Andrew Breitbart's bloggers don't read so good
September 25, 2009 11:10 am ET by Eric Boehlert
And honestly, who gets angry at The Onion? Answer: Humorless right-wing bloggers, that's who. Worse, humorless, right-wing bloggers who write for Andrew Breitbart and don't read and/or do research very well. (Surprise!)
Here's the trenchant media criticism posted at Breitbart's Big Hollywood site:
Cowardly ‘Onion’ Ignores Obama, Ridicules Reagan’s Alzheimers
And yes, blogger Christian Toto is actually angry that a satirical publication ridiculed somebody. (Noted.) But worse, The Onion totally lays off Obama [emphasis added]:
Week after week The Onion bends over backward not to satirize The One. That’s keeping in line with most of today’s cowardly comics, from David Letterman to Bill Maher.
Yeah, except that when you punch in "Obama" into The Onion's search engine it spits out 198 times that Obama has been featured in the mag. A few sample headlines:
-"Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of 'Change' To 'Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas'"
-"Obama Suddenly Panicked After Gazing Too Far Into Future""
-"Obama Peddling Stimulus Package Door-To-Door"
-"White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase"
-"'Time' Publishes Definitive Obama Puff Piece"
-"Nation Descends Into Chaos As Throat Infection Throws Off Obama's Cadence"
-"Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose"
Dems and libs do not think of Obama as a messiah or "the one".
That is a made-up concept by right-wing bloggers and pundits.
They made this up because they fear that Americans would think more of Obama than of St. Ronnie Reagan. You know, the REAL "One".
We ridicule Palin, its because "liberals are afraid of her" (yeah, I know, ha!). The President seeks bipartisan consensus on a stimulus package and health care reform, he's a fascist. Tries to propose reforms to health care insurance, its a government takeover of health care.
That and false dichotomies make up 90% of the conservative arsenal. I've started to reply with nothing but a link to the wikipedia page for these logical fallacies. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
No commentary, just the link. Says it all.
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/404.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/111207.html
The training is pretty complete. A lot of right wingers have been led to believe that logical fallacies, just like lies, are simply "an opposing viewpoint".
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There's this real moron thing I do, it's called thinking!
This reminds me of a blog I had come across where it stated that The Daily Show's Jon Stewart commented about ACORN.
I opened up the article thinking it was going to have some interesting information by Jon Stewart, but apparently, it was Jon Stewart making jokes while airing the video, but the conservative author took it as "opinion", and wrote an entire piece about how the Comedy Central darling sees the atrocity of the ACORN videos.
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Mum Is The Word
Many years ago, a friend and I would pick up the Weekly World News on a regular basis, to have a laugh at the alien and bigfoot stories. There was a column by one Ed Anger, an absurd parody of an old right wing crank.(This was about the same time we had an equivalent on tv out here with Wally George).
I lost touch with the WWN for a couple decades, but recently ran across it online. Ed Anger is no longer extreme satire, he's a mainstream Republican columnist.
He hasn't changed his tone, he's remained pretty consistent in his writing.The GOP has just moved so far to that fringe that they've met him on his own turf.
On every Ed Anger column I've seen online, there is at least one dead-serious conservative giving him a high five for his column.
Delusional?
If you can't please them no matter what you do, then you are a fool if you keep trying.
BTW, I love these Onion headlines. They are spot on with Obama. Obama is not only not "the one", he isn't even close. He's a watered down Clinton, without the "I feel your pain" aspect. Now I don't know who to vote for. Can anyone represent me...the truly liberal citizen who wants universal single provider healthcare, no troops in Afganistana or Iraq, cut the military budget in half and close about 300 bases around the world, and true federal oversight of the financial, commodity and industrial markets?
Hey, I'd sign up for that, Cannonball!