Monday, August 24, 2009
Teh Narrative
Big Floppy Shooz, Red Rubber Nose Morph
A clearer, more overt example I’ve never seen.
Here’s the headline:
White anger fueling health care debate
Ex-Marine Jack Burke went toe-to-toe with his congresswoman at a street fair in San Carlos last week, convinced President Barack Obama’s health care reform would mean politicians, not doctors, would make his medical decisions.
It wasn’t just health care making him angry, Burke said a few moments later. It was Obama’s plan to limit global warming; it was the auto industry and all the other bailouts; AND it was health care. The retiree said it all felt so wrong, so contrary to how he was raised.
“I just feel the government is intruding in our lives,” Burke said.
Rational fella. I agree.
These guys, not so much.
With the civic dialogue aflame with phrases like “death panels” and “the blood of tyrants,” conversations with voters like Burke suggest more is brewing in the nation’s troubled soul than a debate over the mechanics of health care reform. Many say the tempest over health care has its origin in the new administration’s breathtaking pace of change and in the long-term social and demographic trends that helped put the nation’s first African-American president in the White House.
But there is also a powerful social catalyst: The recession has savaged whites and middle-aged men to a degree unseen in most people’s lifetimes. And that has helped make many in those groups desperately, angrily anxious about change.
No - couldn’t possibly be about a discussion of government intrusion into the lives of free citizens—nor the lack of support for any of these programs to be found in The Constitution…
Just nine months after the historic election of the first African-American president set off an apparent glow of racial reconciliation
As observed in Henry Gates’ reaction to a police officer doing his job.
conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan invoked an icon of the 1990s culture wars — the “Angry White Man” — to explain the outcry over health care reform.
note the professionalism in the cite and link to the original...*cough*
Nationwide, there have been other signs of the Angry White Man phenomenon. The numbers of racial hate groups and anti-government citizen militias are surging. Guns sales appear to be climbing. Complaints of racial discrimination in much of the Bay Area and across the country are running higher than they have in at least a decade.
Evidence of ∏eh W∅n’s healing of Teh Racial Divide? No. Evidence of your racism. You didn’t buy that sidearm cuz you liked it, or even because you saw the trend toward outlawing all firearms—you bought that dang thing cuz yer a raaaacist bassturd. See now?
the continued viral spread of rumors by “the Birthers” ...bla bla bla… The uncontrolled presence of the Internet and competing philosophies guiding radio and cable news networks have all added fuel to the war of words.
Damn those “competing philosophies”!!
"Some of it is not about health care, let’s face it,” said Richard Czik, former vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, a health care reform advocate who is organizing a moderate Christian association called the New Evangelicals. “Some of it has to be about an obvious rejection of Obama’s legitimacy as president. You wouldn’t get this anger, represented by the hate-mongering you see. Some of it is directed against the president, with some pretty deep-seated attitudes."
See: “Chimpy McBusHitler” etc.
They quote someone who makes the obvious point that the health care debate is not about race but, well, about health care. Then they plunge headlong into unemployment rates for white fellas over age 55 [highest since the 1950’s] and arrive at the foregone conclusion: if yer out of work and yer white you hate ∏eh W∅n because he’s shhhhh black.
A veritable paean to Logic.
Aside from the health care debate, there are numerous signs that racial tension may be on the rise.
The federal government has noted a 25 percent uptick in complaints of racial discrimination since 2006
Which has what to do with ∏eh W∅n?
Meanwhile, one prominent watchdog organization has documented a surge in the number of racial hate groups,
That “watchdog” is Southern Poverty Law Center—some kinda dog, indeed.
"Reagan’s California exists today only on the commemorative license plate. That California that elected him governor twice and president twice is no more,”... He believes some of the anger behind the health care debate is from “a sense that power has shifted in the country, and the country they thought they knew doesn’t exist anymore.” [said John Kenneth White, a presidential scholar at the Catholic University of America]
See?!?!?! Even the fella’s dang name sez it all!!!
*face palm*
Here’s what kind of coverage it rated in the honkey cracker whiter part of the East [SF] Bay:
oops—later that same day:
I guess if they keep this level of bombardment with Teh Narrative it goes from outright self-beclownment, as with MSLSD, to the acceptable norm.
WASoF.
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