If I believed any of the hateful, ignorant rubbish were true, I would take no comfort or pride in being American and I would see little difference between this kind of attitude and that of the Taliban. Believe what you want, god-botherer, but keep your bowel-movement beliefs out of my face. Apparently my atheistic beliefs disqualifies me in your eyes as being fit for office. In return, I’d say only that so long as you kept your beliefs to yourself and out of your governmental decisions, I would base my decision on whether you were fit for office on other grounds. And if you want any of your arguments to be taken seriously, I would refrain from citing to jackasses like Falwell and Robertson.
Dude! I moved that puppy to GD long before any of that stuff came out.
Please be careful – you almost gave me a heart attack, thinking we’d let something like that stay in GQ for two pages.
That is all – please resume your rant as scheduled.
Oops, sorry Manhattan. Thinko. Feel free to adjust.
Dude, uh, whoosh, maybe?
Naw, it’s all good, a. I just had to defend our hair-trigger rep in GQ-land.
I think he was being sarcastic, too. Nothing in any of the rest of his posts suggested lunacy…
taggert—care to confirm?
That’s what I was thinking. Surely he couldn’t have been serious with that? I’m not terribly familiar with the poster in question, but he doesn’t seem to be a nutcase…
Ooh, almost a simulpost…was it good for you too, bella?
If, indeed, I have completely missed the sarcasm in your note, taggert, please do accept my apologies and my embarrassed retraction. Damn limited communication method. Help us thickies out with smilies. On the other hand, if you weren’t kidding, my comment stands.
Whoosh, baby.
taggert is quickly building himself a reputation as a bit of a satirist. Check out his impressive performance in the Ann Coulter thread.
On thing about satire: if you stick a disclaimer on the bottom, it ruins the impact.
I, for one, think he’s a scream.
Actually, he has a disclaimer. According to his sig, HE WORKS FOR MEL BROOKS. If that isn’t a big ol’ winky smiley, I don’t know what is.
Oh, poor manny-have you been working too hard?
Poor baby. Here, do you need to relax? Let me get you a drink…
:smack:
Y’know, I never made the connection.
Our man taggert is subtle, there’s no shame in being whooshed.
Actually, I have to say it’s REALLY starting to wear thin.
I have a feeling his gimmick is going to get old, very fast.
I’ve only seen this one and the one he posted in the “Impeach George Bush” thread. I’m very impressed…even got whooshed on the Bush one.
No, no, no, no, no. How many times do I have to say this. I am not a satirist. Satire lacks the moral clarity that I seek because it implies two meanings and the sort of nuanced complexity I despise. I am dead serious. taggert, my “handle” is the character played by Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles, one of my favorite movies. The sig line is from the scene where the fight breaks into the mock musical being directed by Dom Delouise, and taggert screams in response to Dom’s direction to get off his set that he doesn’t take orders from him, “I work for Mel Brooks!” The fact that this was a parody/satire Western is merely coincidence.
So move along, there is nothing to see here. Oh, and I am going to post this same post in another thread that links to this one asking the same question. I apologize for the “double post”, but I do wish to be taken seriously. After all, what would be the point of my posts if the readers didn’t seriously consider what I had bothered to write? Am I Joe Peschi? Am I here to amuse you? I think not.
Then again, I suppose it is possible to overdo it.
At some point satire should cede to truthful opinions, or it will be very, very tired.
He used satire and…(gulp)…sarcasm! Then he nailed my head to the floor.