My gather friend, Ken Grisnak, whom I have not seen here in ... gosh, I don't know how long, often sends me quite interesting emails and the latest was no exception.
Given some of the ridiculous rhetoric I've read on Gather recently, I wanted to share this with the rest of you. Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I did. Take their advice folks. Seriously!
First he sent an article from Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, September 25, 2009
How to talk to complete idiots
Given three choices, the most logical choice is YOU DON'T.
Here's an excerpt from Ken's mail:
The absolute best way to speak to complete idiots is, of course, not to speak to them at all.
That is, you work around them, ignore them completely, disregard the rants and the spittle and the misspelled protest signs and the fervent prayers for apocalypse on Fox News. Complete refusal to take the fringe nutballs even the slightest bit seriously is the only way to make true progress.
This also happens to be the invaluable advice of one Frank Schaeffer, noted author and a former fundamentalist nutball himself, who made a simply superb appearance on Rachel Maddow's show recently, wherein he offered up one of the most articulate, fantastic takedowns of the fundamentalist idiot's mindset in recent history. It's a must-watch. Do it. Do it now.
One in three conservatives believe Obama is the anti-christ.
Thank you Ken!
By the way, the reference to La La Land is in the video! marker 4:46
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Comments: 36
My daughter watched the video with me, and we both agree with you.
How did he know about the la la land folks?
La La Land has been around forever. The group on Gather are the first to admit it while out on day passes.
Shaeffer - I know where he's coming from.
Fifth line of insanity yes indeed
The extreme fanatics are destroying the party--rightly so.
They can keep their village idiots.
And as he said, he is very, very, very sorry now that he didn't start speaking up 30 years ago, when the freaks & thumpers started hammering things out loud in public.
They used to do it in basement meetings.
Wilka
Another favorite line from Schaeffer is, "Can the christians save themselves from the christians?"
Damn, I wish I'd said that.
Frank Schaeffer exposes right wing rampaging tactics
You can't change the village to suit the "village idiot"
"fifh column of insanity"
"rotted brains"
"resentful, because they have been "waiting"
and know they have been left behind."
"raised to distrust facts" - - -- no wonder "evidence never matters with that bunch"
"all news is related someway to the end of life and Jesus' return.
If he writes as well as he speaks I would enjoy the book.
In a nut shell, we have some effed up crazy Americans!