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'I Hate People,' The GOP Theme Song?

By Tim Graham | December 13, 2010 | 11:59

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In the warm, generous glow of the Christmas season, it's quite expected that scolds of the Left will accuse the conservatives of being the very archetype of Ebenezer Scrooge. On The Daily Kos, Mark Sumner touts a Scrooge musical over diversions like "knife fighting for this year's top toy," especially when you can describe "I Hate People" as a "secret Republican theme song":

When it comes to musical versions of Dicken's [sic] ghost story, I much prefer the 1970 version Scrooge with Albert Finney in the titular role. With a dozen (if not a hundred) other versions of the story competing for a spot on your 500 channel tuner, this very British turn is often overlooked. However, this is the one irresistible marker of season at my house. And at any time of year, my curmudgeonly heart is warmed by a verse of "I hate Christmas," [sic] which I think of as the secret Republican theme song (when I see the indolent classes, sitting on their indolent asses, drinking ale from indolent glasses, I hate people).

This trope usually comes out in bursts, like Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne on NPR on November 19: "Congressman Mike Pence said, well, we have to find a way to pay for unemployment, ensure its extension. But they're not saying that about tax cuts for the rich. I think this is really making Scrooge look like a philanthropist, a generous philanthropist."

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people who hate people can anyone do a parody

Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 2:02pm.

of Barbera Streisand's "People who love people"? That would be funny. I remember some local DJs joking that the song was "People who love taxes ...."

I'd like to thank Hollywood for renewing my interest in reading.

They got it wrong. The

Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 9:03pm.

This Sumner loser, like all liberals, got some of it - but missed the point completely.

If this liberal loon wants to apply the verse to someone who really deserves it, apply it to Obama, Democrat Congress and the House, and every liberal in existence. Like so:

Scavengers and sicpohants and slatteren and fools,
Pharisees and parasites and hypocrites and ghouls!
Calculating swindlers prevaricating frauds!
Perpetrating evil as they roam the earth in hordes!
Feeding on their fellow men, reaping rich rewards!
Contaminating everything the see -
Corrupting honest men! Like me!

Fools who have no money spend it,
get in debt - then try to end it,
beg me on their knees, "Befriend them",
knowing I have cash to lend them!

Is that not a perfect description of our Demorat president and his Demorat cabal of thugs, tax-cheats, terrorists and crooks? Spending and spending with no thought for the debt they've created, thinking the party will never stop and that they can just go on spending and never have to pay the piper. Of course they don't - they, like Scrooge's debtors, thought the day of reckoning would never come.

And another thing this liberal know-nothing forgot to mention. Just before Scrooge started singing this song, he was talking with the two men who were seeking charitable donations from him for the poor.

"Are there no prisons?" said Scrooge, "And the workhouses are they still in operation? I don't make myself merry at Christmas and I cannot afford to make idle people merry! I have been forced to support the establishments I have mentioned through taxation and God knows, they cost more than they're worth! Those who are badly off must go there!"
"Many would rather die that go there, sir." they answered.

Yet that is exactly what the liberals want to turn the entire country into. They want to turn all of American into the Dickensian 'work houses' and prisons of Scrooge's time. Government-run hell-holes disguised as charities - utterly mismanaged and doing more harm than good to the poor people they were supposed to be looking out for. Which gave PRIVATE charity workers cause to go out and create new facilities - so the poor and the needy would not have to descend into the nightmare of government-run 'charities'.

If a Liberal/Democrat politician/media figure wants to put their arms around you, or pat you on the back, all they're doing is looking for a good place to stick a knife.