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They are completely and totally irrelevant, am I correct?
Why exactly do these buffoons still get press for saying outrageous stuff?
They no longer hold elected office. Hell, they're not even running for any elected office at this time. They're losers--literally, losers.
And yet we're supposed to care about their opinions on the world.
Fuck them.
Sorry, I just felt the need to rant for a bit.
randys1
(16,286 posts)the more hate and intolerance you show to the various minority groups, the more attention you will get...Westboro knew thiis and used it beautifully (beautiful in effect, not motive) ...
Someone like Van Jones from my little pic here, has 189,327 times more value to the human race, more decency and he will be mostly ignored.
Welcome to America
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immoderate
(20,885 posts)The public mostly cares if they know of you, not your credentials.
--imm
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)Seriously.
Also, thank you for writing the rant for me.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)I'm a much happier person. 90% of the things I end up getting angry about are things one dumb right winger or another has babbled about. And babbling is what they are doing. Why should I expend any energy, especially getting angry, over the neanderthal thinking of far right wing loonies.
The world continues to turn whether I hear Sarah Palin vomit up her down home musings or not. What difference should it make in my day if the Duck Dick thinks Democrats are "perverts"? Not one bit.
If I want "news" I go to the BBC. There isn't an American News Outlet left that isn't "infotainment". It's all opinions and bullshit. Cronkite and Murrow are rolling over in their graves.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)I read BartCop & Molly Ivans and read DU, C&L, Common Dreams, Digby & Juanita Jean now. That's it. Oh, yeah, Ironic Times, too.
OnlinePoker
(5,729 posts)underpants
(182,968 posts)And by not running for office they can't lose.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Like I said elsewhere, if politicians were software, what Dems consider to be bugs, the GOP considers to be features.
progressoid
(50,008 posts)My M-I-L (she's a Repub) just got a robo call from Sarah. She was pimping for a idiotic local politician.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Obviously the problem is the common factor, the media.
treestar
(82,383 posts)The airtime they take up could go to someone with some expertise.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)She knows what Archie, Betty, Jughead and Veronica are up to every week.
TRoN33
(769 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Those two are more likely to say really stupid things than are more pragmatic politicians like Boehner. Thus, they often provide us with the opportunity to make the right wing look bad by quoting them -- and we often give in to the temptation.
By "we" I mean the left in general, not just DU.
It's the mirror image of the right-wingers making a big deal about the New Black Panther Party. That bunch (scarcely large enough to qualify as a bunch) is even more irrelevant than Palin or West, but they still get plenty of attention from the Republican noise machine.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)and try and be as sensationalist as possible. Americans, especially small minded Americans, love sensationalism and they love confrontation. These people are doing their very best to divide America. It means money for those that put these people on their networks or shows. It is the same reason people slow down and gawk at a car accident. It is titillating to many, and that titillation means money for some..Just like the Freak Shows of the past.. A sucker and their money need to be parted..