This is dreadful! They must all be put under surveillance and stopped.
When will this travesty end? Is the United States doomed by these conservative cretins? Must the sane majority sit idly by and just watch it happen? NO! We must demand that all who reject the wise guidance and mercy of our President, and that of the mainstream media which quite properly support him, be banished. Then, and only then, can joyous apathy prevail.
Soon after President Obama ascended bodily to the Presidency, the Department of Homeland Security, responsibly and correctly, pointed out that those most pitiful of all creatures in the United States — they who cling to their guns, their bibles, their religion and their patently false right wing opinions about such trash as the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution — present a clear and present danger to the United States. Partisans on the right pretended, in their uniquely obnoxious way, to be offended, and claimed that the notion was insulting and absurd. They did so even though President Obama himself had used many of the very same words in his widely acclaimed California speech during his successful campaign for a mandate to ascend to the Presidency! They have sunk far lower than ever before; they are the national village idiot and must be stopped, now. Boy, were we wrong ever to listen to them!
For a lucid analysis of the problem, here's an opinion piece — surprisingly, from a lamentably popular right wing rag, the New York Times. It is a must read for all sane people interested in saving the United States from certain death and destruction.
There is . . . one important thing that the D.H.S. report didn’t say: Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.Despite the barely veiled racist reference to "black" helicopters, it is refreshing that even a far right smear sheet such as the New York Times has finally mustered the courage to abandon its ludicrous Conservative stance, at least briefly, to tell us this.***
[W]hatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Dave Nalle
I hear we've already started deporting them to Panama...
Dave
2 - Dan(Miller)
Dave,
You hear wrong.
Panama, being a sanely governed country, won't have them. I think they have been deported to the Republic of Texas, where they are indistinguishable from the rest of the population.
Dan(Miller)
3 - zingzing
as funny as this is, it's still pretty troubling to watch you right wingers going bat shit insane. i mean, there was a time when you stoically puffed your pipe and didn't fuck your women, but now, you're shooting people in the face and dropping your pants on the internet.
it's like someone pushed the "obama" button and you guys lost your hardon for killing foreigners and started killing americans.
damn.
it takes two to make a thing go r ight. it takes two to make it outtasite.
4 - Clavos
Tango anyone?
5 - Dan(Miller)
Zing, thanks for saying it's funny. However, it was not meant to be, at least not to any greater degree than the various linked articles of which it is an attempted parody. I don't think they were intended to be funny; maybe I'm wrong, since I'm just winging it.
I totally agree that it's still pretty troubling to watch you right wingers going bat shit insane Amen, brother! I well remember when a right wing guy named Hinckley tried to kill President Reagan. The conservative press, of course, hid this by claiming that the guy was just a nut who wanted to impress some female movie star. But we know better!
Oh. Did I mention the kindly Professor Ayers who, back in his right wing fanatic phase, went around setting bombs? We all know that he was right wing fanatic!
They are all the same! They gotta go!
Dan(Miller)
6 - zingzing
i concur.
(but, obviously, my response was supposed to be ironic... in its "you are what you is" kind of way)
7 - Bliffle
IMO, this article is too heavy-handed to succeed as satire. Imo satire should be teasing, not bludgeoning, in order to engage the readers sense of play and fun.
The article is neither playful nor funny. But I think it's possible to write a good satire given the material.
For me, the possibility of humor around this subject has been diminished by the recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum following so soon upon the murder of Dr. Tiller.
YMMV.
8 - Cindy
3
(admiration noted)
9 - Irene Wagner
Zingxing, it takes two to make it outtasite, but it's the female who has to wear the maternity clothes, in the broad daylight, under the limelight.
Letterman's humor hurt more because I'm a WOMAN than it did because I'm someone who might be identified as a "conservative."
PS - Cindy -- The other day a comment of mine to you was a casualty of the system malfunction. It was in appreciation of your wolf urine warning! Sorry not to have tried again sooner--I've been busy helping a neighbor catch one of the many feral cats in the neighborhood, although I am beginning to wonder if her determined efforts to spay them (and socialize their kittens :)--want one?) are actually causing the squirrel population to go up...
10 - Irene Wagner
"All Conservative Media must GO!"
Dan (Miller), when I saw your title, I thought someone was going out of business.
But if that were the case, one would have to infer that the media is for sale. And that's (satire) just silly.
11 - Cindy
rofl @ Irene. You should write satire.
I love felines. I do want one or three. Unfortunately I need a consensus to actually get any. :-(
So far the answer is : "Not ready yet."
How can someone not be ready to get a cat? It's beyond my imagination.
12 - Cindy
Oh, Irene, how cool that you are helping (your neighbor) help maintain a feral colony. I am big on that sort of thing. Your neighbor sounds likable. :-)
13 - Irene Wagner
I never realized how extensive this colony was, Cindy, til she sent a neighborhood-wide email plea for help. And guess who enlisted my aid? My formerly cat-hating husband. So, take heart. (I'd have preferred he'd enlisted HIS OWN DANG AID catching feral cats, but if it means a basket of kittens in the house for a few weeks :) my ultra-cat-loving kids and I, (not particularly partial to cats, but the one who actually ends up bagging the poop) are happy. We only have one cat, a mean old dutchess who is an example of what happens when a feral kitten is adopted TOO LATE to socialize. Any kittens we get ready for adoption will have to stay upstairs while she's in the basement, lest she tear them apart.
14 - Irene Wagner
duchess. dang.
15 - Irene Wagner
but i still talk cat language to her. she purrs about once a month.
16 - Baronius
I still think that Letterman line was a Spitzer joke, not a Palin joke. Not that Letterman really tells jokes any more. He's fallen into that Johnny Carson thing where he mentions a topic that could have a funny joke written about it, and the audience thinks that there was a joke. As for Palin, she already has the support of the "everyone's unfair to us" conservatives, but there are a lot of people who became conservative because they're sick of the whining of liberals, and she's probably not winning them over.
17 - Baronius
And while we're on the subject of whining (ok, while I'm on the subject of whining), Carrie Prejean isn't an inspiring leader. She's a beauty pageant contestant who got screwed over. The inspiring part of a got-screwed-over story is after you take the hit, when you move on.
18 - Irene Wagner
Eliot Spitzer is a sort-of inspiring leader, then, for not rising to the bait!
19 - Irene Wagner
I don't know Baronius. I guess I don't think like politicians do, so I can't figure out if Sarah Palin was feuding with Letterman as a sore loser or a justifiably enraged mama bear.
20 - Clavos
I say the latter, and she has reason.
Letterman's smarmy and supercilious.
Never liked him.
21 - Baronius
Dunno, Irene. I can only say that to my ear, that pitch sounds in the whining range.
22 - Cindy
Irene,
but i still talk cat language to her
I can imagine you talking cat language too! :-) (multilingual)
But, my husband IS a cat lover. Our last two adopted him! He named both of them--blackie and tabbie. (lol egads!, I know...shhhh don't ever tell on me! He named a third one 'pussycat'--ran out of colors I guess. lol, just happy she didn't end up being 'fluffy' or something.)
He even carried heated towels to tabby across the street before he was brave enough to come inside. He just forgets that it's not a stranger whose litter box we'll be cleaning. It will be a family member.
23 - Irene Wagner
Well sometimes people need time to grieve after pets die, so maybe that's where your husband is now? MissKitty is the first pet I've had as an adult, so I don't know what that would be like.
24 - Irene Wagner
...The only pet I had as a child was...Dan (Miller) thanks so much for letting me use your satire to share this...was a goldfish I named Sally, whom my mother flushed down the toilet, presumably dead...
and I wasn't really that sad, but a cat is different.
Baronius, this is The View going on right now, OK? You use the word "whining" in the same sentence as a reference to female politician, you gotta be ready to face the music! LOL
25 - Cindy
The only pet I had as a child was...Dan (Miller)
Really??!!?
How did you manage to talk your parents into letting you have a lawyer for a pet?
(rofl)