Wednesday 29 October 2008

The American Right is hyperventilating

The conservative commentary in the blogosphere is an extraordinary mixture of whining ("'Snot fair! They pick on our guys! They give their guys a free pass! 'Snot fair!") and hysterics. For the latter, just for its pure entertainment value if nothing else, I give you Mark Levin, writing at NRO:

I honestly never thought we'd see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places...There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me...Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to open to them...this is ominous stuff...my greatest concern is whether this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue...

I think we got it. Obama is a black Hitler! Shit, why didn't we see it before? Tell your friends, before it's too late and Nancy Pelosi's stormtroopers have forced rich white people to wear yellow stars on their suits and briefcases!

I particularly love the bit about teenagers chanting the professions that Obama is going to open up to them. Presumably Levin has seen sinister groups of sixteen year-olds chanting "What do we want? More equitable access to careers in law, accountancy and chartered surveying!", and recognises them as harbingers of a radical socialist future under BO... 

1 comment:

kg-b said...

I think what this guy is trying to say is that if Obama wins (and I do think that everyone is getting over-excited including the great JM) then it is because the Republicans didn’t effectively destroy him through a vicious, Karl Rove-esque campaign based on lies and half-truths.