Here is the twenty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Ben Shapiro, author and propagandist for Breitfart. He is so honored for the most outrageous example of projection you could imagine.
If don’t know who does the scheduling for C-SPAN’s Book TV, but apparently they wanted to help Breitbrat Ben Shapiro sell some more books, since they had him on for a three hour long interview as part of their In Depth series this weekend.
Shapiro discussed everything from how he was big Rush Limbaugh fan in college and how Rushbo’s wingnut brother encourage him to write his first book, to his making friends with Andrew Breitbart around that same time, to pretending that Limbaugh and O’Reilly aren’t bullies, to how he’s been friends with Ann Coulter since he was 18, to comparing the Obama administration to the Mafia. He also apparently doesn’t think All in the Family was funny and claimed "leftism" was imported from Germany. But it’s the mean old left’s fault we all can’t get along and don’t dare try to tell him otherwise.
In the segment above, we are supposed to believe that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is a liberal, or that anyone on the left considers Stepho and his merry band of overpaid Villagers "journalists." Shapiro then proceeded to treat the viewers to one giant case of projection in an attempt to explain why the poor, downtrodden, picked on, victimized right wingers like himself are forced to personally attack those on the left and how no one is ever allowed to call them racists because there’s no evidence of that whatsoever in Shapiro World.
No one on the left is allowed to complain about voter ID laws that make it harder for minorities to vote, or laws that keep gay people from getting married, because that makes you the mean nasty bigot. Got it? As Karoli has pointed out here before, this is nothing new for the likes of Shapiro…
Inserted from <Crooks and Liars>
Here’s the video:
Does he strike you as one of those fellows, who lusts for power, because of the shame he suffered when little girls used to beat him up on the school bus and tale his lunch money? This is projection in his purest form. For those not familiar, projection id attributing your own beliefs and behavior to others. Anyone, who believes the lie that there is no such thing as Republican racism, has either never read the Republicans on Parade series, or refused to believe documentation in the Republican racists’ own words.
12 Responses to “Republicans on Parade–9/4/2013”
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TC – you have the raison d'etre of Repuglicons so accurately they would be blushing if they read it!
If they had shame and could blush.
Thanks Pat, and Amen Joanne! 🙂
My, my! He's a regular comedian. Isn't he?
I'd say quite irregular, but regular for the Republican Party. 🙂
I couldn't watch much longer without a barf bag….
Aunt Bertha, you are a nasty person.
Poor Aunt Bertha, who has to put up with him at Thanksgiving!
It kind of maked you wonder just what Aunt Bertha's excuse to be thankful mught be. It certainly isn;t her nephew.
I actually had an Aunt Bertha, who was a very nasty person. If she were alive today, she would have my internet stopped to prevent me from my immoral left wing ideas.
This guy is sophomoric to the extreme. I can't believe anyone would buy his book or read his column.
Sophomoric indeed! Sophistic too!
There is no doubt in my mind at all that this guy uses projection like a pro. What I found difficult while listening to him, was making any sense of his ramblings. And that voice — sounds like a girl!
No racism from the right? How many times have we heard openly racist rants? What does he call voter suppression of minorities?
Cohen is a card carrying racist Republicanus/Teabagger clown.
I can say I've posted at least 25 Republican racist rants… and that's just this summer!!