Posted by
rycK on Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:19:17 PM
Arianna Huffy Puffs About Righteous Rage with Unrighteous Spite. Obama Must Get Nasty.
One of the more animated tools of the far leftist political resources is Arianna Huffington or The HuffyPuffer[1] as I like to call her. She routinely honks the same old stale horn for the far left with pieces like this reference:[2]
Never deviating from her strident Greek circular logic, the brand that usually returns a conclusion that mirrors the original assumptions regardless of the facts, Huffington has now calls for Obama, the Afro-Leninist to wax righteous and get back some lost voters. It is always grounds for a serious debate as to whether she understands what she is saying, but logical outcomes need not deter a liberal like her in her feverish mission. The Puffer is outraged.
We think this means: get nasty and attack Palin at all costs. What else could it mean? We will search her current post for further information to enlighten us as to the substance of her current screed.
“Back in February 2007, I wrote about the role casting would play in the presidential race, and the American public's readiness to replace the John Wayne take-no-crap-cowboy model of leadership with a Gregory Peck-does-Atticus Finch archetype.” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes. This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise noted. ]
Atticus Finch[3] is, of course, a character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird and is based on the politically neutral Roman Orator Titus Pomponius Atticus. Finch plays a modest man of learning and skills who is honest and decent. He achieves justice in court. From this, we must learn that Obama is some form or recreation of Finch and should or will share or amplify his positive attributes. This is a demigod building process that is amusing to explore. We can have a lot of fun making a Chicago political activist and Afro-Leninist into a country lawyer from the South with morals.
Get Huffied and Puffed!
“Now, as the crises facing our country intensify, and the campaign McCain is running becomes sleazier and more trivial, it's time for Obama to unleash his inner Atticus -- or at least the key element of Finch that Obama seems reluctant to embrace: righteous rage.”[4]-- Enough!: Why Obama Should Release His Righteous Rage b y Arianna Huffington Posted September 10, 2008 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes. This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise noted. ]
Finch is currently the absolute role model for the liberal law profession and this fictional character has enc0ourged many young liberals to become lawyers. The problem is that the attributes of Atticus Finch are well above the sleaze and slime of organizations like the ACLU, American Trial Lawyers association and so on and so forth. We can look at O. J. Simpson’s lawyer, Johnny Cochran[5], and wonder about his racism and disruption of the court system in LA as he made himself rich over civil rights cases. He was known to shout loud enough so that a deliberating jury would feel their chairs rattle with his epithets.
We could also inquire about radical civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart[6] who received 28 months in jail for giving material support to Islamo-Fascist terrorists using her client privilege rights to political advantage. We could wonder how closely Cochran and Stewart fit the Finch Mold.
How about Bill Clinton who lied under oath? How about Hillary who seems to have concealed subpoenaed billing documents from the Rose Law Firm? Are these actions that would be sanctioned by the character in To Kill a Mocking Bird? Wasn’t Bill a law professor at some time? Well, that is four left-liberal lawyers that spring to mind and we could wonder how Huffy might incorporate them into her construction of a Greek God.
“Being likeable is obviously a good thing in politics. So is being analytical and thoughtful and composed. But the last seven-plus years demand more than a detached analysis -- and certainly more than a beaming smile.
They demand indignation. Outrage. Fury.”
Strange, these are negative attributes that Atticus Finch did not employ in his successful legal work. I saw the movie and cannot recall when Gregory Hamilton Peck howled in outrage and got ‘down and dirty’ as Carville likes to see his politicos. He also seemed to know what the definition of ‘is’ was.
HuffyPuffs the Big Puff with this:
“The fear of activating the residual racism provoked by the caricature of the "angry black man" should no longer hold sway.”
Michele tried this and it failed. She is the angry black woman and they muzzled her.[7] Jeremiah Wright, the angry black racist, uses this almost every Sunday and it brought outrage from many politial quarters. The black racists loved it, but they are already 90% commited to voting Democratic in this election as we read in the polls.
Was it an angry black man who said, off microphone:
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."[8]—Barack Obama off camera in what he thought was a safe environment to express his views.[9]
Or:
“Obama: I’d like higher gas prices, just not so quickly”—quote by Obama posted at 3:20 pm on June 11, 2008 by Ed Morrissey [10]
“To fully become the transformational leader we need, Obama must demonstrate to the American people his capacity for indignation -- for the kind of ferocious passion that fueled King and Nelson Mandela. He has to fight fire with fire, and wield anger in the service of what right, true, and good. The fierce urgency of now demands nothing less.”
King[11] and Mandela were Marxists and Mandela was a convicted bomber with a crazy wife who murdered people in her own home for political reasons. King routinely plagarized whole sentences for his thesis and other writings. These are not Finch-like attributes.
In the book, Harper Lee describes the key character as: “He is described as having "Christ-like goodness and wisdom"[12]
Since all is almost lost in the fevered minds of persons like Arianna the only desperate chance is to sling doo doo and get nasty. And, we thought that Huffy had already done that with many of her posts and certainly in this one.
Maybe Huffington thinks Christ would have sat bobing and weaving in the pews of Jeremiah Wright’s church, who seems to have the proper attitude here using Arianna’s logic, and howled at Whitey and offered revenge prophecy about roosting chickens while throwing a few G*d D*mns for America. Would Atticus have advocated this?
This is what Huffy Puffer wants to see in these closing days of the race. Only in California
rycK [a 5th generation Californian in Exile and removed from this mental infection. ]
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[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atticus_Finch
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Cochran