Kevin McCullough on Book TV

[Ringo84]

Is anyone watching this? I wasn't going to give him the time of day; was drawn like a moth to the flame.

He was talking about Schiavo. Now he's talking about how "devilish", "evil" and "diabolical" "Godless" lib'rals are.

It's pretty hilarious. "They reject the founding fathers". "They reject God". "Non-sensical logic". We "liberal elites look down our noses at people who disagree with us". Gee. I thought that's what he was doing.
Ringo

[ginnyinWI]

1. But I love the Founding Fathers!!

I even read McCullough's bio of John Adams this year! :grr:
From what I read, even Adams was far more liberal than what passes for conservatives today. He read Cicero and believed in the rule of law--heck he was a lawyer and wrote a lot of it!

McCullough needs to wake up and take a new look at the current state of his party--they're no conservatives.

[Ringo84]

2. ginny

I don't know who McCullough is. Up to now, he was off my radar screen. But after hearing his "scathing" speech tonight, I hope he crawls back under his RW talk radio rock.

So many of these RWers do this. His speech came across as more of a laundry list of "Things That Piss Me Off", blaming liberals for all of those faults and grousing because McCullough (and others of his ilk) can't seem to handle a situation where a group of people disagree with them.

McCullough isn't special enough to deserve my anger. I think he's an angry man who misdirects all of that anger at us. Hannity and others too. And besides: no one will know him from Adam in fifty years. He's just an angry, generalizing, insulting RWer who's just enjoying his fifteen minutes.

RWers will be defeated eventually. I'm sure of it now, after watching this. They're so angry - always yelling and screaming and insulting those with whom they disagree. Either the American people will see through RW nuts and quit electing them or the RWers will injure themselves by...acting like themselves.

They say we're angry. That's projection. There are angry liberals out there (and in here), but we pale in comparison to some of the RW elite, who have made a killing off of anger, whether it's genuine anger or an act.

Someone sometime with a degree in psychology should do a study someday of the psychology of Hannity, McCullough, and others. I wouldn't be surprised if these people were furious about something or someone else in their life and channel that into their political life.
Ringo

[ginnyinWI]

6. McCullough is a Pulitzer prize winning historian.

He's written some major books about the Founding Fathers and the birth of this nation.

But he's angry and I agree with you, projecting it onto the left. This is totally unfair since the right has been in charge for so many years now. He ought to be angry at the Republicans.

[WhiteTara]

3. my great something uncle wrote the preamble

...you know "We the People...". He and a great something grandfather signed the declaration. We gave the family fortune to the "cause". What a f'ing schmo. Bet he can't name all the amendments. Some neo fascist fundie wants the 10 commandments put in an amendment, but can't even say what they are. Sickening. Thanks for watching. I'm glad I didn't.

[Ringo84]

4. BareNakedLiberal

He also said that Red States "represented the best of America".

I don't want to be this person - or other conservatives - as my enemy because of ideological differences. He and I are both Americans who happen to see things differently. I don't know why these RWers insist upon making themselves my enemy when I've never met them. But they do.

I wish that McCullough and others would receive psychiatric treatment for the incredible amount of baggage and anger that they seem to carry. I think that it would make us all a lot happier.
Ringo

[WhiteTara]

5. I agree with you Ringo

they need professional help. For all our sakes, I hope they get some. We need the peace.
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