They didn't fall for anything, they colluded to defuse the situation so business can go on as usual, just like always.
Fundamentalism is always ugly. His prostration before his mindless religion is embarrassing to watch.
Anything a movie taps into that exists in women in general like that is innate. If young women find it irresistible as a rule, they're wired to. It's not hard to see how in hunter-gatherer times taking on the identity of your mate would be the best strategy. Women were powerless for almost all of history and all of prehistory.
I'm 42 this month, and when I was a kid, the respectable view was that all the differences between men and women were social constructs, instead of innate. Nobody tries to defend that view anymore, but there is still stuff like this that people don't like, so they make it an artificial construct instead of human nature. But this is surely human nature or it wouldn't have such universal appeal to them.
The Tea Party can handle the media. The only reason the Republicans lost before this election is because they refused to use the ammunition they had because they weren't actually an opposition party (give me one good reason Mr. Prescription Drug Benefit Bush was ever on our side). The Tea Party is forcing them to be an opposition party and they will run ads aimed at destroying the bad guys, not just beating them in elections. McCain could have destroyed Obama with Obama's past if he'd wanted to, but he was more interested in being a proper well-born blue-blooded fancy lad than saving us from this disaster. All we've ever had to do is actually play the game like men instead of cowards and that will finally happen now.
Cloward-Piven is just the Progressives kind of Millenialist religious vision. It doesn't logically follow that the collapse of socialism leads to more socialism. The collapse of socialism leads to the end of socialism.
Let's just get the crash of big government over with. When central banking spectacularly fails, we can get rid of it, at the same time we get rid of 3/4ths of the Federal government, and usher in an era of prosperity unknown in human history.
Okay, how about finding me a Lincoln quote from before the war started that would indicate the war was fought for slavery? The Gettysburg Address certainly doesn't bolster the case.
Slavery was not mentioned as a justification for the war until 18 months after it started, so I question this conclusion.
Here's Jon Stewart in a nutshell: describe a situation in current events by whitewashing the Progressive position and give a scarecrow for the opposing position. Then, compare and contrast using moral and logical reasoning that seems impeccably fair, and is also humorous. So the dumbasses who watch it think they're listening to someone honest because the reasoning sounds fair, never suspecting they got owned at the initial false dichotomy. It's sad, really. You have to be aggressively ignorant of history and current events to fall for it.
The thing that's irritating about it is simply that he thinks he's teaching us pitchfork-wielding clodhoppers in Middle America something we didn't know. How one-dimensionally he sees us, a bigot trying fix the bigotry of non-bigots. Where in America are gay homeowners ostracized? Oh, that's right, nowhere, not even in the heart of the Bible Belt. But he couldn't care less, he's just speaking to his stupid, mindless narrative that everyone who isn't in his progressive religion is a bigot. When of course the opposite is far closer to true.
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