# Who are the Deep Cover Liberals on this board? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977 "2012-09-07T13:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/81 "2012-09-08T23:02:56Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > That’s gotta be the funniest thing I’ve read all year. Was that what he was banned for? Huh? Well, the registration agreement has stipulations about falsehoods and blatant misrepresentation. He ran afoul of those. SOP procedure was applied: taggert was fed a goodly amount of rope, before he hung himself. In my imagination, he reincarnated as the epic Conservapedia DCL troll/sysop. \* Wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the departed taggert: [I miss Taggert! - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=130059) - ETA: Either that or **Der Trihs**. _Kidding._ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/82 "2012-09-09T01:17:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [Poe’s Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law) in action. > > And I think all our right-wing ideologues are genuine right-wing ideologues. They’re not interesting enough to be fakes. > > Out of interest, who was the Conservapedia guy? [Andrew Schlafly.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly) A physicist, BTW. (Hey, ya know [who else](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luther_Pierce) was a physicist?!) ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/83 "2012-09-09T01:26:57Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Why do you even post here? All you’ve ever expressed toward members of this board is contempt. Oh, I’m just engaging in the same kind of partisan hackery that’s prevalent on this board (though, in a sort of twisted irony, some people can only see half of it). It’s actually quite fun. > [@digs](#): > > That’s what’s been bothering me about your posts, OMG, much more than the knee-jerk “Obama’s stupid, and so was his speech”-type comments. Would you be happier posting somewhere else? Or do you? Oh, you’ll be hard-pressed to find where I said Obama was stupid. And, yes, I said his speech was lacking-- which it was by most objective standards-- either because he had given up or because he knew that a lackluster job’s report was coming, which it did. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/84 "2012-09-09T01:40:47Z")
What “objective standards” are you referring to? Did he mutter? No. Did he mumble? No. Were his points entirely unintelligible? Maybe I’m asking the wrong person… ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/85 "2012-09-09T01:54:00Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Is that so? Take any “consensus” on this board and match it up against the American electorate. You’ll quickly find that, on most issues, the public is to the right of where this board is. As far as this board is concerned, the only people _not_ extreme are those on the left. Any conservative or libertarian is rabidly attacked as being extremist based on the underlying views of this board, even if the conservative or libertarian more closely resembles the electorate from which they hail than does the liberal. So as I said, extremists never consider themselves to be extreme. _golf clap_ Wow, you are good at being conservative! You almost had me going there for a second 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/86 "2012-09-09T04:38:37Z")
My extreme-o-meter is busted, so I can’t tell where I am on the spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/87 "2012-09-09T14:25:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > What, nobody is going to cop to being a radical leftist? > > OK, then I will. **OMG** , I am your worst nightmare. I’m a card-carrying queer-loving, minority-embracing, cut the Defense budget to the bone, Socialist lefty-pinko with passion, education, and I teach your children. > Ooga-booga! 😛 CSN&Y: Teach…your children well. So they can tell…what you go by. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/88 "2012-09-09T14:27:16Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > My extreme-o-meter is busted, so I can’t tell where I am on the spectrum. I’ve got you pegged at extra medium. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/89 "2012-09-09T14:39:43Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Oh, I’m just engaging in the same kind of partisan hackery that’s prevalent on this board (though, in a sort of twisted irony, some people can only see half of it). It’s actually quite fun. So you post what you do mainly to punish people for _their_ posts? OK, got it. I’m always fascinated by the attitude that runs something like: “these people are acting like assholes! I’ll show them, I’ll be an even bigger asshole!” Me, I’d try to lead by example, but I guess that’s just too boring for the average attention-craving person. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/90 "2012-09-09T17:18:46Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > > [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > > > Interesting. A thread about certain persons expousing “right-wing vitriol” on a board which is, by any standard, dominated by people far left of the American electorate. Funny. Extremists never do see themselves as extreme. > > Why do you even post here? All you’ve ever expressed toward members of this board is contempt. His post is his cite. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/91 "2012-09-09T20:11:53Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > I’ve got you pegged at extra medium. Phew! I was afraid I was getting too crispy. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/92 "2012-09-10T09:50:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Andrew Schlafly.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly) A physicist, BTW. (Hey, ya know [who else](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luther_Pierce) was a physicist?!) No, I meant Bugler. Unless you’re saying Andrew Schlafly has also come out as a DCL in which case my brain may explode. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/93 "2012-09-10T14:01:51Z")
Is [Clint Eastwood](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=664762) a deep-cover liberal, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/94 "2012-09-10T14:48:15Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No, I meant Bugler. Unless you’re saying Andrew Schlafly has also come out as a DCL in which case my brain may explode. He hasn’t come out, but, his conceptually-recursive [article on Poe’s Law](http://conservapedia.com/Poe%27s_law) does give grounds for suspcion of DCLity . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/95 "2012-09-11T17:02:09Z")
**moonshot925.** [Gotta be.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15477849&postcount=94) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/96 "2012-09-11T18:21:00Z")
Wouldn’t that require the presence of a sense of humor, or at least a smidgen of irony? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/97 "2012-09-11T18:42:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Wouldn’t that require the presence of a sense of humor, or at least a smidgen of irony? Irony, yes. [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15480046&postcount=10) can’t be meant seriously, can it? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/98 "2012-09-11T18:52:55Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > So you post what you do mainly to punish people for _their_ posts? OK, got it. > > I’m always fascinated by the attitude that runs something like: “these people are acting like assholes! I’ll show them, I’ll be an even bigger asshole!” Me, I’d try to lead by example, but I guess that’s just too boring for the average attention-craving person. I hate to defend OMG, but I have to. I’ve done that for 23 years of my life. It clearly doesn’t work. Not that the other method is working out too well, either, but it’s a lot easier to just say what you’re thinking than to hide it behind false civility. The problem I have with OMG is that what he’s thinking is boilerplate conservative bullshit that is easily debunked. It covers up the rare occasions where he actually has a novel point. This is a board where you guys have made it plain that you want people being assholes. Cries for “Hey, why don’t you try being nicer” gets you shot at with derision. The board has it’s good points, but the lack of hostility of its more vocal participants is not one of them. Now commence the attacks on me that I’m not going to bother responding to because I’ve made my point. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/99 "2012-09-11T18:57:04Z")
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-deep-cover-liberals-on-this-board/633977/100 "2012-09-11T19:34:43Z")
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