As in Loosie Lunacy vs Tighty Thinking. Note, not just the verbiage, but the underlying mindset behind these two writers.
First, tighty thinking:
"Because these events are highly decentralized, with no significant institutional organization or funding behind them, they represent a genuine outpouring of grassroots opinion with enormous political importance. For every person out in the streets today, there are undoubtedly many more who didn't make it who share the same opinions. The bigger the demonstrations today, the bigger the rest of the iceberg under water. Moreover, this movement represents genuine grassroots organization, as names and contact information are collected, and this will be valuable for future political activity."
Next, loosie lunacy:
"Fox News is flogging Astroturf "tea parties" underwritten by corporate lobbyists, while its pundits warn that raising the top income tax rate to the level it was under Bill Clinton constitutes "socialism." The Wall Street Journal editorializes about the evils of the estate tax. Ari Fleischer, Daddy Bush's old flack, is trotted out to complain that "redistribution of income" through the tax code "is getting out of hand."
Really? Here's the grim reality. Since 1980, when the conservative era began, inequality has reached Gilded Age extremes - while top end tax rates have been cut. The wealthiest few captured ever more of the nation's income while successfully lowering their tax rates."
Did you catch that last sentence in the Loosie Lunacy? "The wealthiest few captured ever more of the nation's income..." You see, to the
Now, both the left and right believe in the people's right to protest, with the left being proficient at very aggressive, and sometimes violent protests, coupled with murderous taunts against an unpopular president. But what the Loosie Lunacy can't get its head around is the notion that Tighty Thinking folks, neigbor to neighbor, without a central command dictating their movements, might want to meet in the streets to protest Obama's demagogued promotion of profligate & stupid.
You see, the Loosie Lunacy has a problem with 'projection': they invented group politics and collectivist action, under a central command to dictate all, so that must be how everyone rolls. It's why the Loosie Lunacy crowd sported such wood upon hearing that Obama, the gargantuan gub'mint man, was coming to town: the earth would heal and he'd pay my mortgage, etc.
Hence, their projection dictates that FOX NEWS supplies tinfoil hats; Limbaugh issues 'marching orders'; Tea Parties are 'astro-turfed, underwritten by 'corporate lobbyists'; all the while, Loosie Lunacy conveniently forgets that it was Obama who was the greatest recipient of lobbyist largess.
Oh, did I mention the Loosie Lunacy crowd are hypocrites, too?
