And invocations of Orwell have become close to meaningless these days. It’s real easy to cherry-pick quotes from his voluminous corpus of essays and journalism to make it sound like Orwell would have been on board with just about anything you happen to be in favor of.

I wonder if they know the god of Abraham was selected in a similar fashion…

It’s funny, too, how they always claim to be in the “majority,” but at the same time, they spend hours every day crying about how they’re being victimized by the liberal media, the liberal elite, the liberal anti-religious cultural leaders, the liberal P.C. Thought Police, etc, etc. For a “majority,” they sure do spend a lot of time being victimized.

Reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman challenges Kyle to a fight. Kyle lightly punches him on the arm, and he makes a X-O face, then runs home crying.

Of course there is no liberal media in America. The media are largely controlled by massive corporations who don’t give a shit what they churn out as long as it sells. It’s really more glorified entertainment than anything else these days.

Oh and WRT ‘PC Thought Police’: their frequent invocation of George Orwell—I knew one wingnut who suggested that the Philadelphia smoking ban “out-Orwells Orwell”—is incredibly ironic, given that Orwell was a Socialist who was strongly in favor of something like the EU. (Though I’m sure he would disagree sharply with some details of the modern implementation.)

Mark Noonan also keeps a blog of his own, Battle Born Politics, which is otiose (unless you happen to be interested in reading about local Nevada politics once every other month). Matt and Mark are some busy beavers, that’s for sure.

“They’ll be back” — yeah, whatever you say, guys. Eight years of GOP misrule and malfeasance are going to keep their “majority” languishing in obscurity for some time to come.

It’s funny, too, how they always claim to be in the “majority,” but at the same time, they spend hours every day crying about how they’re being victimized by the liberal media, the liberal elite, the liberal anti-religious cultural leaders, the liberal P.C. Thought Police, etc, etc. For a “majority,” they sure do spend a lot of time being victimized.

Blogs will be obsolete by the time he will be able to remove those last 3 words.