Hypocrisy, thy name is Froma.
First brought to our attention in the pages of The Iowa Republican (link at right) a featured columnist of the Quad City Times, Froma Harrup, was skewered on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this past weekend. We are not quite sure she realizes it.
The background is that Ms Harrup is current president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW) . Warning: trying to pronounce the acronym as one word makes one sound disgustingly French. Anyway, that group has a project called “The Civility Project.” Well apparently Jon Stewart was stunned enough by the superciliousness of the group promoting the project that he could not pass up the low hanging fruit of a juicy opportunity for satire, even if it is directed at fellow liberals (but who knows, maybe HE thinks newspaper editors are uniformly conservative?). View video by going to the link below.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/13/must-watch-daily-show-destroys-liberal-columnist-over-civility-hypocrisy/
Reading the viewer responses I side with the analysis that she participated thinking it would produce celebrity on a generally liberal “with-it” venue. We are told she has explained nothing of her thought process as to her participation, so I think her silence confirms that she is indeed an oblivious liberal twit ( I say that because it is hard to embarrass a liberal into silence).
But even if it was entirely engaged in by her and approved of as self-parody, her Sunday column establishes that there is no distinction between her and that self-parody, as she delighted us with an unbalanced, snide, “uncivil” partisan liberal attack on Romney . See QCT of 1-15-12 — Bain Shows Ugly Side
http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/froma-harrop/bain-shows-ugly-side/article_480a3216-3f16-11e1-b152-0019bb2963f4.html
Romney is referred to as inhumane in his running of Bain Capital. She repeats the anti-capitalist shibboleths “loot companies” . . . “slash workforces” (never to concede eliminating some jobs is intended to save jobs and a company) . . . and goes on with the delightfully civil observation . . . “leaving the weakened patient to die” stating that “Bain excelled at these leveraged buyouts.” She concluded her example of civil discourse with the mere clinical observation: “I don’t think Romney took sadistic pleasure in firing the machinists and pipefitters. Possibly worse, he never saw them as human beings — but as potential subtraction to his personal bottom line.”
Yep, Froma is all about objective economic analysis and civil discourse. Just don’t call her a shrew.
