To summarize, when radical conservatives talk about a liberal elite they are essentially saying that anyone who doesn’t have shit for brains is helping the terrorists. Maher makes it pretty clear, when Limbaugh pops a few pills and starts bloviating on the liberal elite, what he is essentially saying is that smart, competent and thoughtful people don’t belong in government.
However, Maher makes a critical error in calling the Bush administration incompetent. As George Lakoff has argued,
“Bush’s disasters — Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit — are not so much a testament to his incompetence or a failure of execution. Rather, they are the natural, even inevitable result of his conservative governing philosophy. It is conservatism itself, carried out according to plan that is at fault.”
More at:
http://progressiveamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/04/translating-conservativespeak-freedom.html
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