It is astonishingly easy to get a wingnut blogger to reveal his or her abysmal ignorance. Just ask a question.
Take our old buddy Ogre. Now, Ogre is already a proven liar, and we’ve seen before that he refuses to answer simple, direct questions about his views. Now we have fresh proof that Ogre is ignorant, and prefers to stay that way.
Ogre complained yesterday that the Democratic leadership in the Senate blocked “legislation to increase troop pay, to increase money for military healthcare, to increase benefits for military widows and families, to increase the safety of our troops” by “pull[ing] the bill from the floor”. He claims that this shows that Democrats don’t support the troops.
I asked Ogre why the Bush administration also opposes the bill. Not unexpectedly, he didn’t know. He could easily have found out — it is not a secret that Bush has threatened to veto the bill because it includes a 3.5% pay raise for the troops, which amounts to an additional $6 per month for the average service member. That’s apparently too great a price to pay for “supporting the troops” in the eyes of Our Sainted President™ George W. Bush.
Instead of finding out the facts, Ogre did what one would expect of a craven coward: he avoided answering the question altogether, thus demonstrating simultaneously his intellectual dishonesty and his ignorance.
As I said earlier, it’s not hard at all to get lying cowards like Ogre to reveal their utter ignorance. I should feel bad about making fun of someone with Ogre’s multiple handicaps… but I just can’t work up any pity for him. He did it to himself, after all.
UPDATE 07/23/07 8:16 PM EDT: Ogre has, like most of his gutless kind, chosen to accuse someone who disagrees with him of being mentally ill, rather than actually discuss the issue at hand. He is afraid of any such discussion, as his deletion of a recent comment to his site clearly illustrates.
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July 23rd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Big Dog
it is not a secret that Bush has threatened to veto the bill because it includes a 3.5% pay raise for the troops, which amounts to an additional $6 per month for the average service member.
This is incorrect Meat for Brains. A 3.5% pay raise for the lowest person on the pay scale is $42 (a new private makes 1200 a month).
What the article you glanced over points out is that Bush will veto 3.5% because he wants 3.0% and the difference between those two is about $6.
Just wanted to clear this up so no one would call you a liar, or uninformed, or a lefty lackey, or some other name because you had made a mistake. I know how you pride yourself on always believing you are correct.
BTW, I might want to buy your new book. Where can I get a copy?
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 pm
meatbrain
Indeed, the $6 referred to the .5% increment that Bush has threatened to veto.
I have published no book. If you have heard otherwise, you have been lied to.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Raven
MeatHead I loved your interview ..now that we have a better insight into who you are, I have some respect for yah, kid. And may I have a signed copy of your new book?
“I DROOL. THEREFORE I AM WET”—such an original title.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Big Dog
I heard the interview as well. Quite a bit better than I expected. I almost get that Chaz feeling from the Wedding Crashers:
Mah. where’s my Mountain Dew.
Classic man.
I want my book autographed. Does that cost more than the 38 cents?