Comments on: Thoughts on the war

By: Dr. Charles G. Waugh

Dr. Charles G. Waugh — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:01:52 +0000

POLITICAL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS: Oliver Stone-agers.

By: Aunt B

Aunt B — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:55:05 +0000

Bingo, Bryan. I actually know some occasionally intelligent people who claim to believe the Charlie Sheens of the world. Why? Because they think it’s chic, hip and emotionally satisfying. It’s that simple, that superficial and that deadly.

By: hindmost

hindmost — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:47:35 +0000

This is a keeper.

By: shooter

shooter — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:32:46 +0000

Great writing B-
I forget which conspiracy fruitcake from last night TV kept saying he didnt know who did it, BUT “we need an investigation commision to find out”. And the interviewer missed the opportunity to mention the 500 plus page 9/11 COMMISION REPORT. Sure moonbats will say its all part of the big plan, but its another way to make them look even dumber(hard to do, yet still quite possible).
Someone once said “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
Herbert Spencer has been credited with this quote, possibly incorrectly.
Anyway, this describes the moonbats, although Sheen probably does his investigation while sitting in the drive thru at the local Hollywood Jack-in-the-Box.

By: The Wide Awake Cafe » The Threat we Face

The Wide Awake Cafe » The Threat we Face — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:23:22 +0000

[...] Lorie Byrd’s article in the Examiner reminds us that President Bush is committed to fighting the evil we face and that’s what we need in a President in times like this. [...]

By: 52Ranger

52Ranger — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:20:54 +0000

Let me get this straight…Charlie Sheen…

We’re having people poke a hole in 9/11 using a quote by Charlie Sheen…

Charlie effin’ Sheen…

As if it’s coming from someone who could keep his s**t together without the Army Corps of Engineers building a trough and a HAZMAT unit standing by with shovels…

Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but let’s keep the source in mind before we start sending out the Nobel Peace Prizes, hmmm?

What’s next? A report on North Korean ICBM’s by Wile E. Coyote?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:36:20 +0000

Bryan — well said!

Of course, you could say all that to one of the sheep and they’d respond by calling you a sheep. (Is it 4 legs or 2 legs that are bad???)

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:15:48 +0000

What scares me is that these moonbats control a large portion of the mass media that is beamed into peoples homes everyday. These people actually get others elected to positions of power to further lend credibilty to their drug induced delusions. Look at the Valerie Plame case. 2 1/2 years investigating and untold millions spent to find out in the end that the special prosecutor knew almost from the begining where Novak got his information and that it wasn’t a leak. He went and did something called research and looked it up in a book of Who’s Who in America. Around these parts, which is solidily Republican already, we simply sit around in amazement at how people can not the nose on their faces when it comes to any of screeching from these left wing Prozac deprived psychiatric patients out on work release.
At one time I thought the more vocal these people got the more most Americans would simply shake their heads and wonder how people like this are able to function day to day, but apparentely they don’t. Ignoring them on the one hand while those who control the information flow continue repeating and lending credence to what they say has resulted in a country who as long as their cable is working and the malls are operating as normal could care less, while at the same time not understanding the dynamics at work. Look at North Korea, it is called brainwashing. Repeat something long enough and often enough and it becomes the truth, no matter what the reality is.

By: pistolero

pistolero — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:02:23 +0000

Well done, BP. I just can’t get over the fact that Ted Olsen has done such a good job of hiding his wife, Barbara, so that the story about a plane hitting the Pentagon holds together. He is very crafty.

There are more holes in their theories than in their heads.

By: Chas

Chas — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:35:16 +0000

Why are you even addressing these people?

By: Just Some Poor Schmuck

Just Some Poor Schmuck — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:23:16 +0000

What A Crock….

19 guys with boxcutters took over four planes and hit 75% of their targets? Now, thats a conspiracy theory. I guess the conspirazoids are back, or rather they never left. The above is a quote from Charlie Sheen on some……

By: RD

RD — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:20:15 +0000

I heard this line of attack several times today already:

“19 guys with boxcutters took over four planes and hit 75% of their targets? Now, that’s a conspiracy theory.”

“No, it’s not.”

“Whaddya mean it’s not?? Any time a crime is committed by more than one person, it’s a conspiracy by definition, isn’t it? All we’re saying is that your conjecture about 9/11 is just one out of many possible conspiracy scenarios – and, from the sound of it, it may be more far-fetched than some of the others we’d like to tell you about…”

“I mean, Osama controlling 19 guys from a cave 5000 miles away?? The guy was laid up on a dialysis machine, for Crissakes! How plausible is that??”

Forgive me, I’ve gotta grab the wonk hat for a sec.

This Orwellian twist of vocabulary is based on a logical fallacy that relies exclusively on the lexical similarity between “conspiracy” and “conspiracy theory”.

The two have clearly different meanings; the conspiring by two or more individuals in a “conspiracy” applies to the act itself, whereas in a “conspiracy theory”, the conspiring applies foremost to keeping the act a secret from the public.

This shouldn’t be big news to anyone. Yet these bozos are fronting the fallacy (and presumably hope to get away with it?) that a “conspiracy theory” is simply a theory about a conspiracy. It’s not until the “official story” of 9/11 is deflated as just another “theory” (also a problem, on which others have spoken already) that they begin to suggest or imply their “alternatives” (which – of course – are conspiracy theories).

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:36:15 +0000

Well written, Bryan. “The anti-war left that poses as the voice of the little guy” is right on. It bothers me to see the Liberals formenting hate, raising anger and unrest as a ‘cash crop’ which they hope to harvest on election days. Eveything else aside, making and keeping people angry is unhealthy. It’s like poisoning the water and waiting for people to die.
Every time you have a good day and are happy about life, another Liberal loses an argument. Have a good day, friends!

By: TBinSTL

TBinSTL — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:00:08 +0000

Prof Blather-
It bears the occasional reminder because the only reason we are not falling into the Vietnam syndrome rut is that we now have alternate sources of information and these sources need periodic re-energization to hold the line against this form of psychological warfare that is being waged against us.
Those of us who remain determined and informed must keep up the drumbeat by repeatedly swatting down these theories every time they are trotted back out. It’s similar to the Gnostic heresies in Christianity, they are resurrected in some form in each new generation (DaVinci Code this time around) and must be patiently but firmly debunked and exposed.

By: rahjr2k

rahjr2k — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:12:14 +0000

The Muslims could kill every single person in the world who is not Muslim and THEY’D STILL BE AT WAR, as is evident in the bitter and bloody battles they have with all the different sects of the Muslim religeon… like if the first baptist church firebombed the penecostal church down the street.

By: Professor Blather

Professor Blather — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:04:53 +0000

Not trying to be Lieutenant Obvious here … but what are you all so worked up about?

That liberals are semi-insane quasi-simian unthinking lemmings? Well … duh.

Sure it makes you angry – but don’t forget: this crap is EXACTLY why Democrats can’t win elections.

Let them continue spewing this sort of stupidity. The American electorate is far smarter than both sides of the spectrum give them credit for being. For most Americans, the Charlie Sheen paradigm will only piss them off; even most mainstream liberals find the conspiracy theories mildly distasteful.

Let them talk. Cheer them on. Buy them beer. Hand them a megaphone.

By: docdave

docdave — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:52:50 +0000

It’s best never underestimate the stupidity of people.

By: venmax

venmax — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:33:22 +0000

Typical Liberal ego at work – they think it’s all about us.

They never talk about (or HELL even seem to notice) that the Muslims are also attacking everyone else on the face of the planet too.

India, England, France, Spain, Russia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Somalia, Austrailia etc. etc. etc.

Muslims are at war with THE WHOLE F*CKING WORLD, notJUST US.

By: sMack

sMack — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:20:55 +0000

Uh yep…

By: LewWaters

LewWaters — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:57:27 +0000

Really, it all looks like a continuation of the dich vanprogram used so effectively against us during Viet Nam. Minimize our enemies wrongs, maximize the few wrongs we may have committed. Make sure our troops sound as bad as can be to civilians and even deny attacks by the enemy.

It goes a lot deeper than that, of course, but it is a psychological warfare program that too many fell for back in the 60’s and still buy it today.

Most troubling is how many readily fall for this tripe. They claim the WTC was brought down by controlled demolition. Did Bush hypnotize the entire world to believe two aircraft flew into the buildings that we all saw?

These nutcases bring a whole new meaning to moonbats.

By: uniclone

uniclone — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:42:23 +0000

Yawn,

i have also grown tired of the neolibs claims of deBUSHery. Sept 10th, 19 guys with boxcutters would work in that world, on Sept 12th, no f’in way that works, people would be on them like stink on ****. The neolibs don’t realize you can’t use Sept 12th rules on items that happened on Sept 11th. The rules have changed….. the world has changed….

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:22:05 +0000

Now if we can just get a liberal politician to run with this… Hahaheeheehee…

By: Chappy

Chappy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:03:24 +0000

Come on Bryan, tell us what you really think! (or feel!)

Thanks for saying articulately what I’ve been raging around in my head for weeks!

By: Hoodlumman

Hoodlumman — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:46:08 +0000

Nor Tollhouse… as in the cookies.

Don’t mind if I do, thank you very much.

By: ScottG

ScottG — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:46:06 +0000

Yes, Townhouse. Not the same thing as Townhall.

Bryan on July 12, 2006 at 7:23 PM

Uh huh, don’t be too sure. I think Townhall is a plot too. Can’t post to my blog, pages disappear, can’t find pages that existed two minutes before. Now that’s a conspiracy theory!