Why does the Washington Post hate liberals so much?
I'm sure you saw this piece in the Washington Post by Gerard Alexander titled, "Why are liberals so condescending?"
Well, this is interesting. Remember that "Why are liberals so condescending" piece by Gerard Alexander the Washington Post published last week? Turns out, the author didn't submit the piece the the Post -- the Post sought him out:
Bethesda, Md.: I thought that "Why are Liberals So Condescending" was the most intelligent article I've read in the Post in some time.
Do you think that this is the result of a decision by your editors to be more fair and balanced?
Also, I would appreciate your comments on the "All serious scientists agree that Global Warming is an enormous problem." school of thought. This matter has been positioned in exactly the same condescending manner.
Gerard Alexander: I can only tell you that the Post editor I dealt with searched me out, and were as encouraging as any editor could conceivably be.
I wonder when we'll find out that a Washington Post staffer is actively seeking out a similarly disparaging column about conservatives? After all, Howard Kurtz keeps telling us how liberal the Post's opinion operation is.
Meanwhile, Alexander spent the bulk of today's Washington Post online Q&A acknowledging that some conservatives are plenty condescending to liberals, but claiming that it just isn't very common. Or something. Alexander, for example, contends that "conservative magazines, elected officials, etc" don't accuse coastal liberals of being out of touch with heartland values -- and that if they did so, they'd be "run out of town."
What planet has Alexander been living on for the past thirty years? Conservatives are always so courteous. Why does the Post think we're so mean and nasty? I certainly don't remember conservatives calling us traitors, terrorist sympathizers, we hate our freedom, the troops and American values, do you?
Please email the Washington Post and tell them I sent you. Maybe they can answer your inquiry even if you are a condescending a-hole.
ombudsman@washpost.com
Or just use the phone and call here:
Phone 202.334.6000 | 800.627.1150
Here's their full contact page for more:
Projection.
Exactly what I was thinking!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
That article by the precious Gerard Alexander is fragrant with condescension.
me-oww!
often found in the best outbuildings used for bovine and other ruminant housing at your finer agricultural establishments. A sensitive olfactory would detect a strong flavoring of unchanged bedding straw.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Courtesy of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
But as time went on, it infuriated me, so I unsubscribed. I hate to see newspapers fail, but if newspapers fail to do the job they are supposed to do -- inflict the comfortable and comfort the afficted -- then they deserve to fail. I never thought I would say that about the Post, but it has fallen far from its proud Watergate coverage. But then, that was long, long ago, in a galaxy of reality. We live in an alternate reality now.
Thanks to SanityNow, one of the posters on HuffPo.
http://conservativesarealwayswrong.googlepage...
There are douchey liberals in the world. There are douchey conservatives in the world. Let it go.
You're being condescending!
I'm sorry, but I call bullshit.
Show me the liberal who comes close to O'Reilly or Coulter, and calls for the bombing of a 'conservative' enclave, such as O'Reilly and Coulter have called on for years, with NYC (before and after 9/11), SF, etc.
and please, don't pretend this conversation is about inane comment section posts, I want real, actual spokespeople. Leaders of said liberals who come close to the douchebaggery of Limbaugh, Hannity, Kristol, Lowery, etc. ad nauseum.
I won't be holding my breath.
Well you're probably a hardcore liberal yourself, so we wouldn't see eye to eye on this. And I don't mean that in a negative way at all.
Cindy Sheehan is pretty ****y.
false comparison.
since when has Cindy had a national platform?
oh yeah, never.
when did she call for the bombing of a conservative building or city?
oh yeah, never.
I am personally very fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
but not that bullshit version of fake fiscal conservation the supposed conservatives practice, where they spend more than they take in and still pretend to be 'conservative'.
where they roll around in pork and no-bid contracts, which is okay when they are in power, but not when their 'opponents' are.
still not holding my breath.
The piece had the undeniable whine associated with a tenure
track professor stalled in mid passage to full professorship
with little of the documentation normally associated with good scholarship.
As the departed Dr. Durden would have duly noted, they guy probably makes an ass of himself at parties and deserves every bit of condescension with which he is deservedly greeted.
Plus he is paradigmatically full of it.
And probably has teeny little body parts where size matters most.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Cindy Sheehan lost her son to a war that was based on fabricated evidence, and Bush called it a 'Noble Cause'. She simply asked him to explain that term. Has O'Reily lost anyone in Iraq?
He lives on planet IOKIYAR
Just an asteroid belt. You see, the sun went nova, but they all stayed right where they were, convinced that their God would never make something so fucked up as a sun that would expand and destroy their planet.
But when it happened, the entire populace of IOKIYAR stuck their heads up their asses and were saved from the scourge of radiation. Now, they continue to live on a pile of irradiated rocks floating in the dark and insist that they are still a great nation and a power to be reckoned with in the galaxy.
To get a good look at the rise of the media in the modern world read "The Powers That Be" by David Halberstam. It is a bit dated, it was written in the mid '70s, but it is well written. I believe that he would be apppalled to see what is going on now. I know that I am.
meanwhile they attack the weak and powerless in our society, and hurt them. I'll never forget or forgive how they behaved when they wanted to stop SCHIP from getting funding.
I'll drop WaPo a note when I get a chance.
And personally, if I get a little condescending at times, well, it's hard to deal with dim-witted bullies so often!
I've never seen change without a fire
Thing is, Annaleigh, this isn't about you or I.
That's a dodge, and besides, any honest observer only has to look at the difference between this comment section and that of redstate, or FDL's comment section compared to freeperville.
However, as stated, it's not about anonymous internet posters.
have nothing on conservatives in the mean and hateful department.
I've never seen change without a fire
When you have to REPEATEDLY point out to an idiot why they are an idiot, well, you just can't help being cast as condescending. I get that way, too, at times. Especially when I'm talking to a chronological adult as if to a 3-year old... and they STILL don't get it! Sheesh.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
Shadowgm - remember Steve Martin's bit? "You don't remember when the Earth blew up? And we all got on this giant Space Ark? And the government didn't want the stupider people to know about it? So they........."
... Douglas Adams, but it's in the same ballpark.
really had the right idea. It's a shame about the telephone santizers though.
BTW does anyone else think that the end of the new Battlestar Galactica seemed a little like the Golgafrinchams?
all them big words and fancy book learnin' that makes them libruls so con- con- mean and stuff.
eom
It's just that biased liberal media again . There is something going on in this country and it ain't good . Read your history books .
... sissified liberal history books packed chock full of political correctness?
Didn't you know we're supposed to read the Bible and not question any of it?
...but it shocks me how ignorant they are of what it says!
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
"I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter."
;)
I've never seen change without a fire
Five years of BS didn't send me over the edge but this one did.
So this was earlier today....
WaPo Drone: "Sir, can you tell me why you'd like to cancel your subscription?"
Me: "Because I saw a 128 point headline in your Sunday Outlook implying that I'm condescending. Well, this is what condescending people do. They cancel their newspaper subscriptions. Call me back when you run a 128 point headline in your outlook section asking why conservatives are so backwards."
con-din-sen me, man.
according to the WaPoFishwrapper, facts are condescending.
don't consi-den to me, man...
...I'll f*cking have you killed
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
Gerard Alexander:
yet studies show exactly that.
and that
Is that objective enough to neutralize the lame argument of condescension! oh no wait they don't believe in science... never mind
link
Another study shows that overconfidence & incompetence go hand-in-hand.
There was a time not that long ago when every major city in the US had at least 2 newspapers. One business and one labor. Then with the age of mergers and acquisitions under Saint Ronnie the Ray-gun all of the labor papers disappeared. The schools were sanctioned for teaching the liberal U.S. history and liberal civics. Unions were blamed for jobs being shipped overseas to take advantage of slave labor. Every town had unique restaurants, hardware stores, and grocery stores. Now every town has the same restaurant chains, hardware chains, and grocery chains. Americas wealth shot up to the top 5 percent and they cried poverty because their taxes were only cut in half. The average voter wants desperately to be lied to because the truth would be painful. The American experiment will die with parades and standing ovations.
would someone please list the liberal papers available in the U.S. The dozen or so, the eight or less, the six or fewer, the...
never mind.
They print anything about anybody. Got to admit, that's pretty liberal!
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
Something seriously lacking in our "respected" press.
Personally, I miss the Weekly World News on the magazine stand.
But it lives online!
It only seems that way Gerard, dear. Neocon teabagging thugs don't understand what's being said unless it's said slowly, simply and as monosyllabically as is possible. Even then It's pretty much a lost cause.
Now go outside and play. Let the adults handle the important business, like stopping the wars, reducing the deficit and fixing the economy, allowing everyone civil rights and getting access to healthcare for everyone, w/o involving payments to private insurers.
me-oww!
is the latest Repug/Fox/Conservative Talking Point.
We're gonna hear it, and variations on the theme, a lot in the coming months. The corporate
RulersF***kers of the Universe, are probably uneasy, worried that some of the less-dumb conservative populace will start wondering if "Liberals know what they're talking about?".Oh, yeah. Liberals are superior. We're generally not greedy, selfish, dishonest, and anti-intellectual. Conservatives? They define those traits.
It's because Republicans are retarded and they don't want political correctness from the Democrats - they say it all the time.
Republicans don't want political correctness so screw them, they are retards. They can get over it. They can then set their sights a bit lower.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I think for someone to think your being condescending they have to have the luxury of believing you are not going to kick that someone's ass - so shove a (good for working class peoples) health care bill down their throats!
Better to be wrong and strong (better to be strong and right!) than to have them accuse you of condescension!
bye bye bi-partisanship - the ultimate condescension.
Is the O of the "circular file" these addressed mails go into. There's no quality control anymore in publishing, and they wonder why their circulation is dropping.
there is a difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times.
The Post is bigger.
column on global warming and the Post's reaction to it to avoid further embarassing moments in conden...condescen...creativ...
to learn how to get away with lying.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
not much difference these days, i'm afraid
i used to read WashPost (esp dan froomkin), but i can't stomach that rag anymore
and when they were finished I asked who wrote it. They didn't know who the author was so I said it was probably an Assistant Professor of Political Science from George Mason. Not a bad guess, huh? (apologies to GM) Actually, given the juvenile and self-serving tone, it was not all that hard to spot someone posturing in a quest for recognition. He obviously had a chip on his shoulder right from the get go.
If you haven't read his Q&A following the piece, do it for even greater insights into the depth of knowledge he contributes to the conversation.
The Ailes/Rove propaganda machine will go full tilt now with the Orwellian screams that Intelligence is Condescension. They has already succeeded in dumbing down a good part of the country - now they want to pump up their egos through reviling those who think, do real research, and can present logical arguments.
do liberals place with WaPo? Since you asked Mr Amato.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
'Cause we're $&@#ing retarded, right?
Imagine a group of teens stealing CD's. We're the one in the group who stands up and says it's wrong. People with no conscience don't like being called out. Ever.
Let them say what they want. This has been going on since they first used a donkey icon to caricature liberals. Back then it was considered a badge of honor to be called a "jackass" for holding populist views.
So it's been almost 200 years. Nothing's changed; the other side are still pricks.
The primary function of liberals in American society is to entice progressive voters to support corporate, anti-progressive Democrats. It's no surprise then when the Post and other liberal media outlets seek out stories that disparage *liberals,* as they have to focus the attention of progressives away from the increasingly corporate Democrats, and onto *conservatives.*
They have perfected the "divide and conquer" strategy while preserving the illusion of democracy.
MSNBC does its part too.
The WaPo's default position is pants down - hands grabbing ankles.
There's nothing they won't happily do for their re-Thug masters.
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so f*cking stupid?!
These people will be so embarrassed if they ever develop the capacity to feel shame. Until then we are stuck with the one undeniable fact that:
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Because it's a rightwing propaganda organ that exists only to deceive and manipulate?
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republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
is alexander trying to boost this load of baloney that conservatives actually care what liberals think about them and that they get all butt-hurt over us casting aspersions at them?
you've got to be kidding me.
as a long time poster on the Slate board known as ballot box, they also promote -- by failure to do their moderator/editorial duties -- an atmosphere that is far from palatable to liberals, people of color, muslims, and gays.
For example --- http://fray.slate.com/discuss/search/SearchRe... Why they'd even keep those things in their records is a mystery to me.
In fairness they have banned some, but still allow others to ply their trade minus the use of the "N" word, like here from one of the more prolific
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/post/365...
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/post/365...
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/post/365...
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/post/365...
SO next time you wanna comment on the racism, homophobia, islamophobia, etc of that seen on rightwingnut sites, come on over and examine what they allow.
It has been evident that the Washington Post has turned into a thinly veiled Cluster-Fox subsidiary.. Since the take over of the paper by Ms. Weymouth, this paper has bit the proverbial dust. It's hard now days to find an article that doesn't seem to have Ailes approvals all over it.. It's actually become pretty pathetic...
It's hard to imagine folks like Eugene Robinson staying at the paper much longer with this kind of garbage being published....
I want that piece of crap to shrivel up and die. The so-called liberal Post and NY Times are off my list as news sources. I don't even like it when Huff Post, Crooks and Liars, This Progress, TPM, etc. link to them. We need to let them die. The reporters they have that are worth anything at all will find slots on places like Huff Post, etc. which will be able to hire more staff when they get the advertising revenue currently going to those so-call liberal rags. I read the Post and the Times daily for years. I'm all better now.
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