From TIME: How Dare You MoveOn feels the new P.C. - umbrage

[gateley]

Goodness gracious. oh, my paws and whiskers. Some of the meanest, most ornery hombres around are suddenly feeling faint. Notorious tough guys are swooning with the vapors. The biggest beasts in the barnyard are all aflutter over something they read in the New York Times. It's that ad from MoveOn.org — the one that calls General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. forces in Iraq, general betray us. All across the radio spectrum, right-wing shock jocks are themselves shocked. How could anybody say such a thing? It's horrifying. It's outrageous. It's disgraceful. It's just beyond the pale ... It's ... oh, my heavens ... say, is it a bit stuffy in here? ... I think I'm going to ... Could I have a glass of ... oh, dear

Welcome to the wonderful world of umbrage, the new language of American politics. You would not have thought that the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly would be so sensitive. Sticks and stones and so on. Yet they all seem to have taken one look at that ad and fainted dead away. And when they came round, they demanded — as if with one voice (or at least as if with one list of talking points) — that every Democratic presidential candidate must "condemn" this shocking, shocking document.



http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663424,00.html?cnn=yes

[annabanana]

1. Well they can "take umbrage"

and shove it.

(My poor great great Aunt Tilly would agree)

[deacon]

2. How dare you attack the GOP's Iraq war? They care more about Moveon

than they do our soldiers.

[MasonJar]

3. Send Move on a contribution. That is the greatest "rub" of all! I just

sent them $50; they will know where the sudden "surge" of donations come from. Donate today! What irony! By the way how do we find out how a particular rep voted? I do NOT have to check McConnell and Bunning; I know how they voted.

[gateley]

4. I sent my first MoveOn contribution today -- I'd been hoarding my pennies

for contributions to my candidate, but this deserves a bump from me -- paltry though it may be.

I would love to see MoveOn getting flooded with millions of dollars. It would send a message to all -- Dems and Reps alike. Hopefully.

[CreekDog]

5. But what the hell did Move On actually accomplish with this?

It cost a lot of money and it was all for an ad-hominem attack.

Yes, Petraeus can take it and should be able to anyway.

But this was a colossal waste of time and money by Move On. The average person learned nothing from this whole thing, it shifted attention from the topic at hand to something else (this being the something else).

It was clever, but not helpful and therefore stupid.

[XemaSab]

6. Yup...