The other day Rush Limbaugh said in an interview “Never in my life have I seen a regime like this,” in reference to the Obama administration. Chris “Tingles” Matthews was outraged.
Washington Examiner: On MSNBC, Chris Matthews appeared deeply troubled by the word. “I’ve never seen language like this in the American press,” he said, “referring to an elected representative government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election — we will have another one in November, we’ll have another one for president in a couple years — fair, free, and wonderful democracy we have in this country…. We know that word, ‘regime.’ It was used by George Bush, ‘regime change.’ You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They’re juntas. They’re military coups. The use of the word ‘regime’ in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it.”
Matthews didn’t stop there. “I never heard the word ‘regime,’ before, have you?” he said to NBC’s Chuck Todd. “I don’t even think Joe McCarthy ever called this government a ‘regime.’”
Of course, there were plenty of times lefties referred to the “Bush regime” from his inauguration until the present day. And yes, Tingles was one of them!
Finally — you knew this was coming — on June 14, 2002, Chris Matthews himself introduced a panel discussion about a letter signed by many prominent leftists condemning the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror. “Let’s go to the Reverend Al Sharpton,” Matthews said. “Reverend Sharpton, what do you make of this letter and this panoply of the left condemning the Bush regime?”
Someone should tell the Walrus, Matthews, to start searching his own archives before shooting off his mouth.
They are so blinded by their our idiology and double standards that the major losses in November will not be the result of Americans voting but some evil right wing conspiracy.
Mark my words.
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Alinsky tactics say to never let up pressure on the opposition. That is precisely what is going on right now. Never get pinned down by What would you do…………..they simply want to ask WHAT WOULD YOU DO and then DEBATE and RIDICULE YOUR solutions.
Never get pinned down in a debate about what YOU would DO. We want them to respond and defend what THEY would DO.
Alinsky is an amazingly powerful way to win debates….Its devious and disingenious and would get you thrown out of a debate match….but for Politics its VERY POWERFUL.
Remember to keep the pressure on the Dems and progressives. Force them to react, defend and explain their actions. The more they talk….as Chris Mathews points out above the more likely they will hang themselves with their own words.
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It is not just Alinsky – FDR did an amazing job of expanding
power, and Pelosi seems to be combining both approaches.
The constitutional issue is pretty straightforward – they are
doing a power grab, but the Politics of it are depressingly
difficult because it is easy for Pelosi to pander and
demagogue the whole thing – fighting like mad to get health
care for the american people blah blah blah – and too difficult
to explain how they are destroying the economy (on purpose).
The whole socialist point is that the constitution is out of
date and a tool of the rich, or dead white males, and they
have successfully blamed the market crash on Bush – unless
somebody has amazing evidence that the crash was
deliberately engineered and timed. So capitalism is also
from rich dead white males – and they dangle free health care
to the proletariat. And it is ‘free’ for them – ie somebody
else will pay for it, which is fine by them. The Drones will
never connect the dots and say that there are no jobs because
of the Democrat policies. FDR dragged out the Great Depression
but was never blamed for it – in fact he is worshipped to this
day. In fact the Democrat response to the Alger Hiss affair
was that Republicans were merely trying to discredit the
New Deal – as if working for the KGB had nothing to do with it.
The Press was behind that all the way, naturally. They just
circle the wagons, and the constitution be damned.
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Exactly right. Deflection and misdirection so that the ulterior motives can be put into law.
I wonder if anyone even noticed the huge business reform bill that passed during the Health care debate?
Most likely not. Had we not been having that health care debate this bill would have been the equal to immigration reform….as it was…it passed in the dead of night with hardly anyone even noticing.
Right now they are manuevering to work on cap and tax. I think they have decided immigration reform is not as crucial as is more government grab ass like cap and tax will give them.
So the deflection and misdirection has begun…..Alinsky.
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