tnr.com - 10/17/2009
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Democracy Corps has a very interesting survey about the worldview of conservative Republicans. The focus group interviews show that the Republican right, which consists of about a fifth of the electorate, is held together by a set of beliefs that goes well beyond small government and ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/20/2009
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
The persistent belief among some of the erstwhile
loyal Bushies that they still represent the majority, that...
their supporters are the "real America", is, well, deranged.
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Derangement
bighollywood.breitbart.com - 10/12/2009
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bighollywood.breitbart.com —
Keith Olbermann’s recent hour-long commentary was quite revealing.
Like Michael Moore’s “capitalism hasn’t done anything for me”...
comment, the outpouring of support and sympathy for serial pedophile and admitted rapist Roman ...
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Debating Leftists is Like Debating Charles Manson
realclearpolitics.com - 10/19/2009
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Those paranoid conservatives: who are you calling deranged?
neo-neocon —
From a TNR piece by Jonathan Chait [emphasis mine]:
Democracy Corps has a very interesting survey about the worldview of conservative Republicans. The focus group interviews show that the Republican right, which consists of about a fifth of the electorate, is held together by a set of beliefs that goes well beyond small government and traditional values. “Our groups showed that they explicitly believe [Obama] is purposely and ruthlessly executing a hidden agenda to weaken and ultimately destroy the foundations of our country,” reports the ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... when these extremists aim elsewhere — like at India or at Shiites or at Israelis — these regimes are indifferent. That is why there is no true war of ideas inside these countries — just a war. Maureen Dowd: The tyro American president got the Nobel for the mere anticipation that he would provide bold moral leadership for the world at the very moment he was caving to Chinese dictators. Awkward. Jonathan Chait: [Peter] Wehner, hilariously, sneers, "Very few columnists ...
Derangement
Paul Krugman —
Nice catch by Jonathan Chait , who finds “George W. Bush’s former minister of propaganda, Peter Wehner” lashing out — still — at the victims of Bush Derangement Syndrome, a group that he says includes the likes of Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Chait, Bill Maher, Michael Moore, and many others. He describes as a “homogeneous crew”, which is almost funnier than the fact that he’s still using the term. The symptoms of Bush Derangement Syndrome, in its fullest version, are that you believed 1. That the Bush tax cuts were sold ...
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