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frankly0 makes the point more vehemently than necessary... (4.00 / 1)

...but he is absolutely correct that the avalanche of juvenile "tea-bagging" snickers is a sign of an aimless, unserious politics.

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by: Sportin' Life @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 14:08:41 PM CDT

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I disagree. (4.00 / 1)

Public opinion is kind of chi.

Add to this, authoritarian followers want very badly to fit and be accepted, much more so than normal people. It is an Achilles Heel for them.

Ridicule is a potent weapon, it would be folly to give it up.

Montani semper liberi

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by: Sadie Baker @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 14:13:41 PM CDT

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I'm all for ridicule and mockery... (0.00 / 0)

...but it needs to have substance behind it.  Silly sexual innuendo has none, and it seems like a particularly bad way to try to tap into genuine working class populism--which I think should be the goal of any response from us to this kind of thing.

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by: Sportin' Life @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 14:34:26 PM CDT

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Actually (0.00 / 0)

I do wish the "respectable" liberals on tv would take the high road and leave that kind of thing to grunts like us in the blog trenches.

It's like listening your parents talk dirty. Embarrassing.

Montani semper liberi

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by: Sadie Baker @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 14:40:38 PM CDT

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Again, Your Equating Certain Media Outlets (4.00 / 1)

with the entire left and progressive political discourse.
I do not think the Southern Law Poverty Center is taking this lightly; nor may I add, the FBI or HLS.  
A quick informative take on this would be Media Matters.
Boehlert has a lot of excellent columns about this subject.

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by: Jason Cataldi @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 14:17:22 PM CDT

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Point taken (0.00 / 0)

As I said above, I don't necessarily endorse frankly0's broad indictment.  Perhaps I've simply been reading too much dKos.

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by: Sportin' Life @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 14:39:35 PM CDT

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