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link Whos the woman who fought Murdochs foam foe? – CBS News.

Well it’s about time.  One of the trademark antics of the left has been to ‘pie’ people they don’t agree with, typically those on the ‘right’.  How a guy with a pie plate full of shaving cream could have passed through security at a high level gathering of British MP’s  is another issue.  Must have not been on the checklist of dangerous items.  Pie plate full of shaving cream, “not on the danger list, carry on, pip pip”.

Rupert Murdoch’s wife can be seen in the video executing an overhead smash on the assailant and then turning the pie back on him.  Good on her. For the longest time, idiots from the fringe left have staged all kinds of juvenile stunts on speakers they don’t agree with in the mistaken opinion that the ‘punked’ factor will curry favour with their peer group…other idiots.   As the old saying goes, it’s all fun until someone loses an eye and while this has thankfully not happened, the real reason this stuff still occurs at all is because there has been no consequence to this behaviour.   Being hauled away by security people and getting a stern scolding  is not exactly a consequence.  What are they, 12? Getting slapped around a bit for perpetrating an assault on another  is a much more tangible risk to dufus behavior.  

If the perpetrators of the left’s puerile antics were exposed to instant consequences of their actions, it could get very amusing before it all ends.  What if the perps were made to eat soap, or write lines of penance on a blackboard 200 times, or wear a dunce cap?  What if their mothers dragged them out by their ears in front of a live studio audience?  In the best circumstance, a black trapezoid labeled “5 tons” would drop on them instantly a la Wile E Coyote.

If one cares to go back and do some research, it is never the normal people that perpetrate juvenile publicity stunts to shut people up. You never see someone dumping a bucket of offal on Michael Moore during his blatherings.  Bill Maher is free to spew any and all manner of vulgar rhetoric without anyone giving him a deserved bitch slap.  Now that I think about it, with all the ad-hominem, misogynist barbs hurled by Maher at Sarah Palin over the years, it’s a wonder Todd Palin doesn’t invite Maher up to Alaska for a boys’ weekend….just to chew the fat.

link Ellison: Bachmann wants to keep women barefoot and pregnant | Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media..

Here we go.  As Congressman Bachmann begins to get traction in her quest for the Republican nomination, she also attracts the expected slings and slurs from her political opponents.  Of course, that’s expected.  What’s also expected is the level of discourse aimed at her from the left.

If you do a google search of  ‘barefoot and pregnant’ paired with Michelle Bachmann, the only reference you will find of that pairing is of Rep. Ellison’s remark.  So out of thin air, this learned gentleman makes a comment which has no relevance at all to the political discussion.   It’s as if he was still  in the 4th grade taunting her with ‘fatty fatty, two by four’.  This is somewhat reminiscent of the last set of elections in which candidate Christine O’Donnell was labeled a witch.

While this may be amusing to people with only at least average intelligence, it’s very alarming to think of the ramifications of these witty characterizations.  First, it says something about the accuser, but secondly, it says something even more frightening about their intended constituency.  It implies that the intended audience are idiots.

It implies that rather than confuse the audience with reasoned discussions of policy differences, they can be much more effective by characterizing their opponents in some cartoon-ish way because that’s the only way they can absorb a message.  Ellison of course is only carrying  on along the path well worn by another Democratic Congressman with a tenous grasp on sanity, the  recently deposed Alan Grayson.  He of the  ‘Republicans want you do die’  fame.  Let’s not forget the characterization of Republican Paul Ryan pushing old people in wheelchairs off cliffs.  It’s as if the left cannot gather support for complex issues from their base unless they can convey some simplistic imagery that will galvanize their troops.  Are they really that dumb?  If so, is it therefore not frightening to have the beneficiaries of their votes sit in office making public policy?

Getting back to Ellison, if he’s going to affix the ‘barefoot and pregnant’  label on Bachmann, he may have to peel it off his party buddy John Edwards who actually demonstrated his affinity to that philosophy.   We understand Ellison’s dilemma though.   To bring up the more scandalous accusations of tax cheater, liar, philanderer, demagogue, communist and just general dumbness would evoke people  from within his own party.  Better keep the slags in the imaginary world.