Atlas Shrugs' Geller asserts Ron Reagan can't "speak for [his] father" regarding Palin
February 09, 2010 10:48 am ET
From the February 8 edition of HLN's The Joy Behar Show:
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There are two of them today - Geller? Malzberg?
Who are these people?
>>>They created the Reagan Myth, so they own it.
Exactly. And in today's GOP the myth of Ronald Reagan is worth far more than the reality of the actual person.
Not long ago, Frank Gaffney also claimed that Ron's late father would be ashamed of him for not toting the current party line. So Ms. Geller is in good company regarding her ability to backstroke in a cesspool.
And sir, you have been proven wildly wrong on the last two big election days.
Close-minded, he says... pffft.
Hey, let's see what Pam Geller had to say to the son of Ronald Reagan about "our country and its future":
Your every own words sum up Geller's ranting nicely: "Its a very close-minded viewpoint which puts lie to the various agendas that they claim to represent."
And, what's that smell?
On a serious note, I'm no Ron Jr fan and I don't know how Ron Sr would have felt about Palin, but neither does Geller(who is she?) or Ron Jr for that matter but, Ron Jr did make her look stupid.
Since you were offended by this statement, I'm assuming that we are finally in agreement. You aren't a member of the "right," you're a wingnut. As I've said, if you believe that the crap that folks like Geller, Beck, Limbaugh, etc., are spewing, you aren't a conservative, you are simply a wingnut groupie.
Here are opinions we assign "hate" to:
"Barack Obama is a Muslim foreigner."
"Barack Obama thinks arresting a man for no reason is stupid, so he hates white people."
"All progressives in the world want to kill you."
"Barack Obama/liberals in general are comparable to the Nazis."
"If gay people are allowed in the army, they'll rape heterosexual soldiers."
"George Tiller had it coming."
You know, "opinions" that are blatantly hateful.
Beck doesn't compare liberals to nazis, just progressives.
I have to agree with much of what Beck says about progressives. I was shocked (without any "wingnut" radio guy telling me to be) when I was watching the debate where Hilary said she considered herself not a liberal but more an early 20th century progressive. Not a good thing in my mind. These progressives are not the classic liberal that I grew up with. I disagreed with them but wasn't threatened by them. I find what progressives want to do to this country as threatening.
I can almost bet that you would have been one of the folks who showed up at the phony underground amusement park that Beck promoted on his radio program a few years back. The man will say ANYTHING to get attention and ratings. He's laughing at you.
I sure enjoyed the photos of the nazis,klan and the progressives marching with Dr. King for civil rights. Oh and it brings back memories seeing the shots of progressives nazis and progressives marching through the Jewish community of Skokie,Ill. together.
Progressives are diametrically opposed to Nazism. Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it and you should know better than repeat such trash. I find your lack of historical knowledge and blurring of truth threatenening.
"Geller embodies the common wingnut thread: Pure, unadulterated, spittle-flecked HATE"
Then you wrote:
"Yes yes. We on the right are all riddled with hate. I hate so much I don't know how I can manage"
Now you're saying you weren't offended???
I said "wingnuts". You took it personally. Why is that?
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Sweet Moses.
If we did, it'd be wrong, that's for sure.
But we don't, so it's a strawman argument. It's a common one, that we on the left object to misinformation, lies, distortions and omissions that favor the right because we disagree with the right.
That's your side's schtick. It's projection to say that we behave that way.
By the way, NONE of those right wing heroes served.
~~~Pam Geller
'Nuff . .
I think that Ron got the better of her in this interview. He really is quite bright and isn't afraid to take on the nutjobs from the right, most of whom claim his father was the second-coming. It really puts him in an interesting position.
Behar looked like a deear caught in the headlights.
In other words, I don't think he realizes a THING, unless it's told to him over and over again by Rush or by doughboy.
I would say it is more a contempt for ignorance, which you are overflowing with, than hate.
Much like when conservatives were all worked up about that debate moderator (Gwen Iffle, excuse the spelling) that had just released the book on the politics in the age of Obama. They couldn't fathom that she could write a book and then be neutral simply because they cannot be neutral in anything they do because they make up their minds about issues before they even consider the arguments.
But, as far as me and my dad go, we disagree on politics a lot. He tends to fall on the more conservative side of issues while I more often lean to the left. But at the same time, I recognize that my dad is an incredibly well-read, very smart, exceedingly rational thinker and so I really like talking to him about stuff even if we disagree. As I got into high school and older, when me and my dad would have our little impassioned debates (which we do very often) after it's over he always slaps me on the back and says, "Well that was fun!"
What does that have to do with anything? Personally, I was watching Food Network when Behar was on. During a commercial, I channel surfed a bit and saw Behar. Most Americans don't have their TVs tuned to ANY of the cable opinion networks during prime-time, OC. Most Americans have a wide range of interests which do not include listening to a bunch of no-nothings yelling unfounded opinions at each other for hours on end.
Weird.
Anyway, I agree. Good post.
Nobody said he had Reagan's beliefs. He told her that she didn't know what his father would have thought about Palin. He would know his father's beliefs whether he shared them or not. She didn't know Reagan; she never met him.
What an ignorant, deluded jerk.
i venture to say that ron, who is not, ronald, knows his father better than this woman does. please. stop the madness.
I really never liked Ayn Rand, and if this blog is meant to be a homage to her work and philosophy, is it full of pages of boring pointless exposition and detail?
What happened to being father and son? I'm sure he already grieved over his father's death, regardless of what they disagreed on.
I guess you throw that out of the window these days when you consider liberal and conservative ideologues.
Geller, realizing how ridiculous she sounded trying to say Palin didn't quit, tried to rattle Ron--and only made herself sound more ridiculous.
As tempting as it is, I don't think it's fair to point at Geller and say she's a typical Palin supporter, or conservative. As she receives more attention she is increasingly showing she's her own, unique flavor of crazy.
D@MN $HAME! Anytime someone tells someone who HAPPENS to be the son of the person they are talking about, and tells that son that he does not know his father is: