Jan Brewer Sez, "Stop Making Sense!"

[paft.livejournal.com]

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, June 27, 2010:

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded.

Christina Boomer to Jan Brewer, September 1, 2010:

Why wouldn’t you recant the comments you made earlier about the beheadings in the desert?

A CNN ticker headline refers to Brewer’s repeated claim tying illegal immigration to desert beheadings as a “quip,” as in, “’Beheading’ quip plagues gov.” This makes it sound as though poor Jan Brewer is being hounded for some off-the-cuff remark she made just once, in jest. As these clips show, it was a bit more than that.

Brewer’s reaction to the questions in the second clip is classic in that she appears to truly consider herself very hard done by. It’s as if she thinks it unfair for anyone to treat words as if they should bear any relation to facts. Those lousy liberal reporters are playing dirty pool by asking her to either back up what she's said or retract it!

The reality-based moonbats have struck again!

This has been a growing trend on the right, especially online. Watching the second clip, I half expected Brewer to burst out with "read what I said," or "look it up yourself!" or "that's a stoopit question!" or any other standard freeper response. Instead, she skipped over that and cut straight to declaring the press conference closed and flouncing away.

It looks as though, in Arizona and a few other places this next election is going to be a referendum on how many Americans actually feel like they have a stake in the real world. That Internet disconnect with reality which enables someone, in the unreal ether of online life, to declare the sky yellow, may or may not work on people who can look up at the offline sky and see what color it actually is. We'll see.


Crossposted from thoughtcrimes

Comments

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Just showing you how unfounded conspiracy theories work. One minor element of fact (your single appeal to the mods in a comment section in the past, coupled with a passive-aggressive appeal in this one) as the dubious foundation for whatever accusations I feel like making.

See? That's how most people in here feel every time you post.

You seem to have ignored everything else I included in my last comment, by the way. I suspect this is because you can't refute it. This is a predictable pattern, by the way, and it's part of why I mock you.

(Another part is because it's just fun. Another part is because you want people to respond and you don't care how. See? I'm actually being nice by giving you what you want.)

[paft.livejournal.com]

hh:Just showing you how unfounded conspiracy theories work.

LOL. Suuuuure you were.

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

There's that pattern again. I understand that people settle into predictability as they age (and age and age), but at least make an effort here, willya?

[paft.livejournal.com]

Do you ever post to this board for any purpose other than trolling threads I've started?

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Do you ever post to this board for any purpose other than posting opinionated conspiracy theories and then ignoring replies which explain to you that you're wrong? Nevermind, rhetorical question.

We've covered this. I'm not trolling you, I'm mocking you, deservedly. I could care less whether you respond. If you actually think I'm trolling, don't respond. How hard is that? And to think you claim to have been a mod elsewhere.

To answer your question, you know very well that I've repeatedly tried to engage you in actual discussion in the past. The way that you can tell this is true is because I explicitly said that's what I was doing at the time. You didn't respond in those cases, as I recall.

You're not interested in honest discussion. You'd rather have this, which makes you about 30% troll and 70% attention whore.

[paft.livejournal.com]

Do you ever post to this board for any reason other than, as you put it, "mocking" something I've posted within a thread that I've started?

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Not often, but sure. It's just that the comments I submit to threads other than yours are usually made with some hope of actual dialogue.

[paft.livejournal.com]

When was the last time you posted something here other than a comment in a thread I started?

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Your point being that I'm only here so I can persecute you? Wow, way to be a victim. I was a member of this community (and

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Your point being that I'm only here so I can persecute you? Wow, way to be a victim. I was a member of this community (and <lj-user"politicsforum"> long before you started hosting daily exhibitions of your tinfoil hat collection, thanks. And while I'll grant you that I have some fun pointing out some of your failings, if you were to take your show on the road, I'd still be here.

To answer your question: I'm not sure. Call it two days before this post?

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Jesus. That's what I get for posting while sick. politicsforum