There’s a debate going on at a sad little leftist blog about the difference between Dan Rather’s ‘fake but accurate’ news and the ‘fake but accurate’ photoshop below. Talk about parsing words, they are do…

Beth,

Instead of directing your anger with the people who chose to made this war happen by lying about the facts, who bungled the reconstruction and now refuse to take responsibility and fix their mistake by removing themselves form Iraq, instead of placing your anger at the people who made this happen and let it continue, your anger is directed at the very people who can heal your life and make America whole again; the 70% majority that what America out. Now, in order to justify your years of sacrifice, your family’s sacrifice, your are being sold a new boogyman and you are buying into the official hatred of the new American hyper threat, Iran. Because if Iran is the evil they say it is then you don’t have to change, you can justify your sacrifice and you can continue to believe in the administration and its actions. Your judgement is delayed for another day. In this way America can be at war forever. And this administration is counting on you to double down and to keep giving them a pass.

All right wing politics is based on the cutivation and continuation of hatred, both of external enemies and internal ‘traitors’ . It is a soul destroying way of being so I hope that sooner or later you turn away from the lies and join the American majority in truth and peace.

Amen.

I didn’t even get to throw in a gratuitous pot reference.

Jillian- What is this? Your second, third post? Way to stir it up!

Mikey- Awesome.

That was like watching good anime. I’m so proud of you guys!

Do you honestly believe the Nazi mentality – i.e., that everyone of a certain ethnicity can be counted among the enemy, which must be destroyed – can afflict only one side of any conflict?

What we have here isn’t good vs. evil, but fire vs. fire.

Aww, thank you so much Logos! But really, it’s all the SadlyNosians hitting together that does it. Lesley, Candy, Pere Ubu, Gavin, Zsa, Righteous Bubba, g, Doktor Bimler, and everyone else. We all get in our licks.

Though I must admit, Mikey & Jillian often lead.

I missed all the fun, eh? I notice the “Beth & Darlene” show ended about the time they tried to deny that they were pro-killing Iranians. Yep, ’cause portraying Iranians as cockroaches means you want to, I dunno, keep the lil’ darlings in a roach farm on your dresser, I guess.

And Juan Cole vs. beth? I know who I’m voting for actually telling the truth.

education is a factor, but i’m a perfect example of someone who hasn’t received enough formal education – I don’t know jackshit about calculus or formal logic and can’t say how well I’d manage either – and yet somehow I can discern what’s propaganda. I chock that up to my parents’ influence and the blessing of common sense.

I agree with you about the importance of education but plenty of right wing nuts are educated and still persist in thinking this way. Some of them suffer from “short man” complex.

Interesting analysis Jillian. Yes, they do sometimes seem unable to do that. I’m not always sure that they are not just unwilling, however.

There’s a nice, concrete similarity between extreme rhetoric from Iran and the Nazis – both show a hatred of Jews.

But they are unable to strip away the concrete structures on top and look instead at the formal similarities between what they are saying and what was said by the Nazis seventy years ago – that level of abstraction is beyond them.

It’s something most people have a hard time doing unless they’ve been taught how – it’s why things like formal logic and calculus are not easy for most.

Alas, failure to do well at this creates a breeding ground for fascists of the worst type. Our school systems could do something about this, if they were not instead being used to produce bright, shiny new generations of consumers each year.

But that’s another topic for another time.

Bill Maher referred to it on his show last Friday so I guess it’s getting some press in the US.

It’s a keeper.

I take it Darleen doesn’t realize “prattle” means

1. to talk or chatter idly or meaninglessly;
2. to utter or express by chattering foolishly or babbling.
3. a sound suggestive of such chattering; a babbling noise.
4. empty or foolish talk.

In addition to prattling, Darlene designs websites using her “BS in information technology.”

From Beth, way, way upthread:

For whoever asked about the Blue Star reference – no, its not for the ointment. In World War I people who had a son fighting in the war hung a Blue Star Banner in their window to honor their child fighting overseas. Its become a tradition. My son is fighting overseas, I have a Blue Star Banner on my window and thus the name of my blog. Thank you for this opportunity to give you a little history lesson.

That would be me. Thanks for the information. Normally I’d feel that I should apologize for my snark, but the garbage you’ve posted in this thread relieves me of that obligation. Best of luck to your son, though.

It’s Darleen’s posts that I’ve really enjoyed. There’s no idiot like a dedicated idiot, eh? Come back often, Darlene – we puny Ahmadinejadzymk-worshipping commies need your guidance, your insight, your mature wisdom.

Gee, we never seen that projection coming either

Do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.