Executive summary: David Axelrod conference-called lefty bloggers to beg for their help in the November elections (because they’ve been ever so useful so far in the 2010 election cycle); and apparently the lefty bloggers are feeling quite aggrieved and put-upon for being called upon to do as they’re bid. One even went so far to as to categorize the entire interaction between the Democratic establishment and the netroots in furtive, sexually shameful terms (one hopes that this… no, that’s too vicious a comment to make); apparently, this is something that happens often enough that it has the name of ‘hippie punching.’
‘Hippie punching.’
You know, this is a new one for me: I don’t think that I’ve ever heard this particular turn of phrase before. From context, I assume it means “to smack around progressive activists, safe and secure in the knowledge that they lack the internal dignity, elementary sense of self-worth, and bare minimum of personal courage necessary to do anything about it.” If it doesn’t… well, it should. Because that’s what’s going on, here. The Democratic base is restless, so it gets the privilege of yelling at a soon-to-be-gone-anyway administration official a little as payment for all its good work in keeping establishment Democrats at the money troughs. And once they’ve gotten it out of their system, it’s back to rubbing the lotion in their skin, or they get the hose…
Moe Lane (Crosspost)
PS: To push back on something Allahpundit wrote (said he, genially):
Have tea partiers had any calls like this yet with the GOP leadership? All in good time, all in good time.
We have already had calls like this, in point of fact: in no particular order, they were called the Pennsylvania, Florida, Maine, South Carolina, Colorado, Delaware, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska primaries. And those are just the ones that immediately come to mind.
Shorter Moe Lane: we are not tame.
Jeff Emanuel
I remember hippies as being dirty, smelly, drug
throwback59 Thursday, September 23rd at 9:52PM EDT (link)addled, America hating pieces of trash.
Hippie-bashing. I like it.
I am from that Era and it was no
ihateliberals Friday, September 24th at 3:26PM EDT (link)picnic. I served in Vietnam only to come home and be labeled a baby killer and spit on. Any Hippie that has been bashed is a good hippie. I have no use for them other than if they Vote Republican I might have some forgiveness for them.
Just guessing but maybe it's a take on "cow punching"
Conservative Phantom Thursday, September 23rd at 10:04PM EDT (link)which more or less means to wrangle cattle. If that’s the connection then it is equally demeaning in that it refers to leftist bloggers as cattle to be herded by their obviously superior overseers.
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FAQ on Hippie Punching
natlanthem (Diary) Thursday, September 23rd at 10:09PM EDT (link)http://www.imao.us/archives/009667.html
Which is funnier … hippie punching or the existence of a FAQ on it. LOL
Nobody on the left has been 'punched'.........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, September 23rd at 10:11PM EDT (link)……….. Yet.
Let ‘em keep poking the lion……. especially if they really start poking the lion they helped put in the big cage at the zoo.
or rather
natlanthem (Diary) Thursday, September 23rd at 10:12PM EDT (link)http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hippie-dance
A hippie punch is when you’re working your way to the front of a show by performing a dancing, punching motion, therefore annoying audience members so they simply move out of the way and let you pass making your way through the crowd….closer to the jams.
I think we ought to take Axleturd Snipe Hunting that was about the same time frame as hippie hunting. NT
bobojake (Diary) Thursday, September 23rd at 10:19PM EDT (link)I like the..
Kudzu (Diary) Thursday, September 23rd at 10:24PM EDT (link)Idea of punching hippies… where do I sign up?
From “Penguins of Madagascar” episode “Time Machine”
Skipper: “Ah shucks, all I wanted to do was go back to the 60s and punch a hippie”
It always did take two of you to take down one of me. – Jo Bob Priddy, North Dallas Forty.
Now on at http://kudzu630.wordpress.com/
The "professional left" is really the world's oldest profession
reverelth (Diary) Thursday, September 23rd at 10:36PM EDT (link)in the eyes of Gibbs and “Axe,” anyway.
http://www.libertytreehugger.com
Take hippies seriously!
Adjoran (Diary) Friday, September 24th at 12:29AM EDT (link)Let ‘em into town, they’ll roam around aimlessly, bother honest citizens panhandling, take over the parks, and before you know it you’ve got a drum circle forming. Then it’s too late for prevention. Then it’s too late for half-measures. Then you need professional help.
That’s when you call on me. I carry a badge.
Dum-de-dum-dum. Dum-de-dum-dum-DUUUMMM.
The badge is a fake, but the nightstick is real enough. And that’s the key to dealing with hippies. You have to use a nightstick about the head and shoulders. Tear gas, horses, riot shields – those are all just games to them. It takes a good solid whack to the head to get their attention out of their drug-addled fog.
Sure, it’s tough. But the only other way is to lock them in Eric Cartman’s basement, and space is limited.
The idiots who started the "Coffee Party"
joayn (Diary) Friday, September 24th at 2:14AM EDT (link)Hippies.
America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte
from tipping to punching
apen Friday, September 24th at 8:13AM EDT (link)the natural progression of human logic. Once it is discovered that there is a way to manipulate a species it doesn’t take long before the abusers among us begin to take pleasure in forcing the herd into submission, punching.
Free Lakin, reward honesty
evolution
doncorleone Friday, September 24th at 8:28AM EDT (link)Hippies became yuppies you know, the “greed is good crowd”, then onto the legislators who are now running this country. As an old punk, I’ve followed Johnny Rotten’s advice for a very long time, “never trust a hippy”.
from the three-legged stool of Fred Thompson's campaign
streiff (Diary) Friday, September 24th at 9:13AM EDT (link)according to FrankJ he was running on the slogan of “Kill the Terrorists. Protect the Borders. Punch the Hippies.”
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
The Hippies
Scope (Diary) Friday, September 24th at 10:20AM EDT (link)from the 60′s-70′s were the “make love not War” or “Peace brotha” crowd, that did acid and thought they saw clear visions of a utopian world, where everything is “equal” and “beautiful.” They are now “old hippies” that unfortunately grabbed the reins of power in Washington, and, are trying still to make those utopian dreams come true. They just changed their name to Progressives. Remember the “modern Progressive” Hillary Clinton wanting to earmark money for a New York museum to Woodstock? Now she wants clean cookstoves for the world, and, she supports the latest move by the UN to declare the US a civil rights violator, because the citizens are allowed to have guns. They refuse to believe that America was a real Utopia, spelled out by the Founding Fathers, long before they came on the scene. Yup, I like it- Hippie Punching. We just need to deliver the final blow.
I thought "Hippie Punch" was
proudmarinemom (Diary) Friday, September 24th at 10:56AM EDT (link)bong water.