Thursday, November 04, 2004
and for more laughs of NYC-types making a caricature of themselves, go here (via memeorandum). two quotes i especially liked. here's the first:
and the second, from a dr. joseph:
just keep licking the funny-colored paper, people. and the rest of us will all try to ascend to your level of consciousness.
UPDATE: by the way--between this, garry wills, maureen down, eric alterman and others, i don't understand how anyone is going to achieve unity. these people all make it seem as though it is the president's and the conservatives' responsibility to reach across the aisle and make nice and to 'unite'. aside from the fact that i guarantee that, had the other side won, they would not be talking at all about accommodating conservative views and 'uniting' (noooooooooo--might they have had an agenda, too? would they have compromised and allowed pro-life judges on the federal bench?), it's going to be hard to achieve it now when your chief spokesmen are red-faced and foaming-at-the-mouth rabid screaming mad and telling the rest of us (who seem to form a majority right now on some of these issues) how stupid and backwards we are. if you want to bring people together, lefties, it's time to stop acting like children and to wake up and talk like grown-ups. just because you folks buckle to european condescension doesn't mean the rest of us will buckle to yours.
Striking a characteristic New York pose near Lincoln Center yesterday, Beverly Camhe clutched three morning newspapers to her chest while balancing a large latte and talked about how disconsolate she was to realize that not only had her candidate, John Kerry, lost but that she and her city were so out of step with the rest of the country.
"Do you know how I described New York to my European friends?" she said. "New York is an island off the coast of Europe."
and the second, from a dr. joseph:
"I'm saddened by what I feel is the obtuseness and shortsightedness of a good part of the country - the heartland," Dr. Joseph said. "This kind of redneck, shoot-from-the-hip mentality and a very concrete interpretation of religion is prevalent in Bush country - in the heartland."
"New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what's going to injure masses of people is not good for us," he said.
just keep licking the funny-colored paper, people. and the rest of us will all try to ascend to your level of consciousness.
UPDATE: by the way--between this, garry wills, maureen down, eric alterman and others, i don't understand how anyone is going to achieve unity. these people all make it seem as though it is the president's and the conservatives' responsibility to reach across the aisle and make nice and to 'unite'. aside from the fact that i guarantee that, had the other side won, they would not be talking at all about accommodating conservative views and 'uniting' (noooooooooo--might they have had an agenda, too? would they have compromised and allowed pro-life judges on the federal bench?), it's going to be hard to achieve it now when your chief spokesmen are red-faced and foaming-at-the-mouth rabid screaming mad and telling the rest of us (who seem to form a majority right now on some of these issues) how stupid and backwards we are. if you want to bring people together, lefties, it's time to stop acting like children and to wake up and talk like grown-ups. just because you folks buckle to european condescension doesn't mean the rest of us will buckle to yours.
