Hilzoy Nails It
This is the definitive paragraph about the 101st Fighting Instaboarders:
This is one of the things that has always puzzled me about some right-wing bloggers: for them, the discovery that someone has some motive that might have induced them to lie or exaggerate implies that everything that person says can be dismissed in its entirety, without requiring any investigation into whether or not it is, you know, true. If someone has ever contributed money to any Democratic candidate, or written a book, or given a talk before any one of the many organizations that have at one point or another gotten a small grant from George Soros, then that fact suffices to make any consideration of what they say superfluous. In reaction to the Foley scandal, they have taken this to its logical conclusion: the fact that some event or claim helps the Democrats is taken to show that it’s the result of a Democratic dirty trick, in the absence of any actual evidence that Democrats had anything to do with it. The result? It’s impossible that anything could ever happen that they would regard as a reason to criticize Bush.
Uh-yahp. It’s a damn creepy phenomenon, too. Normally personality cults revolve around someone who’s actually, you know, charismatic and not, what’stheword, borderline retarded.
On a related note, this is bloody hilarious.
Of course he would say that– he’s a known Democrat.
Excuse me for one second….
Sunshine, lollilops, and rainbows
Everything that’s wonderful is how I feel when
I see Baghdad…
Sorry– you were saying?
Jeff- OK, so you had the first comment and you’re not Gary. That’s amazing. He might be actually doing something constructive with his time instead of obsessively refreshing the page every minute. Or he could be masturbating. It’s probably the latter.
He, um, kind of went off early. He asked me to say Go Mets…
mikey
Jeff- OK, so you had the first comment and you’re not Gary. That’s amazing. He might be actually doing something constructive with his time instead of obsessively refreshing the page every minute. Or he could be masturbating. It’s probably the latter.
The fact is, he’s doing both.
…the discovery that someone has some motive that might have induced them to lie or exaggerate implies that everything that person says can be dismissed in its entirety…
Yeah, here at the university, we call that being irrational and stupid.
Mmmmm… constructive masturbation… there’s a joke here about Gary, and McDonalds branching out into the Sperm Bank business…
“Bada-da-DUH-daaaa, I’m test-tubing it!”
Damn, no more Big Macs for me. Don’t wanna think about the special sauce.
(cheap jokes are the only ones I know)
The fact is, he’s doing both.
Now that’s really creepy.
I’m now going to try to flush that image out of my head with copious amounts of brandy.
Brad,
Could you at least Photoshop a couple searing, flaming, gates-of-hell red pupils into Dubya’s eyes in that pic? The hollow blackness is creeping me out.
Normally personality cults revolve around someone who’s actually, you know, charismatic and not, what’stheword, borderline retarded.
That’s why they love him. “He’s a simple guy, just like me. Sometimes he don’t talk right, but I know he’s a straight shooter.” The stupider he appears to be, the more the rubes lap it up. Mix in a little phony tough-guy posturing and a fake Texas accent and you’ve got a moron’s Dream President. We are living in the decade of American Stupidity. Who is the most ubiquitous celebrity in America? Paris Hilton. Case closed.
I saw an expose on 20/20 a few years ago about Benny Hinn. It was the standard kind of piece showing how Benny lives a life of luxury and how he bilks his followers of their cash. At first, I thought, “Wow, what an evil bastard. Fuck that guy.” Then I started thinking about it. Dude is GETTING OVER. The idiots that send “tithes” to Benny Hinn don’t deserve to keep their money. In fact, that money is much better off in Benny’s greasy little hands. He gets his Gulfstream G-5’s, baller-ass cars and posh vacays in Monaco, and they get… well, nothing. But at least that bread isn’t going to the Republican party.
So you go, Benny! I almost admire him in a way.
It’s impossible that anything could ever happen that they would regard as a reason to criticize Bush.
Except, perhaps, not being fundamentalistically crazy enough. Looks like Coach Dave has finally given up on getting a theocracy from those GOP spaghetti pushers. (via slacktivist)
(What are the chances that these tags will work properly?)
Borderline retarded?
Please. That dude crossed that border 50 years ago.
If someone has ever contributed money to any Democratic candidate, or written a book, or given a talk before any one of the many organizations that have at one point or another gotten a small grant from George Soros, then that fact suffices to make any consideration of what they say superfluous.
You mean like how, if almost everyone who ever served with Kerry came out against him, but the campaign was financed by Rethuglicans, the left would blow it off to the point that being Swift-boated became a dismissive verb?
if almost everyone who ever served with Kerry came out against him
IF that had happened. . . which it didn’t.
You mean like how, if almost everyone who ever served with Kerry came out against him, but the campaign was financed by Rethuglicans, the left would blow it off to the point that being Swift-boated became a dismissive verb?
Yeah because every vietnam veteran accused Kerry of not getting shot enough. Strangely it was only a very few number of vietnam veterans, none of which had spoken up until Kerry decided to run for president when they suddenly decided that the 35 year old historical record was wrong. Fancy us for being suspicious of people who claimed that John Kerry simply didn’t bleed enough for the country.
You mean like how, if almost everyone who ever served with Kerry came out against him, but the campaign was financed by Rethuglicans, the left would blow it off to the point that being Swift-boated became a dismissive verb?
And rightly so, since the Swiftees leveled a bunch of BS charges against Kerry (i.e., he won a Purple Heart by shooting himself) that were easily debunked.
On the other hand, here’s a list of people that the wingnutosphere has labeled leftist appeaseniks who want to undermine the President and America in the war on terror:
-Anthony Zinni
-Richard Clarke
-Andrew Sullivan
-George Will
-General Batiste
-Any general who doesn’t like Rumsfeld
-The CIA
-The State Department
And now, of course, the chief of the UK’s army.
And I haven’t even begun to make a list of people whom the warbloggers dislike in general:
-Mexicans
-Europeans
-Arabs
-Gays
-The Media
-The Gay European Media
In other words, everyone.
B Moe, just shut the fuck up, you stupid idiot. Most of the folks who came out against him never served with him, not even to mention being in country at the same time. Snark doesn’t work when you get the basic facts wrong. Being “swiftboating” is a dismissive verb because it was a cheap & dirty tactic using proxy.
Fancy us for being suspicious of people who claimed that John Kerry simply didn’t bleed enough for the country.
Ya know, they don’t think that either Max Cleland or Tammy Duckworth bled enough, so …
Yeah, the only true war heroes keep their mouths shut. Some of them hold cardboard signs at the on ramp to make up for the lost communication.
True war heroes put up blog posts about how liberals and lefties are traitors and how lots of other people’s kids should die so they won’t feel afraid.
Please, be kind to B Moe. He’s getting over his war wounds.
He sprained his wrist opening up a bag of Cheetos.
He knows suffering.
Hilzoy’s absolutely spot-on. And of course, all of those Keyboarders have likely given money or got on a conference call with some conservative candidate somewhere down the line, and yet they don’t think this disqualifies THEMSELVES.
I’m hoping for an “Episode VI” of War of the Words called “Dealing with Soul-Crushing Reality,” but I’m not holding my breath.
Jeff- OK, so you had the first comment and you’re not Gary. That’s amazing. He might be actually doing something constructive with his time instead of obsessively refreshing the page every minute. Or he could be masturbating. It’s probably the latter.
To be fair, masturbation would probably be a better use of his time.
That’s why they love him. “He’s a simple guy, just like me. Sometimes he don’t talk right, but I know he’s a straight shooter.� The stupider he appears to be, the more the rubes lap it up. Mix in a little phony tough-guy posturing and a fake Texas accent and you’ve got a moron’s Dream President. We are living in the decade of American Stupidity. Who is the most ubiquitous celebrity in America? Paris Hilton. Case closed.
I also learned after the G-8 summit that apparantly I’m an elitest prick because I know not to talk and keep my mouth closed while eating.
It’s useless to try and have a rational talk with persons like B Moe, ’cause it’s all a big game of Calvinball to them. You can’t set up rules of engagement with them, ’cause there are none, as far as they’re concerned. We, OTOH, are bound to be civil and source all our “facts”, though they will later be found to be non-germane on a technicality. That’s why I prefer to stick to ad hominems. 🙂
Normally personality cults revolve around someone who’s actually, you know, charismatic and not, what’stheword, borderline retarded.
I believe the term is “r-tard”.
I believe the term is “r-tard�.
aka “B Moe-tard”
“‘And I haven’t even begun to make a list of people whom the warbloggers dislike in general:”
And Canada, the country that used to be your ally and joined you in Vietnam.
I take great exception to your characterizing our president as “borderline retarded”. You should be ashamed of yourself, Brad. What have the borderline retarded ever done to deserve such abuse?