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When The Cult Attacks

By Big Tent Democrat

The Cult is riled up. The funny thing is the Cult, as usual, never actually addresses what is written and then makes stuff up. Indeed, this is the Cult's modus operandi:

I am not going to go through the TalkLeft archives and dig up where BTD gravely intones that Obama can not win the white vote, can not win the Jewish vote, can not win the Hispanic vote, and on and on. I will not dig up all the stupid god damned advice he gave to the Obama campaign(which they, thank GOD, ignored). I will not look up the umpteen posts where the left’s own pompous village idiot warned that Obama could not win without Hillary on the ticket. I will not dig up the polling data that he consistently misread and always curiously interpreted as showing a need for Hillary on the ticket.

The Cult will not because it can not. No such posts exist. I remind my dear readers and the Cult of two words that I used - "shoo-in." Before most. Those who actually can read and actually read my posts know precisely what I wrote. Indeed, what I wrote about John Brennan, a name not mentioned in The Cult's manic response. But do remember this from the Cult: [More...]

Yes, I voted for Bush twice, but I proudly state I am not as stupid as BTD. Period.

That, is a matter of opinion. BTW, what the Cult engenders - a complete disconnect from reality:

Also, iirc, [BTD]'s pretty damn sexist - it's been a long time, but one of the things that ticked a lot of us off at him at dKos was his fierce defense of Larry Summers against all the quotes demonstrating not only the man's gender-essentialism but also various hoary ethno-religious bigotries: such as Summers' arguing that some groups are just better suited for some professions, as Jews make the best bankers, blacks the best basketball players, etc.

See when you are in a Cult, and you have identified the "enemy" - then there is no truth, only stories to be told against the "enemy." Unlike the Cult, I will provide you some links to my actual writings on Lawrence Summers when he was President of Harvard:

Summers 1

Summers 2

Yes, I was called a moron then too (among the people calling me a moron then was Bush lover Andrew "Bell Curve" "Fifth Column" Sullivan, now an Obama Bot, and the now winner of the Hero of the Cult Award, one John Cole), but for criticizing Summers and for being "politically correct." Here is what John Cole wrote about it:

Larry Summers is in trouble for attempting to lead a provocative discussion on the role of women in the hard sciences. . . . Summers is in trouble because he is being lynched by the same collection of rabble and leftist radicals who he has refused to worship.

He pissed them off with Cornel West, the chief icon for lazy intellectual posturing in the Ivy League. He revisited the ROTC issue. He refused to bow to the Islamists and anti-Semites who wanted to divest in Israel. He took on grade inflation. He, in short, is under attack by a coaltion of those brought up in the brain-washed and brain-dead tradition of 1960’s radicalism, and I hope he crushes them like a bug.

Now, I defy the Cult to actually quote what I wrote. I can quote him. And I just did. Will he do the same?

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).