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Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion
A 3-year-old Onion video titled "Martial Law Plans Revealed?" has swept across the internet recently, and taken the gullible along with it. The video has some preaching from the highest mountain top about the evils of a government turning fascist, and an equal number explaining until red in the face what The Onion is.
Reactionaries always whine about 'those dirty damn liberals' as an effort to distract from real policy discussions. Troll like, they are often spit out comments about how 'their liberal friends' are 'so stupid'.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Outside of the Acorn thing, all of those are demonstrations that republicans are generally stupid and ignorant, not conspiracy theorists ;)
Sarah Palin quit half way through her term as governor, demonstrating she is a quitter. She has demonstrated a complete lack of intelligence, the next most important quality of a leader.
I can't believe anyone is defending Sarah Palin. Seriously, you demonstrate my point about irrat5inal right wing beliefs for me.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Google 'poll of right wing beliefs' if you don't believe me. Obama derangement syndrome has driven right wingers absolutely crazy. They can not believe a black liberal is president, that a black man is smarter and more powerful than they are. These small minded bigots have always excused their own shortcomings by saying, "I may be a complete failure, but at least I'm not black!" Well, now they have nothing, and it has driven them bug berserk.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Bullshit. The numbers on that poll were not made up. You are the first person claiming that that particular poll contains false data. The only polls with disputed numbers were the weekly tracking polls. Heck, it's in the first sentence of the article you link to.
Research 2000 defrauded dailyKos. DailyKos themselves broke the story and sued the pollster. The poll I mention was not one that was faked. No one (except, I suppose, you) debates the numbers in the poll of Republican opinions, and they have been backed up by other polls.
Seriously, this just made you look bad. Learn to find good information.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The "complete lack of intelligence" comes from basically every interview she did during the McCain campaign. She did fine when she had a script in front of her, but every time she was interviewed without pre-screened questions, she looked like a deer in the headlights. Hell, she couldn't even name a single periodical that she read when interviewed by Katie Couric. Her respond was 'most of them'. She couldn't think of the name of a single publication that she reads. I'm guessing that's because she doesn't read, but she couldn't even think of a better lie than 'most of them' under pressure.
So what do we say about the idiots that saw the faked Shirley Sharrod video up on breitbart.com and rushed to denounce her and the NAACP as racist, when in fact the original video shows the exact opposite?
You are falling for the diversion.
The video wasn't faked, and it wasn't an attack on Sherrod. It was intended to show the NAACP audience's reaction as she is telling the story. They are nodding their heads and offering other signs of agreement as she tells what she did -- long before she explains that she realized it was wrong.
Now, that it's out there, the NAACP and everyone else is scrambling to make Sherrod into a victim, so that you don't notice that the NAACP is guilty of exactly what they are accusing others: tacitly supporting racist behavior.
Zero points for reading and comprehension - how do you go from "racial elements" to "grounded on"?
Watch this Heartland Institute video