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There is no reason to write about the Conservative Political Action Conference, which took place this past weekend. You'd have to go to a Tea Party convention to find a larger gathering of deluded losers, compulsive masturbators, closeted gay evangelicals, and desperate politicians, all pretending that what they are doing and what they are saying has any significance beyond the ability of the organizers to scam the attendees out of some cash. No, indeed, one does not need to hear what kind of pandering Scott Walker or Chris Christie or Carly Fiorina or any other possible presidential candidate did to the cheers of the shit eaters in the Beelzebub Ballroom of Hell's Hilton.
What's fascinating was the way that the schedule of keynote speakers progressed, with pretenders and fakers splitting time with the mad and the irrelevant, a stream of supposed thinkers and leaders, all treated equally. So you could go from RNC chair Reince Preemie...Priebus, whatever, to Donald Trump to Rick Santorum to the crazed patriarch of the Duck Dynasty family, Phil Robertson. And it is here that the Rude Pundit wants to pause, just before huckster Wayne LaPierre and future loser to Hillary, Jeb Bush. Because Robertson, a man who made his fortune by making ducks want to fuck him so he could kill them, serves as an avatar for the entire conservative "movement," such that it is.
Standing at the podium, telling us how we all need to live our lives according to his book of faith, Robertson looked like Osama bin Laden in a post-9/11 video...oh, what, you think that's too hyperbolic? Fuckin' please, motherfucker:
Anyways, Robertson was so batshit crazy that actual bats thought, "He's making us look bad." What makes Robertson's speech, to a crowd that applauded, cheered, and laughed, so symbolic is that he said plainly what so many of the other conservatives tried to hide with a veneer of respectability. It's a good thing that Robertson's a dumb shit because he doesn't need to bother counting how many fucks he gives. So Robertson is free to be the rampant id, delighting the gathered misanthropes by tellin' 'em what's what.
Lecturing from his worn-out Bible from notes that have gotta be hilarious to read ("1. Jesus, 2. Gunz, 3. Don't fuck less yer marrd, 4. consteetooshun" , Robertson rambled for nearly 30 minutes, well past the scheduled time. He was there to pick up the, no shit, Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award. It's like if they gave a Nobel for being a racist, homophobic asshole.
Sure, he went on about gay marriage, about how we need to be more Christian, about how he can dress himself. But, mostly, he just didn't want anyone to catch the herp or any STDs: "What do you call the hundred and ten million who have sexually transmitted illnesses? It's the revenge of the hippies! Sex, drugs, and rock and roll have come back to haunt us, in a bad way." By the way, if you never had the pleasure of watching Duck Dynasty, the theme song was "Sharp-Dressed Man" by fellow beard enthusiasts ZZ Top. It's about how you can get laid if you dress well. It's from the album Eliminator, which features odes to fucking every which way, marriage not required.
Robertson wasn't done with the medical advice: "I mean, I'm reading this stuff from the CDC and it says, 'How many sexual encounters does one have to have to catch a sexually transmitted illness?' It said one. I'm figuring out the odds on that one. How many seconds does it take to get genital herpes? It said 30 seconds. I'm like, whoa, that's pretty quick." And he offered advice if you don't want to get any diseases: "You want a Godly, biblical, medically safe optionone man, one woman, married for life."
Oh, what else needs to be said? That Phil Robertson only wants women who are lesbians to run for office? "For you potential candidates, to keep you out of trouble and to keep the scandals down, let me give you a little word of advice. Carry two things with you wherever you go in case one of you gets to be the president of the United States. Make sure you carry your Bible and your woman." Well, either lesbians or he doesn't think women should run for office, but, surely, CPAC wouldn't invite someone so backwards to a prime speaking spot and a free speech award.
And, in an awesome bit of history, Robertson said, "Stand on the Bible. Stand on the Constitution. Don't budge. Hold onto your weapons. We had to have all three to run the Brits back to where they came from. We had to have all three when the Nazis reared their head. You say the Nazis? World domination was what Hitler had on his mind. Territorial conquest. There was no Jesus, none!" If you were there, you might have thought, "Um, I don't think there was a constitution when we were fighting the British, at least not the first time." But you're a beatnik who only wants to spread diseases with your hippie jizz.
The point here is not just to beat up on a rich man in redneck drag, a kind of cracker minstrel pushed out to dispense crazed backwoods wisdom. It's also to say that the crowd that embraced him (and right-wing websites were overjoyed with his speech) is never going to be won over by "logic" or "facts" or anything that we believe can use to convince people. They are invested in a monolithic lie that some kind of Christian morality will make everything better.
But what they don't see, and what they'd deny until the end of time, is that their desire for a nation based on biblical principles would make the founders they revere recoil in horror from them. And that the dude up there in the photo under Robertson would totally understand where they're coming from.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/03/cpac-phil-robertson-is-everything.html
Cha
(298,037 posts)A-Men.. ******* birds of duck feathers.
mahalo meeg and Rude!
trumad
(41,692 posts)One of the best writers on the planet.
angel823
(409 posts)Nails it, every time.
Angel in TExasperated
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... when it was possible to have a reasoned conversation with a Republican, even if you disagreed with his or her position. So way down deep inside I keep hoping that, somewhere out there, exists a conservative who cringes in horror when a dirt stupid moron like Robertson, or Palin, or any of the other room-temperature IQs from the Dark Side take to the stage to spew witless gibberish at a like-minded congregation.
A foolish fantasy, I know, but still...
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)are now mostly centrist Democrats/blue dogs/DLCers.
Heck, I remember when there were liberal Republicans like Lowell Weicker, Chafee from Rhode Island, etc. Weicker rose to fame because of his tough questioning of the Nixon White House during Watergate.
Weicker was a liberal voice in an increasingly conservative Republican Party. "In its 1986 rankings, the venerable Americans for Democratic Action rated Weicker the most liberal Republican in the Senate, by farand 20 percentage points more liberal than his fellow Connecticut senator, a Democrat named Chris Dodd."[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_P._Weicker,_Jr.
joshdawg
(2,653 posts)with the room-temperature IQ bit. It's more like shoe size IQ level......or less.
A friend of mine is a hardcore republican, but when we talk politics, it is a calm, ordered, and responsible conversation. Wish I could say that about my other republican "friends."
underpants
(183,019 posts)William Seger
(10,793 posts)duhneece
(4,126 posts)and soon.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)spanone
(135,929 posts)pretty much sums it up:
"They are invested in a monolithic lie that some kind of Christian morality will make everything better."
The key word is "invested". This is why they will never, ever, let little things like "facts" invade their xenophobic, racist, intolerant, patriarchal world view.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)The following: Anyways, Robertson was so batshit crazy that actual bats thought, "He's making us look bad."
SpankMe
(2,974 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,229 posts)mountain grammy
(26,668 posts)that I love you! I'm laughing, but, also crying. How the fuck did we get here?
Martin Eden
(12,885 posts)God Save the Rude Pundit!