Monday, March 07, 2005
Righty-rousing, Lefty-baiting
Man, oh man. I made another FPP to MetaFilter today! I'm on fire! Here it is!
It involves a crazy right-winger from Nevada who gave a crazy right-wing speech that was only mildly interesting in itself. The speech got a whole lot more interesting when it came out that the guy lifted 15 of his speech's 22 paragraphs from a speech already given by a crazy right-winger in Alabama. Considering the boringness and idiocy of this guy's remarks (stuff like "Tell those Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging hippies to whine somewhere else"), you'd think he could have made something up himself. I dunno. Just seems like if you're going to say things you know are cheap soundbites to get your less-than-intelligent listeners all fired up, you could make something up yourself. Simply calling them "Smelly, unkempt, non-productive-for-society hippies" would have been good enough. Adjectives, people. Adjectives!
It involves a crazy right-winger from Nevada who gave a crazy right-wing speech that was only mildly interesting in itself. The speech got a whole lot more interesting when it came out that the guy lifted 15 of his speech's 22 paragraphs from a speech already given by a crazy right-winger in Alabama. Considering the boringness and idiocy of this guy's remarks (stuff like "Tell those Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging hippies to whine somewhere else"), you'd think he could have made something up himself. I dunno. Just seems like if you're going to say things you know are cheap soundbites to get your less-than-intelligent listeners all fired up, you could make something up yourself. Simply calling them "Smelly, unkempt, non-productive-for-society hippies" would have been good enough. Adjectives, people. Adjectives!
