Friday, September 26, 2008

Jon Stewart: Bush Bailout Speech Just Like Iraq Speech (VIDEO)

Story is here.

"Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love. " (H.L. Mencken)

And think about this line from Mencken while watching the debate tonight and McCain is speaking:

"Thus he fought his last fight, eager only for blood. It quickly became frenzied and preposterous, and after that pathetic. All sense departed from him. He bit right and left, like a dog with rabies. He descended to demagogy so dreadful that his very associates blushed. His one yearning was to keep his yokels heated up -- to lead his forlorn mob against the foe. That foe, alas, refused to be alarmed. It insisted upon seeing the battle as a comedy. Even Darrow, who knew better, occasionally yielded to the prevailing spirit. Finally, he lured poor Bryan into a folly almost incredible.....

"....here stood the man who had been thrice a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic -- and once, I believe, elected -- there he stood in the glare of the world, uttering stuff that a boy of eight would laugh at! The artful Darrow led him on: he repeated it, ranted for it, bellowed it in his cracked voice. A tragedy, indeed! He came into life a hero, a Galahad, in bright and shining armor. Now he was passing out a pathetic fool."
http://www.peeniewallie.com/2005/06/h_l_menckens_ob.html

Censored and then later approved after I complained about it.

Note: Yes, that's right, Huffington Post censored H.L. Mencken. Now I assume that HuffPo's moderators have had college educations. So they should know who Mencken is. I did make another post in the same article with just a link to Mencken's column I quoted above AND IT GOT THROUGH! What is up with these assholes? These effete little punks who seem to have been hired because they don't know what satire is or who recoil when a pointed comment is too strong for their delicate limousine liberal sensibilities do little to help HuffPo's credibility.

I am now at 306 censored posts out of 1366, which is a ridiculously high percentage when I don't use curse words in my posts and I don't troll. The HuffPo moderation system is clearly broken. I hope they fix it, because users are really getting pissed at the inconsistent nature of the censorship.

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