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In a column posted on Forbes, Tunku Varadarajan, writes:
The Silly Season ceases to be "silly" when what passes for political debate in America turns not merely stupid or witless, but certifiably demented.
I write of the kooky reaction of many conservatives–politicians, citizens and commentators in the media–to the plan by President Obama to address the nation’s schoolchildren tomorrow. (And I write, please note, as a nonlefty libertarian who did not support Barack Obama in the presidential election.)
Obama will, as we all know, address our kids–plenty of whom need a lesson or two on the subject, since they clearly don’t get it from their parents–on the virtues of study, education and hard work. According to a White House spokesman, the aim of the speech is "to challenge students to work hard in school, to not drop out and to meet short-term goals like behaving in class, [and] doing their homework …" If anyone thinks that’s unpalatable, subversive, Commie and un-American, I’d like to meet for a duel at dawn by the skating rink at New York’s Central Park. (Pick your weapon, Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck …)
Oh oh… Oh no he dit’ent. He mentioned She Who Will Not Be Called A Kook:
Tunku Varadarajan is a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School, fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and executive editor for opinions at Forbes.
He thinks I am a “kook” and “crazy” for criticizing President Obama’s education event tomorrow.
Tellingly, he does not address the actual substance of my arguments.
Okay. I’ll bite. What substance?
It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext.
It’s the radical activism of the White House Teaching Fellows who designed the education guides tied to Obama’s speech.
It’s the overzealousness of public school educators who have turned classrooms into Obama campaign offices.
It’s the influence of the left-wing social justice crusaders of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Team Obama.
It’s the Left’s embrace of Obama Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy of “education as the motor-force of revolution.”
It’s the activist tradition of government schools using students as junior lobbyists to pressure legislators for higher education spending, pro-illegal immigration protests, gay marriage, environmental propaganda, and anti-war causes.
Now, who are you calling “kook?”
Well…. you. Duh.
Abby Normal
Because your case might have been more persuasive if 80% of the links that supposedly bolster your case didn’t go back to your own nutter ravings…. which, I might add, bring to this to mind.
But "subtext"? For reals?
One imagines the walls of Michelle Malkin’s home-office papered (like John Nash’s in A Beautiful Mind ) with hacked-up printouts of Obama’s speech; words circled and underlined, Sharpie notations in the margins (Chicago death camps?!? ….Muslim pledge of allegiance?!!!!… Pick up kids from Chuck E. Cheese?!!!!?), strings running from wall to wall creating a complex subtext connective web containing encoded messages that can only be recognized by Michelle Malkin’s Cray XT5-like mind.
And, possibly, a six year-old who spent most of her morning wondering if her mother remembered to put carrot sticks in her lunchbox that day.
Kooky, I know, but true…
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The R’s ravings would be funny, if only they weren’t so tragic… Well, not that the ravings are tragic, but the fact that they are actually being discussed in the fracking media…. [gnashing of teeth, snarling, rending of garments and pulling of hair]
Shorter substance of Malkin’s arguments: But he’s a DEMOCRAT and he’s BLACKITY-BLACK-BLACK!!! WITH A FOREIGN NAME!!!
Because really, isn’t this the root of it all? For the first time in twenty years, a presidential candidate wins the election with a clear majority rather than a plurality, and he’s a Democrat. What’s worse, he’s black. To cap it all off, he has an African-Muslim name. And you can’t convincingly make an argument that the majority of voters didn’t prefer this black Democrat with the African-Muslim name to your crazy old white guy and his running bimbo.
Never ones to know when to quit, our friends on the right instead must turn to crazy theories about forged birth certificates, etc. to explain the inexplicable. This thing with the school speech? Just a whistlestop at a podunk little crossroads for the Train to Crazytown.
No sense in addressing the “substance of her arguments,” since there’s no “there” there, but I’ll address Malkook’s “substance” as a person:
She’s a dishonest charlatan, who cheerleads (literally) for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people throughout the Middle East and other places, in attempts to win political arguments. She’s the lowest of the low. She’s a Bill O’Loofah show reject. ‘Nuff said.
The lunatics took over the asylum for eight years and when order was restored, everyone was afraid to tell them that they were the patients.
I suppose it won’t do any good to point out that L’il Miss Pissmypants has confused “context” and “subtext.” Not that the content of her context is any more sane…
look ..there’s a signpost up ahead ..[que: theme to twilight zone..]
The silence of the lambs,
The ignorance of the Malkin,
The dipness of the shit.
Why can’t she be a little more “silent”?
I was thinking more like the DCAU’s version of The Question, actually.
After all, he goes through everyone’s trash too.
Her poor children. They will be in therapy with Piper Palin some day.
Malkin’s Subtance:
“Give me a B!”
“Give me an A!”
“Give me a T!”
“Give me a S!”
“Give me an H!”
“Give me an I!”
“Give me a T!”
“Give me a C!”
“Give me an R!”
“Give me an A!”
“Give me a Z!”
“Give me a Y!”
Something tells me Prof. Varadarajan may be dining alone on his next visit to the Hoover Institution Fellows’ dining room.
You have to read the comments on Tunku Varadarajan’s column. Kind of illustrates his point. I don’t think that was quite the aim of his article. Total wingnuttialand.
Bill Watterson (two ‘t’s sweety) is not God. Bill Watterson taught God a few things about cartooning.
And to compare Michelle Malkin to Calvin, even with the loosest association, is an insult subversive six year olds everywhere. I mean, the imaginary boogie men and the hypocritical con games of that freaking whack job make Hobbes look like an intellectual and Calvinball look like chess. As a former subversive six year old, I’m grievously insulted and I intend to boycott Michelle Malkin in response. So there.
Ptphtptphpphphphphp!
Oh my! Our Lady of the Flying Monkeys is working herself up to a full fledged snit over this one. Nice to see it is at one of her fellow travelers who has the temerity to be marginally sane (only marginally since he admits to being a libertarian).
It’s the overzealousness of public school educators who have turned classrooms into Obama campaign offices
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle. Crazy, CRAZY Michelle. I didn’t have to turn my class into an Obama campaign office–the kids did it themselves!
The day after Obama won, I had kids bringing home made signs onto the campus in celebration of his victory. I had NOTHING to do with that. Did I talk about the election? I did. I talked about how historic it was–an African American and a Woman were the front runners for the Dem. Nomination for Pres., and how a Woman was the Vice Presidential pick for the Rep. nomination.
THAT is what I taught them–that no matter which party carried the day, they would see HISTORY being made!
I’m not the one who made them favor Barak Obama–that was their families. They listened and they chose. And they chose Barak Hussein Obama.
Michelle needs to get that drilled into her tiny, tiny skull-HELL, everyone of the Republicans needs that drilled into their tiny skulls: you LOST! We WON.
What’s sad is that our President,his administration, and the rest of our party need that fact drilled into their skulls, as well…
Shorter Malkin:
“Don’t let preznit Blackama tell yore kids to study in skool. STAY HOME!!
Thatll show him HAH!!!”
Ah, for the good old days when “My mind’s made up, don’t confuse me with facts” was a joke rather than a way of life.
I sometimes regret clicking that read more button.
The kids can help Mom and Dad cook meth and moonshine.
We’re all well aware the massive wingnut freak-out is not about the speech, it’s about the subtext.
Malkin is slipping. She didn’t bring up ACORN in her “subtexts.”
My best friend is the director of a program for at-risk youth, who, as you might guess, are largely kids of color. Minority kids. Multicultural kids. Whatever label you want to use. Before this election, they cared nada about politics. During the silly season, they were so revved up, many of them went downtown when Obama came into town to accept the nomination. Because the school is nonprofit, they are very careful not to promote any one candidate. Instead, they just talked about the election itself and the very historic nature of it. The kids were the ones who started showing up with Obama paraphernalia, excited out of their minds that he was actually running for president.
MM is worse than pond scum. I cannot think of enough words (and I know a plethora of them) to describe the disgust I feel for her.
Speaking of Alec Rawls, check out his latest: about 5000 words on Obama’s wanton slaughter of cars (his terminology) through the Cash for Clunkers program. It’s blissfuly lunatic, complete with comparisons to the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge (I kid you not.)
Of course, then there’s more recent insanity about the Islamofascist you-know-what. Sometimes, when it’s this amusing for the rest of us, a mind is a not so terrible thing to waste.
And the nation’s students were energized to learn math and science, so they too could participate in one of the greatest technological challenges of the 20th century.
The average age of Apollo 11 mission control was 26. They were 18 when JFK challenged them. That’s what leaders do, they challenge us to achieve difficult goals.
“Mom, these aren’t carrot sticks! You put 9mm slugs in my lunchbox again!”
We should send Malkin, et. al. a note of appreciation. Apparently, they missed the 2008 election and are now willing to double down on stupid, thinking this is the way to win in 2012.
This woman is a hate junkie; like all addicts, she’s going to have her day of reckoning.
No cheerleading video? For shame, tbogg.