Bitter Blow, NYT Columnist, on the 'Callousness of Conservatives' with 'Unshakeable Immunity to Empathy'
New York Times columnist Charles Blow has gotten more ill-humored about politics since the summer of 2009, when he happily opined that the GOP was doomed in the Northeast (this was less than six months before a Republican won the "Ted Kennedy" Senate seat in Massachusetts, after which Blow was considerably less happy with that geographical quadrant).
His Saturday column, "A Summer to Simmer," was full of ranting about the "callousness of conservatives" and their "unshakeable immunity to empathy."
This summer has the potential to be another turning point for the electorate, and it’s not necessarily pegged to the performance of the president. It may hinge largely on the callousness of conservatives and their seemingly inexorable desire to overplay their hand.
This may be the summer that we see more clearly that the working class has developed a lingering sense of disillusionment, that right-wing politicians have developed an unshakeable immunity to empathy and that corporations have developed a taste for blood squeezed from turnips.
And it may be the summer for seeing through the right-wing squawk machine that hopes to distract us from the damage the rich and the right are doing by manically hurling torches at the Obama administration to see if something catches fire.
This week, Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican of Wisconsin, suggested to the Economic Club of Chicago that the president’s attempt to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans amounted to "class warfare" and promoted "class envy." Ha! The war is already being waged against the poor and vulnerable, and the envious have-nots didn’t start it. The right and its cabal of economic cannibals did.
Blow kept blasting the bitterness on his active Twitter feed. Two of his tweets from Saturday:
One last word for Paul Ryan before I go: What the starving feel for gluttons is not envy but outrage.
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Voter ID laws, attacking unions, allowing corps to buy elex - the right seeks to destroy the very foundation of Dem support. Wake up ppl!
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→ Chunks Blow
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:23pm.
Nothing new here. Chunky Blow gets his butt trotted out to puke forth with the talking points from an "I am so grieved" vantage.
Blood from turnips? Chunky, I'd ask you to swear to God that I, a blue collar worker, wouldn't be affected by your higher taxes scheme, but I'm sure you'd take the oath and laugh as your savior proceeded to rip me off.
Another journolist gets the
Submitted by ant on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:28pm.
Another journolist gets the memo, the LATimes just ran an op-ed about the new "Stone-hearted American". Noone in the media can comprehend the fact that forced extortion of citizens money from the government does not translate into 'charity'.
New York, by the way is proposing licensing(tax) for workers that pump gas for a living, two forms of ID will be required to apply for the "right" to make minimum wage. So, Maddow and others, ID to vote is outrageous, TWO forms of ID to work at a gas station is not. Got it, BS on parade again, par for the course in lib land.
sounds like a bitter clinger
Submitted by ohio granny on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 3:58pm.
Sounds like he is too busy bitterly clinging to his biases. Obviously he does not know or will not admit what has been proven over and over. Conservatives give more of their own money and time than liberals. Liberals believe government should decide who needs help, what kind, and how much.
Bitterly clinging to what he wants to believe, no matter the evidence proving otherwise.
Just an innocent question...
Submitted by m4ster chief on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 3:01pm.
We know the propensity of United States senators to name major bill proposals after themselves such as the Kennedy Water Safety Bill, the Robert Byrd Race Relations Bill, etc. Let's say this guy, Charles Blow, is elected to the U. S. Senate, and proposes a major "Jobs Bill."
What would they name that bill?
The "Jobs Blow Bill"? Can't
Submitted by ant on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 6:46pm.
The "Jobs Blow Bill"? Can't be the other way around, that was our President before GW.
The attacks on conservatives
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 2:33pm.
The attacks on conservatives and conservatism will steadily increase as the MSM will desperately present everything they can think of to discredit conservatives while they try to get their "chosen one" re-elected POTUS. The MSM's vitriol leading up to the 2012 elections will make what they did for the 2008 elections seem pale in comparison.
The government's job
Submitted by pockets64 on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 4:10pm.
The government's job is to govern, not to express fiscal empathy. Leave fiscal empathy to individuals and to the organizations to which they voluntarily give their money.
The Constitution does, however, permit the government to express freedom empathy. That, it seems, our government is failing to express.
Chuckles, here be some fax................
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 4:24pm.
Have there not been MANY studies done that stated conservatives give far, far, far more time money and effort to charitable causes than their liberal progressive counterparts?
Would that mean for all the liberal progressive's good heartedness only is with OUR MONEY?
Blow-hard
Submitted by Phryj1 on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 4:26pm.
Thid guy seems blissfully unaware that the left-wing's gold standard of 'empathy' is a reckless, co-dependent welfare program that has absolutely devastated poor and and minority communities in a sick, cynical attempt at buying votes.
Why would businesses and corporations declare war on the poor? It's in the best interests of ANY business to try to end poverty, because that means more potential customers. The only party that has actually benefited from endemic poverty is the Democrats. Cloward-Piven has been a complete and total failure. The left's insane commitment to it has only made poverty worse, and as long as it scores votes for the Dems, they're going to keep on doing it. THAT'S callous.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
It may also be the summer
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 4:42pm.
It may also be the summer when liberals like Charles Blow finally realizes that no one listens to them anymore, hence the declining popularity of things like the New Yourk Times. Never mind that fact that few people believe anything they have to say.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
They think it falls out of the sky
Submitted by thestalkinghorse on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 4:57pm.
How can he believe that a dollar, sent by a taxpayer from New York to Washington D.C. and back again, after travelling through all of those many sticky hands, comes back as more than it was in the beginning? I'll bet it's effective worth is about $.38.
Oh good grief!
Submitted by IdahoJim on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:53pm.
Another ignorant person commenting on something they know nothing about. Listen here, Blow. Corporations are built and designed to generate profits for their owners, owners who have invested money they earned through hard work and energy. Whether it is an institution caring for retirement funds or individual investors, profits are not a wellspring of money for those that did not or could not earn it. As for those that could not, Corporations and their employees donate millions to charity each year, not to mention they're forced contributions, billions in welfare via taxes. As for those that did not all I can say is, tough. Go get a job.
Corporations cannot buy an election in the face of informed voters. Don;t you know that a lot of us see through the hypocrisy, lies, and mostly the stupidity of election advertising? I have never been swayed by any political ad I bothered to pay attention to.
Not every company is run by so-called blood suckers. 99% of the corporations are run by good, decent people. If these corporations were not treated, oppressed, and beaten like the 1% of greedy executives, they could do a lot better with a lot less costly paperwork. With all the disclosures, reports, the SEC and the IRS, you would think that every corporation in America and a bunch more overseas was on parole! So all corporations were convicted of crimes without benefit of trial and put on no-limit parole? Did I miss something?
I think North Korea is the ideal place for you to move. No bloodsucking corporations, in fact no corporations as all! The government runs everything, and dissenters are shot or wind up in prison camps.
Go pound sand.
IdahoJim
http://idahoandy.net
Conservatives are so
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:56pm.
Conservatives are so "callous" which is why they give tons more money to charity than liberals and democrats. I guess when it's other people's money, dems believe that one should open the spigots and be a libertine.
Gee, comrade Blow, ya think it might just be that...
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:30pm.
...productive Americans are getting more than a little tired of you commies paying for your "empathy" (which we all know is BS anyway) with their money?
Nahh, that couldn't be it, could it?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
When he's on MJ, I know
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:53pm.
When he's on MJ, I know what's coming. Harold Ford Jr. though? He doesn't play the "race/poor/meme of the day card" and him I'll listen to!!!
Ronald Reagan
I guess, in their "bizzaro"
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:34am.
I guess, in their "bizzaro" world, obama is a saint. Here, in the real world, obama is a traitor.