Journal pudge's Journal: Feign! 6
Last week the Democrats feigned offense at the Palin remarks about "community organizers." This week the Republicans are feigning offense at Obama's remark about "lipstick on a pig." And now Obama is feigning offense at the Republicans' feigning of offense about the lipstick remark.
There is very little actual offense out there. It's mostly people pretending to be offended, in the hopes that other people will become offended by force.
There is some real offense out there, and when that happens, people need to be careful. People really were offended at how Barack's campaign treated Hillary, and many people are really offended at the treatment of Palin and her baby, and her daughter, and her daughter's baby daddy (see, I can take, and even make, a joke about my side!). That offense is very real; there's little feigned about it.
Subtopic: what else is commonly feigned, other than offense?
Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.
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Heh at "desire to lower taxes."
Feign "concern" was one that came to me. "Compassion" was the other.
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Ends up an inane take on a comedy of manners.
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Yeah, one gets the feeling that these are manufactured "events" by the campaigns to keep their candidates in the news. And while their particular favored candidate is involved, the mainstream news media will cover them as news, no matter how inane they get.
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Another thing feigned is the fairness of "fairness". Punitive taxation of the wealthy is "fair". Reverse discrimination for a time is "fair". Et al.
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More things that are feigned:
* Belief that some war locations are good. Liberals are pacifists, they're against any and all war. So to believe that they mean it when they say it's wrong to be in Iraq and we should be in Afghanistan, would be stupid. If we had instead made Afghanistan the main front in the WOT, they'd just be saying that that's wrong and we should be fighting instead in Iraq.
* Belief that we shouldn't have gone after Saddam, but OBL instead. Again, Liberals are against war, and esp. America