{"id":4557,"date":"2010-09-28T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/09\/is-alan-grayson-a-jerk-or-simply-clever.html"},"modified":"2010-09-28T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:40:00","slug":"is-alan-grayson-a-jerk-or-simply-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/09\/is-alan-grayson-a-jerk-or-simply-clever.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Alan Grayson a Jerk, or simply clever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Alan Grayson<\/span> is, in my opinion, an obnoxious jerk. I\u2019m not one to say all politicians are evil, stupid, corrupt, or anything like that. I admit that politics is a practical profession, and therefore can quickly drag people down. And I know that politicians are political, often because we the voters wouldn\u2019t vote for them if they weren\u2019t. Still, the inefficiency, the deplorable state of our nation, the continued sniping and petty bickering and obvious concern for party loyalty and reelection over the well being of the country makes the overall world of politics in America today seem pretty dismal.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s always amazing when a single person can arise to take an already negative situation and make it worse. Alan Grayson<\/span> is that kind of a man. A Democrat relishing in the fact that he can say to Republicans what Republicans would never \u2013 ever \u2013 get away with saying to Democrats, he has shown himself to be everything that one-dimensional attacks on all politicians attempt to portray. Now, I can deal with him insulting and acting like a spoiled brat six year old on a kindergarten playground who wants everyone to play his way. Nothing in any of his interviews has suggested I should expect anything else. <\/div>\n

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But this latest attack bothers me. Many are bothered because he has compared his opponent to terrorists<\/a>. Well, that\u2019s not the first time it\u2019s been done, and probably won\u2019t be the last from either side. What bothers me is that he took a part of a talk given by his opponent, Dan Webster, and flagrantly edited it to make it appear as if he is saying something he didn\u2019t. Webster, in effect, was telling religious men not to take passages in the Bible out of context, such as wives submit to your husbands. Rather, Webster admonished, we should look to the broader picture that emphasizes love for the wife the way Christ loved His Church. <\/div>\n

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Grayson\u2019s<\/span> people took the sliver of \u2018wives submit to your husbands\u2019 and splashed it on the ad to suggest this was Webster\u2019s own view, when obviously it was the polar opposite of what Webster was saying. Even MSNBC<\/span> threw a towel down on that one. But Grayson<\/span> was defiant. Why? Because I have a feeling that Grayson<\/span> has tapped into a reality in our culture that he has every intention of exploiting. <\/div>\n

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In the modern age, when we can easily see that Grayson<\/span> and his people have lied, edited, and by implication, falsely accused his opponent, I think Grayson<\/span> doesn\u2019t care. He has to know that many who will support him don\u2019t care either. In fact, he must know we live in a society where an increasing amount of people don\u2019t care about anything but their agendas being advanced, and their side winning. Grayson<\/span> also must know that the press will, at best, give lip service to the problem, for he is on their side. Sure, FOX News will fuss, but that\u2019s only aimed at those who wouldn\u2019t listen to Grayson<\/span> anyway. So Grayson<\/span> continues to defend the indefensible for anyone with a concern for honesty, meaning few who appear to be in our culture today. <\/div>\n
Despite AT&T;\u2019s insistence that the Internet makes us smarter, I\u2019m beginning to wonder. It seems to merely be a place were we buttress the truths we are willing to accept. And the more we are willing to ignore lies, the more we are willing to hedge ourselves with walls of conformity to preexisting biases, the less concerned our politicians, or professors, or even preachers will be about telling us the whole truth. After all, they will learn that telling us what we want to hear, no matter how flagrantly false, is what we really want in the first place. <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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