Ok, I’m back. Where was I, you ask? Actually, right here all along, gazing in awe at the ginormous torrent of untreated sewage spewing forth from the GOP bullshit spigot with a mixture of fear and loathing.
In recent weeks, I’ve been so overwhelmed by the sheer mass of snarkable opportunities as to be paralyzed. So, I finally stepped away from the keyboard and sat my note pad down (yes, I write this stuff out first, I’m old so STFU) and enjoyed some quality family time. It is with renewed focus that I return to the pointless noble exercise of pointing out conservative dumbassery to the masses, ok, the four or five people that read these posts.
Today we shall sample the rightwing response to the ongoing Ebola situation, or “Let’s scare the shit out of the rubes and paranoid shut-ins.” First up, the blog’s old friend and single dumbest human ever elected to congress, Rep. Louie Ghomert (R, of course, TX). What does one of the intellectual pillars of the Tea Party have to offer? From the ThinkProgress article,
“Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert (TX) accused the federal government of waging a war on women in its effort to contain the Ebola virus, claiming that the Obama administration and the Centers for Disease Control is throwing female nurses “under the bus.””
Rep. Gohmert delivered that well considered assessment while appearing on, curiously human shaped turd, Glenn Beck’s radio show.He then doubled down on Fox propaganda News the next day.
“I mean, it is a war on these poor women nurses and they are doing the best they can.”
We will leave Rep. Gohmert, and the jabbering voices in his head, and move on to RightWingWatch.org, where they do the thankless job of exposing the most vile content spewed forth from the aforementioned GOP bullshit spigot. Here we find Bryan Fisher (no stranger to the blog) of the American Racist Homophobe Family Association, who had this to say of Shepard Smith, after Smith called out “the hysterical voices on the radio and the television” that are irresponsibly hyping fears of Ebola and causing panic.
“Shepard Smith is a card-carrying liberal,” Fischer explained. “He has been outed as an active homosexual, so he’s down with the entire homosexual agenda. People think he’s on Fox so he’s conservative. Anything but.”
“Why would he want to support President Obama?” Fischer asked, before playing Smith’s segment on the Ebola panic. “Because President Obama supports the homosexual agenda”
It’s always nice to see Christian love and compassion so clearly demonstrated by a member of the clergy. Over the radio. To avid like minded listeners.
Moving on, while the Fox News viewing audience either rechecks its Hazmat suit, for the eleventy hundredth time, or gets their bedpan changed at the nursing home, the rest of the country awaits cogent medical advice from the nation’s doctor, the Surgeon General. What’s that you say, there is no Surgeon General? Just how in the hell does that happen, and who is to blame? Let’s check-in with the fine folks at ThinkProgress again.
Oh, I see, I am sure there was some genuine flaw with the nominee that prevented his consideration for the post, right?
“Earlier this year, the NRA launched a campaign to derail Murthy’s nomination because he voiced support for expanding background checks for gun purchases. His comments that gun violence was a public health concern raised the ire of the gun lobby and conservative lawmakers despite the fact that every major medical association — and several former Surgeons General under Republican presidents — shared the same view.”
Jesus H. Christ in a petri dish, are you fucking kidding me? During one of the rare instances where having a sitting Surgeon General might actually be goddamn necessary, we don’t have one because the NRA and its GOP remoras in the senate got spooked by his feelings concerning something that kills 30K+ U.S. citizens a year?
We are well and truly screwed, I’m going to have a drink now and in two weeks I’m going to vote. You should do the same, or at least remember to vote.
Greetings Slickster fans, all four of you, it’s been a while. I’ve been away doing a little mental house cleaning and shirking my writing duties, because well, I’m lazy like that, it certainly isn’t because of any lack of material.
So, where are we going today you ask? Well, let’s dip our toes in the soothing and gentle waters of evangelical Christianity and a few of it’s practitioners in the news recently. Before we start, spoiler alert, I will mention that I unencumbered myself of all religious beliefs a number of years ago and since then have no qualms pointing out the cruelties, absurdities, and breathtaking hypocrisies paraded before me by those claiming to represent the best interests of our “eternal souls” (for fun and profit).
Today we have a three-pack of human carcinomas coming at us with a brand of Christian compassion that would make the Christ they worship do a full face palm while asking WTF!
Up first, Mr. Byran Fisher. Fisher is a long time performer on the right wing pay-to-pray circuit and it seems he has taken exception to the president’s decision to prevent genocide from being visited upon the practitioners of one iron age cult, by the practitioners of a different iron age cult. Lets see what Mr. Fisher has to say.
From The Raw Story,
“President Obama [is] bringing the full weight of the American military into Iraq now, after months and months and months of begging from the Iraqi government,” Fischer complained. “Now he’s going in there because devil worshipers are under attack.”
“As you do unto the least of them so you do unto me.” I’m not sure he’s read that part recently.
Coming up next, Mr. Rick Wiles Christian radio grifter host. In an example of getting lemons and making lemonade, Mr. Wiles has some interesting ideas concerning the current Ebola outbreak. Lets explore the bright side, as he sees it, in that putrid cesspool of a mind.
From The Raw Story,
A Christian radio host who enthusiastically looks for signs the world will end welcomed the Ebola virus as a cleansing force.
“It may be the great attitude adjustment that I believe is coming,” Wiles continued. “Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography, and abortion.”
Just how liberals, in general, and the Democratic party, in particular, failed to make his list shows that he hasn’t thought this out completely, maybe that’s a later broadcast.
Finally, and just to show I’m not picking on radio hosts, here is one Mr. Victor Sadet, apparently an otherwise average Joe with “religious principles” and no fear of using them to spread the word. Lets dig into this shitpile and check those principles.
Once again from The Raw Story,
A video recorded by a gay man in Delta Township, Mich., shows one man’s violent, anti-gay rant, and reveals the kind of religiously motivated harassment many LGBT people face every day of their lives.
WILX.com reported that on Tuesday evening, Isaiah Tweedie and his friends were leaving a restaurant when fellow patron Victor Sadet followed them outside and launched a fusillade of taunts and verbal abuse at the group and at Tweedie in particular.
The New Civil Rights Movement blogtranscribed Sadet’s remarks, in which he said that Tweedie should be murdered for his orientation as per the Christian Bible.
“You’re a fucking faggot,” Sadet said. “God’s law — Leviticus, Leviticus — you should be put to death!”
WILX contacted Sadet, who said his “religious principles” compelled him to confront Tweedie and his friends.
That’s a nice set of principles you’ve got there asshole, I’m sure Jesus would be proud.
So ends this round up of Christian compassion and love for their fellow man. The losers presented here represent the dregs of humanity, by wrapping themselves in the cloak of religion, and claiming to minister to their fellow man. They present souls so dark that if they didn’t exist could scarcely be imagined.
