Stuart Rothenberg is served some crow for predicting a GOP recapture of the House was impossible, but not everyone blames him:
This failed prognosticator’s mistake is an easy one to understand. How was he to know that he lived in a nation populated by raving loons who would lash out against the very people who have done so much to help them?
See, he was assuming that his fellow countrymen were the same intelligent, thoughtful folk who had carefully considered all their options before wisely electing light-bringer Obama to guide us to nirvana, empowering him with overwhelming congressional majorities to aide him in that quest. Back then, you’ll recall, the American people exercised steely rationality in selecting a forthright progressive leadership with a clear plan to rebuild America into the better, fairer country that it should always have been.
It was heartening to see, back then, Americans fighting their evolved inability to think clearly during times of economic uncertainty. Sadly, as President Obama recently pointed out, the continued perception of economic weakness has left large swathes of America completely unable to access their higher brain functions. And the result is the disastrous election we just suffered.
It gets better. Read the whole thing.
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11 responses to “Ravens And Blight”
Are you sure that’s not someone like..ohhh…say me, trying to act like some nitwit, elitist, clueless lefty.
No, it’s not my comment, but it’s something I would write.
Take this part
In short, by literally every measure almost every single person?s life in the US ? if not the world ? has overwhelmingly improved in tangible ways in the past 2 years. This would sound like absolute crazy talk if you had predicted it prior to Obama?s reign, but it has indisputably happened. He has more than lived up to even the most wild-eyed expectations for his abilities and is nothing short of the millennial leader we have so long hoped for.
On the one hand, that’s pretty ridiculously and humorously over the top.
On the other hand, it is the funniest end of civilization ever and parodying the left became nearly impossible about 6 or 8 years ago.
I read some of the responses, I think that’s satire.
Great satire.
Bravo blighter.
Sorry, as I read farther I see you already knew that.
Nevermind.
That is definitely one of the best bits of satire/snark I have read in recent memory.
Thanks, Dave.
And I’ll echo Veeshir’s bravo!
Dave,
No offense – your comments were most amusing – but here was the best of those I have read so far:
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Olbermann et al are all people trying to play Blighter straight.
M Simon — Oh, rest assured, none taken. I am only happy to have sampled such genius.
More than once someone has written a satire of libs on a wingnut blog, only to be attacked by those who didn’t realize it was satire.
So many lib-generated statements are rather over the top to begin with. The earth healing and the oceans stopping to rise is one example. That is why it is often difficult to distinguish between a sincere, lib-written statement and a satire of a lib statement.
I didn’t see at as satire until I saw “nirvana” in the text.
I don’t know if a lib would have liked the satire, but I certainly did.
I want it not to be satire, even though I think it is. So, because it might as well have not been, it really wasn’t!
Anyway, it’s a gem!
Pauline Kael Syndrome (“He can’t have been elected! Nobody I know voted for him!).
Lefties should not attempt satire. The more over the top they try, the more sincere they sound.
He had me fooled for the first paragraph or two.
Blighter is a frequent commenter on Ms. McArdle’s blog, and is one of the more gifted satirists I’ve seen.