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.
yup
Not counting the live chickens, of course...
/johnny
I kinda figured it was Cher’s daughter at first glance.
Has that conflicted look.
“Down goes falcone! Down goes falcone! Down goes falcone”
What’s the difference between alex falcone and a mosquito?
The mosquito stops sucking when you swat it.
My personal compliments on ruining Petunia’s day.
- Megan
Don’t know how I missed it yesterday ... it seems so obvious, now.
On an entirely separate note ... the epithet “sodomite” does not come from the 1200s AD (as our pathetic target of derision suggests) ... more like the 4th millenium BC.
Who calls their own article ‘hilarious’. Vanity, thy name is this douchebag.
Moron also doesn’t realize either that Freerepublic predates the Tea Party by OVER a decade!
Now that’s funny right there!
I would have no earthly idea on that one. lol
I did not expect someone as dim and thick and as mentally illiberal as Alex or Alexa or whatever name it has, to link the word Sodomite to Sodom and Gonorrhoea or Gomorrah
I could not let that one slide. :-)
A little bit of checking would have shown Alex that Free Republic was started some eleven years before the Tea Party even existed. If he knew how many people read FR he’d run away and hide. This is probably the biggest audience he’s ever had.
Talk about loser. And look how he denigrated the use of ‘ancient terminology’.
Sorry, you’re uneducated and had to look up what eunuch meant. Here’s one that’s more modern. Flemwad. Or how about scumbag.
I hope his four fans continue to support him........
Apparently?
You have to give this guy credit; he’s written a comical review of comments made about him and doesn’t sound traumatized. He should stick with this kind of writing. It made me laugh.
He looks like a borderline pedophile
Oh my!
I will ping Sarah’s list after I get home from seeing my father at the hospital tonight.
I have a lot to say in her ping!
Alex self describes:
"Bio: Alex is a moderately attractive comedian and Internet celebrity. He writes about philosophy, robots, travel, and himself."
And a further assessment, presumably self-imposed:
"One of Portland's 20 funniest people but not top 10,"
So what we have here is a person who presumes to the title of "The 20th Funniest Person in the Nation's 28th Largest Market."
(Well, I for one, am certainly impressed.)
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