As everyone now knows Sally Field, during the Emmy broadcast, said this: "If mothers ruled the world there would be no {gd} wars in the first place." In her syndicated column of yesterday ("Sally the Sheep - This mom doesn't buy Fields' folly") the Asian pit bull of the Right, Michelle Malkin, writes that Field is your stereotypical Hollywood liberal and permissive parent:
"She's the mom who buys her teenager beer, condoms and a hotel room on prom night because she'd rather give in than assert her parental authority and do battle."
Now we don't know if the Flying Nun would hold underage drinking parties in her own home, I'm betting that she wouldn't, but this is slanderous and Malkin may very well have to eat some humble pie real soon.
Later on Malkin quotes a mother whose Marine son has already served three tours of duty in Iraq, a Ms. Deborah Johns. Re anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan Johns says: "She has never spoken for me. And she will never speak for me...We are not going to let the domestic enemies at home defeat us like they did during the Vietnam War" (another strain of the "We Almost Won in Vietnam if We Just Stuck it Out Longer" brigade). You see this is the overarching theme of the conservative movement, social and political stability which it turn leads to never questioning your own government, conservatives have made a religion out of conformity. "Domestic enemies", aka those '60s radical protestors of Vietnam, very McCarthyite indeed.
Like with cops so immersed in their own world (remember the FBI profiling of the late Richard Jewell) some, nay most, conservative talking heads are so immersed in their own world that they develop a kind of political tunnel vision (ditto for liberals btw). You have to understand that with Malkin if you in any way oppose the war you are in effect on the side of Evil and this is her starting point in all of her writing. Now I never thought awards shows like the Emmys should be given over to politics of whatever stripe but the way I look at it is this is still America and not Amerika and Gidget does have a perfect right to her opinion and to express it and to sue Malkin for libel and personal defamation if she so chooses.
A good rule to go by though is what I call the Bob Newhart Rule. Bob says that while he has strong views on things himself he always felt it was his thing to entertain and not educate. I didn't watch the Emmys 'cause I don't watch most TV these days, I have to rely on Tasmanian Devils like Malkin to fill me in.
Browsing through Laura Ingraham's new book, Power to the People, at Borders just now and it seems like a pretty good read. Alot of cultural stuff like the pornofication of America, just reporting the facts ma'am, and it's easy to read, don't need a thesaurus handy like with a George Will column. I think Ingraham differs from Malkin this way, she'll frequently say on her show about somebody whom she strongly disagrees with politically, "but we like them." Malkin never does this, she's so uber-serious all the time. The odds are far greater that you would see Laura at the megamall with an Al Franken let's say then you would see Michelle and Sally getting their hair done together, in a way it's healthy.
ReplyDeleteHere's what I mean, a small example really but illustrative, when I say conservatives' overall goal is social and political order and stability to the point of almost never questioning authority, conservatives will never ever criticize the cops even when they hide behind trees at the end of the month and hand out quota tickets for the most minor offenses, maybe like not a full 10 second stop at a stop sign or failure to indicate. Deep down they know it's wrong but will never say this (until they get their own share of tickets and become moderates - lol). Vietnam is only cops on a much grander scale.
ReplyDeleteI've always said Malkin's seriousness will get her into trouble someday, the only other question is can the New York Post, which runs her column, be sued as well? Well, she had a nice career anyway and definitely left her mark, the only question is will she still be allowed on the next National Review cruise? It's like at work there's this young manager who really is the pits but the higher-ups are Peter Principling the issue away but he did something just the other day that's going to get him fired. I say let people dig a hole for themselves and then jump in, just sit back and have your cup of coffee, it's a beautiful thing!
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