Victims
You're the victim. That Welfare Queen in her Cadillac is stealing your money. One and one half billion Muslims want you, personally, dead. You're a victim. Illegal Immigrants are stealing into the country to grab health care and education. Everybody is out to get you, Even twelve year old Graeme Frost and his permanently handicapped sister want to take from you.
Victimhood is what conservatism is all about. As Frank Rich pointed out when he wrote of all that Clarence Thomas endures, he too is a victim:
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The leading conservative blogger is of course the leading whiner. Nobody screams "Victim" as often as Michelle Malkin. Today's screed attacking the Frost family was entitled "Democrat [sic] Poster-child Abuse and the Continued Campaign to Silence the Right." It must be terrible to be subjected to such a campaign, and I pity Miss Malkin. She wrote of how the article in the Baltimore Sun could have been approved by the nutroots. In that same post, she also wrote of an article in today's NY Times covering the Frost matter. And who was the person quoted most often in that piece? I do not mean which conservative was most quoted. Nor do I mean the blogger most quoted. I mean who was quoted more often than even the Frosts themselves?
The individual who had more words between quotation marks than anyone else on the planet was none other than dear Miss Malkin. It seems that the campaign to silence the right isn't doing very well.
Everyone on the right is a victim according to Malkin. Take the case of Hirsi Ali. Ali, who I do believe is a courageous person, is a victim of the evil, liberal Dutch. Cruelly, they refuse to protect her. She did obtain her Dutch citizenship illegally. The Dutch are willing to protect her if she lives in Holland. She does not want that. They are also willing to protect her if they can do so by using their equivalent of our Secret Service, the people that protect their royal family and their government officials when they travel. But our government won't allow that. Malkin condemns the Dutch for "victimizing' Ali.
She can't stop sounding the conservative whine.
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