{"id":2041,"date":"2017-02-15T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:44:43","slug":"liberal-journalist-paralyzed-fear-redneck-plumber-showed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/liberal-journalist-paralyzed-fear-redneck-plumber-showed-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal journalist paralyzed with fear when a redneck plumber showed up at his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 495px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/169270319\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 69.898990% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/169270319?et=08_gtgwfR1FD2WnsrH24_Q&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=fRG0YHdueSVV-_1V4MMGwJe4EcqHOJxYfTSQPyyKkjA=\" width=\"495\" height=\"346\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Poor, poor Ned Resnikoff. He\u2019s just so scared of plumbers with southern accents because that might mean he will have to interact with a Trump supporter and that could be, well, dangerous?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not paralyzed by his irrational fear of Republican roto rooters, Resnikoff is the editor of ThinkProgress, an ultra-left-wing outlet which apparently drives employees to the outer brinks of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Saturday after the most triggering election for liberals in history\u00a0when Resnikoff came face to face with the unthinkable: a potential \u2014 POTENTIAL \u2014 Trump supporter. A \u201cmiddle-aged white man with a southern accent\u201d showed up to his apartment to unclog a drain. (Hmm, he summoned a plumber because Drano and a $10 snake might ruin his manicure?) Resnikoff wrote about his harrowing experience on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWanted to share an experience from earlier today. This afternoon, I had a plumber over to my apartment to fix a clogged drain. He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional. But he was also a middle-aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week\u2019s news. And while I had him in the apartment, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Was it the Nazi rag he was using to wipe his tools that gave him away??<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no real reason to believe he was a Trump supporter or an anti-Semite,\u201d Resnikoff continued, \u201cbut in my uncertainty I couldn\u2019t shake the sense of potential danger. I was rattled for some time after he left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow. So much stereotyping and discrimination for someone who constantly lectures against those practices.<\/p>\n<p>But the feeling of danger is foreign to the editor because he is \u201ca straight, white guy\u201d and has a \u201cpretty WASP-y\u201d name. That explains it.<\/p>\n<p>That explains it.<\/p>\n<p>And check out his rosy predictions for the future:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut today was a reminder that ambiguous social interactions now feel unsafe and unpredictable in a way that they never did before. And even if Trump is gone in four years, I don\u2019t expect to ever reclaim that feeling of security. That\u2019s just one more thing you voted for, if you voted for Trump.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps Resnikoff should consider moving; not to Canada, but to the progressive utopia parodied on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> called, \u201cThe Bubble.\u201d That might serve his delicate sensibilities much better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE to see the funny sketch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vKOb-kmOgpI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/254107\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instapundit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday after the most triggering election for liberals in history when Resnikoff came face to face with the unthinkable: a potential &#8212; POTENTIAL &#8212; Trump supporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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