Malicious Compassion: I Wish I'd Said That.
Thanks.
Ever search for a word and someone hands you the perfect word? Writers come across impressive topics and eloquent treatments all the time, and sometimes we wish we'd said that.
This time it’s Malicious Compassion. I heard it this morning, and it fits perfectly the mindset, motivation, goals and feel-good neurotic outlet of anger – all disguised as compassion.
Make no mistake, it is not. The jig is up, Left. You're not fooling anybody. And you haven't for a long time. You're fooling yourselves a great deal, though, if you think you're compassionate.
It’s making the rounds in a common goal to harass the President.
It started with Clark and his analysis of the President’s decisions regarding 9-11. It was even before that before the President was even elected the first time. Then it was a few harassing demonstrations.
Then it’s Cindy Sheehan. Then it's the Boxer Triplets in California - Barbara, Nancy and Dianne - expressing concern for others, but carefully crafted to slip in under the radar a back-handed and full-frontal slap to the Administration. Very ladylike.
Everybody’s getting in their licks. Kennedy thinks he’s compassionate for the pregnant teenager who shouldn’t notify her parents because she might face admonishment or worse, some disapproval. Disapproval, itself, is proper parenting, something Kennedy missed out on we suspect. Of course, it is designed to undermine the family like all leftism.
Then it’s Marty Bahamonde who feels neglected along with 30,000 others in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because he had to crap in the hallway, eat MRE’s and wait. His testimony might at first sound like caring about the victims, but to me it sounded more like his maddening neglect centered around his experience more than anyone else's there. (How do the other rescuers use the toilet and what do they eat?) I don’t know how this is possible when he was sent as an advance person for FEMA, but he says so under oath.
Now it’s the Troops again, where the left celebrates the 2000th death among our soldiers, wanting to bring them home and abandon the mission. It sounds compassionate, but it's pure hate, not only for the Administration, but also for the people of Iraq.
Malicious Compassion. I hope recognition of the label gets legs.
I hope it sticks.
It is a perfect fit for the underhanded motives of the left, which we not only have been able to see through, but now to give it a name. It sums up their entire playbook.
I wish I’d thought of that.
Thanks.
_____________________________
John Longenecker is author of The Battle We Fight - available worldwide from online booksellers.
Ever search for a word and someone hands you the perfect word? Writers come across impressive topics and eloquent treatments all the time, and sometimes we wish we'd said that.
This time it’s Malicious Compassion. I heard it this morning, and it fits perfectly the mindset, motivation, goals and feel-good neurotic outlet of anger – all disguised as compassion.
Make no mistake, it is not. The jig is up, Left. You're not fooling anybody. And you haven't for a long time. You're fooling yourselves a great deal, though, if you think you're compassionate.
It’s making the rounds in a common goal to harass the President.
It started with Clark and his analysis of the President’s decisions regarding 9-11. It was even before that before the President was even elected the first time. Then it was a few harassing demonstrations.
Then it’s Cindy Sheehan. Then it's the Boxer Triplets in California - Barbara, Nancy and Dianne - expressing concern for others, but carefully crafted to slip in under the radar a back-handed and full-frontal slap to the Administration. Very ladylike.
Everybody’s getting in their licks. Kennedy thinks he’s compassionate for the pregnant teenager who shouldn’t notify her parents because she might face admonishment or worse, some disapproval. Disapproval, itself, is proper parenting, something Kennedy missed out on we suspect. Of course, it is designed to undermine the family like all leftism.
Then it’s Marty Bahamonde who feels neglected along with 30,000 others in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because he had to crap in the hallway, eat MRE’s and wait. His testimony might at first sound like caring about the victims, but to me it sounded more like his maddening neglect centered around his experience more than anyone else's there. (How do the other rescuers use the toilet and what do they eat?) I don’t know how this is possible when he was sent as an advance person for FEMA, but he says so under oath.
Now it’s the Troops again, where the left celebrates the 2000th death among our soldiers, wanting to bring them home and abandon the mission. It sounds compassionate, but it's pure hate, not only for the Administration, but also for the people of Iraq.
Malicious Compassion. I hope recognition of the label gets legs.
I hope it sticks.
It is a perfect fit for the underhanded motives of the left, which we not only have been able to see through, but now to give it a name. It sums up their entire playbook.
I wish I’d thought of that.
Thanks.
_____________________________
John Longenecker is author of The Battle We Fight - available worldwide from online booksellers.
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