the base of their positions is an immediate lashing out; a vitriolic spewing of "think of the children!" or "think of the trees!" or "you're a heartless bastard who wants to send the poor <I>out alone in the snow</I>!"<BR/><BR/><I>Collectively accepted narrative</I>. That's a perfectly evil phrase that fits their view exactly. The "reality" or our shared experience is the only real reality. Spin it the right way, and it's the perfect fluff to fill up Obama's empty vessel to be reflected right back at the masses. It's really a feel-good election, you know. Now where is my vintage Barack-Che Guevara t-shirt?C. Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05860759500684485756noreply@blogger.com