Once in a while I will pop over to Little Green Footballs and read the articles and comments. It’s an exercise in moral yoga. By immersing myself in a river of bigoted hate, it centers me and better equips me to keep my own human prejudices and hate from informing my political opinions.
Normally I wouldn’t bother responding to arguments presented by a cult driven by hate. Catch flies with honey and love thy neighbor and all that stuff. But today they use Welshman’s heart-felt diary entitled Let’s Give Up A Moment For Nancy Pelosi to engage in an orgy of name-calling, bigotry, and shameful ignorance of the facts.
Well, that just rubs me the wrong way. Follow me below the fold where I bend the bullies in the schoolyard over my knee and give them a much-deserved spanking.
~flip it~
The thread I am talking about posts the same picture that Welshman used with little substantive commentary.
A Lesson in Argument
As of 6:13PM Eastern, there are 279 comments attached to this article. Here’s the breakdown of the content of the first 100 (this is a rough count):
Insults to Sexual Attractiveness/Femininity
23
Some Gems:
26 maddogg 4/05/2007 9:39:05 am PDT
Damn! Mama Moonbat is so damned UUglie she even makes Pelosi look good! Who wouldn't want to stand by her?
#41 greenmamba 4/05/2007 9:42:01 am PDT
Nick Nolte looks like hell.
73 maddogg 4/05/2007 9:51:30 am PDT
Quiz for the unfortunate drinkers:
You go out for a night of heavy duty action. As usual, you get so blasted you don't remember a thing after 2:00 am, but you just woke up with a raging thirst, the taste of 10,000 cockroaches in yer mouth, a nukler splosion in your skull, and Mama Moonbat sleeping peacefully on your right arm. WHAT DO YOU DO?
a) as quietly as you can, you chew your arm off at the elbow and slip away.
b) Kiss her tenderly and ask her to get you a bottle of asprin and a revolver.
c)Roll over and go back to sleep, hoping its just a drinker's nightmare.
References to Vomiting
7
Some Gems:
43 Globular Cluster 4/05/2007 9:42:12 am PDT
[Barf]
Is Pelosi really posing with Sheehan in Syria or is this a prior photo?
[Gag]
#36 Ak oilfield worker 4/05/2007 9:40:24 am PDT
Excuse me for a minute while I go puck!
(I think this is one)
Homophobia
6
Some Gems:
87 NoSubmission 4/05/2007 9:54:40 am PDT
Looks like an out take from Jerry Springer Show entitled, 'My Lesbian Wife is a Man!'
#51 JammieWearingFool 4/05/2007 9:43:40 am PDT
Thanks. Just finished lunch and nearly splattered it on my computer.
All these dimwits might be in for a big day, as it seems their hero Osama might be coming out with a new video.
He'll probably sends props to the Damascus Diva and the fat lesbian vampire bat.
Bigotry toward Arabs
7
Some Gems:
#75 Poitiers-Lepanto 4/05/2007 9:51:40 am PDT
CAPTION:
"You're gonna behead us AFTER ALL WE HAVE DONE FOR YOU ?!?!?!"
#85 Darwin Akbar 4/05/2007 9:54:08 am PDT
"....and when you, Mother Nancy, wore your beautiful hijab, we, too, felt so connected with you....sisters in dhimmitude!"
Other Insults
16
Some Gems:
28 soccerdad 4/05/2007 9:39:17 am PDT "Thought bubble over Pelosi, 'I can't believe I'm doing this -- the hag is so last year."Thought bubble over Sheehan, "I can't beleive it! I'm relevant again, I'm relevant again!"
#31 doppelganglander 4/05/2007 9:39:33 am PDT
I have never seen a natural expression on Nancy Pelosi's face, and I seriously doubt she's ever had a moment's empathy for anyone besides herself and perhaps her immediate family.
First advice about argument to these posters: it does not support a main point of the author of the post, that Nanci Pelosi is incapable of empathy, when the community evidences just that. Know thyself.
If you want to be taken seriously, argue with facts/reason rather than violent explosions of insults, intolerance toward women, hatred toward homosexuals and trans-gendered people, reduction to sexual insults, and bigotry toward Muslims/Arabs. This LGF thread is something other than argument. It more resembles an eerie Lord of the Flies ritual.
A Lesson in Political Art
Nothing hits the nail on this head more than the cartoon at the top of your website.
I’m a fan and a practitioner of political art. But when someone attempts to make a political statement using a cartoon when they’re not intellectually equipped to do so, it ends up opening a window into a worldview that is telling in ways never intended.
LGF's portrayal of the "moonbat" jumping into the arms of what I assume is a "terrorist" (a brown hooded fellow with an AK) is reflexive of widespread caricature-based political thought. It is obvious after scanning just a few articles that the hippie and the dark scary terrorist are truly the actors in world events as they unfold before the eyes of most of the LGF community. "Moonbats" like Pelosi, Sheehan, and Kossacks participate on the same moral playing field simply because they both are political enemies of Bush. Cherry-picked articles, falsehoods, and unbending rigidity of though have actually convinced you that terrorists are not the enemies of every American and every member of a peace-loving world, but just Republicans. In the end, by engaging in this infantile caricaturing, all the while pretending (or believing?) to be informed and serious, you become caricatures of yourselves.
Also, by portraying the "moonbat" as jumping away from the big green bouncy football, the cartoon insinuates that "moonbats" are afraid of LGF because of the unstoppable momentum of your political opinions. This is not the case. Indeed, if I may make a statement on behalf of the community, we "moonbats" consider LGF a joke.
And, I might add, we "moonbats" actually want to capture and/or kill terrorists, not waste lives and treasure on an illegal war that actually creates terrorists. The hope of finding Osama bin Laden in Baghdad is sooooo 2003.
A Challenge
Given that your opinions are informed by factors other than the facts, I issue you a challenge: refute any of the following statements without using hate, bigotry, or cherry-picked facts.
A. If Nancy Pelosi is hurting women’s’ rights in the Middle East by wearing a headdress, then so was Laura Bush and Condi Rice.
B. If Nancy Pelosi is coddling terrorists by visiting Syrian government officials then so are the Republican lawmakers doing the same, some on orders from the White House.
C. The approval of the Israeli and Saudi governments of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria is evidence that she is making positive diplomatic steps toward peace in the Middle East.