Am Not!

by digby

Overheard on The Corner this week — Andy McCarthy to J-Pod:

There is something disturbingly Leftist about your penchant for shrill, uninformed criticism that scorns the interlocutor rather than dealing in a mature way with the substance of his arguments. I am not mocking the President. I believe he is wrong, that the mistake he is making has tragic implications for our security, and I am saying so.

I know it’s confusing but get used to it. The Republicans are arguing among themselves now and are without the means to understand such disagreements without calling someone a commie, leftist, liberal or terrorist. That’s how their world is organized.

And anyway, as we all know, you cannot be wrong and be a conservative at the same time. (Certainly, no real conservative can be shrill, immature or uninformed.) Therefore, anyone who is wrong must be, by definition, a liberal-leftist-commie-terrorist. That’s just how it works.

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