I am Seriously Considering Prank Punking Some Dumbassed Republicans. They Will Believe Anything.

And I don't merely mean the unhinged, mentally disturbed wing of the GOP, otherwise known as the Glenn Beck Audience.

So far, in the past few months, many of them, particularly those in or otherwise part of the regressive right wing Internet Corps, have been too willing to believe what ever stupid anti-Obama or anti-Dem shit that comes down river, and/or are willing to override either plain fact or matters of ordinary common knowledge.

And in that mind, let's consider the common knowledge angle, and the obsession with the teleprompter, meme. Um, there is no evidence out there that President Obama uses a teleprompter any more than the previous several occupants of the Oval Office. But let's not allow for commonly known facts, like the use of a teleprompter for prepared statements for a president is a decades old practice.

Oh, and if Obama's performance on "The Tonight Show," is a good yardstick, I think the man can do a very fine job of going off script. Now does he rely a little too much on what speech experts call "verbal pauses?" Yup. If he ever bothered to get some coaching, that could have been eliminated, but apparently he never did. (As an aside, I wonder why more Pols don't do that. But then again I have a degree in Theatre, and I respect what a good diction coach can do for a body.) And before I leave off on this topic, I want to take a well deserved smack at the oftentimes themselves barely literate rank and file regressive Republicans for making every possible excuse under the sun for George Bush's torture and mangling of the English language, only to then judge Obama by the standards usually reserved for A list stage actors. What bullshit.


Speaking of bullshit, here is the Republican gullible idiot story of the day. The regressive Republican blogosphere is abuzz with the story about how Obama sent a letter to former French Prez. Chirac, and in some way that means Obama doesn't know he is not president of France, and somehow that is a snub of now president Sarkozy. Some people will not only believe any stupid shit, but will forget even the most recent of history to take a shot at Obama.

Firstly, Sarkozy was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Obama on his election win. That sorta kills the snub and forgot who's boss meme. But beyond that, when you check the facts of the Chirac story, you learn that Chirac sent Obama a letter, partly as head of his own peace seeking international foundation, and Obama's reply was in that context.

In the same vein as the title of my post, a couple back, are they That Partisan, because they are That Stupid, or are they That Stupid because they are That Partisan?

I could go further and with more points. And I know that it is a game of "gotcha." That between the two teams, each is looking for some gaff that they can conflate, if there is nothing that is really, objectively a doozey that needs no hype on the table on any given day. But this bullshit? I mean either they are taking some innocuous fact, and wrapping it up in multiple layers of lies (like the teleprompter story), or just going so far with the bullshit that they might as well made the whole story up out of thin air.

Well it does smack of the desperation of petty minds who have no better objections. I am thinking of that line:

"Is that all you got?"

Of course actually waiting for a real blunder to happen is out of the question for these chuckle heads. Perish the thought.