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kpete

(72,028 posts) Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:38 AM Nov 2012

America, you are an idiot. You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy,

America, you are an idiot.

You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy, self-indulgent, envious, shallow and lazy.

The foregoing is a summation of "analysis" from conservative pundits and media figures—Cal Thomas, Ted Nugent, Bill O'Reilly, et cetera—seeking to explain Mitt Romney's emphatic defeat. They seem to have settled on a strategy of blaming the voters for not being smart enough or good enough to vote as they should have. Because America wasn't smart enough or good enough, say these conservatives, it shredded the Constitution, bear-hugged chaos, French-kissed socialism, and died.

In other words, the apocalypse is coming.

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Sometimes, they act -- the Hannitys, the O'Reillys, the Trumps, the Limbaughs, the whole conservative political infotainment complex -- as if this were all a game, as if their nonstop litany of half truths, untruths and fear mongering, their echo chamber of studied outrage, practiced panic and intellectual incoherence had no human consequences. Sometimes, they behave as if it were morally permissible -- indeed, morally required -- to say whatever asinine, indefensible, coarse or outrageous thing comes to mind in the name of defeating or diminishing the dreaded left. And never mind that vulnerable people might hear this and shape their beliefs accordingly.

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America, you are an idiot. You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy, (Original Post) kpete Nov 2012 OP

Projection is a terrible thing. hobbit709 Nov 2012 #1

The rightwing gasbags are paid a lot of money to not only express..... OldDem2012 Nov 2012 #2

"The Hannitys, the O'Reillys, the Trumps, the Limbaughs" of the world have become megolamanic. geckosfeet Nov 2012 #3

Intelligent conversations are a good thing. MrYikes Nov 2012 #4

IS it wrong to want to blow up FAUX News Equipment, to just have PEACE for a month or so? Tigress DEM Nov 2012 #5

Applied to a large percentage of American voters, they're right pinboy3niner Nov 2012 #6

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

1. Projection is a terrible thing.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:42 AM

Nov 2012

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)

2. The rightwing gasbags are paid a lot of money to not only express.....

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:46 AM

Nov 2012

....their personal hate-filled opinions, but also the hate-filled opinions of the very wealthy and powerful rightwingers who sign their checks.

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)

3. "The Hannitys, the O'Reillys, the Trumps, the Limbaughs" of the world have become megolamanic.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:47 AM

Nov 2012

"The whole conservative political infotainment complex" is indifferent to the true needs of people and country. They serve only themselves and their ma$te$.

I agree on one point that the conservative political infotainment complex makes: people are ignorant mouth breathing indulgent zombies. These people of course, are the conservative political infotainment complex audience. And they are too dull to understand that the people on the TV are talking about them.

MrYikes

(720 posts)

4. Intelligent conversations are a good thing.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:52 AM

Nov 2012

But even here, or I should say, more importantly here, please remember that some of us are not as intelligent as others. There are many reasons for this of course, but here we are. And on the republican side, there they are also.

Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)

5. IS it wrong to want to blow up FAUX News Equipment, to just have PEACE for a month or so?

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:55 AM

Nov 2012

I don't want anyone to be hurt. I just want them off the airwaves for a month or so to stem the flow of bullsh*t coming from their deluded mouths. OK, they can still spew, just not 24X7 to such a huge audience.

Let their families and neighbors listen.

Nah, it would make them martyrs and then people would feel MORE compelled to believe the crap they call "knews".

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

6. Applied to a large percentage of American voters, they're right

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:01 AM

Nov 2012

Unfortunately for them, that's not the Obama voters--it's their GOP base.

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