Monday, March 23, 2009
Education / Kotz / Legislature / Politics Tennessee Democrats: Boldly Pouncing on Rhetorical Slips
Posted by Pete Kotz on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM
That was apparent last week during the state Senate's latest debate. The subject: school nutrition. The rhetorical slip: Sen. Dewayne Bunch (R-Cleveland) referring to those who worry about such things as the "nutritional Nazi police."
Of course, invoking the Nazis is not new to political debate. Conservatives have their "feminazis," and lefties have their behavioral Nazis -- as in: "Dewayne Bunch has the heart of a Nazi when it comes to school nutrition." In this case, Bunch says he was merely invoking the "soup Nazi" of Seinfeld fame. Either way, he surely had no intent to underplay Jewish suffering during World War II.
But that's not how Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester saw it. He blasted Bunch for committing the "height of insensitivity to both the survivors of the 6 million Jewish people slaughtered by Nazis and to the millions of Americans who fought in World War II to end these atrocities." Consider it another triumph for manufactured outrage.
Maybe we could buy Forrester's alarm if he routinely turned it to the suffering of Tennesseans -- like the developers' tax loophole, or the Screwing Old People Bill, or the 10,000 new gun laws. But to only show up for a rhetorical slip? We'll leave it to you, dear reader, to insert the proper expletives here.
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This is what the Scene calls on Davis, Bredesen, Gordon, Tanner, and Cooper to support. Let's set aside the fact that Chipper told these guys to go to hell, it would make sense for them to stay away from this amateurish garbage.
But Chipper is just being Chipper. He's an effete urban liberal. He is PC personified. His mission is to take on all the narrow-mindedness he sees in the Tennessee populace. Hell, he declared this in his acceptance speech.
You and I have discussed it before, Pete. TNDP is dead. Odum and Chipper killed it. There's no bringing it back to life as long as they are in office.
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Heatseeker,
I think Chipper needs an order of protection against you.............do you dream about the guy? I'm a scene reader and am sick as shit about reading your little jabs everyday about Chipper. I don't really know anything about the guy, but you need to get some help, I think you have a problem!
I hope you are getting paid to write this stuff!
