We hold truthiness to be self-serving...

Willfully ignorant people really piss me off.

"Really, Ferrerman? Is this a new development?"

Check this out:

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/07/16/525181/conservatives-selectively-edit-obamas-speech-to-claim-he-hates-small-businesses/?mobile=nc

You know, folks, there's politics and there's fudging a bit here and there in the name of politicking...and then there is willfully fucking stupid.

I was thinking earlier today that you could forgive somebody for being fearful or leery of Obama four years ago. I'm using *forgive* loosely because they said some really, really stupid stuff back then. It's one thing to be fearful of FEMA camps and communism four years ago when there was the slimmest of possibilities that Obama *could* do these things but, it's just fucking stupid to STILL be saying these things now. Look at that senile old sherrif, Joe Arpaio. He's concluded Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Oh. The guy was relevant for 15 minutes once upon a time for serving green baloney sandwiches to low-risk inmates he housed in tents in Arizona. He was such a fucking genius of a Criminologist that he cured crime in Arizona and was able to devote time and state's money to uncovering the massive conspiracy that was the birth of president Barack H. Obama. Oh. Well, Joe, good luck getting the POTUS into a pink jumpsuit and into one of your tents.

Where do we get these people??!! Where is their sense of shame? Is being famous or getting on TV worth being willfully stupid? People used to giggle about the idiots who went on TV shows like Jerry Springer and confessed to doing often obscenely embarrassing things. Now people go on Sunday morning news shows or have their own segment on Fox, spew whatever comes to mind as *fact* and people are OK with that. Willfully ignorant idiots are just part of the culture now. Oh- it would be bad if they are liars. But, they are NOT liars. Nope, they are idiots! That's OK.

Four years later, people saying the same shit about Obama is stupid. But, as long as you believe it, you're not a liar. You're an idiot but, not a liar.

A lot of people these days have no problem being stupid. For the current newscycle they will have no problem believing that Barack Obama hates business and yada-fucking-yada. You just never mind that it doesn't make a lick of sense. If you can get other idiots to believe it, then it's really, really not a lie!

Mostly, lacking shame, they cannot admit that they were wrong. So, they keep pressing. That square peg WILL go in the round hole, one of these days! I'm a Cub fan. I *know* they will win the World Series some day. I'm just not a fucking idiot about it. Me declaring that the Cardinals suck or are Marxists (red uniforms....) isn't going to help the Cubs win. It usually takes pitching. Anthony Rizzo looks like the real deal....

Believing, is not enough. Willful ignorance is not enough. The pundits on TV are sounding exactly like Topix posters these days. Is the tail wagging the dog? It's one thing for a troll like my stalker, Sam, to be stupid. We've come to expect that from imaginary people on the internet. But, when politicians sound like Sams, we've truly gone through the looking glass.

I wonder if Jerry Springer is still on? Maybe he's got an hour on FOX?