Bio: Alex is a moderately attractive comedian and Internet celebrity. He writes about philosophy, robots, travel, and himself.
Posted on 12/18/2013 2:10:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Yesterday I posted this hilarious review of Sarah Palin's new book about the war on Christmas Good Tidings and Great Joy. The post was picked up by a Tea Party forum "Free Republic" and they were not happy. Apparently I'm "stupid, ignorant, dishonest and basically evil" and also have "the hair of a kewpie doll."
For 70+ comments, they proved they were smarter, more honest, more Godly, and possessing of better hair by calling me gay in as many ways as they could think of. "Fudgepacker" was fun because it reminded me of second grade, "pointy headed fag in need of dental work" has a nice ring to it, plus my two favorites "bitchy eunuch" and "limp-wristed sodomite" which are awesome because they're not even gay slurs from the last hundred years. They had to do some archaeology to find those well reasoned arguments.
They found some old head shots from my website and took issue with my teeth, my hair, the wrinkliness of my "fake work shirt" (?), and my similarity to Dilbert, which I honestly don't see.
Even more terrifying than homophobia from the 1200s and their wishing I was hotter are the signatures some of the commenters have. On the place where some people would write "PHD Candidate" or a quote from Ghandi, they have some of the most upsetting non-sequiturs I've ever seen. Matt1234 signs his comment with "Hitler blamed the Jews. Obama blames the Tea Party" a sentence that raises all kinds of questions about his understanding of the holocaust. Even worse, ConradofMontferrat signed his comment "According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it." I... there's... nope. Never mind. I have no words.
They're not all bad. When they discovered I was on Portlandia, they had a cute discussion of the show and the merits of the brunch sketch versus stuff that happened in season 3. There was also some back-and-forth about my use of periods inside quotation marks. It isn't helpful since they're speaking dogmatically about an issue for style guides, but it was kinda fun to see them going after grammar mistakes with the same enthusiasm they attacked gays and Muslims. At least they're well rounded.
Bio: Alex is a moderately attractive comedian and Internet celebrity. He writes about philosophy, robots, travel, and himself.
LOL!
He is in love with Sarah Palin, but she won’t even look his way.
He is so conflicted about this strangely compelling attraction to a woman.
Free Press....Cool.
He’s in Portlandia, so who cares
Based on that 4 comments, he probably got WAY more visibility on FR than he did from the original piece.
“stupid, ignorant, dishonest and basically evil”
Lifted directly from my post...that quote continues, “...if what you write is any window on your soul”. He concedes, by default, that his writing IS a window on his soul. So, the premise being true, the conclusion follows.
Ironic - I was just running through an exercise, completely destroying every point in his decidedly unfunny screed. While writing it, I was disappointed that only fellow freepers would read it, but not the object of my ire...satisfying irony.
Our responses obviously touched a tender, feminine-side nerve; and for that we should be grateful.
Does he still think Palin lost the presidential election of 2008?
LOL
The “mildly attractive” Alex(is) is only invoking the name of Sarah Palin to attract attention to himself and his decidedly lonely and miserable existence.
Yep...looks like his 15 minutes of fame happened right here on FR.
She’s at #24 on the New York Times’ best seller list. What do you want to bet that Alex has never written a book, much less had three straight NYT best sellers in a row?
There is/was a show called “Portlandia”?
Okay.
Interesting picture. Could easily be a homosexual man or bull dyke.
There seems to be a “cult of personality” that exists where we would least expect.
Very very sad.
I suppose the shallow group think, as a time saving device, is inevitable.
I wonder if you took your “bad teeth” and expressed your opinions with a British accent, you may gain more fans?
Damn...it's getting so I can't tell Portland, Maine from Portland, Oregon. Sodomites own both.
I don’t know if Alex is gay either, but he sure has the requisite Drama Queen bit nailed down.
It’s pretty obvious Sarah lives rent free in his head.
Christmas? Baah Humbug. Do they even HAVE christmas
in Portland?? I figured it would be more like Fistivus
or something.
I sure wouldn’t want to leave my kid alone with him.
Hope you are feeling ok and Merry Christmas to you.
Frolisch Weinachten!
“mildly attractive” to who? That manly girl at MSNBC?
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