I have almost daily exchanges with wingtards, because I am a masochist who never tires of beating his head against hard furniture.
A noteworthy exchange with a wingtard took place just the other day. On a wingtard blog (which I simply refuse to link to, as I despise giving these parrots any page ranking if I can keep from it,) there was a YouTube video posted of what was obviously a dsoldier serving in Iraq. In the video, the soldier assures us all that “everybody” supports the “surge,” that “Iraqis are much better off than they were in 2002,” and “the overwhelming majority of us support John McCain for President” because Barack Obama “just doesn’t get it.”
You know me by now; I did what I always do, and posted two links for the wingtard. One of the links was to a late 2007/early 2008 survey in which 90% of Iraqis said they were better off under Saddam. The other link I posted showed that GIs serving in Iraq are donating 6 to 1 in favor of Barack Obama, which would surely put to rest the “overwhelming majority” nonsense. I waited for a response.
What did I get? “Your comment has been duly noted. However, I have my opinion, just like you have yours.”
OPINION?!? No….. no opinion here; I produced data to refute the LIES being told in the video. I do honor the service of each and every man or woman sent to serve in Iraq, but a liar is a liar, and this guy was a liar. That’s not my opinion; the data bears me out. I was so stunned by the response that I didn’t even bother to rebut it. What’s the point?
That’s the whole thing about the “twenty percenters,” or the people I refer to as “wingtards” and “Chimpletons.” They really don’t CARE if Rush Limbaugh is a dope addict who travels to the Dominican Republic for sex with underage prostitutes using unprescribed Viagra. They don’t care if Laura Ingraham has been long-despised for her hateful, racist spew, from her college days on. They don’t care if Michael Weiner is a cruel POS who makes fun of autistic children. They don’t care if Ann C***ler is a shrill know-nothing blowhard who ratchets up the hate every time she’s got a new book to publish. And they sure as HELL don’t care about learning the truth. Character means absolutely nothing to them, nor does honesty. They support their wingtard pundits not because they’re ever RIGHT, but because they’re always STUPID.
Yes, I said STUPID. Wingtards absolutely love stupidity. They managed to get the symbol of anti-intellect into the White House, and they aren’t ashamed of their own ignorance; on the contrary, they embrace ignorance the way that most of us value the truth. Being idiotic is a badge of honor in their world, and it is this, more than any other reason, that has caused them to embrace Sarahpoleon. Does it really matter that she’s a pathological liar, or a vindictive, petty tyrant, or a Governor that got absolutely nothing done in 20 months as an executive, or even that she’s in all likelihood a criminal and an adulterer? Of course not; wingtards, as I said, only care about hearing the lies they want to hear. They don’t give a damn about anyone’s character, or even their competence.
To understand why the wingtard likes to be lied to…. that’s the thing here. Knowing quite a few of them, I’m ready to make a pronouncement on this that probably will rub some people the wrong way. If it rubs you the wrong way, I cannot apologize for it, because I myself have seen what I’m going to point out way too many times now.
The wingtard likes to be lied to because he or she has likely spent a lifetime lying to him or herself. Let me give you some examples of what I mean.
I know a couple of white-bread “Christian” wingtards pretty well. When they aren’t denigrating Obama for having a funny last name, or spewing the other Jesusistani rote talking points, they’re smoking like chimneys down on the gambling boat. Christ had some pretty definite views about such things, and I’ve offered several times to highlight those passages. So far, nobody wants to see them.
Then there’s the young lady that insists that everything that even remotely resembles social justice is wrong. You name it-from the minimum wage, to WIC, to protecting women and minorities from discrimination, to equal treatment of gays in partnerships, she’s against it. She knows the wingtard talking points so well that I assume she’s one of those people who spends most of her waking hours glued to either the radio or FOX “News.” Wingtard dogmas are infallible, according to her, and any failures encountered are because “liberals” conspired to keep the ‘tards from succeeding.
Ready for it yet?
This righteous, hard-right young lady that can’t abide the thought of gay marriage is living in a (not so) secret (anymore) arrangement involving herself, her husband, and another woman. The people who she praises on a daily basis would throw her ass in a camp if they ever came to complete power, but that doesn’t matter to her. Other people are able to tolerate her hypocrisy; I decided some time ago I cannot abide it anymore. When I was asked if it was because of her lifestyle, I pointed out that people like me have been fighting for her right to do as she pleases for a long time, while people like HER call us traitors, p***ies, America haters…. you know the deal.
And I lost count a long time ago of people I know telling me that their first sexual “experience” was at the hands of a church youth counselor, or pastor. I am quite certain that the number of pedophiles that hide behind a collar is a measurable one in comparison to the overall number of preachers.
Why wouldn’t a culture of liars, who have lied to themselves basically their whole lives, be able to fully support a political class made up of liars and hypocrites?
Rant over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled outrages.
