Top Psychiatrist Concludes Liberals Clinically Nuts - Page 3

MnJetFan · 04-13-2008, 12:27 AM

I wonder if he was doing a case study of Obama. The Govt will due everything for you take of your Health Care, Coddle from Birth to Grave the Govt is G-d on earth. Praise to the Obama. We have Jews, Christians, Islam Buddhists, and others. But now we have the Obamanites! What shall we sacrifice at his alter? All our hard earned money and self respect!

JETfrmWOMBtoTOMB · 04-13-2008, 10:26 AM

[QUOTE=Press_Coverage;2476712]What would drive a psychiatrist to isolate a political ideology and do a report on it? And, further, not do one about con men?

What a transparent report, and a 1-star steaming turd of a thread. Telling that our resident "bomb 'em all" crowd would take his "scientific" study by the Ann Coulter of psychiatry as medical gospel. Rinse-repeat.

Here's another [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox"]study[/URL], this one funded by the U.S. government:
[INDENT][B][SIZE="5"]Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve[/SIZE][/B]

A study funded by the US government has concluded that [B]conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". [/B] As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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Somehow, I doubt either one are very accurate regarding some genetic root of political ideology. Yours, or ours. But it is rather funny to see the sharks flock to the red-meat topic. Reactionary much?

Too funny.[/QUOTE]

In the immortal words of the Guinness commercials... PRILLIANT!!!

HDCentStOhio · 09-25-2008, 10:24 AM

Given the tenor of this board and the stark raving mad rantings of our liberal brethren, I thought it would be fitting to bump this old thread.

bitonti · 09-25-2008, 10:32 AM

so what exactly makes this guy a "top" psych?

crasherino · 09-25-2008, 10:34 AM

[QUOTE=HDCentStOhio;2771923]Given the tenor of this board and the stark raving mad rantings of our liberal brethren, I thought it would be fitting to bump this old thread.[/QUOTE]

hmmm....after reading the first post, i figured this would be bumped in honor of ham's hypothetical thread.

HDCentStOhio · 09-25-2008, 10:45 AM

[QUOTE=bitonti;2771939]so what exactly makes this guy a "top" psych?[/QUOTE]

Someone who went to an Ivy League school?:rolleyes:

09-25-2008, 10:24 AM	#43
HDCentStOhio longing for the days of Ronald Reagan Hall Of Fame Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Long Island & Section 337 Posts: 4,859	Liberals Clinically Nuts Given the tenor of this board and the stark raving mad rantings of our liberal brethren, I thought it would be fitting to bump this old thread.

04-13-2008, 12:27 AM	#41
MnJetFan All League Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,302	I wonder if he was doing a case study of Obama. The Govt will due everything for you take of your Health Care, Coddle from Birth to Grave the Govt is G-d on earth. Praise to the Obama. We have Jews, Christians, Islam Buddhists, and others. But now we have the Obamanites! What shall we sacrifice at his alter? All our hard earned money and self respect!

04-13-2008, 10:26 AM	#42
JETfrmWOMBtoTOMB All League Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 930	[QUOTE=Press_Coverage;2476712]What would drive a psychiatrist to isolate a political ideology and do a report on it? And, further, not do one about con men? What a transparent report, and a 1-star steaming turd of a thread. Telling that our resident "bomb 'em all" crowd would take his "scientific" study by the Ann Coulter of psychiatry as medical gospel. Rinse-repeat. Here's another [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox"]study[/URL], this one funded by the U.S. government: [INDENT][B][SIZE="5"]Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve[/SIZE][/B] A study funded by the US government has concluded that [B]conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". [/B] As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction. All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality". Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance. "This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin. One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. [/INDENT] Somehow, I doubt either one are very accurate regarding some genetic root of political ideology. Yours, or ours. But it is rather funny to see the sharks flock to the red-meat topic. Reactionary much? Too funny.[/QUOTE] In the immortal words of the Guinness commercials... PRILLIANT!!!

09-25-2008, 10:32 AM	#44
bitonti searching Hall Of Fame Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philly Posts: 38,786	so what exactly makes this guy a "top" psych?

09-25-2008, 10:34 AM	#45
crasherino Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NYC Posts: 16,826	[QUOTE=HDCentStOhio;2771923]Given the tenor of this board and the stark raving mad rantings of our liberal brethren, I thought it would be fitting to bump this old thread.[/QUOTE] hmmm....after reading the first post, i figured this would be bumped in honor of ham's hypothetical thread.

09-25-2008, 10:45 AM	#46
HDCentStOhio longing for the days of Ronald Reagan Hall Of Fame Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Long Island & Section 337 Posts: 4,859	[QUOTE=bitonti;2771939]so what exactly makes this guy a "top" psych?[/QUOTE] Someone who went to an Ivy League school?:rolleyes: