Our national scene is rife with them: among the hordes Limbaugh, Coulter and Beck, Sarah Palin, maybe, to be fair, even Rafe Emanuel (although I have to admit that one person's bully is another's forthright advocate). Dick Cheney is the über-bully. [More]You, Peaco Todd--I think I've figured out why people are always pushing you down in mud puddles and giving you wedgies: You're an @$$h01e.
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What a ditz... Can't differentiate between critique and bullying. Conflates standing up to a bully to being a bully.
ReplyDeleteAnd who the heck is Rafe Emanuel? I know about Rahm's brother, Creepy Zeke. Then there's Ari the Agent.
Rafe? Is this a nickname I didn't know about? Or is she just an idiot?
I’ve always thought of a bully as one who is not content to allow others to peaceably go their own way and actively seeks out people they want to control, belittle and silence. Bullies will not tolerate any deviation from what they consider the “norm” and enjoy using violence or the weight of "authority" against anyone they perceive as being unwilling or unable to defend himself.
ReplyDeleteIt’s interesting that Peaco Todd doesn’t seem to recognize a list of left wing, centralist bullies. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, the late Ted Kennedy, Helmke, Horwitz … ad nauseum.
One cannot afford to be nice to a bully. The bully sees nice as a form of weakness that he will be able to exploit.
Col. Cooper understood dealing with bullies when he said, “Evil cannot be defeated by running from it.”
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