Axis of Denial
I can accept that an inadequate education can result in one believing some pretty dumb things. Conspiracy theories (like that which claims the Apollo 11 Moon-landing was faked) abound, and have a natural allure for people insufficiently equipped to discern fact from fiction.
I can roll my eyes in good humour when someone extolls the merits of some crackpot but benign theory. Wear all the crytals you want, put magnets around your car's exhaust, give money to homeopaths - it's all pointless, but at least no-one's getting hurt.
However, when you feel like declaring something as patently ignorant and inflammatory as that you think the US government may have deliberately orchestrated the September 11 attacks, then you single yourself out for special membership of the Stupid Motherf*ckers Club. Congratulations Hugo Chavez (president of Venezuela), your massively idiotic and insensitive comments easily trumped even the Pope's recent improvident anti-Islam ones.
Now as a special prize you get a starring role in my brand new "Axis of Denial". Fellow blissfully myopic denialists South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (AIDS) and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Holocaust) will welcome the competition to see whose policies can do the most damage to their respective economies before they get removed from office.
What goes through these Arch-Denialists minds to make them so obstreperous? In Manto's case very little, but I suspect Hugo and Mahmoud suffer from delusions of grandeur. The former styles himself as a Che Guevara, riding about dispensing revolution and leftist fixalls, whilst Mahmoud fancies himself a latter day Cyrus the Great, re-uniting the Persian Empire and marching victoriously into Babylon. But now we're comparing icons with idiots, so I'll cut short the conceit.
Gentlemen, here's hoping that your heroes continue to eclipse you and that you will both fade into obscurity and trouble the real world no more.
I can roll my eyes in good humour when someone extolls the merits of some crackpot but benign theory. Wear all the crytals you want, put magnets around your car's exhaust, give money to homeopaths - it's all pointless, but at least no-one's getting hurt.
However, when you feel like declaring something as patently ignorant and inflammatory as that you think the US government may have deliberately orchestrated the September 11 attacks, then you single yourself out for special membership of the Stupid Motherf*ckers Club. Congratulations Hugo Chavez (president of Venezuela), your massively idiotic and insensitive comments easily trumped even the Pope's recent improvident anti-Islam ones.
Now as a special prize you get a starring role in my brand new "Axis of Denial". Fellow blissfully myopic denialists South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (AIDS) and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Holocaust) will welcome the competition to see whose policies can do the most damage to their respective economies before they get removed from office.
What goes through these Arch-Denialists minds to make them so obstreperous? In Manto's case very little, but I suspect Hugo and Mahmoud suffer from delusions of grandeur. The former styles himself as a Che Guevara, riding about dispensing revolution and leftist fixalls, whilst Mahmoud fancies himself a latter day Cyrus the Great, re-uniting the Persian Empire and marching victoriously into Babylon. But now we're comparing icons with idiots, so I'll cut short the conceit.
Gentlemen, here's hoping that your heroes continue to eclipse you and that you will both fade into obscurity and trouble the real world no more.
posted by Thor Harley at 10:40 pm
2 Comments:
Amen to that. Chavez and Ahmadinejad are trying to style themselves as political rock stars and apparently will say anything to garner attention, as the 9/11 accusation proves. I have to wonder, how much of this bullsh*t rhetoric do they actually believe?
Congrats on your new job Quarkman.
My bf had some very nice things to say about your blog and he was right. It's nice to read something other than mindless drivel...and I should know cuz my blog is the mindless drivel factory, always spewing out inane sewage for the mind. Mmmm sewage.
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