More Moonbats on Parade

Just when I think I can step away from politics for a few days, something comes across the screen that I just can't ignore or walk away from. First, the hat tip goes to my better half, Mae, for finding this one. She is an excellent researcher who prefers to leave most of the writing to me, and I prefer to leave most of the research to her; so it's a beautiful thing.

With that said, I bring you this piece of tripe from "award winning journalist" (according to his site), Tribune Media Services contributing writer, Robert C. Koehler. We'll just call him Bob...or...Bobby. Bobby was just at the National Election Reform Conference, in Nashville, Tenn., which was, as he concluded, "an extraordinary pulling together of disparate voting-rights activists — 30 states were represented, 15 red and 15 blue — sponsored by a Nashville group called Gathering To Save Our Democracy. It had the feel of 1775: citizen patriots taking matters into their own hands to reclaim the republic. This was the level of its urgency." He then poses the following question: "Was the election of 2004 stolen?" He then lamely tries to dismiss the fact that he didn't really ask the question but then writes an article with that very notion as its underpinning. Sly, crafty Leftist mind-fuck artist you are there, but I'm onto your bullshit, Bobby.

What we have here is a classic, archetypal example of the Barking Moonbat - We couldn't bring you a better specimen than this. I could sit here all night and deconstruct this guy's entire worthless, piece of shit article, but I've got better things to do...The following paragraph, however, has so many glaring symptomatic ramblings and inuendo it's worth deconstructing:

"Let’s simply ask why the lines were so long and the voting machines so few in Columbus and Cleveland and inner-city and college precincts across the country, especially in the swing states, causing an estimated one-third of the voters in these precincts to drop out of line without casting a ballot; why so many otherwise Democratic ballots, thousands and thousands in Ohio alone, but by no means only in Ohio, recorded no vote for president (as though people with no opinion on the presidential race waited in line for three or six or eight hours out of a fervor to have their say in the race for county commissioner); and why virtually every voter complaint about electronic voting machine malfunction indicated an unauthorized vote switch from Kerry to Bush."

The long lines "caused" roughly one-third of potential voters to "drop out of line?" You have got to be kidding! What kind of victimology bullshit is that?!!! Hey, Bobby, what about the other two-thirds that didn't drop out of line, you jerk-off? Are we to also infer from what you appear to be implying that these poor, disenfranchised voters were going to vote for Kerry? This whole thing about Ohio being the focus of a Republican manipulation of the vote is absurd as well. First, how can anybody know in advance to pick this one area to be the area of critical mass? Second, if such a plot could be devised, why would you do it (if your're Republican) in areas where the election process is supervised by Democrats from pretty much the registrar of voters down to precinct captains? And wasn't it the Dummycraps who had sooooo much trouble with the old punch card system in 2000 (the conspiracy was in Florida that time the Democrats lost, in case you forgot) that they bitched and moaned and got the computer systems they wanted? When are these people going to get it that the rest of America isn't buying what they are selling? How about coming up with a viable candidate instead of some relatively obscure shmendrick senator? How about distancing yourselves from the far Left that has taken over your party? Even if you think the religious right has hi-jacked the GOPissers (which they have to some extent, sadly), apparently they don't offend Americans as much as the whack jobs in Camp Dummycrap. Either that, or just get over it and try again. But please STFU already.

Bobby then goes on to babble about the previously unheard of disparity between early and late exit polls, numbers not adding up using some statistician involved in a lawsuit against the President as a source, and, get this, the media silence. All of this would be laughable, and it is; except for the fact there is no mention of any malfeasance perpetrated by Democrats on Republican voters; no evidence or documentation to back up anything he says except how a bunch of people feel. Just because a few hundred (he never says how many were actually there at this crisis intervention convention for Dummycraps in Despair) whiners and moaners whine and moan does not make it true. And, I originally found this on an NZ site. If this is the kind of shit that passes for objective journalism to an international audience, it's no wonder a certain amount of them have negative opinions of the US.

For the record, I am an Independent, and am in no way an apologist for President Bush, his administration, or the Republican party. I am an equal opportunity offender. If you're fucking up, and I hear about it - no matter what side of the fence you're on - I'm comin' after ya'. Bobby, you have just been fingered.