OK. One Conservative wrote an opinion piece. And it’s in Washington Free Bacon, which Wikipedia says ‘is noted for its aggressive, ideologically driven reporting, modeled after liberal counterparts in the media such as Think Progress and Talking Points Memo’. So the referenced column is meant to be over-the-top.
In other words, a Conservative writer trolled and a Liberal writer took the bait. (Hey, maybe they’re socks of each other! ) Still funny, though.
I would’ve assumed conservatives hated Spock because his worldview is based on logic, which is, of course, anathema to everything the conservative movement stands for.
Still remember insane dentist Orly Taitz, who begat the largest part of the birther movement. “There is no evidence that will convince me that Obama was born in the US.”
In short, no proof is good enough. No proof WILL be good enough. My belief is based on FAITH, not facts.
I have seen some serious presidential hate before. I lived through the Nixon adminstration, after all. But I have never seen such psychotic, logic-defying hate for a president as I have seen for Obama. What I think about the man doesn’t matter, any more than the FACTS matter.
Truly, if the man spoke out in support of oxygen, there are those who would hold their breaths until they passed out. Why, then, should they not hate a TV and movie actor that Obama paused to say something nice about?
I have a FB friend that’s very conservative and always quoting Washington Free Beacon. Everytime I see it I think 'did that say Bacon, Washington Free Bacon?, no, it was just Jim posting another article".
I had to read what you typed like three times.
Obama’s getting off easy. By next week people will be asking if Hillary Clinton had an alibi for when Leonard Nimoy died. Not saying she killed him mind you. Just asking questions.
“There is a popular belief among liberals that conservatives would stop breathing if President Obama came out in favor of air, and that may not be too far off.”
There’s a great Key & Peele skit on exactly that, and I cannot find it on Youtube :mad:
The last line of the Free Beacon article: “It will take America some time to recover from the legacy of our Spock-loving president—though probably not as long as it will take my friends to stop laughing at me for writing this column.”
Were you in a coma for GWB? Or did you miss Air America’s daily calls for his assassination and a novel about assassinating him and a movie that depicted his (and Tony Blair’s) assassination?
And you didn’t read the last line of the Free Beacon article. Tsk, tsk.
Funny, that’s pretty much how I remember leftists’ reactions to GWB, e.g., his prescription drug plan. Of course, there are several examples of Senator Obama and Democrats saying something GWB did was horribly wrong, but President Obama and Democrats thought the very same thing was okay when they did it.
Prime example: raising the debt ceiling. When GWB (wrongly) wanted to do it, Senator Obama (rightly) decried it as a “lack of leadership.” But when President Obama wanted to do it, well, that was totally a different thing all together. Naturally.
But since I can’t delete it, I’ll just add that I am probably more conservative than anyone on this board, and I’ve loved Mr. Spock since Star Trek TOS was in its first run. So yeah, I reject the premise of the thread.
) Still funny, though. 