But now that Barack Obama is occupying the White House, David Denby of the New Yorker has written “Snark.” Suddenly, it’s a shame we’re so sarcastic. Denby appeared on Tavis Smiley’s PBS show last night to lament the decline of civility. But the only politicians he cited as victims of over-the-top snarkiness were Democrats: Barack Obama, Hillary and Al Gore.
At one point, it seemed as if Smiley was seeking to bring some balance, lamenting that Dick Cheney was constantly portrayed as Darth Vader. But as it turned out, Smiley could care less about the former veep being insulted that way. His concern was only that such mocking might unintentionally elicit sympathy for Cheney. Even that was too much for Denby, who said he couldn’t be friends with someone who wouldn’t mock the former VP over the shooting incident. A chastened Smiley acknowledged “touché.”
So does Denby really care about elevating civil discourse–or is he just trying to lay down a Maginot line for Barack Obama and Co.?
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We can hardly expect the Left to be honest or fair minded, can we? Especially, those people who are in Higher Education? They are propagandists who have been trained that winning is everything; that there is no truth but belonging to the Politically Correct Tribe. They are often acolytes of the Italian Communist, Saul Alinski, who recommended every underhanded method he could think of. He held Conservatives to false or erroneous moral expectations while expressing no belief in morality, himself, just expediency.
There is only one appropriate way to act with such people: ridicule and mockery. We must hold their feet to the fire with their every inconsistency. They have no appreciation for truth. They are all about power. They have no interest in First Amendment rights. What they believe in is “Equal rights for ME, but not for THEE.”