Kentucky newspaper op-ed blows the whistle:
By on Nov 21st, 2006 at 11:20 am
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Blame it on the hippies, just like Cartman !! :-D
November 21st, 2006 at 11:25 amFrist?
Who Knew Hippies still were around??
November 21st, 2006 at 11:25 amDamn patchouli covering-stink nasty ass hippies.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:26 amThe fundies had their shot to run the country and blew it.
Embrace change or die, it’s a universal constant.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:27 amDad Blurn Hippies!!!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:30 amHaven’t you heard? It’s the penquins’ fault.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:30 amJudging from this bizarre editorial, as well as the ramped up idiocy of the trolls at TP, it appears that the most recent election has driven many of the lemmings right off the cliff of reason.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:31 am“Stupid Hippies… They say they want to save the world, but all they do is smoke weed and smell bad.”
- Eric Cartman
Personally, I’m not so arrogant to think I can save the world by myself… and I put on deodorant today.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:38 am#7
I think they fell off that cliff long ago… when was the last time you heard them say something that was actually reasonable?
November 21st, 2006 at 11:38 amTrolls at TP? Com on now RS, you can do better than that. I know I can…:-)
November 21st, 2006 at 11:41 amPersonally, I’m not so arrogant to think I can save the world by myself… and I put on deodorant today.
Comment by Technodaoist — November 21, 2006 @ 11:38 am
I see a hidden message here. I like it!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:45 amUh, didn’t the “hippies” grow up, become yuppies, and are now running the country?
November 21st, 2006 at 11:46 amI live in Texas, a red state according to the repubs. and their are more millionaires in this small county than any other.
Guess what?
This wealthy conservative leaning high school has a drug problem worse than when I went to school. A usual they are hypocrites.
The police started a program so the kids would snitch on each other and get money. Well the money the teens got from turning other teens in went to buy drugs!
One teen, who turned another teen in, bought drugs, then got beat up for being a snitch…these people are such hypocrites its stunning.
I forged my birth certificate so I could start working at the age of fifteen and have worked ever since.
Look at George Bush, he smoked pot. Remember? His daughters as well. Not to mention Noelle Bush was a crack user.
I was not a hippie during Vietnam, I was a Kid. Who do these people think they are kidding?
November 21st, 2006 at 11:51 amProof the wingnuts are pissing their beds nightly.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:52 amMy uncle served in Vietnam, guess what? He smoked more pot in Vietnam than anywhere else!!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:53 amDan Quayle was a hippy as well during his college years, but a pro-war chicken hawk hippy!!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:54 amRush Limbaugh is also now a Hippy because he is a drug addict!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:55 amHippies? Far-right GOP fascists are ruining the United States!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:55 amI see a hidden message here. I like it!
Comment by RealScientist
Nothing is hidden for those who seek wisdom…
And that’s not my stuff.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:58 amHippies? Far-right GOP fascists are ruining the United States!
Comment by Jay Randal — November 21, 2006 @ 11:55 am
Shush, Jay! Don’t bring up the crazy aunt in the basement!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:58 am(from the kentucky op-ed):
November 21st, 2006 at 12:02 pm“Luckily, there is Generation Jones to take up the slack, etc..”
Generation Jones ??
I’m sure I can guess who the ‘writer’ is referring to, anyone know the origin of this moniker?
Ah, yes, the dream of Korporate Amerika, that we will all try to keep up with the Jones’s, that we will all become Jones’s, that we will all jones if we don’t get our consumer fix…………
Dear Ms. McBrearty,
I have an issue with this line from your article:
“Are people who make weapons innocent citizens of their warring governments, or integral non-uniformed soldiers and legitimate targets?”
Are you really implying that U.S. citizens who work for military contractors are legitimate targets?
That seems like something a 9-11 apologist would ask, and it seems out of line with the rest of your questions. Can you clarify?
On second reading, it also seems like the line:
“Must we surrender our country to our enemies because our weapons are too terrible to use?”
seems to be coming straight out of a Palestinian homicide-bomber’s mouth. What is up with that?
And this line seems to imply that U.S. civilians are legitimate targets.
“Is it possible to protect non-combatants, given modern weaponry in total war?”
Isn’t that what our enemies say?
Was this some kind of disguised subversive/satirical piece, that I didn’t understand properly?
November 21st, 2006 at 12:28 pmDon’t judge our state based on this–the Herald-Leader’s editorial page is generally very reasonable.
Doesn’t explain why they published this piece of claptrap, though. I guess they have to throw the wingers a bone every now and then, but they could have done it with something a little less, well, ridiculous.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:29 pmGood gravy that’s a pile of crazy…
The most interesting thing to me is this “BAWL” business, which is apparently an acronym for Buddha-Allah-Wicca-Lenin. From the context, it seems to be implied that this is a real thing that is a popular religious figure in leftist thinking. And giving them the benefit of the doubt, I looked around for some reference to it. But of course it’s entirely fabricated. I’m going to look now for O’Reilly, Hannity, TNR, and the rest of the gang to start talking about how liberals want to replace Christmas with a holiday celebrating BAWL, and instate mandatory gay abortions.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:30 pmDear Ms. McBrearty:
I just finished reading your column from Sunday’s edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader and I was moved to drop you a note.
I briefly flirted with the idea of rebutting your column point-by-point but I decided it would be a complete waste of my time and energy. You are wrong on so many levels, I’ve lost count.
As a Vietnam veteran with three awards of the Army Commendation Medal, as an alumnus of the so-called “hippie” era, as a global economic development consultant, as a father of three and a grandfather of two, as an adjunct professor in two MBA programs, as a world traveler, as a keen observer of both humanity and politics, and as a firm believer that the sooner we come to accept that we are all in this big boat together, the sooner we will all be able to figure out how to live together with dignity and respect, I can tell you without any doubt whatsoever in my mind that wars create evil, they do not erase it, that God in his wisdom does not subscribe to any religious creed nor does he pledge allegiance to any flag, and that I can only hope that people with views like yours who command a public platform will eventually turn toward the light and away from the darkness.
Best regards,
And, yes, I DO take it personally
November 21st, 2006 at 12:31 pm22.
The comments will make sense when viewed through a prism of everything we do being morally right, and everything they do being morally wrong.
Us vs. Them
It’s an unproductive view for Islam, it’s an unproductive view for us.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:32 pmDoesn’t explain why they published this piece of claptrap, though. I guess they have to throw the wingers a bone every now and then, but they could have done it with something a little less, well, ridiculous.
Comment by The J Train — November 21, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
I don’t know anything about this particular newspaper, but I have noticed that my center-left leaning local paper creates the appearance of balance by publishing lots of op-eds from right wingers, but cleverly undercuts the balance by choosing absurd pieces written by wacko extremists.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:34 pmFinally, a paper willing to write the truth.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:35 pmHippies are hypocrites too, be fair.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:50 pmHippies? You mean, like that Hippy Jesus, traveling around in sandals with his long hair, with a bunch of other long haired men, teaching lessons, promoting change, teaching peace? Yeah them hippies are all bad news!
November 21st, 2006 at 12:52 pmHippies? You mean, like that Hippy Jesus, traveling around in sandals with his long hair, with a bunch of other long haired men, teaching lessons, promoting change, teaching peace? Yeah them hippies are all bad news!
Well in that case Judas also counts as a hippy, and look how well that turned out.
November 21st, 2006 at 1:17 pmHippies was a movement so exploited by the media so much so that the original gathering of hippies had a funeral to bury “hippiedom”
November 21st, 2006 at 1:27 pmduring a be-in in San Francisco in late 1966. Everything “hippy” after that became a marketed lifestyle choice.
Hey, if you don’t like what “hippies” have done to or for the country, then bring back the frickin’ draft, a-holes.
November 21st, 2006 at 1:38 pmWhy is Madame McBrearty using French to insult the left? Must be jealous of our literacy.
November 21st, 2006 at 1:43 pmActually it turned out great for the whole world. Judas helped God and Jesus fulfill the Biblical prophecy of Jesus dying for everybody’s sins. You need to study the Bible more, so you know what you are talking about.
November 21st, 2006 at 1:45 pm#33, Nope, then he would be a Democrat and no one could slam him as a right-winger.
November 21st, 2006 at 2:39 pmMs McBrearty, paging Ms McBrearty, to the back conference room please.
“Yes, Mr Editor, you wanted to see me?”
“Jeanne, you ignorant slut!”
“But but, but….”
“Exactly you asswipe, when you write crap like this it makes the rest of us look bad. And especially when you reveal the secrets of our pushpolling techniques to our own troops.?
November 21st, 2006 at 3:42 pmJudas helped God and Jesus fulfill the Biblical prophecy of Jesus dying for everybody’s sins.
That part has always bothered me, why not just turn yourself in, instead of waiting for one of your friends to betray you? Sounds like Jesus wasn’t quite ready to go yet.
November 21st, 2006 at 4:34 pmJudas was a greedy capitalist pig- probably more like, say, a GOP congressman than a hippie. Did he wear beads? Carry a roach clip? No. So, there you have it.
November 21st, 2006 at 5:35 pmSee the Letters to the Editor following this piece of crap:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/editorial/letters/16044164.htm
If you’d like to contact her, her blog and e-mail are:
http://schooltruth.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1
jeneanmacb@hotmail.com
November 21st, 2006 at 5:57 pmRe: Judas – new info has come forth indicating that Jesus actually requested that Judas do what he did so Judas was not a traitor.
November 21st, 2006 at 5:59 pmYeah! What good have love, peace and openness of mind done to anyone?
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:44 amI’ve got news for all the commentators. This is supposed to be satire like South Park is satire . . .I sent an e-mail to the author and she said as much . . .
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:36 pmNice! We rather appreciated the website
February 16th, 2007 at 12:16 pm