Pure bullshit

Sometimes...even the word "bullshit" is not powerful enough to describe how far off the mark a pundit can be. This is one of those times.... This past Sunday, The Detroit News pundit Nolan Finley may have outdone himself. The only points he managed to make in his column is that a) Conservative pundits either can't or don't bother to read polls when making their bullshit up, and b) Conservative pundits suck at basic math. "Democrats stubbornly refused to listen to the tremendous public outcry against their health care package." As Media Matters so astutely points out, this is right up there with "liberal media" in the distortion of reality the right so prefers. The Kaiser Foundation poll shows American favoring the plan 46% to 42%. The Economist has it at 53-47. CNN shows 39% in favor and 13% claiming the bill wasn't liberal enough (for the dense Republicans among you, that would be 52% in favor of healthcare). I am typing this next part very s-l-o-w-l-y for Conservidiots: 46 is more than 42, therefore not a majority; 53 is more than 47, therefore not a majority; and 52 is more than 43, therefore not a majority. The "tremendous" public outcry is little more than the vulgar and ignorant vitriol of pinheads which have been given far too much credibility by the mainstream media. Finley--again, sucks at math--also goes on to state: "Now they're learning that the majority isn't silent." You fucking idiot, there is no silent majority, and if there is, they're disgusted with you and your cronies, not us. There's also this: "That's why people are angry. They feel betrayed. And they don't get a sense that their feelings matter in Washington." First, the only angry people are the fringe right wing--my guess is most who oppose would prefer it hadn't passed but aren't about to throw a brick through their congressman/woman's window. Second--as he mentions--elections do have consequences. Don't want this type of legislation to pass? Then don't run the country into the fucking ground and then bury your head in the sand and pretend that your policies didn't cause it. Finally--funny, but I don't remember getting the sense that my feelings mattered from 2002-2006 when the Republicans ran the show. I also don't remember thinking that this entitled me to call my congressman and tell him that I wished he'd get cancer and die. What all this proves in the end, I think, is that for all their whining about entitlements for the poor and every other group they hate, there is no political group in this country who feels more entitled to special treatment and rules than Republicans. That and the fact that they take losing poorly to henceforth unseen heights. Peace, emaycee