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Not all Conservatives are Stupid, But Most Stupid People Tend to be Conservatives: And Here’s the Proof.

STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH

Okay, so it was a bad week for the race baiters on the right. After a series of successful “Obama is a racist” attacks -- Rev. J. Wright, the beer summit, and such -- they hit a sinkhole with the Shirley Sherrod caper. So the whole racist tact may have run its course for the Obama haters. But if the “vast rightwing conspiracy” is anything it’s persistent. So they are switching to a narrative that has proven to have more traction with their Ditto-Head demographic: "Obama is a socialist and hostile to business.”

"Obama's words sting Wall Street" By: Ben White -- "Politico, Corporate leaders are reluctant to make new investments, calling Obama hostile to business." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40081.html

That’s right boys and girls, Vladamir Obama is anti-business. He’s killing the goose that lays golden eggs, turning America into Cuba North.  Which is -- or at least should be -- a claim absurd on its face. Is this the same “socialist" who bailed out Wall Street rather than letting them stew in their own red ink? Is this the guy who threw a lifeline to Detroit’s dinosaur automakers, saving America’s auto industry from their own stupidity? Is this the guy who, with the best excuse in three quarters of a century, bailed America’s perennially wayward big banks rather than breaking them up or nationalizing them?

Of course this new tact is just more rightwing-nut nonsense. Nevertheless, with the race-bait gambit looking like roadkill, the Obama-is-a-closet-socialist charge is looking like the next big lie. After all, as the old saying goes, “not all conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people tend to be conservatives:” And here’s the proof of concept:

55 Percent of Likely Voters Find 'Socialist' an Accurate Label for Obama

So there you have it -- the new anti-Obama narrative. But I suspect that this one will go the same way as the race baiting business. Why? For the same reason -- the evidence disproving it is right there in front of anyone who can read and think. In fact, the very people pushing the “Obama is killing business,” are doing business -- and plenty of it. Here’s a sampler from just this morning’s news:

Travelers' net income hits $670 million; EPS rises 6% to $1.35 a share
Caterpillar raises 2010 forecast as orders continue to outpace shipments; dividend hiked
GM agrees to buy AmeriCredit for $3.5 bln to address leasing, non-prime financing demand
U.S. stocks rally on earnings news; Dow up 150 points
UPS raises outlook as quarterly profit surges 

Lower expenses boost Bristol-Myers profit

AT&T Net Income up on Smartphone Additions
Philip Morris Profit Jumps 
Hershey Profit Drops 34%

So, if Obama’s policies are causing big business so much “uncertainty” and burdening them with regulations and oversight, why are they doing so well. In fact the only sector of the economy still suffering from the Bush depression is the part of the economy where most Americans live:


U.S. initial jobless claims rise by 37,000; continuing claims fall by 223,000

Existing home sales fall 5.1% as tax credit ends

Colorado's (under)-employment measures 14.6% vs 8.0 unemployment

Sinking in wave of foreclosures

Hello foreclosure and goodbye neighborhood?


MEMO TO MAIN STREAM MEDIA: Maybe you need to tag any stories you run that claim Obama’s policies are anti-business with what’s really happening out there in company-land. Because one or the other is a lie. Both narratives cannot survive scrutiny in the same story.  Either Obama is killing the business goose, or the business goose and its barnyard friends are lying through their beaks.




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Obama - A Socialist!? WTF

Submitted by The Skeptical Cynic on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 12:46pm.

Anyone who "thinks" that he is "thinking" when refering to Obama as a socialist is, in actuality, incapable of "thinking". Thinking involves cogitating. Cogitating requires a pair of matched right and left cerebral hemispheres with neurons capable of synapsing. Those creatures who noisily shout out Socialist in response to hearing Obama's name, as their sticky tongues flick out to slurp up a June bug or stink bug or dung beetle are only responding to stimuli to the highest of their cranial evolutionary development, the limbic system, commonly known as the lizard brain.

REPLY:

Totally college level words, dude! It sure is easy to call someone who has a different opinion a lizard brain. Do you think that constitutes a serious argument? The right has several observations about Obama's policies, writings, and associates which are at least consistent with socialist views. Do you believe the American people are entitled to input into the policies of their government, even in between elections? I do, and I think the debate on socialism is legitimate. If you think it is not, please say why. As a capitalist, I opposed the bank and auto bailouts. They should have gone through bankruptcy, though not necessarily liquidation. I am not sure bailouts should be classified as socialist, but they are surely anti-capitalist. You may be surprised to hear that true conservatives are willing to help out poor people in some situations, but ABHOR welfare for the rich.

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Effective Propoganda

Submitted by wires on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 12:15pm.

The 24/7 right-wing propoganda tools are THAT good.  My parents, too, are literally addicted to FOX "news", and routinely spout "talking points" with no basis in reality. 

I've watched their personalities change over the years since FOX came on the air: they are far more radical, angry and fearful than they were before this media giant took hold of their minds.  (They were always conservative, but not like this.) Since they're retired, FOX news is on their television from the time they awake until the time they go to bed.  When they drive, they listen to right wing hate radio.

I almost suspect that if Glenn Beck told them to take up arms and kill "liberals", these once mild-mannered elderly conservatives just might consider doing it.  That's how strong a hold the propoganda has.

REPLY

 

Have you ever listened to the hate bombs thrown by Mike Malloy, Thom Hartman, Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, etc.?

I have never heard Beck or Limbaugh say anything close to the left wing hate speech. We can trade quotes if you wish.

 

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55%?

Submitted by Z on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 5:04am.

That would be up from the 51% of the idiots who voted for Shrub in 2004! Things are beginning to look worse by the minute! Of course that should just be another lesson for the, Yes we can crowd! It's time for some real radical change we can beleive in!

Does any part of that "radical change we can believe in" include democracy? Are you calling for a civil war? Who gets to decide?

 

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They cannot be reasoned with.

Submitted by ernieson on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 12:17pm.

I sent an email to a rabidly anti-Obama hater acquaintance.

In it, I explained much of what was in the Pizzo article and the positive attributes of Obama as a family man, a scholar who had made his own way, had penned his own books to become wealthy, was trying to help people like her (poor and unemployed at 62) etc.

The following morning, my inbox was flooded with more than 60 pieces of right wing propaganda about Muslims, Obama not being a US citizen, Obama being a racist and socialist and on and on. I was flabberghasted by the reaction.

People of that type cannot accept truth or logic. They would prefer anarchy to Obama.

It is rare that the charge of racism is valid these days. To even make it credible requires a deep understanding of what is in a person's heart or a specific proposal to limit the rights of some ethnic group. (Just my opinion, of course). Certainly I don't believe that Obama is in any way a racist. That doesn't mean that he and/or his administration never use the issue of race as a political weapon. I believe they do. The amateurish response from some conservatives (e.g. "no, YOU ARE the racists) is not a symptom of racist feelings, but a frustration with being labelled a racist for any disagreement with the Obama administration.

The non-citizen and muslim charges are hardly mainstream conservative views. Far more progressives believe that 9/11 was planned by Dick Cheney.

I have never heard or read anybody say that anarchy is preferable to Obama....unless you consider President Palin to be an anarchist. (heh heh).

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I have to agree

Submitted by willymack on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 10:43am.

One of my neighbors is of this describtion. No matter how much factual information she's shown, she returns to her neocon party line nonsense, as if this crap is written on HIGH.

I told her she had an inate ability to plumb the abyssal depths of stupidity and ignorance with effortless ease. All I got in reply was a blank stare of incomprehension.

Some of our people simply don't DESERVE to be American citizens, since they contribute absolutely NOTHING to the collective good.

REPLY:

Maybe she didn't understand  "inate" and "abyssal"  (ok, cheap shot). But if you disagree with the standard neocon line, whatever you think that is, why not try debating her point by point. I'm willing to bet that many of your "factual points" are progressive talking points or some simliar opinion and not factual at all. Tell me some facts. I'll respond.

Do illegal immigrants DESERVE to be American Citizens? They do contribute to the collective good and they do get many benefits they don't pay for. I don't know which outweighs the other. Maybe we should deport your neighbor and "trade up" for an illegal immigrant. But who should make that decision?

 

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Read the study done recently.

Submitted by Baconsbud on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 2:18pm.

There was a study done recently just about this type of reaction to facts. I can't remember the name of the study but it mainly said that for many facts don't effect what they want the truth to be. They want Obama to be negative and it doesn't matter what proof you show them they will continue to think of him in the negative ways.

It is tough to rebut an unreferenced study about claimed facts versus opinions. Do you have a fact detector which reliably distinguishes fact from fiction? If not, maybe they are right and you are wrong. I can't be more specific, since you didn't cite a single case.

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OK you poor misguided fuzzy thinkers and you deep intellectual philosophers and you angry dupes and you altruistic saints. Hit me with your best shots :)

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If anyone wants to debate a conservative capitalist without making ad hominem attacks and calling every disagreement with progressive policy racist, I'm ready to take you on. I will respond with similar courtesy.

 

 

 

Obama - A Socialist!? WTF

Anyone who "thinks" that he is "thinking" when refering to Obama as a socialist is, in actuality, incapable of "thinking". Thinking involves cogitating. Cogitating requires a pair of matched right and left cerebral hemispheres with neurons capable of synapsing. Those creatures who noisily shout out Socialist in response to hearing Obama's name, as their sticky tongues flick out to slurp up a June bug or stink bug or dung beetle are only responding to stimuli to the highest of their cranial evolutionary development, the limbic system, commonly known as the lizard brain.

 

 

 

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Effective Propoganda

The 24/7 right-wing propoganda tools are THAT good.  My parents, too, are literally addicted to FOX "news", and routinely spout "talking points" with no basis in reality. 

I've watched their personalities change over the years since FOX came on the air: they are far more radical, angry and fearful than they were before this media giant took hold of their minds.  (They were always conservative, but not like this.) Since they're retired, FOX news is on their television from the time they awake until the time they go to bed.  When they drive, they listen to right wing hate radio.

I almost suspect that if Glenn Beck told them to take up arms and kill "liberals", these once mild-mannered elderly conservatives just might consider doing it.  That's how strong a hold the propoganda has.

55%?

That would be up from the 51% of the idiots who voted for Shrub in 2004! Things are beginning to look worse by the minute! Of course that should just be another lesson for the, Yes we can crowd! It's time for some real radical change we can beleive in!

They cannot be reasoned with.

I sent an email to a rabidly anti-Obama hater acquaintance.

In it, I explained much of what was in the Pizzo article and the positive attributes of Obama as a family man, a scholar who had made his own way, had penned his own books to become wealthy, was trying to help people like her (poor and unemployed at 62) etc.

The following morning, my inbox was flooded with more than 60 pieces of right wing propaganda about Muslims, Obama not being a US citizen, Obama being a racist and socialist and on and on. I was flabberghasted by the reaction.

People of that type cannot accept truth or logic. They would prefer anarchy to Obama. 

I have to agree

One of my neighbors is of this describtion. No matter how much factual information she's shown, she returns to her neocon party line nonsense, as if this crap is written on HIGH.

I told her she had an inate ability to plumb the abyssal depths of stupidity and ignorance with effortless ease. All I got in reply was a blank stare of incomprehension.

Some of our people simply don't DESERVE to be American citizens, since they contribute absolutely NOTHING to the collective good.

Read the study done recently.

There was a study done recently just about this type of reaction to facts. I can't remember the name of the study but it mainly said that for many facts don't effect what they want the truth to be. They want Obama to be negative and it doesn't matter what proof you show them they will continue to think of him in the negative ways.