I have no persecution complex. I just find people like you amusing. I hang out here specifically because I know I’ll be ‘persecuted’, because it’s always good to test your ideas against your opponents instead of living in an echo chamber like you and most of the other people here do. You flit back and forth between the SDMB, Daily Kos, Think Progress, and the rest of the lefty blogosphere, where your every utterance is met with wild applause, and you flatter yourselves into thinking your vision is unblinkered, your perception of reality unbiased despite the fact that you never hear anything other than what your fellow travelers tell you.
My reputation, and other conservative/libertarian reputations on this board, hinge on how closely we manage to agree with you. Precisely because I try to be open minded, from time to time I’ll find myself agreeing with you or others over some issue. Then suddenly, it’s “welcome back, Sam! He’s not so bad after all!”. Then if I having an opposing opinion, suddenly the clucking tongues of disappointment appear, and I’m the worst, foulest liar on the planet when I don’t get a number exactly correct or cover every little nuance you believe to be pertinent.
In the meantime, half of you routinely issue whoppers so large my keyboard has jaw imprints in it. Whoppers which go totally unremarked unless one of the handful of righties still active on this board decides to mix it up again. You all are completely blind to your partisanship, your own skewing of the facts, and your own shocking lack of knowledge of any news or fact that doesn’t make its way into the lefty blogosphere.
To bring it around to the current subject, lets consider the reaction to the ACORN scandal on this board, and compare it to the immediate reaction to Abu Ghraib. When the Abu Ghraib story broke, this board was full of people who didn’t see it as just the actions of a few out of control soldiers, but were determined to smear the entire Bush administration and half the U.S. military with it. You all were absolutely sure that this stuff went all the way up the ladder to Rumsfeld and Bush, and that there needed to be deep investigations, special prosecutors, yada yada.
Then MULTIPLE ACORN offices are found to be apparently helping people defraud the government and hide child prostitution, and the instant response from the people in that thread, with a few exceptions, was utter disbelief, followed by denial that it happened, attempts to attack the messenger by deflecting the debate over whether laws were broken in recording what happened, and attempts to believe that everyone caught on tape knew it was a a gag and was just going along with the joke. And the remotest suggestion that perhaps the problems with ACORN went deeper than just a few isolated bad apples was met with ridicule.
In the meantime, ACORN has been charged with numerous other crimes having to do with voter registration fraud and other malfeasances, and all of this is ignored, or swept under the rug, or written off as no big deal whatsoever.
Most of you people are a joke, made funnier by the fact that you don’t even realize it. When I post here, I can quote the responses of half of you just by seeing your username. You’re as predictable as Pavlov’s dogs. If most of you ever had a thought that wasn’t jammed down your throat by Markos Moulitsas or Paul Krugman, you’d probably be frightened by it.
Jeez, I’m almost out of matches, and yet there’s still a bit of bridge left behind me…Uh, you, you, and you, and especially YOU also suck.