Comments on: Conservative media sez, thank god we don’t have to lie to you anymore!

By: Willie

Willie — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:43:04 +0000

haha….right on. People just keep believing Rush because thats what they want to believe. With many people credibility doesn’t seem to hold much water these days.

By: snakefing

snakefing — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:12:19 +0000

Well, what it comes down to is that Rush knows (from his own experience) that his listeners don’t prefer the Republicans so much as they loathe the Democrats. Empowered women, brown people … it’s all too much.

Now the bad guys are in charge, he can go back to just bad-mouthing them.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:06:47 +0000

The pundits lied to their audience, and Bush lied to the Republican candidates when he pledged to keep Rumsfeld no matter what. If they’d been honest, if Bush had sacked Rumsfeld like he was considering anyway, only in advance, they could have fought this election to at least a draw.

It all amounts to massive self-sabotage. And what does self-sabotage indicate?

Self-loathing.

By: alicia-logic

alicia-logic — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:04:26 +0000

I get the feeling that many of the listeners/readers of these Reichwing pundits almost want to be lied to.

You called it, MikeEss.

I believe it’s related to the same character flaw that causes the male variety to prefer female submission to arousal in the bedroom.

“Oh, baby, make me feel big by faking it one more time!”

By: Longhairedweirdo

Longhairedweirdo — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:42:14 +0000

I get the feeling that many of the listeners/readers of these Reichwing pundits almost want to be lied to.

Well, they’ve been told a lot of wonderful lies that make them out to be heros; why wouldn’t they want that to continue? Why would they want to give up the struggle against the evil liberals who just don’t understand that those Ay-rabs want to murder us all and conquer the world? Why would then want to give up on the heroic struggle against the evil baby killers? Why would they think it’s okay to let those awful liberals tax us all to death and then tax us afterwards?

As long as there are enough people who profit enough by speaking hatefully, there will be plenty of hate going around, and while there’s plenty of hate going around, there’ll be plenty of people who profit by it.

By: Marked Hoosier

Marked Hoosier — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:00:23 +0000

Maybe being a conservative involves telling each other lies to convince yourselves you live in a world neither of you actually believe is real.

No, I see it as these wingnuts see themselves as infallible. They feel they are NEVER wrong, thus they didn’t “lose” any election. They were freed from “bad” republicans, so they really “won”.

Of course, if the election were different, they would be talking about how they have been shoveling the truth all along… and they would love these crazy republicans in congress.

I think the humor is how they will contort their logic to try to look right.

Now on the question about if they know what they shovel are lies or not, well I think they sold their souls so long ago that they just can’t tell anymore.

By: firefalluk

firefalluk — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:37:16 +0000

Ms Malkin, buh-by.e Charles Johnson, Buh-bye now. Uh huh, buh-bye. Anne Coulter, buh-bye. Hey what did you guys think of that…oh wait, no one cares anymore. Buh-bye now.

Oh I wish you were right .. but I think you’ll find they redouble their venom and spittle, now that they have targets with actual power, to lie about.

By: a crank’s progress :: links for 2006-11-09

a crank’s progress :: links for 2006-11-09 — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:31:47 +0000

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By: MikeEss

MikeEss — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:27:11 +0000

I get the feeling that many of the listeners/readers of these Reichwing pundits almost want to be lied to.

It all connects back into the “authoritarian cultist” mindset. I don’t think it’s odd that many of them are also hard-right religoids (for similar reasons)…

(I’m sorry to admit my dad is one of the talkradio zombies. Sad…)

By: MikeEss

MikeEss — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:24:56 +0000

If Limbaugh can be exposed as a drug abuser and they still listen, it’s hard to believe that admitting he knowingly lied to them on behalf of the Reichwing will slow them down.

Besides, those idiots have to listen to something…