Every Wingnut Has a "Liberal Friend"

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Every Wingnut Has a "Liberal Friend"
By Roy Edroso, Alicublog
Posted on January 1, 2010, Printed on January 1, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://alicublog.blogspot.com//144901/

Guy Benson -- "America's youngest top-market political talk show host" -- claims he knows a woman in Jersey who's a "lifelong Democrat voter, harbors a long-standing distaste for George W. Bush, and slants left on most issues." This already tells you where Benson is going, for when such as he announce they have a liberal friend, they will inevitably tell you immediately thereafter either that the liberal has committed a horrible offense, or that he or she has converted.

In this instance it's Door #2, as the alleged liberal friend starts reading off Republican talking points:

"She was particularly furious about the health-care debate (a family member is battling cancer)... Her best line? "Just because I don't want my kids paying off national debts for their entire lives doesn't mean I'm a racist." Being a good Democrat, she couldn't quite bring herself to name names, but did noticeably bristle when I mentioned the unholy trinity of Obama/Reid/Pelosi."

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Anyway, Benson finds the alleged conversation "a real-life, first-hand example of the conservative re-awakening America is experiencing, and anecdotal confirmation of the polling data energized conservatives have been poring over for months."

Oh, yeah? Well, I had a conversation recently with a lifelong Republican who harbors a long-standing distaste for Jimmy Carter, and slants right on most issues.

From Alabama! She came up to me at the sort of unspecified location where such conversations always take place, and suddenly started ranting about Bush having eight years to fix our national security and accomplishing "jack-shit," the way the former President let the banks run wild and destroy the economy, etc. Her best line? "This country is so totally fucked we had to hire a black guy to unfuck it," though I think she got it from Madeleine Alrbight.

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[Stinky The Clown]

1. The converse is also true. Every liberal has a wingnut friend.

[immoderate]

2. Isn't that the inverse?

:hide:

--imm

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Obverse?

Obtuse?
Recluse?
Reuse?
Caboose?
Chartreuse?


:)

[Walk away]

10. Hey I really do have wing-nut friends! And even a Libertarian one.

I use them and their wacky stories all of the time.

[Common Sense Party]

11. No, THIS is the Converse:

[Ikonoklast]

3. Like the 'life-long Democrat' callers to C-SPAN.

That rattle off the daily right-wing talking points.

Liars, the lot of them.

[devilgrrl]

8. +1

Totally! :thumbsup:

Doesn't 'life-long Democrat' sound an awful lot like 'I'm not a racist but...'? :eyes:

My BS detector goes off every time!

[johnaries]

13. That's my aunt! "I'm not a racist,

but please don't date any more black women."

Wierd, she's encouraged me to date Asian women. I'm currently dating a Hispanic woman which she encourages. But I dated one "Black" woman (who was from the Bahamas and technically not even "African American") and she freaks out.

She is my favorite aunt, and I love her dearly. She is normally the sweetest and most "giving" woman you'd ever want to meet. And then this. WTF?

[johnaries]

14. And, btw, the racism works both ways.

Her friends and family had convinced her that the only reason a "white man" would be interested in her was for "one thing".

I was negotiating a mine-field that was saturated with mines. I've run the various possible scenarios through my mind many times. I honestly believe that no matter what I did, her mind was "poisoned" with the distrust from her "circle-of-friends"

Perhaps it is for the best. If she was that easily manipulated by her friends, then she was probably not right for me.

But we had a lot of fun together. I miss her.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. They keep the Imaginary "Black Friend" company

along with the imaginary "Gay Friend".

[TommyO]

6. Just like every homophobe has a gay friend that agrees with them

[Raine]

7. If every wingnut really had a liberal friend

then it seems like every wingnut should be smarter than what they are. They would've reaped some intelligence from that liberal friend if they really had one. :shrug:

[Angry Dragon]

9. The secret is to not have any friends

[NJmaverick]

12. The wingnuts are trying to exploit the divisions on the left EOM