MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

That giant sucking sound you hear is the blogosphere, folks.

• Posted by Beth on June 5th, 2007 filed in 2008 election, Blogs, Blogs Suck, Blogtards, Candidates, Fred Thompson, Funny, General, Immigration, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid, WTF    

CoComment tells me I am hating the blogosphere

I dunno, maybe I need to take a break from other blogs again so my crankiness will dissipate. ;-)
Just a sample from last night–

At Sister Toldjah’s post about immigration:

To see conservatives use arguments on one another that have in general been used almost exclusively towards the far left is disappointing and is one of the reasons I haven’t been blogging extensively on the issue. … But this time around, I’ve taken a decidedly low-key approach to talking about the issue.

You and me both. I loathe the issue because of the way people have behaved. And yes, your inbox would be filled with (absurd) accusations of treason, sympathy with La Raza (!), and other ad hominem fallacies. And this being the blogosphere, you’d see some of the ugliest language used (”wetback,” “spic,” etc., all while complaining that SOME are called bigots!). :eyeroll:
This issue has shown that stupidity really has nothing to do with political affiliation…you can see it on full display on all sides of this issue. Our own side has made me uncharacteristically apathetic about this issue–and it’s too bad for the hard-liners that they just don’t understand how repellent their rhetoric is, or the effect it’s having.

I still can’t believe the reaction to last week’s Linda Chavez column, where she rightfully called out those who are making it an ethnic issue. I wasn’t offended, but then to me, immigration isn’t just about Mexicans. I’m a lot more concerned with people like the Fort Dix Six and the 9/11 hijackers(!) than I am with a bunch of freakin’ day laborers and blue collar workers.

Pffft. Life’s too short to be so damn angry. I thought we, as conservatives, knew as much.

(Don’t even get me started on the “Imp**** Bush” morons–they’re DEAD to me.)

Comment by Beth @ 6/5/2007 - 12:00 am

Stop right there for a second. NO, I am not defending the stupid immigration bill, OK? (I’m so tired of explaining that.) End of story. Moving right along…

At Captain Ed’s post about civility, specifically surrounding (shocker!) the immigration issue:

:sigh:

Typical blogosphere BS; an appeal for civility ends up being met with a round of incivility. Well, let me pile on, then.

Captain Ed, you know how everyone talks about the toxic political climate we have these days (or for the last few years)?
You know what it coincides with–the rise of blogs. I’m convinced after three years blogging that the mentally disturbed (or at least personality-disordered, or maybe it’s just plain old Tourette’s) are vastly overrepresented on blogs. It’s spread to the MSM and the Beltway, and infected the whole country.

And this stuff Bush said last week: Good grief, y’all need to GET OVER IT. Like y’all don’t say worse things every single day about him and everyone else? Is freaking out about a tossed-off comment really helping anything? Do y’all REALLY think he meant you don’t want anything good for this country? Please. It’s not like Bush is the most eloquent speaker, you know.

Posted by: Beth at June 5, 2007 12:46 AM

I was trying to be civil there.

And at Allah’s post about Fred! and the internet campaign:

Dean thought he had a winning strategy and it collapsed on him. As AP pointed out the blogosphere is just not that heavily populated yet. Personal opinion is that the debates will be what makes him take off or flop.

Bradky on June 4, 2007 at 11:13 PM

Ditto that. I don’t think using teh innertubes indicates laziness, though. Of course, what matters is what the stupid media thinks. I think it indicates interest in what the grassroots (as opposed to the nutroots) are saying; a good link to the voting public.
That said, UGH. I hope he isn’t too heavily involved in the internets. It’s loaded with landmines (aka loud-mouthed, spoiled amateurs who will end up embarrassing him sooner or later. I seriously doubt he’d invest that much time in the internet, anyway. Even if he wanted to, I would hope his advisers/handlers/whatevers would set him straight. I personally don’t care about the conservative blogosphere getting a boost; I care about the right candidate being elected.
And frankly, the conservative blogosphere, of which I am a part, doesn’t really deserve any favors, IMHO. We SUCK at fundraising, organization, and using available technology, as a whole, and I’m tired of trying when most people just have excuses why they can’t donate, plan, or act. Sign an online petition? No problem. Write a blog post? Yay. Cough up $20 to help keep a GOP majority or support a worthy political candidate? Blasphemy! (How many of the people here have pledged to never donate?) Why should Fred Thompson or anyone else come to the conservative blogosphere for support?
I hope he knows what he’s in for, ’cause 2008 isn’t going to be easy for any Republican–and it won’t be because of the laughable Dummocrat candidates.

bamapachyderm on June 5, 2007 at 2:37 AM

I dunno, I think I might have a little bit of an attitude problem these days. Bah humbug. The blogosphere sucks! Blogging sucks! I think I need to do something fun with this, or whatever. Lately all my laughs online have been coming at others’ expense or in morbid humor via email. Like this:

Frank Lampard is a soccer player who was awful against Brazil last week. A letter-writer at ********.com sent the following, which only you will get:

In the England match on Friday I thought Frank Lampard went missing for such long periods that his parents might get asked to meet the Pope.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

OK, obviously “only you will get” didn’t work out that way. I laughed so hard at this that I didn’t even ask if I could post it–I have to. See? Morbid humor via email. Seriously, though–you think Frank Lampard’s parents would be blogging their visit with the Pope? (Sorry, no link–if you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t ask. I’m already going to hell for laughing about it.)

Y’ever have those days weeks months where you sort of wish for another Mohammed cartoon or Jesse MacBeth incident, because it provided such unending laughs?

Here’s something else that cracked me up–I found it at a nasty Christian-bashing feminist site (Feministing, which I won’t link because of the painfully stupid, hateful comments there), but it is absurd: Virtue Perfume. Perfume for Christians. Because it’s “spiritual fragrance” that “mimics the spiritual process.” All fragrance elements are “drawn from Biblical text.” Yours for the low, low price of $80! HAHAHAHA. Crass commercialism at its best! (What, no fake testimonials from the Virgin Mary?) See–how pathetic is the conservative blogosphere lately that I had to find a laugh through an angry leftard site? Come on, people…lighten up! (Not you regulars here; I mean the rest of the stupid blogosphere.) The LEFT is the angry, humorless side, remember?

Thank God for Something Awful, for putting it all in perspective.

We live in an exciting age, the era of the Internet, where mass communication allows people of all colors and creeds to interact and speak out in a variety of ways. Today I have decided to present some notable quotes from the visionaries who help shape our online world and drive it towards new horizons. Hopefully it will put this whole Internet thing into perspective just as it did for me.

Not that shi’ite; it’s in the rest of the article, ya goons. :2orly:

Absolutely must-read update: The Anchoress is FED UP with blogtards, too. Go read!