Epic Snark

Victor Davis Hanson put his finger on something with The Great Madness of 2004-10.  I encourage you to read it.  It begins with a bang:

“For about seven years the nation lost its collective mind…

And it keeps delivering:

“Until January 2009, almost nightly on the news, a liberal grandee would swear that Guantanamo, renditions, tribunals, preventative detention, Predators, wiretaps, intercepts, Iraq, etc. had ruined America in these days of ‘General Betray Us’ ads and ‘suspension of disbelief’ putdowns. Then in a matter of hours the verbiage suddenly stopped, abruptly so in January, 2009 — and has never returned to this day.”

A question I’d pondered too.  Obama can do the same things that were “evil” under the Bush administration and they smell like roses under the God-like benevolence of a better party?  What magic spell makes that work?

Then he lays on the sarcasm good and thick:

“We finally have a president who accepted the sophisticated European model so we can enjoy life as it should be lived, as in Athens or Rome.”

For fun I added decided to add some images of the glorious Utopia across the Pacific (they’re linked so you can read the underlying stories).  These photos are from the civilized and beatific pan-European land of prosperity and fairness that retrograde America has refused to emulate.

This is Athens:

Athens, June 2011

This is Rome:

Rome, December 2010

This is London:

London, January 2009

London, August 2011

This is Paris:

Paris, October 2005

Paris, November 2007

Lest you I be accused of bias, I’m adding a photo from one of America’s most progressive states.  Our own domestic version of Utopia:

Los Angeles, April 1992 (young folks might want to Google Rodney King and Reginald Denny)

Then I thought I’d link to the massive riots that swept Japan after the tsunami.  Whoops they don’t exist.  They must have been misplaced.  How about those rampages caused by Hasidic Jewish scholars, Amish farmers, and Kansas wheat farmers?  Hmm…the internet seems to be broke.  So I’ll just give up and add a photo from the rebellious American heartland:

Flyover country

Update: Sheesh…what a downer. I’m depressed looking at Jerry Bruckheimer CGI images of zombie apocalypse and finding out it’s just unemployed shitheads with nothing better to do. I promise tomorrow’s post will be completely content free; like a political speech or baseball commentary.

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0 Responses to Epic Snark

  1. Woof says:

    SEE LOOK OMG A PITCHFORK THE BITTERCLINGERS ARE GONNA LYNCH SOMEBODY!!1!

  2. Doctor Mingo says:

    Bush was a horrible reader, decent speaker (off prompter) but couldn’t pronounce words like “nukular”. For that the media crucified him, called him stupid, etc. Obama is good reader, horrible speaker (off prompter) and can’t pronounce words like “Marine Corpse”. It’s Corps not corpse. Plus he makes more gaffs than Biden, such as :
    -He has been to 57 states
    -Explainied to the 10th Mtn. Division that the first CMH he awarded was to a live soldier (it was posthumous)
    -Father served in WWII (he meant grandfather)
    -Continued to give a toast to the Queen of England through the playing of God Save the Queen ( I wouldn’t have got it either, but he is suppose to know better) http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/05/awkward-moment-during-obama-toast-to-queen/
    -Gave the Queen an I-pod (she already has one)
    -Gave the English Prime Minister DVDs (Obama received a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship, HMS President)
    -Thinks “Austrian” is a language
    ETC.

    By the “Bush standard” the media should have labeled him a complete idiot long ago, but instead, crickets.

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