I have a dream
I have a dream that one day, a racist ex-Morning Zoo bobblehead will hold a rally on the mall in Washington, on the very anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.
I have a dream that the racist bobblehead will claim he is the true heir of Martin Luther King. And that his wingnut fans are the true heirs of the Civil Rights Movement.
I have a dream that the bobblehead will call his rally “Restoring Honor.”
I have a dream that the ghost of George Orwell will rise from its grave, and spin like a top across the Atlantic and land on the mall in Washington D.C. And the spinning-top ghost will smite the damn bobblehead, and he will fall, and his wingnut fans will raise a groan!
I have a DREAM today!
9 Responses to “I have a dream”
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Lynnerkat says:
I wish I was hallucinating.
August 28th, 2010 at 11:36 pm EST -
Briar says:
This scary man is using a well-tested extremist rhetorical trick. I call it (smarter people than me have probably already called it something better) “mirroring”. I means using the same terms of argument as your opponent, but using them to opposite ends. There’s an excellent example in the Channel 4 documentary of “The God Delusion”. Richard Dawkins, with his touchingly naive faith in the power of human reason to see through cant, dogma, bigotry and superstition and so rise to a higher plane of understanding, is confronting the tanned and groomed Ted Hagger. To paraphrase: “There, there,” Hagger patronises the Oxford Professor, “when you are older and have more experience you will have accumulated more and better evidence and you will see that your hypothesis is wrong and I am right.” Since Dawkins argument is that Hagger’s evidence, restricted as it is to a literalist reading of the Bible and nothing else, can never evolve (heh) beyond a strictly stone age understanding of the universe, he is struck speechless. His impotent anger steams off the screen. Of course it is nonsense, but it erects a shiny silver forcefield round the unrepetant, triumphalist Hagger which cannot be penetrated. This is what Beck is doing. Obama is a racist. Therefore he, Beck, is MLK, offering hope of a better world to the american people. Frankly, when enough poeple believe their leaders have won the argument this way, I don’t see how to escape the looming consequences. By failing to protect our gains emphatically enough, by giving the reactionaries a head start, we have lost the initiative and must assume a defensive position, shorn of our own weapons.
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Briar says:
I have a dream too. That blog comments allowed an edit feature and I could deal with the glaring errors above!
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naomi dagen bloom says:
Are we loving our lives on Animal Farm?
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iiii says:
Oooh, smiting.
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Jackie says:
I’m just so disgusted over this whole thing.
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votermom says:
I had a dream too. I dreamt that a creepy baby vampire was biting on my foot and when I woke up I swear my foot felt wierd.
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gxm17 says:
Can’t the Rapture just go ahead and happen already so we can be rid of these vermin!
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Elliot says:
Beck’s dream reminds me strongly of the British Israelites’ bizarre claim that they (white guys in the US and England) are the lost tribes of Israel and the Jews are…. not Jews. Maybe those guys should sue Beck for plagiarism.
