a tale still told by an idiot

Moby’s rant, peppered with my replies.

For the sake of those who want to skip it, it’s all below the “more” line.

ok,
so now we all see that pat robertson is a belligerent lunatic.

No argument there…

so we can move on, right?

Well, *I* can. You?

the right wing in america are nuts, but that unfortunately comes as no surprise.
they believe that the world was created in 6 days and that teletubbies are evil and that bare breasts on tv are more offensive than dead iraqi’s and that kids reading ‘harry potter’ will end up as witches and that good christians support war and guns and assasinations and that pregnancies resulting from rapes should be rejoiced over.

So wait. America’s right wing, the MAJORITY of this nation (a slim majority, but no mistaking: a MAJORITY) believes all this? You’ve polled everyone that didn’t vote for Kerry, and found out that without fail, this is what they believe? When did you mix politics and religion anyway? Don’t judge me, o he of the ideaology of multiculturalism and tolerance.

so let’s move on, ok?

Well, if you would, I’d end this post. Since you’ve asked twice, I doubt you really want to.

the christian right wing in america are INSANE and, fyi, very dangerous, because currently they are running the country.

So when Clinton took office in 92, were the liberals the dangerous ones? Since they were running the country, and all. Are you even old enough to know the difference?
And by the way, you forgot to substitute FYI for IMO.

(as an aside: please, please, please, can we please re-instate the mason-dixon line? please? any sane and progressive southerners will be more than welcome to move north. we’ll give you a donkey and 40 acres and it’ll all work out swimmingly. and, in the process, we in the north can stop pouring our tax dollars into the ‘christian’ south, where the abortion and crime rates are considerably higher than they are in the ‘godless’ north. just fyi).

Regular Joe reply: Well, again, o tolerant progressive liberal one, here’s where I ask you a question. What is so fucking painful about losing an election that you want to separate the nation? You scoff at Bush’s remark that he’s “a uniter, not a divider” and then wish to divide the nation.

Snide Ben Reply: That’s fine, instead you can pour your tax dollars into other things. You can’t give them 40 acres and a mule, though, as you’re already paying $400+ per month for a 10′ by 6′ space to park your vehicle, and $1100-1500/month for that small 1-bedroom apartment, many thousands of which would fit in that 40 acres… besides, socialists don’t “own” anything. Remember? Did you notice how few states Kerry carried? And how they all had many many densely-populated areas? Moonbats congregate. You would fit 49% of the nation into a much smaller percentage of the landmass. Great forethought there. Oh, and by the way, did you know that most of what you’ve spouted off up to this point was already passe by November 15th?

ok, we’ve moved on.

No, see, you still have more text… so you didn’t.

but, alas, there are tens of millions of people in america who still think that saddam hussein was behind 9-11 and that iraq had wmd’s and that gw bush is not a liar and that the war in iraq is/was justified etc, etc.

Can you provide credible facts to back up your claims? Seriously. Intelligence briefs, non-partisan news sources (no Moore, Kos, or “Mainstream” media). Since the 9/11 commission’s lost credibility, I’m afraid they’re out too. Besides, most of what they reported was vague enough that both sides claimed victory when it came out.

so what do we do with the tens of millions of americans who are just fucking ignorant and ill-informed?

Well, in the past we let them vote Democrat. What SHOULD we do now?

do we have to start administering voting tests?

Ahh, suffrage rights revoked for those who disagree with you. How… um… yeah.

question a: gw bush did knowingly lie about the cost of his medicare reform package to the tune of a few hundred billion dollars.
(hint: true).

hint: proof.

question b: the bush administration did knowingly lie about and distort intelligence reports to justify the invasion of iraq.
(hint: true).

Again: Hint, proof. If this is true, gather the proof and start clamoring for impeachment. If it’s true, I’ll stand right beside you. But if it’s false, why did we go? Oil? Yeah, wake me when gasoline’s back to 99c/gallon. Hell, I’ll take $2/gallon right now.

question c: the highest crime and abortion and illiteracy and infant-mortality rates occur in ‘red’ states that traditionally vote for republicans.
(um, hint: true).

I’ve read this before; again, though, from a partisan idiot. But for the sake of pete, I’ll not argue this one.

question d: the bush administration has contained the highest number of convicted felons of any administration in the history of the united states.
(tautologically, hint: true).

Who, exactly, and what positions? Any of them serve as President, like Clinton?

well, and so on.
sorry if this is a nasty, political journal entry.

Wow, that’s like, understatement, man, pure BRILLIANCE. Next, hit your mom with a sledgehammer and apologize for the pain. Hell, apologize to her for the pain she endured birthing you.

but i’m sick and fucking tired of being associated with dim-witted americans who get all of their information from right wing news outlets and have no idea what’s actually going on in the rest of the world, let alone their own country.

Oddly enough, I get sick of hearing from people who get all of their information from left-wing news outlets who pretend to be impartial. But hey, let’s not split hairs, huh? And for fuck’s sake, if you’re going to purport to being part of the tolerant group, QUIT FUCKING INSULTING THE POLITICAL “SIDE” OF THE NATION THAT OUTNUMBERS YOU. Seriously, I feel like I’m lecturing a petulant brat here who’s STILL sore about his candidate not winning the election 9 months ago. The distinct lack of capital letters in your rant only furthers my point. If you want to look even semi-intelligent, write like it.

i still don’t understand how the party of joe mccarthy, rush limbaugh, newt gingrich, trent lott, bob barr, james watt, etc, can maintain it’s stranglehold on the u.s.

I think it might be because 51% of the US didn’t want to let the party of Hillarycare, Michael Moore, Hollywood, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Streisand, Margaret Cho, Moby, Madonna, Alec Baldwin, Al Franken, Ted Kennedy, and Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd get their grubby little paws on things.

exasperatedly yours,
moby

Yours in tolerance and understanding,
Ben