Speaking of empathy. I walked into a shop today and as I was looking for some hardware, I chanced to hear the voice on the radio ( I think it was Rush) trying to twist the Oslo shooting story into some form where it seemed liberals ( who hate Christianity) were trying to portray the shooter as a Christian when he really was a "neo-Nazi" and they were just calling him Christian because he wasn't a Muslim. Funny how that doesn't work with Muslims not all being terrorists to inside the Rush Bubble, but never mind, amidst the tumult and the roar, I heard old anal-cyst for brains tell us "Barack Obama told us after 9/11 that we have to have empathy with Muslim terrorists"
the owner said to the clerk,
"Did you hear that? Obama told us to empathize with the terrorists" "Oops!"
Well, nail Jesus to the cross, sell your mother to a brothel, piss on everything holy, but never question Rush. It's too big a lie to deny, too tasty not to swallow. It's certainly too much work to check it out. Like so many people I'm becoming disgustingly familiar with, these nice people sit in their little store all day injecting hate, smoking hate, cooking up hate like some junky in a basement room with a needle and a spoon and who gives a damn if any of it is actually true?
Well did I pull out a gun and slaughter them? Drive back there with a car bomb? Did I even say, "no he didn't and Rush makes Satan look like Santa Claus?" Sorry to say, I didn't, not in this town, not in the gun toting, burn your house down, hide your body in the swamp Bullshit Belt. I just said, "have a nice day" and left and won't ever shop there again. I'm not proud. I'm not proud of seeing a fake statement from the First Lady saying she "will side with the Muslims" in another shop not far away and not saying anything. But I won't be returning there either.
Of course what Obama really said was:
"The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. "The exact opposite. It's like saying "Jesus told us to hate our neighbors"
But you know, these are otherwise, friendly, nice people. The kind you'll meet in Church or civic organizations and out helping their neighbors in times of disaster: the kind Hell must be full of.
Hatred and ignorance and Rush Limbaugh, the primal ooze and petrie dish of evil. Was Brievik influenced by right wing religious intolerance or was he simply attracted to it. Should we call him Christian or a Freemason and should we call Osama bin Laden a real muslim and who gives a shit? This kind of mindless, relentless, evil dripping, malignant and malevolent propaganda is as delightfully irresistible to "felaheen America" as carrion to a buzzard and is as able to wrap itself around facts, digest them and turn them into shit as a snake.
God damn Limbaugh and all his friends and all his sponsors and all his words and all his lies and all his hate and all his wealth -- and that's as close to praying as I've come in these last 60 years.
Capt. Fogg,
ReplyDeleteThat last line sounds like the Curse of Ernulphus....
As I mentioned in a recent comment, these right-wing trash-talkers sound alike to me: always (if they're male) that grating tone of wounded masculinity -- everything frightens, alarms, and outrages them. They're always victims of some massive plot to castrate, silence, dupe or otherwise humiliate them. The ironic thing is, "dittoheads" seem to pride themselves on being abjectly unable or unwilling to think or speak for themselves. Why the anxiety about being silenced or humiliated, then? In the realm of public discourse, what's more humiliating than perpetually borrowing all one's thoughts from someone else and palming them off as wisdom?
Well, we desire none of their ways, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not they pride themselves in being dittoheads, I think it gives them a feeling of status, of being connected with people of consequence of being part of a select few who see the light, even if it's a very dark light. Better someone else's thoughts than revealing that you have no idea what goes on anywhere and if you can make someone else angry, why then maybe you're a person of consequence too!
Captain,
ReplyDeleteI was driving past the Hell Hole Hotel yesterday and saw a sign that read: "Sold Out, No Vacancy." Why anyone would want to lodge in a filthy hell hole for all eternity, there is no accounting for taste.
Although sold out, I understand the hotel is taking reservations for next season, and the waiting list is long.
The whole country has become a roach motel where the republicans check in, take over the place and never check out.
ReplyDeleteI had to leave the house last night and take a walk out into the preserve after listening to clips of Fox telling us the whole Norway affar illustrated how Liberals were persecuting Christians; about how even though Breivk wrote a long manifesto about his Christianity, he wasn't one, but the fellow who plotted the Fort Hood attack was still a Muslim because he called himself a soldier for God -- which a Christian would never do despite centuries of crusades and European wars; despite "onward Christian Soldiers" despite the Salvation Army's peaceful reference to being soldiers - oh no! No Christian would ever condone mass murder, says Lyin' Bill, despite over a thousand years of Church exterminations and Genocide - oh no!
Fuck these people. Fuck Fox and Murdoch and O'Reilly and the whole sick battalion of traitors and perverts and liars -- and fuck America for putting up with it, believing it and passing it onward like a gospel of slime.
I'm done with it. I don't care any more.