Maher is dead wrong about the birthers
A few days ago, he called the democrats fools for not snipping this thing at the bud. However, the birthers do not conform to the normal flow of politics. Let's look at how things is suppose to go. When your position is shown clear as daylight as stupid and/or that you are to be trusted less, you are suppose to lose some kind of support. Let's look at a few examples.
After Katrina, the people of America saw Bush as he should had been seen at 9/11. Dumb, unorganized, and uncaring. As he continued to screw up, his popularity dropped more and more. There are a lot of regretful Bush voters.
When Obama did something particularly stupid and flip flopped on FISA, something very important and where he was completely right, there was outrage. There were a lot of depressed, angry, and former Obama supporters. I was one of the angry ones.
When McCain picked dumber and more delusional than Bush Madam Palin and the facts about her came out, there were a lot of angry, depressed, and former McCain supporters. Judging by the polls and the election day results, the change must be in the hundreds of thousands at least.
Sometimes it takes time.
It took time to see that yeah, maybe we should had picked the smart enviormentalist than the dumb chicken hawk.
It took time to see that McCain was mentally unstable and someone you do not want with codes to make any country go boom.
It took time to see that Obama, for all his flaws, is not only a great speaker, but someone that really wants to help and a clear and calm thinker on top of that. If he was Bush, he be vacationing in Hawaii for days playing basketbal right now..
But the same is not so for the birthers. No matter what happens, NONE of them quit.
When their little conspiracy theory was debunked again and again, the mountains of evidence did not make a dent in their ranks.
When republicans like McCain and the Bush administration acknowledged it, they did not become more humble.
After being seen as a few degrees less crazy than full blown terrorists, I did not see one former member.
When the fake Kenyan birth certificate brought to you by a detergent doctor near you was shown as a piece of shit, they still think it is real.
When one of their leaders ran away, they get more angry and, if I remember AP Psychology right, through projections, try to portray us rational people as crazy brutes.
No decrease in numbers. No decrease in rhetorical. No decrease in trust. No decrease in anything besides brain cells.
As a matter of fact, I think they are going. It seems to be more birthers in 2009 than in 2008.
So what should we do?
Any suggestions?
Oh. While we are at it. Anyone want to take my bet? Twenty bucks that they are going to present another bull shit birth certificate and fifty that he won't he be labelled as a homo sapien by the end of his eight years. Any takers?
After Katrina, the people of America saw Bush as he should had been seen at 9/11. Dumb, unorganized, and uncaring. As he continued to screw up, his popularity dropped more and more. There are a lot of regretful Bush voters.
When Obama did something particularly stupid and flip flopped on FISA, something very important and where he was completely right, there was outrage. There were a lot of depressed, angry, and former Obama supporters. I was one of the angry ones.
When McCain picked dumber and more delusional than Bush Madam Palin and the facts about her came out, there were a lot of angry, depressed, and former McCain supporters. Judging by the polls and the election day results, the change must be in the hundreds of thousands at least.
Sometimes it takes time.
It took time to see that yeah, maybe we should had picked the smart enviormentalist than the dumb chicken hawk.
It took time to see that McCain was mentally unstable and someone you do not want with codes to make any country go boom.
It took time to see that Obama, for all his flaws, is not only a great speaker, but someone that really wants to help and a clear and calm thinker on top of that. If he was Bush, he be vacationing in Hawaii for days playing basketbal right now..
But the same is not so for the birthers. No matter what happens, NONE of them quit.
When their little conspiracy theory was debunked again and again, the mountains of evidence did not make a dent in their ranks.
When republicans like McCain and the Bush administration acknowledged it, they did not become more humble.
After being seen as a few degrees less crazy than full blown terrorists, I did not see one former member.
When the fake Kenyan birth certificate brought to you by a detergent doctor near you was shown as a piece of shit, they still think it is real.
When one of their leaders ran away, they get more angry and, if I remember AP Psychology right, through projections, try to portray us rational people as crazy brutes.
No decrease in numbers. No decrease in rhetorical. No decrease in trust. No decrease in anything besides brain cells.
As a matter of fact, I think they are going. It seems to be more birthers in 2009 than in 2008.
So what should we do?
Any suggestions?
Oh. While we are at it. Anyone want to take my bet? Twenty bucks that they are going to present another bull shit birth certificate and fifty that he won't he be labelled as a homo sapien by the end of his eight years. Any takers?
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The thing about believes in what is basically a conspiracy theory there is no truth but the one they believe. It has nothing to do with proof. For every knowable fact there is some absurd rational that proves it wrong in their fevered brains.
August 5, 2009 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
These folks belong in a side show tent.
"Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. For only one thin dime, one tenth of a dollar, you can see them live - THE BIRTHERS. They are strange, they are exotic, never seen before in civilized society. You will be amazed, you will be repulsed, but you will never forget them. THE BIRTHERS. No one under 18 permitted."
August 6, 2009 8:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Conspiracy theorists cannot seem to sort what information to accept and what to discard. Their emotionalism keeps them from being able to perform critical analysis filtering of information. Since they cannot personally verify many facts, they feel validated in believing whatever information they are predisposed to believe. They are mistaken.
While not providing a guarantee of always determining the truth, critical analysis can, far more often than not, seperate the information wheat from the information chaff. Such analysis requires mental effort and a genuine desire to know the truth. Birthers are not searching for the truth. They only are seeking to have their their hate and anger validated.
So, what should we do about such zealots? I tend to agree with Maher. Directly and vocally call them out on their insanity so that their particular psychological virus doesn't spread to the non-infected. Isolate the disease, else it spread, much as the swift-boat virus did.
August 6, 2009 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink