Take Robin at American Thinker—please!

One thing I noticed growing up in Jesus Camp country is that evangelical Christians love a good conversion story. They particularly relish the conversion of truly heinous sinners.

Oh, they’re happy enough when shlubs who once crawled under the door of a pay toilet turn their backs on Satan and confess that mundane sin. But the moving tent revival scenes—the ones that provoke the loudest shouts of “Yes, Lord!” and “Praise Jesus!” are reserved for those who repudiate more sordid transgressions—drinking, whoring and the like.

Ideological factions like conversion stories too, and wingnuts seem especially fond of them, hence the undeserved attention afforded behatted ninnies like Roger L. Simon.

A lesser-known but even more insipid wingbagger convert is “Robin of Berkeley,” a self-styled former liberal and practicing psychologist whose blogular activities allegedly emanate from ultra-liberal Berkeley, California. She cranked out a steaming loaf of a column at the hilariously misnamed American Thinker blog today. It had this highly original title: Liberals Are from Mars, Conservatives are from Earth.

The loaf was studded with equally original bits of undigested corn husks like the following:

Conservatives can mistakenly assume that liberals think like they do, in a learned and rational way. This is an exercise in futility since liberalism is not based on logic.

Liberals live in a stratosphere centered on emotions and magical thinking.

[snip]

Many conservative women—like the intrepid Sarah Palin—are more capable, more powerful, yes, more a “man” than some of the liberal XY specimens.  And the utter shame of this makes them despise you—and want to render you helpless too.

A brief review of Robin’s oeuvre reveals that she employs a similar Lodge Pole of Logic for purposes other than lifting the hem of Palin’s kilt. But her indispensible comedic device—a crutch Robin uses as relentlessly as Jackie Mason relies on his ethnic heritage—is that she used to be a brainless-Michael Moore-worshiping-godless-heathen-Maoist dupe.

She once was lost, you see. But now, she’s found. Was blind. But now she sees.

I like a good conversion story as well as the next person, but there’s got to be something more to it than “I was a libtard poopy-head and now I’m smarticles like you Einsteins” over and over again. But that’s all Robin offers, despite her claims to have discovered conservatism via “reason” rather than a desire to sniff Sarah Palin’s jock strap.

I’d gladly trade 10,000 metric tons of Simons and Robins for just one John Cole. Luckily, they orchestrated the exchange themselves. Funny how that worked out.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 05/05/10 at 04:53 PM • Permalink

Here’s a sample of some of the good Doctor’s commenters who are just as outraged that president negro (admin warning - this link NSFW) would disrespect those good patriots of the teabag ... umm tea party movement

T. Nutz

Hugh G. Rection

Absolutely Fapulous

Anus T. McGillicuddy

Jerry Falwell’s man-titties
 
Ima Fended

Trig Stageprop

Phil McCracken

(the old standards never die)—Heywood Jablome

Buster Cherry

Buford T. Bagger

Some special love for KJ-Lo
Kathryn J. Lopez
I am outraged that Barack Obama even knows about these sex acts. He isn’t even a Catholic Priest!
Anna Lingus
Huh, one I’ve never seen ...Colonel Inngus

BTW, I’m nearly 100% sure Robin is the woman in this Hardball clip with the short blond hair and the sunglasses. Hillary’s rabid online cultists (aka PUMAs) really are (were?) the most fucked up Dems ever. It’s just an indisputable fact.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 31 March 2010

She did a psychobabble article about Obama, with things like:

“But how could Obama see us? Did anyone in his childhood ever see him?
Did little Barry’s needs factor into his mother’s decision to shlep him to Indonesia to live with her and her alcoholic second husband? And how much maternal love was on display when she dragged him back home to Hawaii and then abandoned him for good?

Did Obama’s humanity matter to Grandpa Stanley and Frank Marshall Davis when they sat around drinking, talking trash talk about women, and telling dirty jokes to the discomfited little Barry?

What was Stanley thinking, giving Barry over to Davis, an alleged pedophile and Communist, for mentoring? And did Davis do the most unspeakable act of violation and dehumanization to Barry..

(snip)

For someone to survive a difficult childhood intact, he needs at least one person to see his humanity. It’s best if the person is a close relative, but a child can endure with the help of someone else. An attentive coach, counselor, neighbor, or teacher can work wonders.

Who mirrored Obama’s humanity back to him? Who looked into the young Barry’s eyes and reflected back the man he was meant to be? Who honored and cherished the human being inside?

I’ll tell you who—no one. His family groomed him and sculpted him. They projected onto him who they wanted him to be. In later years, other egotistical father figures, like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, scripted his Messiah-like role.”

Have you noticed it’s only the right who makes these claims about Obama being seen as some liberal “Messiah”??

That being said, it seems like “Robin” is projecting what she sees into Obama, and then writing the script to conform to her diagnosis. Why would hse be doing this?? Curiously enough, there’s a hint in her article:

““Years ago, I came face to face with a man who also didn’t know that I existed. He had no qualms about injuring me and leaving me lying wounded in the middle of the street.
I wasn’t a person to him. I was nothing. This is where all evil begins: the dehumanizing of another.

From what I have seen this last year, Obama shows no ability to walk in another person’s shoes. This would require empathy and sensitivity, traits that are nowhere to be found.

Frankly, every time I see Obama, I catch a glimpse of the man who mugged me.

And that, to me, is the true danger and horror and shock of Barack.”

and

“But several years ago I was coming out of a restaurant in a decent area and was mugged. As Gavin de Becker states in his seminal book, The Gift of Fear, (which I, unfortunately, read after the fact), victims generally sense when they’re about to be victimized but ignore the signs in order to be nice and not judgmental. This was my situation exactly. I could tell right away that the guy looked sinister. But it was a major street, at high noon, and I didn’t want to seem racist, so I turned the corner a few feet to reach my car, and a minute later, had my purse stolen as well as all my feelings of being safe in the world.
I’ll spare you (and me) the horrible details, but the incident ended with my having a broken nose and two black eyes, and needing surgery for the nose several days later. People wrote bad checks and stole rental cars in my name for a year afterwards. I developed a fear not only of people, but of the phone and the mail, as every day was another reminder of what happened.”

I’m going to hazard a guess. “Robin” was mugged by a black male. And, like many victims, she projects the face of the person who attacked her onto anyone who kinda meets the same description. And being a therapist herself, she assumes that she can take care of her psychological needs and problems herself rather than seeking out someone for help.

She seems to have some dislike for Obama and his policies. I think it’s safe to say part of this is due to her looking at Obama and seeing, not the face of the President of the United States, but a black male coming to mug her and leave her bleeding. That’s why she defines Obama and his policies as causing PTSD and similar issues. Because she’s projecting rather than analyzing. And when she sees the face and race of her mugger rather than the leader of this country, the stress and trauma from her attack will colour how she sees that leader’s policies and opinions.

She might not see herself as racist, but her own internalized trauma is causing her to act like one.

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