Media Matters on Boortz on Katrina
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Feb 05 2008 at 7:39 am | Filed under: Media Watch, View from the Left
Neal Boortz reports that Media Matters doesn’t see things his way on Katrina victims. Keep in mind that what Neal said isn’t really the point of the link, the point is the comments made in reaction on MM’s website.
It’s such a funny thing about progressives. Theirs is supposed to be the intellectual product of common sense and logic. Of course they don’t come out and call it that…it would carry a sense of obligation…they’re much more inclined to call opposing viewpoints stupid. And “angry.”
And they’re all supposed to be about “lifting the downtrodden” out of their “predicaments.”
But when there’s trouble on the town for those downtrodden, and someone like Boortz comes out and discusses ways it could have been avoided, the response from progressives is quick. It never seems to be very encouraging to the process of finding ways to avoid disaster for the downtrodden who might face it at a later time. And if ideas must be all logical or all emotional, well, those progressive reactions look pretty emotional from where I sit.
And it seems to always go down this way. Of course you do have to wait awhile for someone to grow some stones like Neal’s and say some stuff, but once that happens, the results aren’t mixed. The progressives are outspoken; the progressives are angry; the progressives are emotional; they aren’t what anyone would call “logical” and they damn sure aren’t anxious to explore ways to improve the plight of the poor, poor, pitiful poor. Not beyond the next hat to be passed ’round.
It’s as if nothing can ever be your fault, unless you have a bank account with a comma in the current balance. Short of that, you’re perfect in every way, and every little disappointment you have in life is someone else’s fault.
Oh that’s right, one other thing — if you oppose the progressives, you’re “extreme.” But you can oppose them unintentionally, simply by believing in exceptions to things; by using the word “sometimes.” You know, that isn’t my definition of extremism.
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