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To: bentway who wrote (714627)5/11/2013 1:49:16 AM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1576645
 
Defining Outrage Down

Marc Ambinder notes that conservatives are outraged that no one is outraged over the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi consulate attack last year.

"If everything is an outrage, then nothing is an outrage. When the rapper Common visited the White House, it was an 'outrage' to Sean Hannity. When union workers were called in for Sandy repair in New York, that was also 'outrageous.' Heck, Hannity found it awful and outrageous that Obama's daughters would dare take a spring break during the sequester. I'm literally going down the Google search results for 'Hannity' and 'outrage.' Replace Hannity with the talk radio host of your choosing."



To: bentway who wrote (714627)5/11/2013 7:44:18 AM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1576645
 
Here is the problem though. Those media outlets depend on generating outrage at every little thing, real or (increasingly) imagined that it is making it impossible for the country to function. Factor in the shift in rhetoric to the idea that anything you don't approve of is a tyrannical assault on liberties, and sooner or later there will be one or more groups deciding now is the time to exercise 2nd amendment rights and engage in insurrection.