Just to clarify: The Wonkette article that Rick Kitchen linked to is mocking this Daily Caller article.
Frankly, what kind of bugs me the most about that Daily Caller article is that it specifies the mosque distance as 1096 feet, but its headline describes the distance as “1000 feet”. No, dipstick, you round to the nearest hundred to approximate a four-digit integer, not to the nearest thousand.
Could you simply not bear to write “1100 feet”, knowing that would make it look as though Obama’s house had an additional and non-factual FOUR WHOLE FEET of sanitizing distance between it and that sinister mosque? Or were you afraid that it would make your headline look “too technical” for the comfort level of your intended audience? :dubious:
“Parody” means deliberate stupidity for the purpose of humor or satire. Tucker Carlson is innately stupid and only humorous because he thinks he thinks.
Well, I do hope The Daily Caller does a full investigation of everyone who lives even closer to the mosque, 'cause obviously, by such logic, they’re even more muslim-y than our soon-to-be former President (assuming he chickens out on declaring martial law at the last minute).
Even worse:
Great when you can get your marching orders within walking distance, eh?
I was thinking “Yeah, it’d be fun to play that game. Let’s look up a bunch of former leaders and see how close they live to anything” (Google Maps) and then I kinda thought I really didn’t need a visit from the Secret Service and temporary seizure of my computer and god knows what else in my apartment.
It’s just vaguely possible that they might imagine they could benefit by bringing a reign of terror to the U.S., similar to what happened in Mexico – finding newspaper editors who have railed against the drug trade and hanging their corpses from freeway overpasses.
But this is pretty bad reasoning; the U.S. is sufficiently reactionary to respond to this kind of thing with a MAJOR law-enforcement push. Nothing could make Arpaio appear more justified than a large Mexican-Mafia crime wave. They’d be shooting themselves, not in the foot, but the femoral artery.
Louie Gohmert, of course. Why didn’t you say so in the first place?
OK, I’m lost. What point was he even trying to make here? It’s OK to oppress gay folk because (in Louie’s mind) they wouldn’t or couldn’t procreate if they were the last survivors of the human race? It’s not even coherent enough to call it bullshit.
Well, in the unlikely event that we could only save 40 people who were responsible for repopulating the human race, the most efficient approach would be 40 women and a lot of frozen genetic material. So not your traditional family unit – more of a James Tiptree Jr. “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” sort of thing.
