{"id":31254,"date":"2012-11-06T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=31254"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:52:37","slug":"and-so-the-manichean-culture-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/and-so-the-manichean-culture-war-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"And so the Manichean Culture War continues &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Fischer (dolt) tweeted this evening:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanJFischer\/status\/266058721925427200\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-07T06:05:17+00:00\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Really, Bryan? Really?<\/p>\n<p>First off &#8212; Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack against a country at peace. The &#8220;war&#8221; between the GOP and the Dems (or the Forces of Good White Christian Americans vs Evil Multi-Culti Marxist Atheist Traitors, if you like) has been blazing for some time. And while I realize that you somehow thought (at least you tweeted about it madly) that Romney was going to win over 300 ECV and be in the high 50s of the popular vote, an Obama (et al.) victory is hardly a Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you mean that the GOP assumed it was impregnable, parked all its battleships in neat rows, and stupidly left itself open to being taken out for its hubris.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly &#8212; maybe you&#8217;re being subtle and historical in your note, observing that the US, while engaging with Japan in WWII, made the European Theater is main initial operation (though there were a few important invasions before Normandy, like North Africa and Italy).  <\/p>\n<p>But, still, your tweet sort of comes across as, &#8220;We got beat by these guys, so now we&#8217;re going to start planning our attack on these different guys over here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it&#8217;s reassuring to know that some things never change, and that, having been rejected by a slender majority of the American people (spread out across a wide enough geography to represent a significant portion of the electoral college), your next thought is to think in terms of armed conflict, of having been betrayed and treacherously attacked, and how you can regroup and unleash your own mighty war engines against your implacable enemies.  No namby-pamby &#8220;Let&#8217;s see how we can run this country together and deal with the problems we are all facing&#8221; for you, Bryan.  Instead, it&#8217;s <em>Cry Havoc<\/em>, and <em>You Realize, This Means War<\/em>, and <em>Evil Liberals Delenda Est<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Good to know things are back to business as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Fischer (dolt) tweeted this evening: Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy. &mdash; Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 7, 2012 Really, Bryan? Really? First off &#8212; Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack against a country at peace. The &#8220;war&#8221; between the GOP and the Dems (or the Forces of Good White Christian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/and-so-the-manichean-culture-war-continues.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And so the Manichean Culture War continues &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,108,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2012","category-history","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31263,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/speaking-of-world-war-2-analogies.html","url_meta":{"origin":31254,"position":0},"title":"Speaking of World War 2 analogies","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Nov-12 8:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, I critiqued Bryan Fischer (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/and-so-the-manichean-culture-war-continues.html) for saying that last night was \"Pearl Harbor\" and that the Christian Right (or All Right-Thinking Jesus-Loving Patriotic True Americans) now needed to start planning for their \"Normandy\".I realized this morning I got it wrong. \u00a0As did Bryan. \u00a0That wasn't Pearl Harbor. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29018,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-nazis-were-liberals-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":31254,"position":1},"title":"Bryan Fischer is a Dolt (Nazis Were Liberals Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 5:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm pretty sure I've debunked most of this in the past, but just for the record:1. 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Daniel Inouye (D-HI).Reshared post from +Think ProgressIn response to Rep. Mike Kelly's ridiculous comparison of the birth control mandate with Pearl Harbor Embedded Link WWII Vet Senator: Birth Control Mandate Is Not Like Pearl Harbor After Rep. 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