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Saturday, July 09, 2005
This Is A Man Who Prides Himself On His Intelligence
Do any of the wingnuts on the right seriously believe that if a terrorist can kill and injure people in London, England, that it can’t happen in Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., or any of a hundred of our cities? Even I don’t think they’re that dumb. It’s clear that they aren’t so stupid. It is plainly obvious that they do not care. The right only cares about the war on terrorism in the form of a political issue for their candidates to run on. They are interested only in running against Osama Bin Laden, not in destroying him and his network. If it means we have to live with a terrorist threat, with no strategy implemented to defeat it, and that ensures the existing Republican majority — to their twisted minds: so be it.
As a general rule, whenever anyone says “it’s obvious that,” regardless of what follows, your Curmudgeon puts on his Bull Goose Skeptic hat. In this particular case, a man who’s demonstrated both a concentrated venom for the political Right and a childish disregard for facts that contradict his preconceptions has leveled an accusation of unprecedented, monumental villainy against tens of thousands of persons he doesn’t know, against all the available evidence, without offering the slightest substantiation. It would be perfect Dave Barry material, except that he seems to believe it.
Time was, the conspiracy-mongers were on the Right. Time was.
They say it takes all kinds...if you put any stock in what “they” say.
Comments
I’ve always thought Oliver was a bit, um, not bright. When I first saw his site, I loved the motto: “Like Kryptonite to stupid.” Then I realized that he was more like a magnet to stupid, and stopped reading. The time elapsed was approximately 2.3 minutes - in other words, once I’d started reading what he wrote.
Posted by Jeff Medcalf on 07/09/2005 at 07:39 PMI, uh.
I’m…He opened his cranium and that came out, actually, did it?
Do you suppose he believes that?
Posted by og on 07/09/2005 at 09:17 PM"It’s obvious” is rhetorical code for “I don’t have any evidence”.
Posted by Matt on 07/10/2005 at 06:39 AMThere’s something wrong with your title. I think it’s the “this is a man” part. Those weren’t the utterances of a man, they were the screechings of a child, and a not-very-bright child at that.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 07/10/2005 at 12:20 PM
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