| PRIGS and PRATS; Why Brodhead remains | |
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| Joan Foster | Mar 25 2011, 05:57 AM Post #1 |
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On another thread, Mike asks... “How can the President of one of the world's most renown institutions of higher learning (ostensibly at least) mindlessly make so many logic-defying absurd public statements and still remain in the prestigious position of that world renown university's president?” I’ve been thinking about this question too. The answer, I believe, was given to us years ago by Dan Rather: Like the forged Bush military records...the Lacrosse Hoax was “fake but accurate.” Those with Progressive sensibilities hold many things to be “self-evident.” Promoting self-evident doctrines with lies, hysteria and false data is okay because it’s “furthering the real truth.” The truthy-truth, as they in their brilliance perceive it...but that, sadly and inconveniently...can not always be proven. Get that, kiddies? Global warming is self-evident. When those blasted numbers don’t cooperate they “hide the decline” and call it science. It’s okay to do that in academia because “everybody knows” global warming is “settled science”...so frosting the cake with false numbers does not...ummm...really...deceive. Everyone “knows” that Obama was born in Hawaii. I think Donald Trump is doing a stellar job of making the point: “Alrighty then, show us the Birth certificate.” Why is this so difficult? Obama can end this in an instant. Is this another “fake, but accurate” deal?’ I sometimes think, the answer is...”he should have been born in Hawaii, but wasn’t.” So therefore, to Progressives the Truth is a no-never-mind. And we are not “at war” with Libya, we are involved in a ....“kinetic military action.” End of story there, huh? Likewise, in a contest of “truth” white young men of privilege must always be the villains. Crystal, on the other hand, had so many victim creds...she was off the charts in Victim Desirability. There seems to be a new Romantic movement among the Intelligensia...a new variation called The Noble... Street... Savage. Mangum is the poster girl for this movement. Think about it...everything negative about her made her more sympathetic to the likes of Dick Brodhead and his ilk. Continually, the reputations of the Team were (and are) savaged...for underage-party- drinking at college and few instances of public urination. But every ugly, vile, tawdry piece of history that accrued to Mangum’s reputation made her more noble, more almost divine. Previous false accusations, cuckolding her husband, children out of random wedlock, lap-dancing, stripping, running down a police officer, “vibrating” for strangers in motels, trolling motels all night, substance abuse, fights in strip club parking lots...OH GOD, HOW THIS NOBLE GIRL HAS SUFFERED!! That’s how the “religious clergy” at that PC Monastery called Duke saw it. That’s how Brodhead saw it. That’s how the left-wing media saw it. Many still do. That poor old Fool who writes at J4N blathers on about the “reputations” of the Team...with nary a word about Miss Crusted Underwear of 2006. (Another member of the school of the Romantic Street Savage genre, one assumes.) Someone like Mangum is not expected by these Progressives to assume any responsibility for her life or even her own behavior. By chance of her skin color and gender, she was BORN already a victim. The silly fact that she was born into a loving family and had many opportunities others lack...does NOT mean ANYTHING should be expected of her...even a decent life or responsible parenting. She became, instead, a “Noble Street Savage”...embraced in every romantic and idealized way by Brodhead and his minions. Brodhead could never treat her in the way he would have treated...say, a nut-job sorority sister from Kappa who made the same accusation. Can you imagine Dickie on a Apology Tour down Sorority Row? Appearing before the Kappa alumna to display his angst? Actually, we DID observe in real time how the OTHER Duke rape was handled...the young woman, a real victim, dismissed with almost disdain. That young woman did not fit into the Victim mold. Hey, take your Rape story and go home! But Mangum did. So she was entitled to a full court press of Fake-But-Accurate support. Brodhead , carrying his cross through the streets of Durham...pushing lies to promote her Divinity. “Black women commandeered by White men.” Yes, Dick, that HISTORIC image of Black women high on street drugs and alcohol, coming into the plantation house after servicing the locals for cash, grabbing $750, and locking themselves in the bath do do their nails.... Uh-huh. This is why Brodhead is still employed today. He has a little of the Victim aura now himself. Like Dan Rather, Nifong, the Climate “scientists”...they all made a heroic Fake-But-Accurate effort to promote ...okay, maybe not the TRUTH...but what SHOULD BE the truth. It is APPRECIATED in the social and professional milieu wherein each circulates...among other P-R-I-Gs...(Progressives of Righteous Intuitive Genius) These Superior Beings KNOW everything instinctively. They just can’t always prove it. The Truth doesn’t always cooperate. But..sputter, sputter, they KNOW it!! Lying in the cause of proving what they in their SUPERIORITY... know... is actually a sacrifice they make for “us”...the Lesser beings. Who are... “us?” We are the P-R-A-Ts....the People who Refuse to Accept (Progressive) Truth. The “Show-Me!... “Prove it”...”Put the Facts on the table!” people. The “Get-Over-It.”... “Stand on your own Feet”....Take-Responsibility-for Yourself people. We see nothing romantic in the moral wreck that is Crystal Mangum. To the PRIGs, we PRATs are dumb, because we won’t submit to their superiority. We must be mocked, because we refuse to stay silent. We are (fill in the blank...”racist”, “homophobic”, “bitter”) because we question. We are “all of the above” because we believe in personal responsibility. We are not easily defined because we define ourselves as “individuals.” Call us PRATS, or Blog Hooligans, our commonality is that we are adamant about the Truth....the “real’ provable Truth. Don’t pull that Fake But Accurate Idiocy on us! Don’t hide behind your woo-hoo vocabulary or twisted words. Don’t push your slanted, biased, skewed world-view in our face! Muzzle that freaking Metanarrative PLEASE. To the PRIGS, this attitude makes us threatening. And yes, it makes us tiresome. But , as Brodhead et al .must certainly have realized by now...alas, when provoked...it also makes us frighteningly tenacious....and amazingly tireless too. Edited by Joan Foster, Mar 25 2011, 06:06 AM.
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| Quasimodo | Mar 25 2011, 08:39 AM Post #2 |
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You got it! Brodhead was the true victim in all this (as I have no doubt his memoirs will show...) |
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| Baldo | Mar 25 2011, 09:47 AM Post #3 |
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Excellent post Joan Metanarratives ruled the day because the truth didn't fit the political agenda. It is how we got the Duke Lacrosse Hoax with the help of some corrupt Durham & Duke personnel. Brodhead never let the truth get in his way.. huh Payback? |
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| Acc Esq | Mar 25 2011, 10:50 AM Post #4 |
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I proudly proclaim myself a PRAT. |
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| sceptical | Mar 25 2011, 10:57 AM Post #5 |
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Great analysis! |
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| cks | Mar 25 2011, 12:38 PM Post #6 |
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Ditto Great post Joan! |
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| MikeZPU | Mar 25 2011, 04:34 PM Post #7 |
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Joan: this is really good stuff. I want to read it several times ![]() I have to take off from the office, so I'll post more later. But a quick comment along the lines of your post. My wife likes the music, the songs, on the show Glee, so she watches the show. Gwyneth Paltrow was on Glee recently and sang the Dixie Chicks' version of Steve Nicks' song "Landslide." That reminded me of the whole hullabaloo surrounding the Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines and her big liberal mouth. It mainly started with Maines telling a British audience that she was ashamed the President of the USA was from Texas. As a result of the controversy and the fact that Maines just could not keep her big mouth shut, and the fact that she could dish it out but not take it (another typical liberal characteristic), the Dixie Chicks eventually went into a sort of hiatus for a bit. When they finally emerged from their hiatus with a new album, they demanded that the first "hit" song off their new album be the song "Not ready to make nice." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmAglGdibYs And now I finally get to the point, and connect to one of your points: what was the main point of the song "Not ready to make nice"? That Natalie Maines herself was the true victim in all of the controversy surrounding her. Sound familiar a la Quasi's post above? Edited by MikeZPU, Mar 25 2011, 04:35 PM.
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| Joan Foster | Mar 25 2011, 04:36 PM Post #8 |
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Very familiar. Thanks, Mike. That's the pattern. BTW, I understand Whoppi Goldberg's response to Trump's questions about "the birth certificate" was.."you wouldn't be asking that if he were white." I'd have loved to have shot back..."So were you all just questioning Bush's military service because he wasn't Black?" This is beyond tolerable. It needs to be confronted every time. Hey, is Obama a "war criminal" yet? He''s going into Libya because he "thinks" there might be a massacre and HowardDean says this is "in our national interest." Yet, Bush believed Saddam had WMD and, in the context of Sept 11...went in to depose HIM...and THAT was NOT in our interest. Tell that to the folks who jumped from the top floors of the Trade Center. These Libs are so supremely hypocritical...but no one throws the hard stuff in their face. They need IMMENSE pushback in every place and within every opportunity to confront them.
Edited by Joan Foster, Mar 25 2011, 04:46 PM.
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| Payback | Mar 25 2011, 04:44 PM Post #9 |
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They really don't believe there is such a thing as truth. That's why Richard H. Brodhead could say that the facts kept changing. |
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| chatham | Mar 25 2011, 06:21 PM Post #10 |
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And now I finally get to the point, and connect to one of your points: what was the main point of the song "Not ready to make nice"? That Natalie Maines herself was the true victim in all of the controversy surrounding her. Sound familiar a la Quasi's post above? ==================== IN case anyone is interested there are at least 48 first person pronouns in that song. Yep, sounds like a brodhead speech. |
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| MikeZPU | Mar 26 2011, 08:37 AM Post #11 |
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http://watching-tv.ew.com/2011/03/23/donald-trump-the-view-whoopi-goldberg-birther-obama/ Thanks for noting Donald Trump's appearance on The View. Your come-back line is awesome! Of course, even though they think they're so smart, they're not really, so I doubt Whoopi and the rest of the libs on The View would have comprehended their hypocrisy. The characterization of Duke as a "PC Monastery" is pure poetry -- it is so true. They pretend to be for "free speech" but, in reality, they are as anti-"free-speech" as one can be. And talk about harbingers of hate and purveyors of hate speech, liberals are the tops. It's hard to compete with the hate-filled tirades of far-left liberals. They practically foam at the mouth. Edited by MikeZPU, Mar 26 2011, 08:44 AM.
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| Deleted User | Mar 26 2011, 09:10 AM Post #12 |
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Joan, this is a timely piece not only for its Duke hoax application, but the charade that's going on today in the Obama administration. We don't fight wars any longer, yes they are now kinetic military actions. It is truly "wonderland" in America. The noble street savage, Crusty, is just one among millions that the PRIGS use to further their political and cultural agenda. |
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| kbp | Mar 28 2011, 08:47 PM Post #13 |
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As always, I love your posts Joan. This one helps to explain why liberals always feel they can ignore their own errors and laugh at any who question them. |
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