I Gotta Get Back In The Game
Many good points in this commentary on the need for liberals to rewrite their “story,” including:
“According to Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, & Co., the president of the United States of America…is besieged–on all sides–by the rabid armies of the Godless and the cowardly. By terrorists and evil-doers. By bureaucrats who want to run his life. By liberals who want to tax him. By drug dealers, welfare mothers, and atheists.”
“Many on the left harbor the delusion that Republicans can be dislodged by criticism of this story…But, by definition, critics are at the margins. However loud they shout from the sidelines, they’ll never get in the game. The game is for those who can tell a story.”
(Emphasis mine–BV)
“…the advent of “Air America” illustrates the left’s deluded love affair with criticism. The debut ad campaign features photographs of right-wing bugaboos, with smart-ass lines plastered over their faces (“We Pump Irony” over Schwarzenegger and “All the Caffeine and None of the Oxycontin” over Limbaugh). These are clever, but 100% content-free. The most revealing of the ads is a picture of Ralph Nader. “Mocking the Far Right and When We’re Tired of that The Far Left.”
“Americans don’t want to fight the rich and the powerful. They want to be rich and powerful. (Decent, too. They want to be rich, powerful, and decent.)”
(Again, emphasis mine–BV)
