The Republican party is desperate to win the fall midterm election in November, and nothing is being left idle in that effort to win at all costs. Even White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is being drafted to wield his Fox News celebrity-hood to promote Bush Administration achievements to the voters, even though he's still wet behind the ears professionally and wasn't around for most of them.
Personal abuse is another weapon in their arsenal, as anyone who has paid attention to the Republican reaction to Bill Clinton's counter-attack against Chris Wallace the other day knows. The world marvels at how the American reactionaries dominate our society without opposition, using abuse and other forms of bullying to stifle anyone who disagrees with the Bush agenda.
Just the other day, for instance, Rush Limbaugh bragged about how electoral dirty tricks work against 'stupid' Democratic voters. Such 'humorous entertainment' only serves as inspiration to others to take similar actions intended to stifle the anti-Bush vote.
Limbaugh is an example of the amoral 'conservative' who lacks of a sense of fair play and abhors observance of the spirit of the law as well as the letter. He bills himself as an entertainer, but the only audience being entertained is that of the infamous 'Havemores', Bush's wealthy base, which wants only one thing — more.
Such a winning 'attitude' would be at home in professional football, and is. But I'm not about to talk about that sport. I'm going to talk about another sport (and I use that term advisedly in its reference), which doesn't have the brute force reputation of football. I'm talking about golf.
The European equivalent of the Havemores just don't understand their American cousins, and nowhere is this more evident than at the current Ryder Cup tournament. European golfers are wary of the violent way American golfers can (and have, according to Golf Digest's John Huggan) reacted when things haven't gone their way, or which interferes with their self-delusions about their very-public displays of Christianity:
David Feherty, the former European Ryder Cup member from Northern Ireland who is now a popular TV golf commentator in America, believes the very public display of fire-and-brimstone Christianity is still unsettling to most Europeans.
"I think a lot of Europeans find that conservative Christian thing as frightening as conservative Muslims," he said.
Externally, it's hard to tell the European golfers and their retinues apart from the Americans, except that American golfers tend to 'hang with their own kind' rather than mix with groups from other nations.
But internally, the European golfers are extremely cautious about what they say about Bush and his agenda, for the intimidation factor of being harmed in some way for doing so has registered clearly with them. They know what has happened to those who spoke out publicly against Bush — including The Dixie Chicks and baseball player Carlos Delgado.
Article comments
1 - Maurice
Wow. Another Bush bashing post. Kind of wanders around so it is difficult to grab any one issue and praise/debunk it.
Tony Snow has been a pundit for 30 years.
Rush - who cares?
ALL sports are competitive to Americans!
Dixie Chicks - See Rush above
...so much more golf on TV now.... It just might be that golf is really popular...
I am going to try and summarize your post: Rich athletes don't care for high tax policies. Actors and singers are unconcerned about high taxes. Is that what you are saying?
2 - Lumpy
Golf? Who the hell either rich or poor gives a flying fuck about golf. It's what0you do for a distraction while u wait to die.
3 - troll
didn't Van Zandt write one of his depressing songs about golf - ?
4 - Arch Conservative
Pro golfers are evil because they are all white rich men who agree with the GOP more than the Dems?
I guess that even you moonbats have grown tired of your own convrntional slandering and bashing of everything conservative so you have chosen to take a new angle.
What a total fucking waste of space this article is.
5 - Nancy
"Pro golfers are evil because they are all white rich men who agree with the GOP more than the DEMS"....
Gee, that's a pretty good summary, Arch. However, I would point out that golf is also among the most stultifyingly tedious of games to anyone not actively golfing. It says a lot to me of the mentality of whoever attends these things let alone watches them on TV, how pitiful is what they consider entertainment. Besides, lots of rich white Dems golf, too. How to explain that? Maybe it would be better to just say it's a boring rich white man's game & let it go at that.
6 - Arch Conservative
Boring rich white man's game?
Does the name Tiger Woods ring a bell? Chi chi rodruiges? michelle wi?
Also not eveyone who plays golf is rich.
Obviously the professionals you see on TV are the best of the best and make a lot of money playing golf. But this is true for any sport.
There are millions of middle to lower class Americans who enjoy the game of golf. I bet you some of them even vote Democrat.
Once again this post is nothing but the same ole' dumbass rantings of a moonbat with a new spin.