By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--August 23, 2012
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It is, to use a phrase coined by French doctors, la belle indifférence, or “the beautiful calm” of hysterical people. But the closer you look, the uglier it gets.Ryan is “hysterical” and Dowd adds that he is coincidentally just like VP Dick Cheney! It might not surprise that Dowd has decided to make Ryan a junior Cheney. After all, Cheney was the man most hated by the left-wing establishment and Dowd is working hard, early to stop Ryan from assuming Cheney’s office by darkening him with Darth Cheney’s shadow. So, how are they the same? They both love to hunt.Didn’t you know that all hunters are “calm” on the surface but “hysterical” just beneath? Mo does. Mo rages on so much about Ryan in her piece that no one can mistake her for a Paul Ryan-type. There is no calm for Mo’s surface. Her hysterics are right out there on the surface as opposed to hidden beneath. Mo says that Ryan approves of rape, murder, killing grandma, starving children, taking away everyone’s money, hates his own religion, punches puppies, spits on small children, and once clubbed a baby seal to death — and I’m only joking about the latter three. Yes, hysterics are something Maureen Dowd is very, very familiar with. She ends with a dilly of a closer.
Beyond the even-keeled Ryan mien lurks full-tilt virulence. A moderate demeanor is not a sign of a moderate view of the world.So, then, perhaps the folks that claim that Barack Obama is a “full-tilt” Marxist, a hater of capitalism, the founders, the Constitution and everything American because he also seems to have a “no drama” calm demeanor. What do you say, Mo? Care to go to hysterics on our “calm” president? Or does your purulent pop psychology only go one way? I thought so.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.