Bookworm on Aug 03 2009 at 9:34 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Michelle Malkin went into the lions’ den — and took a bite out of the lions. If you’d like to see it happen, go here.
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What really struck me is how tame the members of that coven were in Michelle Malkin’s presence.
All I heard from Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg was an odd meow or two, here and there. Are they too having second thoughts? Just asking. It seemed so out of character for them.
Lions? What lions.
Danny, it could be just their usual energy levels. It’s not like their lack or presence of energy has all that great an immediate impact on events, so they probably feel much on the leisure side of things. Also, without the Democrat fake liberal propaganda template to go off of, they actually have to come up with their own arguments.
That’s much tougher than copying what others have said.
Or maybe they were actually intimidated by Michelle Malkin, YM.
I noticed that MM was very good at body-checking them whenever the tried to enter “Bush” into the discussion. Her focus on “sunlight disinfects” probably undermined their whole game plan.
I didn’t have time to watch the whole thing, but Michelle is very solid on her facts, and very well spoken. I wonder though – I don’t ever watch the show, but I’ve had the impression that most of their conservative guests have been males. At least, the ones I’ve heard of.
If that’s true, then it might be one of those interactions where the women are attacking a male, the conservative male tends not to reciprocate and will come off looking the worse for wear. With Michelle being a female, maybe the same instinct to attack is a little less pressing, and Michelle, of course, doesn’t hesitate to take them on. They sure don’t hesitate to attack Hasselbeck though, but I suspect she isn’t the same caliber as MM.
I don’t know – I know MM is good, but it seemed as if there was some fire missing from the others.
Michelle is a very experienced media person, so she knows how to conduct herself on camera. She especially knows the coven’s bag of tricks, including droning loudly and continuously something like “But, but, but, but” to drown out and finally stop an opponent’s speech and train of thought.
So Michelle just kept speaking over them, continually asserting her control of the floor. She reminded me of when a basketball center leaps up, grabs the rebound and lands with his elbows flailing like an out-of-control agitator on a washing machine: “Mine, you mofos, MINE!”
While Behar is a piece of work, the slackjaws in the audience give me the creeps.
It is the lion’s den! I wish they were that tough and hostile on their liberal guests, but they turn into fawning cheerleaders for *those* guests!
But Michelle Malkin was at the top of her game, and you can bet she planted a few seeds out there.
Also, I see that the Obama-as-the-Joker picture in Los Angeles has made Drudge, and that the Democrats are beginning the hootin’ and the hollerin’ about how unfair and, yes, how dangerous that poster is! “Obama as a demon!” they are howling.
What it means is they recognize how incredibly powerful it is as propaganda, and how difficult it is to fight. As a corollary, since it includes some black paint around the eyes to achieve The Joker Effect, you will hear cries of “racism” very very soon as well.
It’s brilliant propaganda, it bites like hell, because the image claims that Obama, like Heath Ledger’s joker, is extraordinarily harmful for the country, putting a vicious socialist/Statist joke over on all of us. The word “Socialism” identifies the nature of the Joker-like sickness. It’s the socialism! Everyone who sees the poster will get its message immediately. THAT is effective propaganda.
I don’t think the Democrats can fight it. And it is fair. Here’s hoping this baby goes viral! I think it’s absolutely brilliant.
Michelle Malkin, who Book accidentally called Michelle Obama ; ) (another forceful, if angry, person), is indeed a strong lady. She has had to face up to intimidation and threats that conducts great psychological stress. It’s one of the methods in psychological torture, even, but Malkin refuses to be a victim. I admire that. I’m not hot for her, like many people I know (middle aged people at that), but be that as it may.
Her being a woman naturally means she is seen as vulnerable and open to certain attacks which would be seen as futile against men. I have difficulty imagining, for example, some of the aforementioned attacks being worked against… me for example.
Of course, I’ve been cursed at and called names, personally attacked for any number of things, although some things tend to come out more consistently than others, but it’s hard to analogize to the attacks made against women.
The Left considers you all to be the weaker sex, you know. Like they consider the old to be expendable, the new born disabled to be not worth keeping alive, and the foreigners meat for the slaughter of their totalitarian allies in return for sex and favors.
They sure don’t hesitate to attack Hasselbeck though, but I suspect she isn’t the same caliber as MM.
She is a bit empty headed. She’s what Sarah Palin was said to be. She really needs to bone up on her background and data analysis abilities. She has the right instincts, so to speak, but she lacks viciousness. She doesn’t have the Barracuda teeth. It’s a mental toughness that comes from experience. The experience of strife and conflict, of fighting a dishonorable enemy without a line of retreat. Where you must stand. Here I stand, I can do no other. Such experience and background would also sharpen her reflexes, making her capable of launching streams of verbal attacks without stop, without also losing consistency.
“Mine, you mofos, MINE!”
That reminds me. The closest thing that you can threaten a man with that would be analogous to what they told Michelle is “I’m going to make you my prison bi****” For men, however, this never really applies unless you are in prison or are dealing with criminals/prisoners. For women, it’s all equal opportunity. But it is the closest analogy.
Close, but still not enough. Why? Because.
While Behar is a piece of work, the slackjaws in the audience give me the creeps.
Because the slackjaws, so to speak, make me excited. And that’s bad. For them, that is.
Women don’t tend to get excited by a confrontation or a fight. Some might, but usually not. Not part of the DNA instinct, I suppose. It doesn’t apply to many men, either. It’s not just DNA, it’s other factors. Societal, conditional, instinctual, experience, personality influenced, etc. But this response makes it less assured for the attackers. Just like the thought that the victim may have a gun deters robbers, the reactions of most men do deter most other men. And thus the reactions of most women do not deter most men. It’s a societal prejudice, I suppose. But it is nonetheless true for it.
It’s good to ask people “did you read the book”. It’s on par with, “have you stopped beating your dog ontop the gas grill yet”. It puts them on the defensive, which is a good thing. It puts you into the more dominant position, and such hierarchical struggles are very important in propaganda operations.
Malkin also gets brownie points from me for using the label “Culture of Corruption”. Pelosi sort of coined that against us. It is only fitting that we use the Left’s own propaganda weapons, which they invested with the psychic connection to negative emotions, against them. Just cause your would be murderer dropped his axe, doesn’t mean you can’t use it. Doesn’t mean you should, just means you can. And she did.
Goldberg talking about ‘fixing things’? Amazing. Slap me on both of my cheeks, for that almost sounds reasonable. But that can’t be true.
Malkin wanted a greater audience and she got it.
Btw, Martel. I don’t see any slack jawed folks there. I’m really disappointed.
Back to something I mentioned before. People, men and women, tend to follow the path of least resistance. For many women, this means avoidance of confrontation. Avoidance of internet blogging, for as much as they love it, they really hate the hate. For many men, though, it’s a field of competition. A place to show their prowess for whatever interests them. Confrontation there, is not to be avoided but to be cultivated. Now when you mix and match the two gender ‘roles’ in mixed company, add in some ideological strife, and you get a nice pot of burning napalm. Drink that sucker up, man. It’s good for you.
Or maybe not.
Criminals, on the street, actually pick up on this. If they sense weakness, they may be tempted into crime where they hadn’t planned any crime at all. Any desire to avoid confrontation is like waving the red flag before a pull. It signals that you are submissive and thus they become dominant. And certain people should not feel like they are in charge, if only because they are megalomaniacs that will abuse such powers.
Most people are under the impression that strength, speed, and size makes people dangerous or intimidating or worthy of consideration in fights. That’s why they pick on the small women. The Malkins, or whatever. They don’t see the personality, the strength, they just see the smallness of size.
But, I know better. They don’t. It’s not strength that makes people dangerous. It’s not speed. It’s not size. It’s the sociopath within. An army of one. A civilization unto yourself. The monster within. We all got it. Some more than others. But most of the time, it’s safely tucked away under layers and layers of societal conditioning and consciousness. But the veneer of civilization is thin indeed under stressful times.
But all you need is the key. To unseal the beast.
That’s why criminals are kind of leery around crazy folks. They don’t know how crazy people will act. Crazy people do not necessarily obey societal limitations. Sure, a criminal will take a shiv and stab you a few times, probably in a kidney or so if they read anatomical texts. But why don’t they go for the eyes, which are a far more certain target and more easily accessible? Cause they’re still social. Barely at times. That’s why they don’t eat corpses. Societal indoctrination. Still very powerful, even for rapists and murderers. Serial killers? Well, not so much. Those people are out on the fringe. Their demon beast hasn’t been under lock for a long time.
The moral of the story is that no matter how small or large someone is, always be careful of what they got inside. Or rather, what they don’t got inside.
Mike: You are prescient. With regard to the Joker picture, they are already crying racism. I was unaware that, like Sambo before him, the Joker was a symbol of black inferiority. Live and learn, I guess….
I think suek made a very valid observation about the female/male conservative guest.
Joy & Whoppi were out of their league – period. If their best argument was to misquote MM and then drop the dreaded Bush bomb retort, they certainly came up short and stupid, which doesn’t seems like much of a stretch for either one.
On the other hand..anyone who would watch this type of TV for political discourse and information is beyond me.
I don’t know if you caught the split second after MM was discussing Tom Daschle and spoke of the ‘wrong appointment ‘ but I got the distinct feeling Joy was ready to pounce on her. My gut told me that she was waiting for MM to say Sotomayer and was stunned into silence was she reiterated Daschle’s name.
The so-called lions are pussies, who couldn’t even scratch the surface!
Mike Devx:
The same artist did GWB as a vampire.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/03/obama
and it continues here…
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/03/obama-joker-poster-starts-outrage-bush-joker-poster-not-so-much
If Obama is the Joker, Biden is the Jester.
Who’s Batman, Danny? Is it Ozzie? Haven’t seen her around lately, ya know.
Book, the good thing about people crying racism is that it is like bombs. If that is all they throw out, eventually people become used to it and start building up resistances. Like any repeat versions of the flu or same virus.
I am waiting for Batman to reveal himself, although I so believe we may have found Bat Woman up in Alaska way. My vote is for Rahm Emanuel as the Penguin, though. I think that he is very much into dead fish (ooops! That’s a scene from the Godfather. I’m mixing up my movie metaphores, sorry!)
Re the Joker/Racism charge:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/vanity-fair-portrayed-bush-a-joker
Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.