Does the right think an unrepentant Scrooge was the hero of "A Christmas Carol"?

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Does the right think an unrepentant Scrooge was the hero of "A Christmas Carol"?

As they watch one of the broadcast adaptaions of Charles Dickens classic this year, many righties will shake their heads in dismay when Scrooge changes his ways after the bitter fruit of conservatism is revealed.

Conservatives think the poor, crippled, and hungry get that way through laziness, poor life choices, or some other 'moral' flaw, and see Scrooge as a flip-flopper whose principles are undermined by liberal bleeding-heart sentiments.

Imagine if Dickens had envisioned Scrooge as a Herman Cain-like character.

In the Cain version, Scrooge would have tried to push Bob Cratchits wifes head into his crotch while intoning "don't you want Bob to keep his job?", and if she'd had the temerity to complain, the right would have trashed her as a conniving slut.

Imagine Tiny Tim, dragging his paralyzed legs behind him after Herman/Scrooge took his crutches away because "it's your own fault if you can't walk".

The Ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future would be consigned to the 'media filter' of the Cainiacs, and their visions would go unheeded.

Ironically, conservatives will tell themselves that watching "A Christmas Carol" is a traditional celebration of the birth of Jesus...the most compassionate. :palm:
 
[h=1]Liberalizing the holidays[/h]

Everyone loves the part in the Dickens story where Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning and starts spending money like crazy — especially liberal politicians, even though they can’t understand why anyone would spend their own money for that sort of thing.

In fact, if a liberal had written “A Christmas Carol,” I suspect it would have had a quite different story line.

First of all, it would be called “A Holiday Carol,” with lots of drama, language and dysfunctional family issues — an angry, rebellious Tiny Tim, wiser than the adults; a drunken and abusive Bob Cratchet, who may or may not have been Tim’s real father; a homophobic Scrooge; and a guest appearance by Barack Obama, explaining to Tim’s fifth-grade class why Fox News is un-American.

There would be a media frenzy, as Scrooge, the evil Wall Street CEO, is hauled off to court for various labor and environmental violations. At the trial, ACLU lawyers, the EPA, SEIU and an activist judge would try Ebenezer for running a non-union sweatshop with life-threatening noxious coal fumes, the wrong kind of light bulbs, an illegal janitor making only $23 an hour, and no wheelchair access for Tiny Tim. Alas, no joy for poor Uncle Ebenezer, as he would spend Christmas in jail.

No, instead of a timeless tale of redemption, forgiveness and Christmas joy, the liberal version would be a mindless tale of political correctness, social justice and retribution, where in the end, the government gives everyone a holiday goose.

http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_9acf8ee2-0745-11e0-835c-001cc4c002e0.html

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webbway said:
[h=1]Liberalizing the holidays[/h]

Everyone loves the part in the Dickens story where Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning and starts spending money like crazy — especially liberal politicians, even though they can’t understand why anyone would spend their own money for that sort of thing.

In fact, if a liberal had written “A Christmas Carol,” I suspect it would have had a quite different story line.

First of all, it would be called “A Holiday Carol,” with lots of drama, language and dysfunctional family issues — an angry, rebellious Tiny Tim, wiser than the adults; a drunken and abusive Bob Cratchet, who may or may not have been Tim’s real father; a homophobic Scrooge; and a guest appearance by Barack Obama, explaining to Tim’s fifth-grade class why Fox News is un-American.

There would be a media frenzy, as Scrooge, the evil Wall Street CEO, is hauled off to court for various labor and environmental violations. At the trial, ACLU lawyers, the EPA, SEIU and an activist judge would try Ebenezer for running a non-union sweatshop with life-threatening noxious coal fumes, the wrong kind of light bulbs, an illegal janitor making only $23 an hour, and no wheelchair access for Tiny Tim. Alas, no joy for poor Uncle Ebenezer, as he would spend Christmas in jail.

No, instead of a timeless tale of redemption, forgiveness and Christmas joy, the liberal version would be a mindless tale of political correctness, social justice and retribution, where in the end, the government gives everyone a holiday goose.

http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_9acf8ee2-0745-11e0-835c-001cc4c002e0.html

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Right wing nut propaganda.
 
webbway said:
Liberalizing the holidays



Everyone loves the part in the Dickens story where Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning and starts spending money like crazy — especially liberal politicians, even though they can’t understand why anyone would spend their own money for that sort of thing.

In fact, if a liberal had written “A Christmas Carol,” I suspect it would have had a quite different story line.

First of all, it would be called “A Holiday Carol,” with lots of drama, language and dysfunctional family issues — an angry, rebellious Tiny Tim, wiser than the adults; a drunken and abusive Bob Cratchet, who may or may not have been Tim’s real father; a homophobic Scrooge; and a guest appearance by Barack Obama, explaining to Tim’s fifth-grade class why Fox News is un-American.

There would be a media frenzy, as Scrooge, the evil Wall Street CEO, is hauled off to court for various labor and environmental violations. At the trial, ACLU lawyers, the EPA, SEIU and an activist judge would try Ebenezer for running a non-union sweatshop with life-threatening noxious coal fumes, the wrong kind of light bulbs, an illegal janitor making only $23 an hour, and no wheelchair access for Tiny Tim. Alas, no joy for poor Uncle Ebenezer, as he would spend Christmas in jail.

No, instead of a timeless tale of redemption, forgiveness and Christmas joy, the liberal version would be a mindless tale of political correctness, social justice and retribution, where in the end, the government gives everyone a holiday goose.

http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_9acf8ee2-0745-11e0-835c-001cc4c002e0.html

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Yer a fucking idiot.
It is a liberal tale you fucking moron.
 
The tale has been viewed as an indictment of nineteenth century industrial capitalism...Dickens was keenly touched by the lot of poor children in the middle decades of the 19th century.

Inspired by the February 1843 parliamentary report exposing the effects of the Industrial Revolution upon poor children called Second Report of the Children's Employment Commission, Dickens planned in May 1843 to publish an inexpensive political pamphlet tentatively titled, "An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child" but changed his mind, deferring the pamphlet's production until the end of the year.

Dickens urged workers and employers to join together to combat ignorance with educational reform and realized in the days following that the most effective way to reach the broadest segment of the population with his social concerns about poverty and injustice was to write a deeply-felt Christmas narrative.

Dickens asks, in effect, for people to recognise the plight of those whom the Industrial Revolution has displaced and driven into poverty, and the obligation of society to provide for them humanely.

Failure to do so, the writer implies through the personification of Ignorance and Want as ghastly children, will result in an unnamed "Doom" for those who, like Scrooge, believe their wealth and status qualifies them to sit in judgement of the poor rather than to assist them...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol
 
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