The DUmmie "William Pitt"

scamdy ^ | July 11, 2005 | the dread adminf

[franksolich]

For those watching the DUmmie "William Pitt" this past week was surely a wondrous one, full of explosive fireworks, on the heels of several weeks of utter silence on this subject from the DUmmie "William Pitt."

It appears the DUmmie "William Pitt" finally read what had been said about him.....about four weeks too late.

The guy is hurt, angry, insulted, and it showed.

This is reminescent of a similar event about nine weeks ago, when the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson finally discovered the DUmmie FUnnies, and were alas for them three weeks too late.

One suspects that during his weeks of silence on the matter, the DUmmie "William Pitt" had been ignoring the DUmmie FUnnies, the DUmmie Alert!s, and conservativeunderground, voluntarily unaware that such places were commenting upon his silence.

This has always mystified--and sometimes amused--me, this propensity of some segments in our society to ignore the "political opposition" as if it did not exist, or did not count.

It should be no wonder they keep losing elections.

Okay, so I am a Republican and a conservative, and hang around a great deal on Republican and conservative web-sites.....but I hang around a lot more on Democratic and liberal web-sites, to see what is going on, on the other side of the aisle.

Many people (of all political stripes) tend to hang around those whose values and perceptions match their own, for affirmation of those values and perceptions; by being along with like-thinking people, they feel strengthened, reinforced.

But a truly confident person has no need for "team support;" strong enough in his values and confident of his perceptions, he feels utterly unthreatened scouting around for values and perceptions different from his own.

Perhaps the DUmmie "William Pitt" is unsure and shaky in his own political convictions, and so as to reinforce them, hangs around with his own crowd, fearful of looking into what another crowd is doing or saying, lest his political convictions get shattered.

Which is no sign of a person confident about himself.

And it has obvious disadvantages, not looking at what "other side" is saying or doing.

When the DUmmiette "sfexpat2000" started the fund-raiser the afternoon of April 28, 2005, she should have posted her solicitation in DUmmieland, and immediately parked herself in front of the DUmmie FUnnies, to see what was being said about the matter, from the other side. If she had done that, the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson would have been aware of their missteps, their contradicitons, their omissions, in time to correct such things.

But no, instead, the DUmmiette "sfexpat2000" hung around her own crowd, in the comfortable cocoon of DUmmieland, voluntarily unaware of the furor outside, and the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson were three weeks--three weeks!--three weeks!--three weeks!--too late in seeing what the DUmmie FUnnies were saying about the matter, after which it was far too late to correct matters.

Such behavior--not looking to see what is going on in the great big wide world outside--I had compared with four affluent old dowagers (and remember, with only one exception, the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson are not young) gathering for their Wednesday afternoon bridge game, in an affluent living room with large picture-windows on all four sides.

While the rich old ladies gab and gossip around the card-table, in that living room with large windows all around, a tornado suddenly sweeps though.....and they indignantly wonder what had hit them.

The situation of the DUmmie "William Pitt" is more analogous to that of a post-office clerk in Germany the spring of 1945 (this is a true story, told me a long time ago by a British army veteran who had actually seen the sight); the guy so meticulous, so scrupulous in his duties, that he was unaware of the wider world outside.

While the post-office clerk was noting the number of staples, sheets of paper, various denominations of postage stamps, the metal and paper contents of the till, the British army swept through his town; much destruction, shooting, explosions, buildings falling down.

But the post-office clerk was so diligent in his tasks that he remained oblivious, utterly ignorant, of the noise and tumult and fire and smoke outside his front window, until he had finished accounting for the final pencil-stub and paper-clip.

Only then did he look up, look outside the windows upon his destroyed village, and in stunned shock and awe, stuttered, "What happened?"

[gate2wire]

That was from March of 04 and he is already interested in the Pancreas, makes one wonder.

[finnman69]

It's not the first time WP uses Orwellian 'down the memory hole'revisionism to flat out change his past proclamations.

[gate2wire]

How long did he actually avoid dealing with this problem?
Sheesh, this could have been a problem for much longer than I thought.

[franksolich]

Interesting that the DUmmie liberalnurse was all agog and excited and thrilled and happy and joyous that John Ashcroft was under a great deal of pain because of the pancreas.

[SoothingDave]

From this statement by Pittiful, I fail to see his problem with scamdy.com. Oh, I know that logic would have to be involved here but I would think that even Pitt could see the contradiction in what he is saying.

When good, decent progressives have questions, they are of noble origin.

When dirty, filthy FReepers have questions, it is cause we wish death to our enemies.

Does that clear things up?

SD

[gate2wire]

Wow, I did not read her comment the 1st time. What a caring health professional she must be. I guess she thought the little smiley face was witty.

[Jack of all Trades]

Dittp, how so?? This person sounds like a leftie, calling compassion and looking into wrongdoing, "hate"

Leftie? ROFL.

Who mentioned "hate"?

[Allosaurs_r_us]

You were wrong, and you trumpeted your mistaken assumptions all over Free Republic.

 

I can see you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. If you go back and read the threads everyone involved did nothing but wish Andy a speedy recovery. We had no malice toward the man, only his and his followers ethics in online fundraisers.

 

Did you not see the threads where single mothers were using their child support to finance Andy's trip and surgery to JH. I believe what sets us apart here at FR from the DUmpster is our ethical behavior. Andy could have had his surgery in Seattle at a hospital with very much the same if not a better success rate than JH, and it would have been covered by Medicaid. It could have been done 2 months earlier thereby giving him a heck of a lot better chance at survival. Andy and his pals at the DUmpster and various other left wing liberal web sites decided he had to have what he considered the best, not what any other American without medical insurance would have relied on. Now I ask you, is this how you would have gone about treating a potentially deadly circumstance?

 

Are we not to question our fellow man when it becomes apparent he is basically stealing from the needy under false pretenses?

[Darksheare]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1440477/posts?page=49#49

[gate2wire]

While most express their joy at Mr. Ashcroft's pain, andy is only interested if it's life threatening. This whole thing keeps getting "weirder and weirder."

[Charles Henrickson]

Will Pitt's threads rasing the same sorts of questions we have raised:

I'm pretty upset right now, and I need an explanation

'Need an explanation' Thread II

You were not the only one that "needed an explanation," Will. Perhaps you could enlighten us and answer some questions.

[Not A Snowbird]

Who's dead?

[SoothingDave]

Stephenson succumbed to a fatal illness.

He succumbed to an infection brought about by surgery. This is not evidence of him having "a fatal illness" nor is it evidence of him having such a diagnosis prior to raising funds based on this diagnosis.

That's potential fraud.

Money was raised for his treatment.

To a private bank account, not to a trust. And no one has any idea how much money was collected and how it was spent.

Again, the potential for fraud is there.

Hovering over the cadaver hoping to pin some blame for improprieties in fund raising, or parsing what was said regarding the nature of the illness is in very poor taste.

When people act in ways that give the appearance of fraud, it is not a public service to look the other way. Three simple questions were posed a month ago that could have put any appearnace of fraud to rest. The refusal to address the questions and the intimidation of those asking adds another reasons for suspicion.

It is a shame that a man died, and his loved ones are surely feeling his loss. But his death need not have been shrouded in suspicion.

SD

[Not A Snowbird]

Andy's dead? When?

[franksolich]

Ostensibly since Thursday night.

[gardencatz]

Yep, I keep the timeline. Can't keep track of who's planning on suing for what or who over there, though. Someone's always "talking to their lawyer" or discussing whether this or that can be sued about. For people who always claim their "rights" are being violated they certainly want to curtail the rights of others. Can't wait to see the firestorm that erupts with Bush's Supreme Court nominees.

Cindie

[speed_addiction]

Last week. Wednesday or Thursday I think.


With Howard Dean the dems have formally graduated from "disarray" to "debacle", with "irretrievable disaster" just around the corner.

[SoothingDave]

Andy's dead? When?

Thursday night. No obit in the online Times or Post-Intelligencer yet.

SD

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Andy's dead? When?

Pretty amazing you being in Seattle and haven't heard about this, huh? You would think it would be in the news over there since Andy is a Seattle citizen and ran for office over there.

[Not A Snowbird]

Dang. Haven't heard a WORD.

If it's in the Seattle Weekly or the Stranger I wouldn't know because I REFUSE to even look at those disgusting rags. I'm surprised it didn't get a mention on local news, though. Weird.