Both Hands and a Flashlight
I've seen some crazy shit in the (supposedly) conservative blogosphere, but I finally found one that left me speechless (I know!) for quite some time.
This one had to do with the bombing of the Golden Mosque.
But first, I'd like to exercise my rights as one of the “Moonbats” in this darn “reality-based” world I live in and give some perspective about the bombing:
- perhaps in excess of 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died during the U.S. occupation
- there are multiple religious groups in conflict in the ruins of Iraq
- the U.S. troops are spread thin and don't seem to be very effectively keeping the peace
- the Golden Mosque is one of the holiest Shiite sites in the region
The last point bears repeating: so holy is this mosque that the entire country is in danger of a full-scale civil war. For all the “bleeding heart” accusations the Rightwingers make about the Liberals, for all the contorted heart-wrenching the Progressives have done over so much death, so much injury, so much violence, so much fear, so much hurt, the fine, fine folks at blogsforbush.com post an entry entitled, More Bad News for Democrats, an offensively myopic and rabid notion that the Democrats might consider it “bad news” if a civil war in Iraq is avoided.
Yes, so horribly perverse they've become that they can't even celebrate the hope that civil war might be avoided! Instead, they try to paint it as a bad political turn for Democrats.
They're humanity stretched to its lower-limits. They couldn't find a realistic perspective with both hands and a flashlight.
Delusions of grandeur and intense paranoia might explain the rightwing blogosphere's behavior, and maybe they've become this way because they're starting to understand that keeping power requires more finesse that seizing it.
In any event, I can't avoid the overarching sense that they're simply despicable.
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I find Republicans and small, spoiled adolescents to have much in common. They can be despicable, they can be jerks, they can selfishly abuse the powers given to them and they can sometimes make comments that are ridiculous, hurtful and patheticly misinformed. With both I always get the feeling that what they most need is just a good spanking then to be sent to their rooms. Then the grown-ups can get their work done.
Posted by: Sean | February 26, 2006 02:59 AM
i'll be disappointed in a dark corner of my mind if there isn't a full-scale civil war. i'm waiting for things to really explode... i've stocked up on popcorn, and i have all the sattelite news channels in my favorites list... i didn't start the whole mess... but i'm sure going to be glued to the set when it explodes. i know, i'm not supposed to say this... we're all supposed to tow the humanitarian "i hope everything works out peacefully" line... but what if that's, deep-down, bullshit? what if i'm ready to revel in schadenfreunde? should i lie about it? or just be honest (and perhaps evil) and say BRING ON THE CIVIL WAR! Make Bush FACE the nightmare he has created. If Bush succeeds in Iraq... i'll be bitter. Wish i was a better person, but that's just how i feel... and i'd rather be honest than liked. :)
Posted by: Spencer | February 26, 2006 03:07 AM
Well, at least you're being candid. :)
For me, it's not a movie. It's real people being hurt and being killed.
My opposition to the U.S. Occupation wasn't that it was Bush in the Whitehouse when it happened, it was THAT IT HAPPENED.
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | February 26, 2006 03:10 AM
It's so hard being a non-judgmental anthropologist when there are people who not only have vastly different worldviews as I do but are also just plain evil. To paraphrase Randy Newman, Republicans got no reason to live. I hate them. Jerks.
Posted by: ted | February 26, 2006 09:45 AM
I do not hope civil war breaks out in Iraq. However, that was one of the dangers of the kind of operation we undertook. And when I saw the headline, I thought aloud in my most sarcastic voice, "Oh, civil war. Who would have guessed?"
Generally speaking, when the US gets involved, nations aren't freed or even united, they're fractured. You only have to look at our success rate to see what I mean.
That said, your hands-with-flashlight reference has me imagining Republican goatse parties. I'm both amused and disgusted. Ugh.
Posted by: Josh(ums) | February 27, 2006 10:44 AM