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Daily Kos — ... and even I can see that for Obama-Blago, when you get there, there's no "there" there. Lauren Stiller Rikleen: The First Lady is a real job. Treat it as such, salary and all. Mark Ward: We can do well by doing good with overseas aid. Glenn English and Jackson E. Reasor Jr: Utilities struggle to keep up with demand and stay/get green. There are a few opportunities to do better, but the status quo will not satisfy demand. Joel Stein: Fox News' Sean Hannity loves this country so much, he did an entire ...

Joel Stein: Liberals don't love America the way conservatives do
Wizbang — The only shocking thing about this column is that a liberal was actually willing to say this out loud: I don't love America. That's what conservatives are always telling liberals like me. Their love, they insist, is truer, deeper and more complete. Then liberals, like all people who are accused of not loving something, stammer, get defensive and try to have sex with America even though America will then accuse us of wanting it for its body and not its soul. When America gets like that, there's no winning. But I've come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America ...

Joel Stein: Liberals don’t love America the way conservatives do
Stop The ACLU — The only shocking thing about this column is that a liberal was actually willing to say this out loud: I don’t love America. That’s what conservatives are always telling liberals like me. Their love, they insist, is truer, deeper and more complete. Then liberals, like all people who are accused of not loving something, stammer, get defensive and try to have sex with America even though America will then accuse us of wanting it for its body and not its soul. When America gets like that, there’s no winning. But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America ...

Liberals Don’t Love America (So Says Stein)
Boots and Sabers — ... Here’s an entire column premised on complete ignorance of conservatism , but it has some funny parts. I don’t love America. That’s what conservatives are always telling liberals like me. Their love, they insist, is truer, deeper and more complete. Then liberals, like all people who are accused of not loving something, stammer, get defensive and try to have sex with America even though America will then accuse us of wanting it for its body and not its soul. When America gets like that, there’s no winning. But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America ...

Liberal on loving America: ' Liberals don't love America the way conservatives do'
Hyscience — According to Joel Stein, Republicans, and especially the "eeeevil" hard right, are blinded by love, and to him that seems to be a bad thing. In fact, he appears to be proud that he's looking for wrong in all the right places. In fact, Stein writes this amazing confession in the LA Times, saying that Republicans are blinded by love and lefties just don't have the same feeling about America as the hard right does... ...

Brainster's Blog — ... That's the theme of an LA Times column this morning. Although you can probably guess the punchline: What they love about America is that they can criticize how awful it is: ...

Quote of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... “But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America more. Sure, we liberals claim that our love is deeper because we seek to improve the United States by pointing out its flaws. But calling your wife fat isn’t love. True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for. I’m more in ‘like’ with my country … I asked Beck why Democrats rarely share his overwhelming sense of American exceptionalism and Francophobia. ‘I think it’s because in the late 1800s up until the 1930s, the ...

An Honest Lib: "Conservatives are right. They do love America more."
Gateway Pundit — Joel Stein at the LA Times nails it: “But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America more. Sure, we liberals claim that our love is deeper because we seek to improve the United States by pointing out its flaws. But calling your wife fat isn’t love. True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for. I’m more in ‘like’ with my country."

Saturday links
Maggie's Farm — ... Liberal Joel Stein admits he doesn't love America. That explains a lot. He seems to like Sweden, partly for their sexual "freedom." So leave, Joel, and get your recreational sex! Sweden happily accepts immigrants, but they seem to prefer Moslems. Sweden and Moslems: Perfect Together. ...

Joel Stein can't understand why conservatives are patriotic
Doug Ross @ Journal — Joel Stein, the predictably liberal Los Angeles Times columnist, can't comprehend why conservatives believe in American exceptionalism . ...

America: Love it or Like it
The Moderate Voice — ... at this question as she examines a recent column by Joel Stein. The L.A. Times piece seeks to continue the culture wars in America by addressing the question of whether or not conservatives love our country more than liberals do. I don’t much care for blatant generalizations about “The Left” or “The Right” and what they do or don’t do, as if they were each some sort of monolithic, homogeneous block of matchstick men who stand ready to be popped into pigeon holes, but the column and Cindy’s analysis are well worth a look. ...

Joel Stein mystified: why are conservatives are patriotic?
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — Joel Stein, the predictably liberal Los Angeles Times columnist, can't comprehend why conservatives believe in American exceptionalism. ...

America: Love it, or in love with it?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Joel Stein tries to plumb the differences in patriotism between the Right and the Left in his somewhat satirical column on loving one’s country.  He admits that he doesn’t love America in a blind manner, but his assumption that conservatives do sets him on the wrong track: I don’t love America. That’s what conservatives are always telling liberals like me. Their love, they insist, is truer, deeper and more complete. Then liberals, like all people who are accused of not loving something, stammer, get defensive and try to have sex with America even though America will then ...

Joel Stein Loves Himself More Than Liberals Do
Sadly, No! — ... Ersatz liberal Joel Stein has written a column in the LA Times that caused Jim Hoft, aka The Gateway Pundit, to have the first orgasm he’s had in the last twenty years that didn’t involve four AA batteries and a picture of George Bush in a flight suit: An Honest Lib: “Conservatives are right. They do love America more.” Joel Stein at the LA Times nails it: “But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America more. Sure, we liberals claim ...

JOEL STEIN on how Republicans are blinded by love of America….
Instapundit — JOEL STEIN on how Republicans are blinded by love of America.

Republicans Are Blinded By Love …
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — I’m sorry … but I am trying to see how/why the things this ‘liberal’ lists about conservatives/republicans is … bad? As for the whole “gay/cooties” remark he makes near the end … yeah, I only see liberals/democrats “using” the gay card against gays … especially ‘conservative/republican’ gays. LA Times: Lefties just don’t have the same feeling about America as the hard right does. by Joel Stein I don’t love ...