Digby WTF #9,213

Look, I know there's something inane published about ever other minute on Diggly-Wiggly. After all, that festering sore of a pwoggie blog is the one-stop shop for all things demotard. But, bullying is a the fault of republicans? Seriously?

"...there are real life ramifications to the spectacle of average Americans behaving like thugs. I think this may be one of them."

She goes on to insinuate that the suicide death of a young immigrant girl is the fault of right wing radio pundits, Bush administration torture policy, Sarah Palin's moose hunting, increased postage stamp prices, The Smashing Pumpkins, overly-salted french fries and super-violent Japanese anime. Or a few of those, anyway.

It's sick - using this youngster's suicide to score cheap political points. I know, I know - that kind of behavior is to expected from partisan hack-wannabes like Digby. After all, she's only imitating the mealy-mouthed demotard pundits she watches on TV. Or at least, that explanation makes more sense than trying to pin this death on Glen Fucking Beck.

Stop hitting yourself!

Shorter Mo'Betta Bowers:

STFU about third parties already! Hey, look at our track record of rigging elections. Haha! How do you dirty fucking hippies like that? Huh? HUH? Losers! Now give me your lunch money!

Pop Quiz: Which is more repulsive? The fact that Mo'Betta this willfully ignorant of how his own party works or the fact that Mo'Betta is so astonishingly disconnected that he thinks politics is a fucking "game."

41 dimentional chess

Diggy has always been utterly clueless about power, it's different types and how it's distributed and used in our government. That's okay. It's not really her place to understand, just cheer on her "team" and keep her little gaggle of pwoggies in line until election time.

However, Ladies and Gentlemen, I must announce that I've been somewhat mistaken about Diggy. Sure, her reasoning tends towards argumentum ad ignorantum of the willful sort when it comes to her party of bloodthirsty corporate-owned sleezebags, but this little missive has opened my eyes about our Diggy. Feast on this:

"...all we can do is fulfill our role in the process as concerned citizens and activists and take the politicians at face value, because it's all we have to go on."

now compare:

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

Ladies and Gentlemen, I take it back. Diggy is not Hortense Dimwitty. She's Blanche-Freakin'-Dubois!

New and Improved

Shorter Alas, a pwog:

"We need to accept this pile of shit so 20 or so years down the road we can improve it."

That really is the ultimate goal of do-nothing intertard progressivism, isn't it? Big stinking piles of "improved" shit. (Here's a clue for the clueless: It's not two groups fighting over legislation, it's one group trying to figure out how to get re-elected while not offending it's corporate paymasters.)

Diggy Doesn't Dig - Episode Umpity Ba-jillion

Poor Diggy. The mighty pwogwessive revolution just isn't panning out they way they'd planned it in the weekly e-mail. The tiny bits of access her and her pwoggie bloggie cohorts have been given by their DP masters are proving unsatisfactory and, as if that weren't bad enough, it looks like her presidential boyfriend is about to unleash another wave of craptastic legislation on behalf of his health insurance paymasters.

What to do? Well, you'll probably have noticed by now that when Diggy can't plausibly blame the Republicans, the "System", sunspots or Ralph Nader for her party's failings, she inevitably turns to "THE MEDIA." (Never mind that "THE MEDIA" is owned by the same people who own her party. That inconvenient fact has yet to penetrate the entire pwoggiesphere, much less confines of Diggy's pwoggie bloggie clubhouse.)

Anyroad, in this post, Diggy applies her powerful "feet to the fire" 10th grade civics class analytical skills to the problem and comes up with this Pearl Bailey of Wisdom:

"For a variety of reasons, the press holds Democrats to tougher standards, mostly because of their own failures during Republican presidencies. And because they overreact in Democratic administrations, they inevitably go easier on Republicans. How much of this is political bias is unknown, but it doesn't matter. The effect is the same. "

A classic bit of projection, nu? The fact that media conglomerates are multi-billion dollar businesses never seems to dawn on the pwoggie mind. In Diggy's insulated middle-class fantasy world, THE MEDIA feels shame. It "overreacts." It feels embarrassment and joy and ennui and who-the-fuck-knows what else. Why THE MEDIA acts just like a partisan personality cultist with delusions of political relevance! Imagine that!

But you don't need me to tell you that. Just go through the article, insert the word "I" whenever you see "the press" and it'll become hilariously obvious. (Ya know, maybe it's for the best that the levers of power remain obscured to Diggy. Reality would just upset the poor thing.)

Pot...Kettle...You Do The Math.

What's dumber - making policy decisions based on a TV show or asserting that ruthless and powerful people in our government make policy decisions based on a TV show?

Well, if you guessed the latter, you'd be Paul over at Brain Fell Out. In his ongoing quest to prove that conservitards are de-evolved subhuman filth soooooo far below his own exalted level that they barely register as life forms to his all-encompassing intellect, Paul takes a mediocre magazine article about a mediocre TV show called 24 and drives that baby off a cliff. His bat-shit insane conclusion? Conservatives = Terrorists!!! Here's the money quote:

On the other hand, conservatives are actually very close to the terrorists how they think--brothers under the skin, one might say: tribalist, ethnocentric, religious, fundamentalist, self-righteous, prone to violence and scornful of compromise or even dialogue. They are peas in a pod. No wonder conservatives don't want to understand the terrorists--they'd have to admit they're one and the same!

Having proved to his own satisfaction that there's no difference between George Will and Osama bin Laden, Paul and his mighty intellect move on to recommend and even crappier TV show upon which his God-Emperor's administration might profitably base US foreign policy - CBS' potboiler procedural Criminal Minds.

Now, give the pwog credit, he does skate perilously close to the heart of the problem (that the 9/11 attacks were a law enforcement problem, not a military one.) But fear not! In true pwogwessive style Paul veers away from that simple truth to wind up his "think piece" with a turgid, banal, "know thyself" conclusion that wouldn't have been out of place on an ABC After-School Special starring Krystie McNichol and Timothy Van Patten.

Captain Obvious to the rescue!

Startling news flashed across the pwoggiesphere this morning when it was discovered that lobbyists actually charge actual money to corporations for their actual services! Pwoggies took a brief break from obsessing over the forgone conclusion that is the Sotomayor hearings to reveal to their lobotomized DP followers that the American Conservative Union (essentially lobbyists disguised as a think tank) offered to do the capitol hill bribe work for FedEx but wound up working for UPS instead. WOW! WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT???

Now, you and I know that it takes Gomer-like levels of naivete to be even mildly surprised at Washington corruption. And yet the Newspwoggers and the munchkins over at The Fortress of Pwogitude are shocked, yes - shocked, to find pay-for-play going on!

Dear Readers, what ever you do, don't tell them that professional wrestling is fixed. I'd hate to see a grown pwogwessive cry.

(Update: For a bunch of oblivious pundit-wannabes who fling the word "pure" like an insult, check out the pwoggie comments at FoP. Hi-larious!)

(Update 2 - Back in Action: The chorus of pwoggie indignation rises as the political castrato of Brain Fell Out joins in.)

In Which Digby Discovers White People

Via a middling-fair spy thriller Matt Damon did in between Bourne flicks, Pwogwessive Doyenne and Queen of Lesser-Evilstan Digby has come to the startling revelation that upperclass white people exist and pretty much run the country. Quell horreur! Tune in tomorrow - when our intrepid Pwoggie Princess will discover that the Earth is fairly roundish, water is kind of damp and Adam Sandler has never been funny.