By definition, projection is revealing of what lurks in a person's heart and mind. Arianna Huffington projected tonight, and what she revealed wasn't pretty. So much so, that even her liberal host hastened to diassociate herself from the HuffPo editor. Huffington, grossly misquoting Grover Norquist's famous line about doing away with government, added an infanticidal twist.
Huffington was a guest on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show. The two shed crocodile tears about the diminished state of the Republican party. It was in suggesting that, of all things, she and Maddow should head up a Marshall Plan to save the GOP that Huffington engaged in that ugly bit of projection.
RACHEL MADDOW: When you think about the survival of the two-party system, and you think about the risks, even to people who don't consider themselves allied with the Republican party at all, the risks of the Republican party really being in the wilderness for a very long time, are you suggesting that there ought to be sort of a political Marshall Plan for the Republican party, that a defeated country is dangerous, and inhumane, and a defeated party is dangerous too?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Yes, and I think that you and I should co-chair it, because we are women, and we are therefore more compassionate than men. We should co-chair the salvalging of the Republican party, a Marshall Plan, on the grounds that we do need a two-party system. Otherwise we are going to leave it in the hands of Sarah Palin, who is waiting for God to open the door, or in the hands of Grover Norquist, who is the spiritual guru of the leave-us-alone coalition. Remember, that is the central philosophy of the Republican party. Grover Norquist also famously said we must drown government like a baby. So these people basically have no credibility anymore and yet they continue to be the ideological roots of the Republican party.
That was too much for Maddow, who clearly wanted to distance herself from Huffington.
MADDOW: He said he wanted to get government down to the size where he could drown it in the bathtub. Which made you imagine a baby. It made me imagine some sort of rogue squirrel that you trapped in the attic. That means that we're very different people.
Maddow rightly understood that being a very different person from Arianna Huffington is a very good thing.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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November 14, 2008 - 22:43 ET by rbosqueNo surprise.
What I want to know is:
November 14, 2008 - 22:54 ET by ConservativeRexWhat I want to know is: How the hell did we get to the point in this country where we are subjected to anything someone from some Eastern European country thinks we should be doing?
By that I mean Huffington and Soros and others like them. Someone needs to check on their citizenship status.
I am damn tired of them. Stay home, go home.
Arianna Huffington is a
November 14, 2008 - 23:02 ET by semolina_filcherArianna Huffington is a frustrated, socialite gold-digger who thought she has her ex-husband's money in the bag when he turned "gay". She used to call herself a conservative who ran for CA governor against another European, RINO Schwarzenkennedy, and after that turned lib talker/gloater. Frankly I don't know anyone who would waste time at Puffington Host or why anyone would tune in to Madcow.
If she was my wife, I would
November 14, 2008 - 23:07 ET by Clear thinkerIf she was my wife, I would probably go gay too!
Proof - Liberals Are Looney-Toons!
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I mean she isn't all that much
November 14, 2008 - 23:21 ET by CANCON1Too look at , but really?
I give her no credit. I blame the American people, straight up. Success in the face of no decernable talent is the fault of weak minded and easily led consumers. And someone obviously bought the womans load, so who is really to blame.?
We would all take the paycheque.
Oh, and she is psychotic, so that seems to work in the US these days as well. Ask Rosanne.
That brings to mind a quote
November 14, 2008 - 23:59 ET by ConservativeRexThat brings to mind a quote from Sir Winston Churchill:
When told by one of the first woman MP that if "you were my husband Winston, I would put poison in your tea" to which Churchill replied "if you were my wife, I'd drink it".
Arriana Huffington: Queen of Sexism
November 14, 2008 - 23:42 ET by Cortillaen"Yes, and I think that you and I should co-chair it, because we are women, and we are therefore more compassionate than men."
Of course you are, dear. Oh, and if it sounds like I'm being condescending, I just felt like returning the favor.
Naturally, she goes on to inadvertently point out hypocrisy within her sexism: "Otherwise we are going to leave it in the hands of Sarah Palin, who is waiting for God to open the door..." Conservative women must be just as heartless and evil as men, huh...
Sexism, hypocrisy, misquoting an ideological opponent on two levels, and reading a desire for infanticide where there is none... Boy, I pity her shrink.
www.daybydaycartoon.... Proving that conservative comedy is very real.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." - Miyamoto Musashi
so when the dems lost
November 14, 2008 - 23:48 ET by smoto66so when the dems lost basicly every election since 1998 they were fine, on message we lose seats in two elections and its a one party system did I miss something ? mabe we lost the last two because weve sounded like democrats lite and offered no differance ,we new the odds of winning this term were slim. We foolishly ran a rino who never got the base going because he was more concerned with not offending barrak and allowed the election become about his running mate whom he never stood up for.
Exactly, and what would be the point...
November 15, 2008 - 08:22 ET by JohnMcGrew...of a two-party system if the GOP was just as liberal as the Democratic-Socialists? Some choice for voters, eh? You'd think that if they really meant what they say they believe, they'd want the GOP moving to the extreme right so that "the people" would reject them even more.
What you are really seeing here is a kind of brainwashing attempt to make the dense actually think that the GOP isn't "centerist" enough. But the reality is, why should voters get excited about McCain when the bulk of his platform is basically the Democrats from 2006?
No. They've got the GOP where they want them. They know the GOP rarely loses when it sticks to conservative principles.
Huffington evidently
November 15, 2008 - 00:39 ET by TEHuffington evidently confused Grover Norquist for the thoroughly unqualified, terrorist-fraternizing, community organizer, who as an Illinois state legislator voted to allow the drowning (or decapitation, dismemberment, starvation, dehydration, lethal injection, firing squad death, electrocution or immolation) of infants who had survived abortions.
So these people
November 15, 2008 - 06:26 ET by motherbeltSo these people basically have no credibility anymore and yet
they continue to be the ideological roots of the Republican party.
Oh, really, Arianna? So I guess we should turn to you and Maddow to show us the way???
God spare us from Liberals who want to tell Republicans what their ideology should be!
This is why I haven't been watching TV. I have had it with every liberal Tom, Dick, and Arianna telling Republicans they need to be more like Democrats!!
Disturbing from the disturbed
November 15, 2008 - 06:56 ET by sentforth5Huffington is a very disturbed and unhappy soul. She is troubled and her thoughts are therefore troubling.
Rev. 20 v 12: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God...."
Here is an example of a dead soul.....still very animate, but dead as dead can be.
Green Acres Airianna got sick today......
November 15, 2008 - 07:02 ET by old croshe....got allergic smelling hay
Me, I can't stand this little socialist bore
Please give me the duck tape, I can't take this any more.
Everytime I see Maddow I
November 15, 2008 - 10:51 ET by msh1973Everytime I see Maddow I think of that character "Pat", on the old Saturday Night Live Show (the '80's). Is it a man or a woman, no one knows. I know, that was mean.
»→ SNL Pat
November 16, 2008 - 19:20 ET by Cool ArrowI think that Was Al Franken.