# The Ballad of Dumb George **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719 "2006-07-23T17:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/1 "2006-07-23T17:15:56Z")
Best selling author, William Rivers Pitt, prefaced his online article, \*\*The Ballad of Dumb George \*\* with a magnificent flame. By the title of the article, I think you’ll readily gather it is about our current president, and his, uh, enormous intellect. You can read the article at… > **[William Rivers Pitt: The Ballad of Dumb George | Scoop News](https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00327.htm)** > > What's next? Will George go to the United Nations, sit on Kofi Annan's head, and fart like some bratty brother tormenting a sibling? Will the cameras catch him playing penny hockey during Middle East peace negotiations? You can't say it'll never... …but for now, luxuriate in **The Ultimate Flame** (author unknown): ``` **I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid.** - ``` ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/2 "2006-07-24T07:55:27Z")
Thanks for the wonderful article. I just forwarded it on to almost everyone on my email list - including a few who constantly send me Republican propaganda on a fairly regular basis. Looking forward to their response. And the entire article would be funny if it were not so depressingly true. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/3 "2006-07-24T12:24:40Z")
I thoguht the “I Hate Bush” threads lived in the Pit? Isn’t MPSIMS a little light in the oxygen for them to survive here? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/4 "2006-07-24T14:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] I thought the “I Hate Bush” threads lived in the Pit? Isn’t MPSIMS a little light in the oxygen for them to survive here? [/QUOTE] You’re probably right, **Sean Factotum** , but I rarely (if ever) go to the pit, so it never occurs to me to post there. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/5 "2006-07-24T14:57:54Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] Thanks for the wonderful article. I just forwarded it on to almost everyone on my email list - including a few who constantly send me Republican propaganda on a fairly regular basis. Looking forward to their response. And the entire article would be funny if it were not so depressingly true. [/QUOTE] You’re most welcome **DMark** , but it won’t do any good. Your Republican friends will find any number of justifications for Dubya’s moronic behavior. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/6 "2006-07-24T18:37:58Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] You’re most welcome **DMark** , but it won’t do any good. Your Republican friends will find any number of justifications for Dubya’s moronic behavior. [/QUOTE] How true - either preaching to the choir to my liberal friends, or banging my head against a brick wall for the Republicans. My older brother, a kind, misguided, die-hard Republican, responded this morning. He sent me a 10 paragraph (!!!) response that goes into quite a bit of detail proving the author of this article is indeed a screaming liberal (uh, duh…). I wrote my beloved brother back and told him his Republican creds are solid…like all true Pubbies, he used the tactic of trying to discredit the messenger…without a single word about the facts in the (albeit) wild-eyed rant against Dubya’s recent escapes on the trip. Not that I expected Bro to “see the light”…but it was quite fun to see him dodge the specifics but wrap himself around the nugget that the author is shockingly a long time Bush basher. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/7 "2006-07-24T18:41:34Z")
“…Dubya’s recent **escapades** on the trip…” ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/8 "2006-07-24T18:56:24Z")
But does he eat stupid food for breakfast? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/9 "2006-07-24T19:52:15Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] But does he eat stupid food for breakfast? 😃 [/QUOTE] His head is an echo chamber where very stupid bats roost. Now that’s a great flame. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-dumb-george/365719/10 "2006-07-25T08:31:33Z")
Drat. I was expecting a ballad. Something in the style of _The Ballad of Irving._