Post by jgaffney on Sept 22, 2008 15:04:24 GMT -5
Michelle Malkin has coined a new acronym, P.D.S., or Palin Derangement Syndrome. This disease is spreading rapidly, affecting those of the liberal persuasion who can't stand to see a woman nominated by the Republican Party.
Exhibit A:
Setting aside for a minute the thought that God could "hate" something in a Christian, the authoress exhibits the classic symptoms of P.D.S. As James Taranto says:
So, a classic symptom of P.D.S. is ascribing to the opponent motives that are secretly held by the infected person. That's called "projection."
Exhibit A:
I sat outside a 7-Eleven and had a sacramental Dove chocolate bar. Jeez: Here we are again. A man and a woman whose values we loathe and despise--lying, rageful and incompetent, so dangerous to children and old people, to innocent people in every part of the world--are being worshiped, exalted by the media, in a position to take a swing at all that is loveliest about this earth and what's left of our precious freedoms.
(Is she talking about the Clintons here?)
When I got home from church, I drank a bunch of water to metabolize the Dove bar and called my Jesuit friend, who I know hates these people, too. I asked, "Don't you think God finds these smug egomaniacs morally repellent? Recoils from their smugness as from hot flame?"
And he said, "Absolutely. They are everything He or She hates in a Christian."
I have been in a better mood ever since, and have decided not to even say this woman's name anymore, because she fills me with such existential doubt, such a sense of impending doom and disbelief, that only the Germans could possibly have words for it.
(Is she talking about the Clintons here?)
When I got home from church, I drank a bunch of water to metabolize the Dove bar and called my Jesuit friend, who I know hates these people, too. I asked, "Don't you think God finds these smug egomaniacs morally repellent? Recoils from their smugness as from hot flame?"
And he said, "Absolutely. They are everything He or She hates in a Christian."
I have been in a better mood ever since, and have decided not to even say this woman's name anymore, because she fills me with such existential doubt, such a sense of impending doom and disbelief, that only the Germans could possibly have words for it.
Setting aside for a minute the thought that God could "hate" something in a Christian, the authoress exhibits the classic symptoms of P.D.S. As James Taranto says:
What's hilarious about this is that, except for the obligatory "or She," Lamott and her unnamed interlocutor fit exactly the stereotype people on the left typically hold of conservatives, and religious conservatives in particular: smug yet insecure, dogmatic and intolerant and filled with hate and rage. Even Lamott's descriptions of Palin more aptly describe Lamott in the act of describing Palin!
So, a classic symptom of P.D.S. is ascribing to the opponent motives that are secretly held by the infected person. That's called "projection."