tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4224304844685064833..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Father-In-LawAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-17311519950339015522010-03-22T22:16:26.157-04:002010-03-22T22:16:26.157-04:00He tells me his opinions. He's an educated, in...<i>He tells me his opinions. He's an educated, intelligent man, and he says things very thoughtfully. He very thoughtfully tells me the opinions he has formed after paying careful attention to the events of the day. These are his own judgments, not anything some journalist has predigested for him and packaged in a way to get him to agree with the standard liberal journalist narrative.<br /><br />By sheer coincidence, his opinions, even his original ones, line up exactly with the prevailing beliefs of his sources. </i><br /><br /><br />Father-in-law?<br /><br />Some weeks ago my job required that I travel to Washington, DC. One rush hour evening I was riding the Red Line in Northwest, DC with a well attired 30's something fellow in a business suit. This fellow removed his I-phone ear piece and announced that someone had just twittered to him about another politician at a live news conference who was publicly conceding that he had an affair. Responding, I asked the identity of the politician. This fellow then identified the offend politician as another of those “Republican family values people”. He then proceeded to disavow any objection to this politician's adulterous behavior and went on dismissively deride any such concern. I was struck how my fellow passenger's extended response seemed identical, word for word, to that of a brother-in-law (and former Democratic political operative) in similar situation about a year and a half earlier. With such experience of the earlier instance in mind, I carefully inquired whether my fellow passenger thought that, as a politician, the adulterous governor should be expected to have enough social insight to understand the likely consequences of his risky behavior; and that any such misbehavior might suggest inadequate self control and judgment for such a responsible public position. To this the poor fellow seemed discomforted. Even after I provided an example of a former married New Jersey governor who appointed his Israeli sailer boy lover to a high profile state position for which a security clearance was required, a security clearance the boyfriend could not have obtained, my fellow rider was unable to respond in any meaningful way. I was left with the impression that this fellow was uncomfortable thinking outside of the media's framing.Mike O'Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786963522098086259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-3789585258603166702010-03-22T15:40:08.372-04:002010-03-22T15:40:08.372-04:00You have to choose to pick the red pill...You have to choose to pick the red pill...silverminenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-14127205009903699722010-03-22T12:37:50.501-04:002010-03-22T12:37:50.501-04:00Just wanted to say I appreciated your comment on N...Just wanted to say I appreciated your comment on Neo's blog today. We've got to be in it for the long haul. Complacency was almost the death of us, wasn't it?Sue Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580315531280521167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-34738151824944201522010-03-22T03:34:56.670-04:002010-03-22T03:34:56.670-04:00You've done a fine job of describing my father...You've done a fine job of describing my father. His political "leanings" have seemed to me to always be opposed to the way he lived and worked.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-76922474647361791682010-03-21T22:52:25.850-04:002010-03-21T22:52:25.850-04:00Excellent.
That Reagan fellow, the actor, he had ...Excellent.<br /><br />That Reagan fellow, the actor, he had been a Roosevelt Democrat too. :)ELChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09755716607466641949noreply@blogger.com