Lupica: Dissent No Longer Patriotic, But Dumb

posted at 8:57 am on April 20, 2009 by Kid from Brooklyn
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Ah, the good old days…when boys were boys, girls were girls, and Mike Lupica’s excrutiatingly grating brand of whiny hackery was quarantined within the Daily News’ sports pages.  This is yet another in a long, long train of “Dissent Is No Longer Patriotic” screeds; in which our moral betters in the N.Y.-D.C.-L.A. triangle enlighten us with their Strange New Respect for the Office on which they so freely crapped for the last 8 years.  Of course, he follows the normal M.O., which is to adscribe intellectual inferiority to any dissent of Obama’s destructive policies.  Walk my Wagyu through a warm room:

Barack Obama moves up now on 100 days in office, and is still like some baseball pitcher whose performance is analyzed pitch by pitch. It generally makes for a political discourse in this country dumber than socks.

You mean the same way W’s every move was dissected like a lab frog, and every move attributed to a shadowy Halliburton cabal pulling the strings?  You cheerled him, now suck it up.

Lupica manages to add this gem, right after blaming Eisenhower for Kennedy’s piss-poor execution of the Bay of Pigs plan:

Continuing Bush’s old schoolyard beef with Venezuela doesn’t help us or make us safer.  

See, that’s dumb.  If “schoolyard beefing” (otherwise known among thinking adults as the application of diplomatic pressure) with a known contributor to FARC and enabler of Hezbollah (Margarita Island.  Google it.) doesn’t make us safer, then I don’t know what does.  In Mike Lupica’s world of sunshine and unicorns, rogue leaders can be brought to the side of reason with flowery speeches and hopeychangey prose.  In the real world, submissive leaders get used over and over again, as props in humiliating photo ops…not unlike the prison punk.  Until Mr. Lupica understands this distinction, I suggest he confine his mewling to the sports pages.  If it isn’t about A-Rod or about the Mets not closing the deal (yet again),  Mr. Lupica is no different than his champion…which is to say, in way over his head.

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