I have no idea why I keep torturing myself this way, but I popped over to Oliver Willis’ place (“like kryptonite to functioning synapses”) and was treated to this sanctimonious twaddle:
There’s politics, and then there is morality. George Bush purports to be a Christian, so I hope that he can reconcile himself with his God when he understands the fruits of his deception in getting us in to war, and his continuing refusal to plan for war once the decision had been made.
You hear that? Oliver wants us to recognize that God is watching in stern judgment over President Bush (which is fine, so long as the Almighty doesn’t, y’know, try any of that religious shit in a public building), and he wishes further to remind us that the President is himself personally responsible for the death of each and every American soldier deployed in Iraq, in the same way that, say, John Wayne Gacy was responsible for the murder of 33 Illini boys in the late 70s. Because it’s understood, you see — it’s been entered into the ledger of indisputable fact — that Bush went to war wantonly and dishonestly. After all, the internet told Oliver so.
Which is why, in the midst of his crassly self-satisfied admonition, it never seems to occur to Oliver that should the President actually believe in what he’s doing in Iraq (and I have no reason to think otherwise), then Willis’ comments are so remarkably vulgar as to practically defy description; in fact, under such a revised formulation, Oliver’s comments would represent the worst kind of cheap grace one could ever hope to purchase with a modem and a keyboard.
And I’m not sure God looks too kindly on that either.
Oliver then concludes his sober metaphysical musings with some inane bromide about needing the world to make the planet work (huh?), before wending his way to the predictable refrain that the country’s only recourse now is to change leadership and hope “the world” re-embraces us (note to Cameroon: even if it doesn’t work out with Kerry, we’ll always have Paris…).
All of which leads me to believe that maybe O-Dub’s on cold medicine or something.
In any event, I have another suggestion, one that doesn’t involve our genuflecting before fatted Oil-For-Food robber barons: let’s simply work together as a blogging community to see if we can’t find Oliver Willis a Belgian penpal. A female Belgian penpal. That way, he’d have his internationalist itch scratched, and who knows — maybe after some long-distance heavy petting, he’d be more inclined to leave the political thinking to grownups, people who aren’t distracted into boner-wielding idiocy by Britney Spears or whatever buxom anime villainess O happens to be yanking his meat to this week.
Just a thought. I’m not married to it or anything.
It’s always amusing to me the personal attacks of denial of reality some folks will engage in simply because the facts don’t line up with how they thought things would be. Your guy fucked up, and the quicker you admit and it and understand that we need to fix it, the better of America will be.
See—I said all that and I didn’t feel the need to stoop to the level of a personal attack. It’s what grownups do.
I don’t even like anime.
Willis’ comment section has progressively become worse in the last year. He indeed used to be a quite reasonable shlub from the Hub. A year of vitriolic echo-chamber and plenty of blog ads dollars later, he’s just another Kos waiting to happen.
Actually I suspect most of the visits he gets from non-Atriettes are the highway slow motion crash gawking kind.
I didn’t expect you to stoop, Oliver. Not after having placed yourself in the position of God. What would the flock think?
And I’m not worried about the personal attack thing, either. I’ll just say a few hail marys and you’ll have to forgive me. It’s what Gods do.
Well, no, Oliver, he also called you WRONG. Care to actually address that?
Well done, Jeff. I am assured by my long-term memory that there was a time with Oliver had some real thoughts to express … but I’m damned if I can remember just how long ago that was now.
“You guys fucked up! You weren’t supposed to let anybody get killed!”
Asshead.
AH! Ye olde “‘call yerself’s Christian an’ then go to war”-schtick.
I have seen more editorials and letters-to-the-editor regarding that subject than Tennesseeans have seen Elvis. Christians not being Christian enough, huh? Is that a challenge or something?
Why are you always prescribing sexual solutions for other bloggers? I mean, tongue-freaky Mexican prostitutes, HOT letters from Belgian clams, Sailor Moon in a bustierre…
What gives? Is it because every 3 hours you’re confronted with living proof that you have had sex, and you have to wipe the mustard off his tushie?
There’s that, sure. Then there’s the luggage, which I seem to trip over everytime I’m not careful about how I tuck it away.
I have a friend in Belgium who owns a very nice beer bar (150 types of Belgian beer) and is HOT to boot.
I can’t think of anything worse I could do to her than give her O’s number…
Repent, sinners, REPENT!
Yep, there’s definitely something going on there vis-a-vis self-deification.
I basically like Oliver as a person, but I just can’t bring myself to leave him a comment on posts like that anymore. He has the rabid sycophant named Angela who makes my Hulk-angry mode look like Jesus on Quaaludes.
As long as I know Oliver is watching: Dragging God into the fray is just gonna piss him off, dude.
O-dub’s ranting…
“so I hope that he can reconcile himself with his God when he understands the fruits of his deception in getting us in to war”
So, first all, Bush’s God may not even be the same as O-dub’s which leads one to wonder how O-dub has any insight into that diety or Bush’s relationship with same. And if Bush had only been honest, no soldiers would’ve died? Or is it that (Bush’s) God was also deceived, so now that he’s figured it out, he causing the deaths of soldiers?
“and his continuing refusal to plan for war once the decision had been made”
What does this mean? How can someone *continue* to refuse to plan for something that is now happening? What fairy tale land does O-dub inhabit that allows one to continue to plan for something concurrently with its occurrence?
What kills me is that he goes on and on about the importance of facts but has never bothered to use any or even listen to them.
He is fully in the religion of the Left. Their credo is “BUSH LIED”. Facts, they don’t need no stinkin’ facts. Facts are what Oliver says they are.
But he does look like an anime character.
Oliver is brilliant. Einstein brilliant. okay, post-Einstein brilliant, given his grasp of relativity. you see, truth is like light. it bends more into the gravitational pull of the sun than it does in other places that are less large and less dense, in this case, say, the former representing the orbit of Willis and the latter being wisdom – protein, celluloid or otherwise. which makes it perfectly clear how he comes by the equation: (GW + Christianity) + (wars of which OW doesn’t approve + casualties of any sort) = hiprocasy + culpability.
the bad news is that Einstein believed in a God more like the one GW believes in, and OW struggles with: “You believe in a God who plays dice,” Einstein once said, “and I in complete law and order in a world which objectively exists….” that would be a pretty black-and-white grasp of good and evil, something more like “deposing tyrannical mass murderers is good, even if some soldiers don’t return from the mission.”
ad hominims are typical blogfodder; as Arbiter notes, facts were omitted in O dubya’s response. and I can believe he doesn’t like anime.
Oliver is indeed Kosifying at an alarming rate (if he has not gone all the way over already), but it may be because he has high hopes of making money from blogging and – under the delusion that Kos is still raking in the dough – he is trying to cater to what he thinks is his market.
Dear God,
Will you please damn JFK to hell. He started a war in Vietnam that had no bearing on the safety the US homeland. 58,000 soldiers died because of JFK’s illegal war against the Vietnamese people. JFK did not get approval from Congress or the UN to bomb the shit out of Vietnam. With 58,000 soldiers dead because of JFK, he has fucked up 96 times more than GWB.
With love from a brainy boy toy,,
Oliver Willis
Will you please damn JFK to hell.
Don’t you know it was all Nixon’s fault?
Hey, is it me or is Michael Jackson a human anime character? The unhumanly angular nose, the huge eyes, the spindley frame, the man is art imitating art, consarnit!!!
“It’s always amusing to me the personal attacks of denial of reality some folks will engage in simply because because the facts don’t line up with how they thought things would be.”
Oliver’s biggest problem is that he is not completely literate–sadly, the cited sentence is anything but atypical. Can we subject denial of reality to a personal attack? Does the answer vary by state? I don’t want to know.
Oh, Oliver, this should make your brain explode…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3639977.stm
Bush’s “continuing refusal to plan for war once the decission had been made…”
To quote Socrates, “WTF???”
Oh, Oliver, this should make your brain explode…
And you know, it’d be Bush’s fault if that happened, too.
Wow, Jeff, you’re a dickhead.
Aw. And here I was thinking we had a future together, dsfdsf.
Why are you always prescribing sexual solutions for other bloggers?
Hey, it worked for Wonkette. It probably would have worked for Oliver, too, except he’s not a chick. It won’t work for this PW character, either.
Viz Oliver’s idiocies—as a Christian, it’s always refreshing to hear the agnostics explain the mysteries of God’s ways to me. Thanks, Ollie. I wait with bated breath for the web designer’s elucidations on…well, just about anything that isn’t tied to a Democrat platform plank with baling wire.
“like kryptonite to functioning synapses”
Jeff,
I believe “like crayons for cretins” is more like it.
Cordially…
With all due respect to our fine men and women on the battlefield (and, for the record, my brother is headed to Afghanistan just now) the scale on the death-o-meter is still tilted way, way over to the “civilians killed in terrorist attacks” side. As gruesome as this business is it’s far better for us to square off with radical islam prepared and with the aid of body armor, machine guns, tanks, and finely honed combat skills than it is to confront islamic terror unprepared on your way home from a business trip on some random tuesday.
Or have we all forgotten that little tidbit already?