Liberals Have to Avoid Sounding ‘So F*cking Condescending and Smug’
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” New York Magazine Writer-at-Large Andrew Sullivan argued, “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.”
Sullivan said there was a “giant cloud of smug” above MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow during her Trump tax story. Liberals have to be careful to not so fucking condescending and smug as if they know it and start engaging the other side and persuading people.
He continued, “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.” http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/17/andrew-sullivan-liberals-avoid-sounding-fcking-condescending-smug/
Sullivan said there was a “giant cloud of smug” above MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow during her Trump tax story. Liberals have to be careful to not so fucking condescending and smug as if they know it and start engaging the other side and persuading people.
He continued, “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.” http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/17/andrew-sullivan-liberals-avoid-sounding-fcking-condescending-smug/
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Like with 99% of all cable news personalities, I've never watched them on TV. I'm only familiar with them by name and on youtube. In the case of Rachel Maddow, what I have seen of her program snippets, she seems condescending, however, that is why she appeals to a large enough niche audience. To me, it's all entertainment.
Great......now being intelligent is considered condescending. ((shaking my head and rolling my eyes))
I seriously don't care if the poor stupid deplorable trump voter thinks democrats are condescending. That excuse doesn't work for me on why you voted in such a dangerously stupid individual.
Interesting how condescending and smug the title of this article is. The rest of it is probably just as bad. I wouldn't know, since the title is enough to deter me from taking any interest in reading it.
I hope they continue on with their out of touch condescending smugness. It helps to ensure they will lose elections.
Exactly right on a national level. Of course the perpetrators of what the seed title describes here are energetic in defending said smugness.
Is it something I said? hehehehehehe
You? Are you a liberal or something? So much for moderate and balanced.
Well I don't feel moderate or balanced on this site!
you Have been quite shrill in pro left rhetoric
X! hahahaha
It's not nice to say I've been "shrill". Did you go to church today because you need to do some more praying.
I am an Independent. It's just that the country has moved so far to the right that I've been forced.....forced I tell ya..... to move to the left.
ps - you're never supposed to call a woman shrill X. It doesn't turn out well......
I've referred to Hillary as the Shrill for about 25 years now. You could consider it a compliment to be in such company.
You came here saying that you were an independent and moderate and yet you Have been quite shrill in pro left rhetoric virtually since your day one here.
Good point, Oh Great Seal! (Of the State of Confusion ).
And yet you yourself have never been quite shrill in pro right-wing rhetoric virtually since your day one here.
Kudos to you, Great Seal from the State of Confusion!
I never came here pretending to be either an independent or a middle of the road / fence straddler. I came here as a proud conservative. Long live the state of Jefferson!
You are not a conservative. You are a heartless far right winger and you use phony Christianity to try to justify it. Shame on you!
Our resident expert on psychiatry has passed judgement upon me from his padded room.
Actually I am in a very nice family room with a big screen TV (turned to MSNBC of course) two dogs. a pit group sofa with a very conformable chaise lounge that is good for a nap. It looks out onto the patio where the swimming pool is and we have been very lucky that in the past couple of days our pool has been visited by some very beautiful Mallard Ducks. Right now I m sitting at the breakfast bar that separates the family room from the kitchen. I just finished a great Jack In The Box sandwich and am sipping some very cheap scotch. I was typing earlier while watching "To Kill A Mockingbird" on the TV on the VCR (yes I still have many VHS tape).
I am listening now to CNN as they report on Trump going bat shit crazy on twitter, most of which makes no sense and he is sounding so defensive that he is practically confusing that he collaborated with the Russians during the campaign. He should have stayed in bed. He has an AR15 pointed at his feet and is firing on full auto. He is digging his own grave right now and the pundits are already talking about how it is going to be after he is gone.
I am not an expert on Psychiatry. However I have a great deal of experience from both sides of mental illness in America, so yes, I am something of an expert. I certainly know much more about it then the average layman.
I guess you know enough to pass judgement from afar on someone you never met.
Long live the state of Jefferson!
The state may live long …
But get back to me when some of its elderly and children die when heartless conservatives take away their health insurance and use the money it saves to give $193,000 tax breaks to the most wealthy in America.
use the money it saves to give $193,000 tax breaks to the most wealthy in America.
Also to give tax relief to those millenials who can't afford the IRS surcharge on their forced ACA payments ...
You apparently don't understand how this bill will be set up; millennials will do much better regarding the fiscal and health expenses than will those of ages 50-64.
The tax breaks coming from subsidy cuts on the poor will go overwhelmingly tor people with incomes over $250,000/year, the $193,000 for the top .01% billionaires.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” New York Magazine Writer-at-Large Andrew Sullivan argued, “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.”
Well, that comment certainly validates what we've known about Andrew Sullivan for some time now... he's one of the most f*cking condescending and smug people in media today.
Sad!
Sad!
One might almost consider it to actually be
F*cking Sad!
Sad!
One might almost consider it to actually be
F*Cking Sad!
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When they say liberals talk down to them, right-wingers mean that liberals keep using facts and careful, peaceful language. Liberals will be accused of talking down to them until liberals agree completely with them.
And, by the way, no one talks down more to those they disagree with than right-wingers – ex. “We patriots.” “We true Americans.” “We Moral Majority.” “We Christians.”
Classic response from someone with nothing intelligent to say. Not surprising coming fro you though. You used to actually be at least interesting, but you are slipping badly toward BF territory.
Free the fish! What did you expect me to say to the one who shall not be named above.
It's becoming apparent that you are BF on another computer at another IP address. Whatever you worship help you.
I am not now nor have I ever been BF. Sad attempt at screen name speculation on your part.
You are absolutely correct. It was not the right thing for me to do. I was wrong to accuse you of actually being BF and I sincerely apologize to you for saying so. I hope you will accept it.
Randy
No problem. Apology accepted. It can get heated discussing things and sometimes we say things we regret later. I shouldn't have made a reference to a rubber room earlier and apologize for that.
Peace...except for our next argument.
I love it when you show your inability to respond with the written word, XX.
“Liberals have to be careful not to sound so f*cking condescending and smug, as if they know it, and start actually engaging the other side and persuading people.”
And those who accuse liberals and others of that do so because they can't make a fucking reasonable argument against something that pisses them off but which they know damned-straight well is on target.
It's a manifestation of intellectual insecurity, sometimes of bigotry and prejudices, or … JUST PLAIN F'n IGNORANCE OR STUPIDITY.
In the educated world, it is referred to as "ad hominem" … in the colloquial world it's known as "shoot the messenger".
Interesting response proving the point of the seeded article from one most like who Sullivan was talking about. Im simply the messenger and your best shot missed.
Actually, the response to which you allude explains the article's mischaracterization of providing valid rebuttals to falsehoods, lies … and MISCHARACTERIZATIONS like the very seeded article posits.
A pronouncement is not necessary a fact … in fact … it generally is comprised of a broad-brush generalization intended to stereotype and denigrate … an editorial under the guise of a factual report.
When Sullivan said what he said to Maher, he was thinking of you.
When Sullivan said what he said to Maher, he was thinking of you.
This from the guy who posted earlier …
I guess you know enough to pass judgement from afar on someone you never met.
Ad hominem/shoot-the-messenger, Dude … this is how it works and this is why Sullivan has merely pandered to those who do what you do (in place of viable rebuttal).
In other words, ''full of shit'', Mac.
Actually the seeded story is a factual report detailing what Sullivan said to Maher on Mahers show. Are you denying that it happened or upset that the details of it were brought here?
No Republithug is going to tell me how to think.
You must be new here. We don't denigrate the political parties with names like that or demonrat/democrap etc. besides no one here is going to be told what to think or say by anyone else. Welcome to NewsTalkers.
You must be new here.
You're relatively new here yourself, take your own advice.
Who is relatively new here?
Why you ! Dear CornHusker for Palin/ XX Jefferson !
If I'm new then we're not attracting many new members here.
Don't worry. We don't tell rocks how to think either.
Liberals are out of their comfort zone talking to people they disagree with. They have to compensate for the inadequacy of their position by being arrogant, condescending, using personal put downs, and shouting down when exposed to contrary opinions and beliefs.
The Pee Wee Herman rebuttal again comes out of Right (wing) field.
Pee Wee Herman is head and shoulders above him.