Using Newspapers to Settle Personal Vendettas…
By jimrob | February 16, 2008
This is without a doubt one of my “favorite” Dan Ehl opinion pieces. In it, he used the opinion page of our local newspaper to publicly attack a blogger who is quite critical of his THC-induced ramblings.
Conservatives Can’t Help Themselves
Google “dan ehl” and you’ll come up with my stories and columns, as well as a few postings on a blog called State 29, the tormented ravings of an obviously delusionary lunatic. He parrots all the extreme right wing hate mongering and then some. But I can only feel sorry for him because of recent studies that show his ilk should be pitied — and then heavily medicated.
One title on his blog is “Dan Ehl Loves Terrorists.” I come by this label because of a column against torture. If being against torture makes me a terrorist lover, I guess so are the framers of the Constitution and all of America’s greatest statesmen, artists, writers and most people’s moms.
“I think most Americans probably agree that it’s perfectly fine that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was tortured,” he writes.
So much for cruel and unusual punishment and the Eighth Amendment.
Dan, Dan, Dan. The Consitution, and it’s protections, only apply to American citizens; NOT members of foreign groups actively seeking to destroy our country.
He also wrote that I am a Jew hater because I criticized the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which resulted in a huge loss of civilian life, one-third of who were children.
I guess this means if I ever criticize Italy, I hate Catholics — or if I bash Minnesota, I have it out for Lutherans.
There’s more of Dan’s open-minded “progressiveness.” Here’s the post Dan mentions. That blog quotes an editorial that’s quite a bit worse than the one I’m quoting, if you can believe it.
It wouldn’t be hard to write off the blog’s author as just a dolt deficient in reasoning skills as have others.
But, being the bleeding heart liberal that I am, I’m afraid I have to feel compassion for him since a federally-funded study says that people like him are, ah, not as well balanced as others.
Called “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,” known to others as the “Conservatives are Crazy Study,” it linked together Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh.
Dan goes on to quote some left-wing group’s study that supposedly proves all Conservatives are sociopathic-morons that can’t control their emotions. I wonder what Dan thinks of those fine folks out in Berkley with their Code Pink antics, and those high-moraled individuals fellating eachother on San Francisco street corners…
Yikes. Now you see why I feel sorry for that pathetic and hopelessly demented freak.
One of many sources for the study was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. They quoted him as writing, “It has been observed that Republicans are far more single-mindedly and unambiguously aggressive in pursuing Democratic scandals (e.g. Whitewater, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair) than Democrats have been in pursuing Republican scandals (e.g. Iran Contra, Bush-Harken Energy, Halliburton).”
The New York Times, eh? There’s a fine source of an unbiased opinion. Of course, to Dan, anything spouting the stereotypical left-wing insanity we’ve all come to hate and loathe probably is unbiased.
I really don’t see why Dan is quoting the text he does. All it shows is that Republicans (the real Republicans, not these RINOs like McCain and Bush) seek out and destroy government corruption, while Democrats like to keep their business nice and quiet.
And if that’s not enough, there is the study by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley that found conservatives have more nightmares. The study examined male and female college students who strongly identified themselves as either liberal or conservative and analyzed their dreams.
Among a number of sad findings of the study as listed by the Web page was “that people on the left were less often the initiator of aggressive interactions in their dreams, and their aggression was less physical in nature; people on the right were more often the aggressors in their dreams, and their aggression was more often physical.
“People on the left had a greater number of dreams involving friendliness and good fortune, and fewer dreams involving misfortune; people on the right had a greater number of dreams with misfortunes, and fewer dreams with friendliness and good fortune.
I can only assume that this came from a group as equally unbiased as that which publishes the New York Times.
“Male rights had the lowest percentage of family members and instances of sexuality, and the highest percentage of animal characters and being the aggressor.
“Male lefts had the highest frequency of female characters, and the fewest instances of aggression.
“Female lefts had the lowest percentage of being the aggressor in their dreams, and the highest frequency of friendliness and good fortunes.
“Female rights had the highest frequency of sexual interactions and physical aggression.”
So conservative women have a lot of violent wet dreams? Sound like my kind of women. Much better than those left-wing ladies that only dream of having lots of money.
So there is just no way I can get really angry with someone saddled with “decreased cognitive complexity” or plagued by “dreams with misfortunes, and fewer dreams with friendliness and good fortune.” Poor little schizoid.
That’s it Dan, take the high road. There’s no way you can get mad at a conservative who attacks you, since your open-minded, progressive nature has been “proven” to be the most intelligent path. Us cawnsurvitives awr awl a buncha maw-rawns annaway.
Did you give the guy from State 29 an opportunity to defend himself in your paper, Dan? Or did you just continue your streak of unprofessionality and use our local paper to air your grievances unchallenged? I’m guessing that you did to him like you did to me - added him to your email client’s blocked senders list.
Update:
I was just sent an email about a new book called “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” Looks like the crazy train goes both ways, Dan.
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