This shit is insane
Feb. 17th, 2005 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythOkay, seriously. Sane conservatives, I know there's a few of you out there, this has to stop. The whole "with us or against us" crock has gotten to the point where idiots are accusing Jimmy Carter of being "on the other side". Matt Yglesias has an update here, I'm not going to link to the original post that sparked it, because I don't want to bump them up Google. Though maybe I should help googlebomb them with something unflattering.
Seriously, this isn't new. Rush Limbaugh's been doing it for years. Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly have all ridden this to bestsellers. These people are ignorant, foaming at the mouth, shitheads. If there's any sane conservatives out there, by not speaking against these things, by letting these people get into the positions they are, by apologizing for Rush Limbaugh's, Michael Savage's, and Fox News's hate and lie spewing, you've aided and abetted them. So they're on "your side". BFD. They're liars, hatemongers, and propagandists of the worst stripe. They are the mouth of the GOP now. And if you want to say "We're not like that," or "we're different, or anything like that, it's exposed as the lie it is. The right hauls up powerless fringe characters like Ward Churchill, and then says all liberals are like them.
I'm not taking this shit any more. America was not founded in hate-spewing and propaganda. Those aren't our values. If you ever want to start acting like rational people again, maybe we'll talk, but for now, you're all the enemy, because you won't stop them. Not even when the President, the VP, and the rest of the Administration lie about weapons, lie about people, and uses proxies of vicious slander like the Swift Boat Veterans.
If somebody wants to provide actual evidence of anything that could be considered trafficing with enemies, feel free. Things like, oh, I dunno, selling arms to terrorists, or drugs to other terrorists, or weapons to dictators, or that kind of thing. (No, I'm not thinking of anybody in particular, who, me?)
Tags: Politics
Seriously, this isn't new. Rush Limbaugh's been doing it for years. Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly have all ridden this to bestsellers. These people are ignorant, foaming at the mouth, shitheads. If there's any sane conservatives out there, by not speaking against these things, by letting these people get into the positions they are, by apologizing for Rush Limbaugh's, Michael Savage's, and Fox News's hate and lie spewing, you've aided and abetted them. So they're on "your side". BFD. They're liars, hatemongers, and propagandists of the worst stripe. They are the mouth of the GOP now. And if you want to say "We're not like that," or "we're different, or anything like that, it's exposed as the lie it is. The right hauls up powerless fringe characters like Ward Churchill, and then says all liberals are like them.
I'm not taking this shit any more. America was not founded in hate-spewing and propaganda. Those aren't our values. If you ever want to start acting like rational people again, maybe we'll talk, but for now, you're all the enemy, because you won't stop them. Not even when the President, the VP, and the rest of the Administration lie about weapons, lie about people, and uses proxies of vicious slander like the Swift Boat Veterans.
If somebody wants to provide actual evidence of anything that could be considered trafficing with enemies, feel free. Things like, oh, I dunno, selling arms to terrorists, or drugs to other terrorists, or weapons to dictators, or that kind of thing. (No, I'm not thinking of anybody in particular, who, me?)
Tags: Politics
