Feb 8, 2010
The Most Worstest Thing in Forever
Actual quote:
"Washington insiders say they can't ever recall a period in American public life as full of anger and polarization as now."
Uh, yeah. When has America ever been polarized before?
And so here we go again. Blogging at the Most Reliable Source of Internet Comedy™, Jeremy Rifkin warns that American public life has suddenly and without precedent turned uncivil. Why, there are even people on the radio who have"fanned the flames of hatred with occasional outrageous personal attacks on public figures and advocates of policy agendas with which they disagree."
Nothing like this has ever happened before, of course, and so the president has been forced to issue"an unprecedented plea for civility in public discourse."
I'm taking up a collection -- send me a check, c/o the UCLA History Department, so we can send our nation's capital a book.
How hard would you have to work to believe this stuff? And is it uncivil of me to want to scream out loud at the people who write it?
"Washington insiders say they can't ever recall a period in American public life as full of anger and polarization as now."
Uh, yeah. When has America ever been polarized before?
And so here we go again. Blogging at the Most Reliable Source of Internet Comedy™, Jeremy Rifkin warns that American public life has suddenly and without precedent turned uncivil. Why, there are even people on the radio who have"fanned the flames of hatred with occasional outrageous personal attacks on public figures and advocates of policy agendas with which they disagree."
Nothing like this has ever happened before, of course, and so the president has been forced to issue"an unprecedented plea for civility in public discourse."
I'm taking up a collection -- send me a check, c/o the UCLA History Department, so we can send our nation's capital a book.
How hard would you have to work to believe this stuff? And is it uncivil of me to want to scream out loud at the people who write it?