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2005-07-28 Home Front: Culture Wars
Laughing at the Left: the rise of conservative cartoons
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Posted by Mike 2005-07-28 06:43|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 How observant - "I mean, the crudity and intolerance of the Left these days is unbelievable; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been called a Nazi. But that’s what happens when you don’t have any ideas and the only thing left is anger.”
Posted by Bobby 2005-07-28 08:17||   2005-07-28 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 As it happens, the same holds true for Mallard creator Tinsley, whose wife is a civil rights lawyer. There’s perhaps a lesson here. “It’s a funny thing,” Tinsley says. “All her liberal friends are incredulous that our marriage works, but none of my conservative friends have any trouble with it at all. They understand you can think differently about things and still be civil to one another.”

Almost immediately, this observation leads Tinsley to reflect on something else. “You ever notice how often liberals seem to think that, because they hold these lofty social views, it excuses them from having to be civil to bellboys and cabdrivers? I really think that by and large conservatives are just much nicer.”

That's why RB - for civil, well-reasoned discourse - has more conservative folks who visit here.
Posted by Bobby 2005-07-28 08:23||   2005-07-28 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 day by day is an daily stop for me.
Posted by raptor 2005-07-28 09:38||   2005-07-28 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 One of the primary reasons Ilove RB,Bobby,is this respect that you speak of.I am what could easily be called poor,under-educated white trash.But,while sometimes my opinons,comments and thoughts are often rediculed as assinine(something I have no problem addmitting to when my stupidity is pointed out,and valid reasons are given)over-all I am given a great deal of respect here at RB that is not given to me at Liberial sites.
Thank you RB'ers one and all.
Posted by raptor 2005-07-28 09:59||   2005-07-28 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Cox and Forkum...

COX and FORKUM!!!
Posted by Hyper">Hyper  2005-07-28 11:51||   2005-07-28 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Education and economic status have nothing to do with intellect, Raptor. I've enjoyed your posts.
Posted by Bobby 2005-07-28 12:24||   2005-07-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Please elaborate for me,Bobby?
(I think I might be feeling a little sorry for myself this morn,if so please ignore)
Posted by raptor 2005-07-28 12:46||   2005-07-28 12:46|| Front Page Top

#8 I come to rantburg primarily because the posters seem far better informed than nearly any other board I've ever seen, and a large number are pretty damn funny to boot.
Posted by rjschwarz 2005-07-28 13:09||   2005-07-28 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Raptor, I, too, always read your comments and enjoy your thoughts. Thanks for being here. (There are some folks I do just skip over)
Posted by Sherry 2005-07-28 16:11||   2005-07-28 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Raptor - Kerry's educated, but dumb - voted for the war before I voted against it, and opening himself up to the Swift Boat guys....

Teddy has economic status, and a 'liberal' education, I believe, but is relatively useless, except to show the dark side.

Here, one is valued for their thoughts, not their accomplishments, or their birth status. So keep posting good thoughts, and I'll keep reading them!
Posted by Bobby 2005-07-28 16:34||   2005-07-28 16:34|| Front Page Top

#11 It is amazing how many sharp minds there are here in the 'Burg: Fred, the AoS, raptor, Zhang Fei, JFM, TGA, .com, Alaska Paul, badanov, Old Spook, trailing wife, Sgt. Mom, Jarhead, 11A5S, Chuck Simmins, Frank G, Ptah, Howard UK, Bulldog, Shipman, mojo, Pappy, tu3031, the inimitable muck4doo . . . I'm leaving people out, I know it!
Posted by Mike 2005-07-28 16:45||   2005-07-28 16:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, what about me?
Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2005-07-28 16:49||   2005-07-28 16:49|| Front Page Top

#13 "I am what could easily be called poor,under-educated white trash."

So what? What matters here are not your credentials, but whether you make sense. And IIRC, you usually do. Keep commenting.
Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2005-07-28 16:51||   2005-07-28 16:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Frankily, I come here for the money.
Posted by Jack Rubenstein 2005-07-28 20:05||   2005-07-28 20:05|| Front Page Top

#15 there's money? Frankly
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-07-28 21:06||   2005-07-28 21:06|| Front Page Top

#16 The reality is the Right is much funnier than the Left. RB is a good example, but there are many others, PJ O'Rourke comes to mind. I think there is a simple reason behind it. In order to see the funny side of something you have to be able view it from different perspectives, whereas the Left peddles this uniform 2 dimentional view of the world, which precludes seeing it in different ways necessary to see the funny side.
Posted by phil_b 2005-07-28 21:39||   2005-07-28 21:39|| Front Page Top

#17 I agree wholeheartedly w/ Mike on this one. I've said it before and I'll say it again...(like the old Marines commercial)....I learn more at RB before 10 am than I could even hope to learn from MSM (and even Fox News) in an entire week! Plus, you get the great commentary to boot (I personally am in awe of .com and Fred).
Posted by BA">BA  2005-07-28 21:41||   2005-07-28 21:41|| Front Page Top

#18 The breadth of experience and knowledge here is breath-taking and, often, quite frightening. It makes it worth every minute.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-07-28 21:42|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-07-28 21:42|| Front Page Top

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