Comments on: The New Threat http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/ America's favorite blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Ken... Just Ken http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9770 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:40:06 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9770 Perhaps the Bush administration has a Master Plan to make Satirist redundant and therefor irrelevant. Historically Satirist have helped people see the wrongdoing of the establishment, but in making the actual news more extreme than anything satirists could think up, they render them toothless. Very clever. Perhaps the Bush administration has a Master Plan to make Satirist redundant and therefor irrelevant.

Historically Satirist have helped people see the wrongdoing of the establishment, but in making the actual news more extreme than anything satirists could think up, they render them toothless.

Very clever.

]]> by: Mary http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9769 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:24:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9769 Murray- you didn't tell tess about my going with you, did you? Curse you!!! Murray- you didn’t tell tess about my going with you, did you? Curse you!!!

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9766 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:56:14 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9766 Tess, when I emailed you the story of my visit to Bedford's Rainbow Bar, I didn't expect you to retell it on Adam's blog. Pasquino, You are repeating history. Adam's work has been quoted in China as being actual news coverage. (They were probably closer to the truth than the American press). Tess, when I emailed you the story of my visit to Bedford’s Rainbow Bar, I didn’t expect you to retell it on Adam’s blog.

Pasquino, You are repeating history. Adam’s work has been quoted in China as being actual news coverage. (They were probably closer to the truth than the American press).

]]> by: Pete IVDL http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9765 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:42:05 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9765 Tess, I want to go to your bar with you some day! If you can find a bearded lady Islamimentalist with a dialysis machine there, maybe I can find an androgynistic misandryne (is that right, Hedera?) with a feeding tube who keeps rats and speaks Arabic! Whoo-ee! Pasquino, you're on the money. Each new idiocy is bigger and better than the last, and it's the incrementalism that keeps it under the radar. Hey, maybe the Supreme Court could legislate that bearded dialysis fundamentalists are people, too. And Bush & Co would never undermine (pun intended) Usama's right to stay on dialysis. Would they? Tess, I want to go to your bar with you some day! If you can find a bearded lady Islamimentalist with a dialysis machine there, maybe I can find an androgynistic misandryne (is that right, Hedera?) with a feeding tube who keeps rats and speaks Arabic! Whoo-ee!

Pasquino, you’re on the money. Each new idiocy is bigger and better than the last, and it’s the incrementalism that keeps it under the radar.

Hey, maybe the Supreme Court could legislate that bearded dialysis fundamentalists are people, too. And Bush & Co would never undermine (pun intended) Usama’s right to stay on dialysis. Would they?

]]> by: ginny http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9762 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:43:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9762 The Administration had better get off its ass and offer this O'Sama guy some foreign aid and trade concessions. He's got a highly motivated workforce that could be taking customer service calls and making shoes (preferably the non-explody kind) for American companies (for un-American wages). The Administration had better get off its ass and offer this O’Sama guy some foreign aid and trade concessions. He’s got a highly motivated workforce that could be taking customer service calls and making shoes (preferably the non-explody kind) for American companies (for un-American wages).

]]> by: pasquino http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9761 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:47:04 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9761 Brilliant stuff. Reminds me of other humorously fake stories that seemed so real that people believed them. There is no ripple anymore. This sort of thing is so real, so note perfect, that the 43% of voters who voted for Bush won't be able to tell that it is satire. I am a satirist myself (see blog) and it is my worry: that each absurdity the regime perpetrates just inoculates it against the next absurdity. To the point where brainboxes like Michael Kinsley hear proof of their crimes and reply that it's old news. Bush is stupid: duh. Cheney's energy task force was chaired by Enron people: duh. Bush wore a transmitter during the debate: duh. Bush was AWOL during Vietnam: duh. Karl Rove outed a CIA agent out of pique: duh. None of it registers. None of it is new. None of it matters to the faithful. Do your worst. He is invincible. He is God's will. Brilliant stuff. Reminds me of other humorously fake stories that seemed so real that people believed them. There is no ripple anymore. This sort of thing is so real, so note perfect, that the 43% of voters who voted for Bush won’t be able to tell that it is satire. I am a satirist myself (see blog) and it is my worry: that each absurdity the regime perpetrates just inoculates it against the next absurdity. To the point where brainboxes like Michael Kinsley hear proof of their crimes and reply that it’s old news. Bush is stupid: duh. Cheney’s energy task force was chaired by Enron people: duh. Bush wore a transmitter during the debate: duh. Bush was AWOL during Vietnam: duh. Karl Rove outed a CIA agent out of pique: duh. None of it registers. None of it is new. None of it matters to the faithful. Do your worst. He is invincible. He is God’s will.

]]> by: Emmarie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9760 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:52:14 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9760 Ah, thank you. I've been trying to figure that out since lunchtime or so. Ah, thank you. I’ve been trying to figure that out since lunchtime or so.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9757 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:28:45 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9757 Emmarie, I thought the opposite of misogynistic is misanthropic, except that it seems to mean "hatred of all mankind" as opposed to "hatred of all men". How about misandry? Emmarie, I thought the opposite of misogynistic is misanthropic, except that it seems to mean “hatred of all mankind” as opposed to “hatred of all men”. How about misandry?

]]> by: Emmarie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9756 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:15:08 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9756 Off topic: what is the opposite of mysogynistic? As in, what is it called when you hate all men instead? "Finding out more"...I think I heard something once about how Bush has been saying since the 2000 that he needs "a little more information" on the environment before he can do anything. Really, they could just hire a bunch of students to get all their research done. Maybe we try to do inferior work, but threaten us with bad grades and give us a deadline, and stuff happens. Off topic: what is the opposite of mysogynistic? As in, what is it called when you hate all men instead?

“Finding out more”…I think I heard something once about how Bush has been saying since the 2000 that he needs “a little more information” on the environment before he can do anything. Really, they could just hire a bunch of students to get all their research done. Maybe we try to do inferior work, but threaten us with bad grades and give us a deadline, and stuff happens.

]]> by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9755 Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:25:59 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/07/24/the-new-threat/#comment-9755 Keith, bin Laden is, just not the right type of fundamentalist. I mean, he's crazy and mysogynistic and hopelessly fascist, but he's interested in the wrong kind of religion. It's like being at a bar where it's dark, and making eye contact with a beautiful woman with a long beard and kidney dialysis machine, and you go over and start talking and everything's going great. But then she makes the mistake of saying that she's got a cat, or she's got kids, or that she's trying to spread Islamofascism instead of Christan fascism across the globe, and that beautiful moment's over. And besides, he's brown without the certain bits that make Condoleza Rice Bush's mistr-- I mean, <i>special friend</i>. And he's not willing to bend over for Bush. Keith,

bin Laden is, just not the right type of fundamentalist. I mean, he’s crazy and mysogynistic and hopelessly fascist, but he’s interested in the wrong kind of religion. It’s like being at a bar where it’s dark, and making eye contact with a beautiful woman with a long beard and kidney dialysis machine, and you go over and start talking and everything’s going great. But then she makes the mistake of saying that she’s got a cat, or she’s got kids, or that she’s trying to spread Islamofascism instead of Christan fascism across the globe, and that beautiful moment’s over.

And besides, he’s brown without the certain bits that make Condoleza Rice Bush’s mistr– I mean, special friend. And he’s not willing to bend over for Bush.

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