Egads, Those wingnuts are dumb

Have you ever wondered about the mental agility of our right wing brethren?  I know that I have.

Fictional Author Without a Conscience.

Online magazine Salon.com reports that an antiabortion blogger recently mistook a tongue in cheek article posted on America's Greatest News Source, theonion.com as the literal truth, despite patently absurd subject matter.  The article can be found here, but salon.com is a paid site, so you can't read the whole thing unless you're already a member or choose a sign up option.

The article, entitled "I'm Totally Psyched About This Abortion!"--exclamation point and all--is such an obvious parody of the common conservative strawman argument that it's difficult to believe anyone could possibly take this seriously.  Nonetheless, the blogger (named "Pete" from the  site March for Life) posted an entry entitled "Murder without conscience" in which he excoriated the fictional author of the onion.com parody. 

Fair warning:  "Pete's" site contains the usual graphic depictions that prolife folks seem to love, in some perverse way.  Check your Psych textbook for projection, wherein the subject ascribes their own perversity on some third party.  As Nietzche once observed,

"He who fights with [perceived] monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

— Beyond Good and Evil

Eric Rudolph and the firebombing of clinics comes as no surprise.  These folks just need a target and an excuse.

In any event, don't you think that the very title of the article (not to mention the joke-laden adverts) should have tipped this wacko off?   Or do I just expect too much?

Go Figure.

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