Perhaps that's why virtually no one has rebroadcast the highly relevant prototype for Mr. Wright's fiery claim that 9/11 was America's chickens "coming home to roost." That would be the Sept. 13, 2001, televised exchange between Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who blamed the attacks on America's abortionists, feminists, gays and A.C.L.U. lawyers. (Mr. Wright blamed the attacks on America's foreign policy.) Had that video re-emerged in the frenzied cable-news rotation, Mr. McCain might have been asked to explain why he no longer calls these preachers "agents of intolerance" and chose to cozy up to Mr. Falwell by speaking at his Liberty University in 2006.
So...
I get it, and it's all liberal-cute and all that you're showing us how right-wing preachers that support John McCain are just as nasty as that nasty black Wright-wing preacher, and we should be outraged about that too, but, Guess what? You're a fucking idiot.
I love the parentheses around "Mr. Wright blames America's foreign policy." Cause, see, You know who else "blames" America's foreign policy? Mr. Bin Laden, you fucking disinforming piece of shit, and it's your stupid-ass liberal Voice of Reason and Responsibility and Decency fault that half of America is so fucking uninformed and stupid.
So to reiterate: To this fucking fuckwad moron, making up a bunch of shit about how unrelated things (the ACLU, which Osama bin Laden has probably never heard of, and 9/11) are related is the intellectual equivalent, the "prototype," even, of saying something that actually happened in reality but that America is too retarded to hear about.
The thing that makes me angriest is that the column in question is intended as a defense of Obama or attack on the Right and yet, coming as it does from the Paper of Record, it is still just a pile of bullshit.
Fuck off.
3 comments:
Steve,
I think you're misinterpreting that paragraph. The overall tone of that article is rather snide. Specifically, I think the parenthetical that has so enraged you is meant to contrast, rather than conflate, Wright's views with Falwell's. His point is that Falwell and Robertson made even more hateful statements, and that Wright's had some basis in reality while the others were 100% batshit crazy.
Okay seriously though I don't agree. What I got was this: "Us liberals have some skeletons in our closet, but the conservatives are EVEN WORSE." It reminds me of how all the mainstream Left basically joined the attack on Ward Churchill even while claiming to be opposed to the Right's attack on academic freedom.
Left or Right, fuck 'em. They're doing all they can to perpetuate the system that keeps them in power. Finger-pointing distracts us from who is doing the pointing.
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