Video: Rush and Pals Are Projecting

It is tremendously amusing to watch the right-wing talking heads try to bring down Obama Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor by accusing her of being unintelligent, inexperienced, racist, emotional, and of having a political agenda.

Obviously, calling a person who graduated at the top of her class at Princeton, went on to Yale and later edited the Yale law review “stupid” is…well, stupid.

Attacking a Hispanic person for being racist when, in fact, Hispanics can be of any race, well, that just smacks of…inexperience with Hispanics.

To accuse someone of being racist with no evidence, basing the argument wholly on one’s own right-wing perceptions of her non-race “race” (it is an amorphous invented ethnicity, darling) is…well, racist.

To be an emotional hothead hired to talk on the radio or TV precisely because you are an emotional hothead (who, in one case, is also a drug addict), and to then accuse a notoriously dull and reserved person (sorry, Sonia, I’ve read some of your judgments; I’ll use them when Ambien fails) of being hotheaded and emotional is…mysterious, but not in an intriguing way.

Accusing someone else of having a political agenda when you are Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck is…uhm…hypocritical at best and moronic at worst.

Oh, dear.

Someone’s projecting.

Let’s review the concept of psychological projection to understand what is actually going on here, and what, exactly, is happening to the Republican Party.

According to Wikipedia:

In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism where a person’s personal attributes, unacceptable or unwanted thoughts, and/or emotions are ascribed onto another person or people. According to Wade, Tavris (2000) projection occurs when a person’s own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.[1]

An example of this behavior might be blaming another for one’s own failure. The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and redirect their libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or “projecting,” those same faults onto another.

Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.

So, what these guys are actually saying is pretty damn simple. They are biased. They are racist. They are unintelligent. An evenhanded, brilliant, experienced and powerful Hispanic woman scares the Bejesus out of them. They are riddled with anxiety, and this is how they cope.

It would be fun to watch them self-destruct, if it weren’t so pitiful.

texasconservative

Ms. Sotomayor was accused of racism without evidence? I'm not right-wing and I find her statement racist. So, if you find Ms. Sotomayor's statement racist, your automatically biased, and riddled with anxiety?
"Projection of unwanted, unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them, is an example of"...Well, it's an example of Sophist BS, isn't it. This is an example of just how far and deep into the pit of the ignominious physco-babble the left-wing Liberal nut-cases will reach to try and justify an unjustifiable racist statement.
Can you imagine the outrage if a Conservative White-female judge had said the polar opposite of what Ms. Sotomayor said!! That White-female judge would been thrown off the bench, let alone, be nominated to serve on the highest court in the land.