# WorldNetDaily determines liberalism is a mental defect! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721 "2008-12-04T19:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Strassia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Strassia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strassia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/1 "2008-12-04T19:51:36Z")
This is hilarious. I like to think of myself as an independent. I used to read WND and YellowTimes to keep in touch with the ends of the spectrum. I have found it much harder to read WND since YT shut down, and only occasionally look in on the headlines. [This one](http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56494)caught my eye, and I had to share: [Quote=Dr. Lyle Rossiter] The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind [/quote] It looks like he has created a strawman of liberal ideology and then used Freudian psychobabble to classify it as mentally defective. Enjoy and dissect. Jonathan PS: Does anyone know a good unabashedly liberal news site the equivalent of YellowTimes? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/2 "2008-12-04T19:56:48Z")
Michael Savage was right! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/3 "2008-12-04T19:58:34Z")
That’s not as bad as the article that tells it’s readers to send threatening packages to the Supreme Court in order to get them to invalidate Obama’s presidency on the grounds that he isn’t a citizen. Or it’s just as bad. They don’t call it The WorldNutDaily for nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/4 "2008-12-04T20:12:38Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > That’s not as bad as the article that tells it’s readers to send threatening packages to the Supreme Court in order to get them to invalidate Obama’s presidency on the grounds that he isn’t a citizen. Why would they do that? Do they really think it’ll get the electors to put John McCain into the White House? Don’t they realize that it’d be more likely to get them President Biden? Why on Earth would they prefer that? A “devil you know” thing? “Better him than the Muslim socialist”? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/5 "2008-12-04T20:17:29Z")
WingNutDaily determines liberalism is caused by having 5-15 pounds of undigested waste in your colon. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/6 "2008-12-04T20:38:38Z")
I wouldn’t believe WorldNutDaily if they told me Rosie O’Donnell was Irish, lesbian, or an obnoxious pantload with a voice like a trombone in straight mute. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/7 "2008-12-05T03:38:05Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > WingNutDaily determines liberalism is caused by having 5-15 pounds of undigested waste in your colon. …like spackle or paste!!! The book is apparently so good that the author’s [own CV](http://www.forensicpsychiatrist.com/cv.htm#publications) is not worthy to mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/8 "2008-12-05T03:52:33Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > WingNutDaily determines liberalism is caused by having 5-15 pounds of undigested waste in your colon. I have Sean Hannity’s head in my colon? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/9 "2008-12-05T03:54:51Z")
> [@Strassia](#): > > …PS: Does anyone know a good unabashedly liberal news site the equivalent of YellowTimes? Had very good luck with ThinkProgress and Talking Points Memo, they link and share with a slew of other lefty blog sites, so you get a taste of the whole spectrum. You want a bit more PBS-style depth, _Washington Monthly_ as a good solid site. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/10 "2008-12-05T03:57:36Z")
This Lyle Rossiter guy, isn’t the the author of the much-discussed paper _Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality_? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/11 "2008-12-05T04:05:28Z")
Sweet. Now let’s all apply for disability. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/12 "2008-12-05T04:49:26Z")
Perhaps a cure? That the whole American political movement goes so far towards the progressive pole I find myself grumpily conservative, by comparison, doing Wilford Brimley posts about kids these days… A grim prospect, to be sure, but if stern duty demands… ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/13 "2008-12-05T06:08:37Z")
It isn’t hard to call strawman right wing politics as a mental disorder. That’s the beauty of strawmen. Sociopathic tendencies, perhaps? Or maybe an extreme form of middle child syndrome - those “above” you, such as governments and corporations, cannot make error and must be blindly supported; those “below” you, such as homeless gay muslims, must be bullied and victimised. What a bunch of loonies. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/14 "2008-12-05T17:30:58Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I have Sean Hannity’s head in my colon? Doubtful. He’d have to pull it out of his own first. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/15 "2008-12-05T17:36:08Z")
Ever since the _Weekly World News_ folded, the WorldNetDaily has done a great job of taking up the slack. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/16 "2008-12-05T19:51:26Z")
> [@AllWalker](#): > > It isn’t hard to call strawman right wing politics as a mental disorder. That’s the beauty of strawmen. Sociopathic tendencies, perhaps? Or maybe an extreme form of middle child syndrome - those “above” you, such as governments and corporations, cannot make error and must be blindly supported; those “below” you, such as homeless gay muslims, must be bullied and victimised. > > What a bunch of loonies. Actually, I believe that this has already been done, and not as well as yours. A study of the natural personality tendencies of conservatives was quoted at length in John Dean’s _Conservatives Without Conscience_. I’ve seen it pop up in other places as well. Just as dumb as this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/17 "2008-12-05T20:09:01Z")
Idiots. Every informed person knows that liberalism is a _moral_ defect. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/18 "2008-12-05T21:23:10Z")
That book’s been around for a couple of years now. But he is right. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/19 "2008-12-05T22:00:47Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Why would they do that? Do they really think it’ll get the electors to put John McCain into the White House? Don’t they realize that it’d be more likely to get them President Biden? Why on Earth would they prefer that? A “devil you know” thing? “Better him than the Muslim socialist”? They can’t deny Obama is the people’s choice, so they’re seeking some other way to pre-emptively delegitimize his presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721/20 "2008-12-05T22:19:58Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > That book’s been around for a couple of years now. > > But he is right. Speaking of mental defects… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldnetdaily-determines-liberalism-is-a-mental-defect/475721.md?page=2)