# And the prize for the most offensive and twisted analogy of 2004 goes to... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336 "2004-12-17T14:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/1 "2004-12-17T14:31:22Z")
**State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri** , who recently compared U.S. liberals to the 9/11 hijackers: > [@](#): > > State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri prefiled two bills for the next session of the Legislature that she said “reflect what people want.” One would remove the state’s requirement that all forms of contraception and their potential health effects be taught in schools, leaving the focus on abstinence. Another would require publishers that sell biology textbooks to Missouri to include at least one chapter with alternative theories to evolution. > > “These are common-sense, grass-roots ideas from the people I represent, and I’d be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn’t feel they were the right solutions to these problems,” Ms. Davis said. > > “ **It’s like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11 and took people to a place where they didn’t want to go** ,” she added. “I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don’t want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is our country and we’re going to take it back.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/national/13states.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/national/13states.html) [NY Times article; registration required] Congratulations, Rep. Davis! By comparing the teaching of safe sex and evolution to horrific acts of terrorism, you’ve made an invaluable contribution toward the ongoing Talibanization of this great country of ours. And in the words of our Vice President, allow me to invite you to go fuck yourself. Fucking bitch. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/2 "2004-12-17T14:44:15Z")
When will these fundie morons realize that the understanding of gene frequency shifts in populations is not a theological question? Science is not pro=God or anti-God–it has nothing to do with God whatsoever. Relgion and science should imitate Crow T Robot and Tom Servo by playing sea lion and squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/3 "2004-12-17T14:56:17Z")
I gotta tell ya, my heart swells with pride to live in this state, with these shining beacons of humanity. Won’t find good human beings like her in Yurp, no sirree! The sad thing is, when she says, “These are [dumbass, ignorant] ideas from the people I represent, and I’d be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn’t feel they were the right solutions to these problems,” I wouldn’t be surprised if she was right. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/4 "2004-12-17T15:23:39Z")
> [@Fucking bitch](#): > > I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don’t want to go. Damn straight. Especially if where you want to go is back into the dark ages. Stupid cunt. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/5 "2004-12-17T15:28:51Z")
I should apologize for my “stupid cunt” comment. I in no way intended to compare Rep. Davis to a warm, desirable, lovely organ. My comparison is an insult to cunts everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/6 "2004-12-17T18:22:56Z")
The fact that she is taking the country “back” and that other people will feel their country is being “hijacked” doesn’t seem to bother her… Stupid… stupid… Good luck “liberals”… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/7 "2004-12-17T18:42:48Z")
I contend that it is in fact people like Rep. Davis taking my country somewhere it doesn’t want to go, and the proof, in part, will be when her idiotic bills get voted down in the state legislature. I mean, they haven’t got any serious chance of passing, do they? (shudder) ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/8 "2004-12-17T19:05:03Z")
9/11 is the secret code… you say 9/11 and any budget you want will be approved… you keep repeating 9/11 and know one will doubt your patriotism… you say remember 9/11 and anything is justified… sad… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/9 "2004-12-17T19:18:00Z")
And anyone who says, “Women should run the country, they wouldn’t make as big a mess of it as the men have,” should look to Cynthia Davis and hang their head in shame. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/10 "2004-12-17T19:44:22Z")
Like this ditty from the [url=]NAACP’s Julian Bond 6/2/04 > [@](#): > > They _(from the ever popular us vs. them)_ preach racial neutrality and they practice racial division. They celebrate Dr. King and they misuse his message. Their idea of reparations is to give war criminal Jefferson Davis a pardon _(not to mention the fact the idea itself is a moronic one)_. Their idea of a pristine environment is a parking lot before the lines are painted in _(Paging: Chrissie Hynde)_ . Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the confederate swastika flying side by side (I had no idea 12 million people were exterminated en masse while the stars and bars flew over southern statehouses). Their idea of compassion is to ask the guest at the millionaire’s banquet if they want an extra helping or a second dessert. _(So this is just a rant aimed at carb counting millionaires?)_ They’ve tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. _(Tom Ridge was in the Homeland Security, not Treasury)_. They’ve written a new constitution for Iraq and ignored the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban-wing of American politics. _(Call the dog pound! There are millions of Islamic lunatics foaming at the mouth)_ Not bolding his, cuz it’s doesn’t deserve it. (Granted, Bond isn’t some misguided, two-bit state-level politician, he’s only a spokesman for one of the oldest civil rights groups in the country) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/11 "2004-12-17T20:06:22Z")
> [@](#): > > I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don’t want to go. A…very…uncomforable place? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/12 "2004-12-17T20:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > “These are [dumbass, ignorant] ideas from the people I represent, and I’d be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn’t feel they were the right solutions to these problems,” > [@](#): > > When will these fundie morons realize that the understanding of gene frequency shifts in populations is not a theological question I don’t post here often enough for my opinion to mean much to any of you I suppose, but it hacks me off to no end that if I don’t buy into evolution I am automatically backward and intellectually challanged. I am curious how many folks in this thread calling people ‘fundies’ and claiming evolution is scientifically the only solution that should be presented have done any indepth research on this topic. I’m not talking the stuff you get in high school or college, I am talking actual in depth, checking all sides of the story and verifying sources, research. This is a theory, with all the holes and flaws and problems of any other theory, and yet for some reason its policitally incorrect to even suggest it might not be the right answer. So we shove it down our kids throats and they come out of school just like the posters here… convinved its right without even have been exposed to any of its flaws or problems. And if someone says ‘Maybe we shouldn’t be treating this as the pure gem of truth we act like it is’ they’re automtically a, how was it phrased? Ah yes. A fundie moron. I am not saying it is right for the congresswoman to use the comparision she did. It’s idiotic to compare 9/11 to such things. I’ll even go so far as to say teaching abesinence only in public school is niave and misguided. But I am not a dumbass, moron, and ignorant just because I don’t buy into something as ridiculous as evolution. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/13 "2004-12-17T20:26:33Z")
Must be a graduate of the Ann Coulter School of Dignified Speaking. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/14 "2004-12-17T20:43:43Z")
> [@LastCall](#): > > I am curious how many folks in this thread calling people ‘fundies’ and claiming evolution is scientifically the only solution that should be presented have done any indepth research on this topic. I’m not talking the stuff you get in high school or college, I am talking actual in depth, checking all sides of the story and verifying sources, research. Yes, many many many people here have done an enormous amount of research on evolution, and truly know what they’re talking about. How much have you done? ---
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/15 "2004-12-17T21:03:59Z")
> [@LastCall](#): > > But I am not a dumbass, moron, and ignorant just because I > don’t buy into something as ridiculous as evolution. I’ll admit, I never really bothered to learn the anti-evolution’s reasons for their stance. Why is it ridiculous? ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/16 "2004-12-17T21:06:13Z")
> [@LastCall](#): > > I > This is a theory, with all the holes and flaws and problems of any other theory, and yet for some reason its policitally incorrect to even suggest it might not be the right answer. So we shove it down our kids throats and they come out of school just like the posters here… convinved its right without even have been exposed to any of its flaws or problems. And if someone says ‘Maybe we shouldn’t be treating this as the pure gem of truth we act like it is’ they’re automtically a, how was it phrased? Ah yes. A fundie moron. > > But I am not a dumbass, moron, and ignorant just because I don’t buy into something as ridiculous as evolution. [You do not understand the definition of the word “theory” when used in scientific context.](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theory) **Dumbass.** You don’t believe that the posters here have “been exposed to any of [evolution]'s flaws”. [Oh](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262236) [yes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=248536) [they](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247152) [have](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=239373). **Moron.** Evolution is not any more ridiculous than chemistry. It’s as though you believe that it is “magic” that makes bubbles when you mix baking soda with vinegar. Have fun with that and your Big Sky Daddy. **Ignorant.** ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/17 "2004-12-17T21:37:03Z")
> [@LastCall](#): > > I am curious how many folks in this thread calling people ‘fundies’ and claiming evolution is scientifically the only solution that should be presented have done any indepth research on this topic. I’m not talking the stuff you get in high school or college, I am talking actual in depth, checking all sides of the story and verifying sources, research. Actually, the membership of the boards contains several evolutionary biologists, and evolution v. creationism is one of the most frequently debated topics 'round here. Do a search in GD sometime. There’re about 500,000 threads on the topic, where both sides of the debate are dissected down to the minutest detail. You will probably not agree with their conclusions, but there’s absolutely no way you can claim that the evolutionists on this board are not well-informed. Most of 'em probably know more about creation “science” than you do. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/18 "2004-12-17T21:40:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I should apologize for my “stupid cunt” comment. I in no way intended to compare Rep. Davis to a warm, desirable, lovely organ. My comparison is an insult to cunts everywhere. Nice apology. Stupid or not, cunts could possibly be the evidence I need to believe that a creator exists… ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/19 "2004-12-17T21:45:57Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > A…very…uncomforable place? the back seat of a volkswagon? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336/20 "2004-12-17T21:51:14Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > the back seat of a volkswagon? o/` *Makin' love in a Subaru, my friend, makin' love in a Subaruuuuu! *o/` [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-offensive-and-twisted-analogy-of-2004-goes-to/280336.md?page=2)