Let's see how would our sharp as a tack (never plagerize) illustrious VP Joe Biden react to Pizzo's pithy pompousness:
This is a f...@ing Big Deal --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > Are 15% to 20% of Americans Genuinely, Provably and Incurably Stupid? > Can We Talk? by > Stephen Pizzo > After six and half decades on this planet I've come to some > conclusions. One of them is that roughly 15% to 20% of Americans are > genuinely, provably and incurably, stupid. And, while beauty may only be > skin deep, stupid goes all the way to the bone. After a decade of failed > governance -- two unnecessary wars and a ruined economy, Republicans > had all but run out of enough moderately-sane voters willing to take > any further chances with them. > > > That's when they glommed onto the idea of corralling America's > moron-demographic to plug the gap. > > But the ignorant are hard to sway with fact-based policy discussions or > green-eyeshade budget details. They need to be "energized" with > drama, and plenty of it. > > > Maury Povich and Jerry Springer knew that and built their fame and > fortunes on knowing how to "energize" the dumb and dumber among > us. It's all about the drama baby... tabloid quality drama is what > gets their blood boiling. Allegations, the wilder the better, and the > fewer contradicting facts the better. > > For example, you don't use benign terms like, "End of life > counseling" with the moron-demographic. (Too many of them might just > stare back blankly and ask, "Ah, why would you want to counsel a > dead person?") > > > Maury would advise, "Death panels," instead. Death is, of course, > the "end of life,"and we're all going there someday, and as > we approach that point of departure I'm sure we and/or our loved > ones might appreciate and benefit from some counseling -- including > morons. But by calling them "Death panels," counseling becomes > even scarier than death itself. That's how one gets the moron-blood > a-boilin.' > > Anyway, I've belabored my point more than I had intended. The bottom > line is that the GOP, in a desperate bid to regain power, has energized > that 15%-20% of genuinely and willfully stupid citizenry. > > > And, if we've learned anything from modern history, from Germany > circa 1930s, the former Yugoslavia in the 90's to the genocide in > Rwanda during the Clinton years... it's that once you get the > moron-demographic "energized" and they become an angry mob, > it's impossible to control them. > > The early signs of trouble are already there. The ball's rollin' > and, unless it stalls and soon, someone(s) going to get killed. Already > we are seeing a rash of Kristallnacht-like incidents at Democratic Party > offices around the country: > "...... several Democratic offices around the nation had been > vandalized in the days surrounding the House health care vote. Vandals > have struck the Tuscon office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the > Monroe County Democratic Committee headquarters in upstate New York, > Rep. Louise Slaughter's (D-NY) Niagara Falls office, the Knox County > Democratic headquarters in Ohio, and the Sedgwick County Democratic > Party headquarters in Wichita, KS. The local Rochester ABC affiliate now > has more information on the upstate NY vandalism, including an > assassination threat against the children of lawmakers who voted for > health reform. No one was inside when the brick was hurled through > the Democratic Patry Headquarters on University Avenue. Attached was a > note quoting conservative Barry Goldwater: "Exremism [sic] in > defense of liberty is no vice". > > [Rep. Louise] Slaughter has been at the center of the push for > reform. Last Thursday she received a chilling recorded message at her > campaign office. "Assassinate is the word they usedÂ…toward the > children of lawmakers who voted yes." > > The FBI is investigating. > > In search of a constituency the GOP sowed the wind, and now they, and > the rest of us, will reap the whirlwind. > > > I have a new favorite saying. I don't know who said it first, but > it applies in spades: It goes like this: > > > "Don't tell me what you believe, tell me what you've done > and I'll tell you what you believe." > > Now, it's bad enough for a political party to pander to the lowest > common denominators among us, but when a major media outlet decides to > jump into that dangerous game, it's really something. Thus the > story that follows [concerning CNN hiring a right wing nut job media > shill, Erik Erickson.] by Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle > <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/23/DD6S1CIKKC.\ > DTL#ixzz0j7QAuUB0> : > > And CNN gives this right-wing foamer credibility by hiring him. I guess > they think he's providing "balance," but is it really balance when one > participant is willing to accuse a Supreme Court justice of bestiality > while the other is willing to accuse a Supreme Court justice of, say, > overly strict constructionism? > > This constant stream of stupid invective has a larger purpose, I think. > For one thing, it causes reasonable people to tune out. I mean: Who > needs it? Here are some Erickson Twitter posts for just one day: "Turned > on twitter today and there was a barrage of angry feminists upset with > me telling them to get in the kitchen and learn to cook"; "Good thing I > didn't suggest the feminists ... you know ... shave. They'd be at my > house trying a post-birth abortion on me"; and "Feminists have no sense > of humor, but clearly God did in creating feminists." > > See, that's going to make you crazy. George Bernard Shaw said: "I > learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig; you get dirty, and > besides, the pig likes it." And because we know the pig likes it, we > check out and leave the field to the people who believe that feminists > are violent, don't shave, can't cook and have no sense of humor. Man, if > anyone was saying anything funny around here, maybe we would laugh. > > Did you know that Glenn Beck eats fried bunnies? I assume not. > > Enough said. > > http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3094 > <http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3094> >
