Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Embarrassing disclosures about the vast expenses claims of MPs amount to a "McCarthy-style witch-hunt" that risks driving politicians to suicide, a Conservative MP said on Friday. [More]
So it's not that they're a bunch of lying thieves--it's exposing them as lying thieves is the new McCarthyism.

Y'know, it might help if you opened a separate window and had this playing in the background while you read the rest of the article.

And, oh, look--further "embarrassment":

But instead of solving the problem, they tried to keep it secret because coming clean would have embarrassed the Government and reduced its tax take from homeowners.

I don't suppose posting this might induce a few more of you parasites to do the right thing...?

2 comments:

Chris said...

"So it's not that they're a bunch of lying thieves--it's exposing them as lying thieves is the new McCarthyism."

I say: "Bullseye!" to that!

Sorry to any UK readers that took offense to my gun metaphor response. (not.)

jon said...

"mccarthy-style" and "witch hunt." just shy of using the un-word "mccarthyism."

it's all about remapping language, rending words from their referents in the objective world and rigging them to subjective, emotional responses.

belief in nothing is belief in anything; "pragmatism" is the deepest ideological psychosis of all; and this "you know what i mean" language is just a consequence of the identity politics this sort of behavior belies.

how can you expect these people to explain their actions? they aren't thinking critically about it. without meaningful language, they can't do that anymore.