The Wisdom of the Right Wing Morons

Look, we all know deep down that many right wingers (those who aren't just plain greedy) are pretty damned stupid. I mean, who but a person of very little brain would believe Fox News. But it is rare that the stupidity of the right wing nuts is so clearly illustrated as in a recent blog post on an anti-abortion site. This was picked up by Daily Kos.

This anti-abortion fanatic actually read an Onion article about a woman celebrating her abortion by throwing a party...and believed it! His righteous indignation would be great parody if it wasn't so tragically serious.

I am hoping that I have once again made Michael Bouldin snarf his coffee.

Now, I have known some genuinely intelligent and caring people who were anti-abortion. You don't have to be an idiot to be anti-abortion, you just have to make some basic assumptions that differ from those most of us around here make. But somehow the anti-abortion movement just seems to attract a particularly dumb brand of self-righteous fool.

But to be fair, this guy is not the first person to take the Onion seriously. China's news agency reported as serious that Congress was threatening to leave DC if they don't get a new Capitol Dome. And, of course, there was the Christian fool who thought that the Onion article about JK Rowlings writing Harry Potter to encourage Satanism was real.

I will leave you with one sad note. Sometimes, the Onion proves to be far more prescient than we would like. As in the case of a 2001 article titled Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'. Sadly, THAT article proved all too true.

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