And, PEST comes
roaring back…leading to the Left to devour one of its own nutters…
What is PEST, you ask?
Also, PEST symptoms now include arguing that ‘Math is RAAAAAAACIST!!!’...
Wendy
Davis made herself a progressive champion by running as an outspoken
progressive in a really conservative state, with the predictable result that
she lost really, really
badly. Salon’s Jenny Kutner,
a strong Davis supporter, concedes that Davis did, in fact, lose. What Kutner
refuses to concede is that Davis lost among women:
The
Tribune cited CNN exit polls to illustrate the landslide, saying
Abbott “beat Davis by lopsided margins with white voters (72-27), men (65-34)
and women (52-47). Davis beat Abbott among Latinos (57-42) and
African-Americans (93-7).” Last time I checked, though, there were thousands
upon thousands of women in Texas considered Latina and African-American — what
about their votes?
As RH
Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’
favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only
32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say
that Abbott won the whole gender. [emphasis added]
It’s …
not? My admittedly crude method of answering the question “Did Greg Abbott or
Wendy Davis win the female vote” would be to compare the number of women who
voted for Abbott with the number of women who voted for Davis, and define the
larger number as the winner.
No way,
says Kutner, citing Andrea Grimes,
who likewise argues that it is racist to credit Abbott with winning the women’s
vote merely because more women voted for him than his opponent:
You’ll
hear that Greg Abbott “carried” women voters in Texas. Anyone who says
that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,” and
that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott
carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy
Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other,
some bizarre demographic of not-women.
Nobody
is saying the votes of women of color don’t count. Everybody’s vote counts for
one vote. I am comfortable stating that Barack Obama won the women’s vote in
2012, even though he lost white women.
Kutner
calls this method “the erasure of votes from women of color.” Well, no. Being
outvoted is not erasure. Until somebody develops a new, less racist way of
comparing the value of two numbers, people are going to define the winner of a
group as the candidate with more votes.
Salon Mag's 'Math Department'
Waaait, so you thought that I was joking about PEST - making shit up???
Au contraire, dear reader...
Mental
health officials in South Florida blasted Rush Limbaugh on Monday, saying the
conservative talk show host’s offer of “free therapy” for traumatized John
Kerry voters has made a mockery of a valid psychological problem.
“Rush
Limbaugh has a way of back-handedly slamming people,” said Sheila Cooperman, a
licensed clinician with the American Health Association (AHA) who listened
Friday as Limbaugh offered to personally treat her patients. “He’s trying to
ridicule the emotional state this presidential election produced in many of us
here in Palm Beach County. Who is he to offer therapy?”
The Boca
Raton News reported last week that more than 30 distraught Kerry supporters in
South Florida contacted the non-profit AHA following their candidate’s Nov. 3
concession to President Bush. AHA officials have diagnosed the disorder as Post
Election Selection Trauma (PEST) and have scheduled the first of several free
group therapy sessions for just after Thanksgiving. Cooperman, whose
professional practice is based in Delray Beach, said the election-related
symptoms she sees in the Kerry supporters more than quality PEST as “a
legitimate syndrome or disorder within the trauma spectrum,” according to the
American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders. “Rush Limbaugh has no clinical qualifications to counsel anyone,”
Cooperman said. “He’s not only minimizing PEST, but he’s bastardizing the
entire psychological field and our clinical expertise.”
Rob
Gordon, AHA executive director, said Limbaugh’s radio musings caused the
charity to receive hundreds of calls and letters from gloating Republicans. But
he said he also received a small batch of letters and e-mails from people who
said they understood why some Kerry voters would need therapy. A man named Paul
wrote to AHA, “I too was very depressed, and I knew a lot people who felt the
same way. You have to understand that to many of us, this was the key election
about the future of our country, and with a Bush win that future is pretty much
destroyed. Naturally, there’s going to be some significant grief.” “The people
here in Palm Beach County now in therapy or support groups are the canaries in
the mine shaft,” Gordon said. “There could be thousands of others, even
Republicans, who need to be in therapy over this election.” Gordon said the AHA
on Monday also received its first out-of-state call – from a fixed-income woman
in Texas who is “absolutely terrified of what Bush will do” – and scheduled a
free telephone therapy session with her for today.
Douglas
Schooler, the Boca Raton trauma specialist who treated 20 people with
hypnotherapy following Kerry’s loss, said he believes many people suffering
from election-related symptoms are still afraid to step forward.“The
Republicans want Kerry voters to shut up and pretend they’re not feeling
anything,” Schooler said. “But many people have serious emotional pain over
this election and it’s unhealthy to stuff it down inside of you. Therapy is the
best way.” Although Schooler said he never listens to Limbaugh, he said he has
been deluged by similar phone calls and attacked on South Florida’s radio talk
shows. “Most of the calls I’m getting are from Republicans making fun of the
whole thing,” Schooler said. “One guy wrote me a letter saying I should tell
people to vote Republican and save themselves the stress. Republicans want to
minimize the whole story of election fraud and voter anger.” Schooler said he
did not expect the Republican gloating to stop anytime soon. Limbaugh, a Palm
Beach County resident who owns $26 million worth of property in the area, read
the two BocaNews exclusives on his nationally syndicated radio program last
week.
“So if anybody on the left wants some serious therapy here and
counseling, I’m more than willing to offer my assistance as well,” Limbaugh
said on Nov. 9. On Nov. 12, accused by Gordon of picking up the story to rub it
in the faces of Democrats, Limbaugh said, “Now, my friends, I didn’t do that. I
reached out. I offered a hand of friendship. I offered my own counseling
services.” AHA officials, listening to the taped broadcasts, described
Limbaugh’s tone of voice as sarcastic.
Would I lie to you, honey?
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