Showing posts with label wedge politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedge politics. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2009
Wedge Politics FAIL #3: Who hates liberal bloggers?
At this point, it's pretty obvious that Dana Loesch got some kind of memo or was on a conference call where she was told to stop repeating the same right-wing drivel she's been spouting the last four months and instead try to think up creative ideas for splitting the coalitions that helped Democrats to win the last election. She first tried to drive a wedge between the White House and the LGBT community, then between working people and unions, and finally she's claiming that the White House hates liberal bloggers. Of course, there's absolutely no reason to believe that the quote about liberal bloggers actually represents the views of the White House, so Loesch is wrong yet again. What's more interesting, however, is that there was such a dramatic shift in her rhetoric in just a single day. This seems to be a hint of the Republican strategy for the 2010 elections.
Wedge Politics FAIL #2: Dana hearts Unions...or does she?
I wrote earlier today how Dana Loesch was trying to play wedge politics with the LGBT community despite her earlier postings suggesting that "gay culture" was responsible for the castration of the American male. Well, she wasn't just restricting her blatant attempts to try to split the left to the LGBT movement. Today, she also claimed that she's always been on the side of the working person and that the only reason she and her fellow teabaggers oppose unions is cause the bosses make too much money. 
Funny, then, that she so openly mocked unions with the apparent ironic term "teh youyins" for protesting Whole Foods, a company that is well-known for its extreme union-busting tactics, and whose CEO recently wrote that health care was a privilege not a right.

Not only that, but she has in the past implied that being around union members was dangerous, repeatedly uses the term "union thugs," and claims that Wal Mart is really the best place to work if it weren't for that durn union propoganda. Yes, a true friend the working people, that Dana Loesch. It's totally not that she's trying to split up the progressive coalition that kicked the right-wing's butt in the last election!
Wedge Politics FAIL
Our favorite wannabe hipster Dana Loesch is trying out a new strategy today of trying to show that, hey dudes, she's totally cool with all kinds of people and tea parties are really for EVERYONE. Just forget all of that union-bashing and homophobia of the past from the right-wing; that was all just a story made up by the liberal media. So how's it working out for her?

There you have it. Because no one has been a bigger champion of the "GLB community" than Dana Loesch.
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