RobDownSouth
No Kings
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Fringe wingnut "Rightfield" (who I affectionately call "Love to Give Herpes" as a play on his former ID "Love to Give Roses") had a very bad weekend here on the General Board.
On Saturday afternoon, I was bored and created a simple thread about a graph that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released on Friday showing how bad job loss was under the last year of the failed Bush administration and how it was recovering under the administration of President Barack Obama.
Naturally, this did not sit well with RightField, who takes deep personal offense at facts that are contrary to his personal view of the world. Not surprisingly, he began a cacophony of unrelated (and largely untrue) postings, most of which could be summarized as "but....but...Clinton!" and "but....but....Carter!", in other words, the usual fringe rightwing boilerplate response rhetoric.
A funny thing happened on the way to the spin room, though....
Somewhat surprisingly, it seemed that the General Board as a whole just wasn't in the mood to take RightField's jibba jabba. A great many people (seven or eight...I lost count) began challenging virtually every single "factual" assertation in RightField's boilerplate babble. RightField fell back on the tried-and-true technique of flooding the thread with irrelevant cut and paste jobs ("AJing a thread") to no avail. People openly mocked RightField's specious conjecture and thinly sourced "facts".
RightField got pummeled pretty thoroughly, as if he were a human piñata. Most amazing, though, was that the usual suspects who largely support their fellow wingnut (Vetty, koalabear, AJ, et al) entered the thread, took one look around, and quickly exited, evidently decidin' that discretion in this case was the better part of valor.
My thanks to all of you who participated in the education of this unrepentant wingnut this past weekend. I realize we most likely didn't change his mind, but we put the cretin on notice that if he was going to claim something as a "fact", he'd best have something to back up his claim.
On Saturday afternoon, I was bored and created a simple thread about a graph that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released on Friday showing how bad job loss was under the last year of the failed Bush administration and how it was recovering under the administration of President Barack Obama.
Naturally, this did not sit well with RightField, who takes deep personal offense at facts that are contrary to his personal view of the world. Not surprisingly, he began a cacophony of unrelated (and largely untrue) postings, most of which could be summarized as "but....but...Clinton!" and "but....but....Carter!", in other words, the usual fringe rightwing boilerplate response rhetoric.
A funny thing happened on the way to the spin room, though....
Somewhat surprisingly, it seemed that the General Board as a whole just wasn't in the mood to take RightField's jibba jabba. A great many people (seven or eight...I lost count) began challenging virtually every single "factual" assertation in RightField's boilerplate babble. RightField fell back on the tried-and-true technique of flooding the thread with irrelevant cut and paste jobs ("AJing a thread") to no avail. People openly mocked RightField's specious conjecture and thinly sourced "facts".
RightField got pummeled pretty thoroughly, as if he were a human piñata. Most amazing, though, was that the usual suspects who largely support their fellow wingnut (Vetty, koalabear, AJ, et al) entered the thread, took one look around, and quickly exited, evidently decidin' that discretion in this case was the better part of valor.
My thanks to all of you who participated in the education of this unrepentant wingnut this past weekend. I realize we most likely didn't change his mind, but we put the cretin on notice that if he was going to claim something as a "fact", he'd best have something to back up his claim.
