From The Dept. of Unintentional Humor...

Here's a hearty laugh from progressive deep-thinker Matt Yglesias, who is invariably at his funniest when he's trying to be serious:

Obviously, not all aspects of the Barney Frank Experience are going to play in Peoria, but I think his fighting spirit is something that progressive politicians in jurisdictions of all kinds could learn from...

What Matt overlooks is the obvious: Barney Frank wasn't up to his eyeballs in alligators in Illinois. He was up to his eyeballs in alligators in Massachusetts, birthplace of the liberal weenie. What he got at home is about as good as it's going to get. Peoria? Not so much.

Here's more on Barney's day yesterday.

Matt (a Harvard super genius himself) then pours on the Ivy League condescension:

Voters don’t have a great deal of knowledge about the issues, or a great deal of interest in acquiring knowledge about the issues. But they are human beings, equipped with our species’ excellent ability to read the emotional states of other human beings. If they see a politician acting defensive about his “side” in an argument, they conclude that this critics are probably on to something. If they see a politicians acting outraged and hitting back fearlessly, they’re likely to conclude that he has nothing to apologize for.

Yeah, we're just a bunch of dumb motherfuckers. Were we just a bit smarter, we'd realize that thinking is best left to the Barney Franks of the world.

Moron.

Comments

[mxdg]

What an elitist douchebag! He always has been.

You do some funny shit around here, Peasant.

[bball]

Typical self-hating WHITE LIBERAL.

Talk about suicidal!

[PeterUK]

Interestingly it's all those people outside politics and the MSM who make the world work so these prattling parasites can exist.

[JeffS]

Oligarchs, the lot of them.

[richard mcenroe]

"If they see a politicians acting outraged and hitting back fearlessly, they’re likely to conclude that he has nothing to apologize for."

Because there's nothing more convincing than a hissy queen.

[David]

Yglesias is the perfect demonstration that Harvard ain't what it used to be. You really can see the entitlement drip off of the poor guy. Didn't someone bother to tell him that affirmative action only gets him in the door?

[PeterUK]

What exactly,does Yglesias do to earn a crust?

[PeterUK]

1789 Anybody?

[PeterUK]

What, exactly, doe Yglesias do to earn a crust?

[Dennis the Peasant]

He runs Talking Point Memo.

He is a professional astroturfer.

[JeffS]

1776, Peter, not 1789. But I'm with ya!

[PeterUK]

JeffS. Wot no guillotine?

[PeterUK]

Thanks Dennis.A parasite then?

[PeterUK]

Thec Obama logo has been updated. Seems more appropriate.

[Dennis the Peasant]

Oops.

It's Josh Marshall who runs TPM and is a professional astroturfer. Matt Yglesias is a professional writer/blogger, but I think he's with Think Progress as well.

[PeterUK]

So that's two of them without proper day jobs? Is the entire Democrat elite unemployable in real jobs?

[JeffS]

Wot no guillotine?

Oh, THAT 1789! My bad. I was thinking of this 1789.

So, yep, let's party like it's 1789!

[Eric Blair]

Peter, you're sounding supiciously Bolshie--or are you agitating for the counter revolutionary terror?

[PeterUK]

Eric.
Talleyrand said of the Bourbons, "They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing". Looks to be where your Democrat rulers are today.

[markg8]

From the CNN article you linked to Dennis:

While Frank attempted to respond to all questions, he gave up when one woman compared health care proposals favored by Frank and President Obama to policies of Nazi Germany.

"When you ask me that question, I'm going to revert to my ethnic heritage and ask you a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked.

"You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis," he said, adding such behavior demonstrated the strength of First Amendment guarantees of what he called "contemptible" free speech.

"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," Frank said to the woman. "I have no interest in doing it."

He's right, people who think we're on the road to Hitler's Germany or Russian toilet paper shortages or something because Dems are proposing a plan that relies on making health insurance as competitive as car insurance and revising provider care so we reimburse them for better care instead of just the most expensive care have actually put as much thought into this as your average dining room table.