Sad Freaks of the Nation

WIngnut humor. A MoveOn email contains a picture of a mother holding a baby and a sign that says "healthcare for all." The wingnut decides to make fun of this mother holding a baby. Just to say that again: the wingnut decides to make fun of this mother holding a baby. So the wingnut uses Photoshop and makes the sign say hilarious things like "My Mom needs (Government funded) implants" and "hey buddy, wanna party with my mom? $20."

It's a mother. Holding a baby. "I disagree with this mother's politics, so I am going to make a joke about her baby calling her a whore!"

Who are these people? Are they completely feral?

UPDATE. This is not to say that conservatives aren't funny. For instance, in his piece where he pushed the freeper BS about the Frost family, Mark Steyn got all huffy at Paul Krugman for his suggestion that movement conservatives like to mock people who need health insurance. The freeper of course just making up vicious nonsense about the Frosts, and, um, mocking them. And to add to the fun, the Powerline twerps thought that freeper post was "hilarious."

So watching Steyn score that own goal in his match against Krugman is pretty funny. The actual vicious mockery of a family who needs good health insurance, not so much.

UPDATE. Oh, and more comedy. Why do wingnuts hate the middle class?

Comments

[An Outhouse]

A little off topic but if the mommy joins the armed services then she actually can get government funded implants.

Go figure.

[Fishbone McGonigle]

Who are these people? Are they completely feral?

Frankly, I'm not convinced they're actually people, so much as either 1) high-level experiments in artificial intelligence, or 2) characters in an elaborate performance art piece.

[K. Ron Silkwood]

Pod people. Seriously. Think about it.

[Captain Goto]

It's not an accident that every wingnut 'critique' of non-all-private health care tends to be an extended, spittle-flecked exercise in missing (avoiding) the point, if not thirty or forty of them at once. All of them usually in the service of avoiding the *other* point; the one about how bloody-minded their basic assumptions are.

Bottom line: I *don't give a flying fuck* if Bill freaking Gates gets government-sponsored health care, if *everyone* gets it. To the wingnuts, however, it is right and just to make sure that this schlub woodworker gets it up the ass, good and hard, just so they can spout their self-satisfied bullshit, over and over and over again. They are a stain on humanity. And yes, Amy, I mean *you*. Fuck off and die (or, better yet, fuck off and lose your job and insurance, and *then* get a debilitating disease. Screw you.).

[flory]

To the wingnuts, however, it is right and just to make sure that this schlub woodworker gets it up the ass, good and hard, just so they can spout their self-satisfied bullshit, over and over and over again. They are a stain on humanity. And yes, Amy, I mean *you*.

You know how neoconservatives are called 'former liberals who grew up'?

Somewhere there is growing a whole cohort of liberals who are 'wingnuts that lost their job and health insurance'.

[SteveB]

I *don't give a flying fuck* if Bill freaking Gates gets government-sponsored health care, if *everyone* gets it.

Exactly. The right wing wants to ghettoize gov't provided health care as a benefit for the poor because that completely undercuts the base of popular (meaning middle-class) support for it.

Does anyone in this country complain about rich folks getting Social Security? Not that I've heard of. Everyone gets it, and that's why it's the third rail of politics.

We'll get a step closer to universal health care in this country when we stop trying to appeal to people's pity for the poor (which is scarce when it exists at all) and start appealing to their self-interest (always a reliable motivator). Here's a talking point: universal health care means you get to keep your nice granite countertops and still get free health care from the government.

[eRobin]

Here's a talking point: universal health care means you get to keep your nice granite countertops and still get free health care from the government.

That's good. Here's another talking point: It would cost less to do business in this country if health insurance were a government mandate.

It doesn't matter how many good points we come up with though. Until you can find the one that convinces the insurance industry that a civilized health system, like France's for instance, is good for them, we aren't going to get one. We don't own Congress.

[va]

They won't give it up. It's spectacular. Michelle Malkin is stalking the Frosts in Baltimore. What a thing. Over a response on the radio to Bush? I mean, why? Are they all just begging to be locked up?