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I don't know what it is.
Perhaps it's the Slate article about George Clooney's simplistic black and white portrayal of Murrow vs. McCarthy:
If Jesus Christ no longer satisfies your desire to worship a man as god, I suggest you buy a ticket for Good Night, and Good Luck, the new movie about legendary CBS News broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. Good Night, and Good Luck's Murrow burns cigarettes like altar incense. He speaks in a resonant, godly rumble. And he plods through the greatest story ever told about the hunting of communist hunter Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy like a man carrying all the world's sins.
Of course, Murrow was no god. Point of fact, he shouldn't be regarded as the patron saint of broadcast news his fans, among them Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney, make him out to be. But the passage of time, the self-serving testimonials from the broadcasters he recruited to CBS ("Murrow's Boys"), and the usual nostalgia for newsrooms choking on their own cigarette smoke have puffed the considerable accomplishments of a mortal and flawed newsman into modern miracles. Good Night, and Good Luck, a docudrama that pits Murrow against McCarthy, escalates the veneration to heavenly levels.
Or perhaps it has something to do with Matt Johnson's old protest song.
Or maybe it was the Jesse sighting.
Or perhaps this is the natural reaction to listening to Ladytron's "All the Way" over and over this morning. I'm feeling very mod and modernly groovy now as a result.
Whatever the reason, I am mulling over engaging in a futile attempt to make the Lefty List by out-righting the right.
First, a bit more about the Lefty List:
cdbustard
I am the civil discourse bustard. Please visit these sites and change some minds. Be Civil. Have Discourse. Please pick your first site by picking one whose name begins with the same first letter as yours. We can't all hit all of the "A's" at once. Thanks for your help. E-mail us or make comments on the main page: bustardblog. All ranting belongs on the main page - not at these linked sites.
You'll recall that I did this out-righting the right thing once before by posting this statement:
Heaven help Montana, who will apparently have someone in its government from a party that deems “personhood” as a word (check their platform), and who says that government officials must show “kindness…and compassion.” So if the gangs are burning Bozeman down, the cops are supposed to hand them flowers…
The party I was targeting was the Constitution Party. The following three comments were generated, the last two by a brave anonymous poster:
I love your posts. you have so much knowledge.
happy friday.
xxoooo
posted by Vadergrrrl : Friday, November 12, 2004 3:11:15 PM
There could be a hint o' sarcasm in vadrgrrl's message, EH? If she hadn't done it, I might've.
posted by Anonymous : Monday, November 15, 2004 9:37:10 PM
Then again, maybe she wasn't, and I can be: You deserve the trustworthy souls with which you'll spend the rest of your life associating.
posted by Anonymous : Monday, November 15, 2004 9:45:14 PM
By way of contrast the left didn't care when I tried to out-left the left:
The fix is in. The fascist regime has reported the obviously false claim that the tanks were simply lost. Check the agent of Amerikkkan imperialism, L.A. Observed....
This is worst than the fascist regime's setup to fix the Democratic nomination for John Kkkerry...
Or perhaps I didn't successfully out-left the left.
Anyway, back to the present and my proposed futile attempt to get on cdbustard, joining Annika, Lonewacko, and Six Meat Buffet. If I'm going to out-right the right, I need a set of Guiding Principles. Somewhat in the mood of Darwin Fish (who believes that no one but Darwin Fish and a few others are true Christians), my set of Guiding Principles should claim that no one is sufficiently conservative. So let's see what I can assemble:
- If you use gender-neutral, race-neutral language, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that the U.S. government should spend any money on domestic affairs (hurricane relief, internal improvements), you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that a Republican can contribute to Democrats, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that a Republican can have contributed to Democrats in the past, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that a Republican can have a civil conversation with a Democrat, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that women should be allowed to speak in church, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that women should be allowed to speak at all, you are obviously a Communist. (Take that, Phyllis Schlafly!)
- If you use any Bible translation other than the King James Version, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that Article 2 of the Constitution is more important than Article 1, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you believe that stuff in Amendment 2 about a "well regulated militia," you are obviously a Communist. (After all, that's only an amendment, and we can ignore parts of it as it suits our fancy.)
- If you believe that citizens of other countries are entitled to views that differ from America's View, you are obviously a Communist.
- If you criticize British Israelism, you are obviously a Communist.
Well, that's enough to start with. If I start the project, you'll know. It will be fairly obvious.
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