August 30, 2004

Idiots
Posted by Dale Franks

National Review's Rich Lowry went marching with the protestors in New York yesterday. He had some interesting conversations, like the one below:

A kid was holding a sign, "Stop the war on youth, from here to Najaf."

"So," I asked, "do you support al Sadr?"

"I do as long as he's resisting U.S. imperialism."

"OK, so you support Islamic fundamentalism?"

"No," he said, walking away.

"Well, he's an Islamic fundamentalist," I said.

He came back up to me, "Just because you support the youth doesn't mean you side with an extremist."

"Sadr is an Islamic extremist, he's very clear about it."

"It's their mosque."

"He seized the mosque by force!"

"You're wrong," he said. "He supports elections."

"No, he doesn't! He opposes elections."

"Well," he said, walking away again, "they are U.S.-supported elections. Of course he opposes U.S.-supported elections."

Then, this goateed, cigarette-smoking little Chomsky walked off for good.

You can always reason with a Lefty. You can always reason with a brick wall for all the good it'll do ya.

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Logic is a useless tool against the illogical.

Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at August 30, 2004 12:52 PM

Pearls before swine. Don't argue with a fool, if you keep it up long enough they might not be able to tell the difference.

Posted by: Jeff the Baptist at August 30, 2004 01:10 PM

These people want to run the country.

Posted by: Fred Boness at August 30, 2004 01:56 PM

Whatever. I always love it when the party the eschews "macho" use of US military power falls in love with whichever strong man is seizing power at the moment.

Posted by: pdq332 at August 30, 2004 02:06 PM

"whichever strong man is seizing power at the moment. " - you must mean Teresa, right, because Hillary isn't in this race.

Posted by: looker at August 30, 2004 02:44 PM

I bet that guy was in favor of the 87 million before he was against it.

Posted by: Lance Jonn Romanoff at August 30, 2004 03:11 PM

Sometimes I just wish there were a way for the grown-ups to quietly and safely, but entirely, withdraw for a 4-year hiatus, and let these nincompoops actually try to run something other than a pre-march meet-up to fill piss-ballons. I don't know if there is a parallel in history to such high levels of both arrogance and ignorance as are in those children of affluence and irresponsibility.

Posted by: Jumbo at August 30, 2004 05:12 PM

Nah, we already had Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Nathan at August 30, 2004 05:27 PM

"Then, this goateed, cigarette-smoking little Chomsky walked off for good."

My poly-sci prof just lauded the virtues of Chomsky today. >.

Posted by: Dar at August 30, 2004 07:39 PM

As one of my profs used to say, "Faux pearls before real swine."

Posted by: JorgXMcKie at August 30, 2004 07:54 PM

Its tragic-comedy. Comedy because its fun to expose people to their idiocy. Tragic because they actually have a vote. Perhaps someone could convince them that because its a US-run election, they shouldn't vote?

Posted by: Chris at August 30, 2004 09:10 PM

You've got to love the moral relativism that equates whatever the War Against Youth is in this country with whatever the War Against Youth is in Najaf. Next time I see some kid riding his minibike on the street he better duck!

Posted by: Jack Tanner at August 31, 2004 12:53 PM

At least the brick wall has enough sense to keep its mouth shut.

Posted by: The Comedian at August 31, 2004 03:27 PM