The banality of stupidity

Colin McNickle is an editor at the Richard Mellon Scaife rag the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Mr. McNickle is the chap instructed by Teresa Heinz Kerry to "shove it." Apparently, Mr. McNickle "covered" the convention in Boston last week, and even posted to this blog while there. The blog itself is nothing more than brain farts from an opinionated hack. (Just check out his favorite links.) What's fun is just how stupid some of these posts are. For instance, even Kerry haters gave Kerry pretty good marks for his convention acceptance speech. McNickle gives him a "D" for writing, an "F" for content, and that his delivery was "at times awkward", resulting in a C-. Let's face it. McNickle wrote the wrong column. He was apparently reporting on George W. Bush's grades at at Yale. If Kerry's delivery is "at times awkward", what does he call Bush's incoherent, illiterate mumblings?

The 'right' to health care Posted July 29, 2004 10 :54 PM Kerry says health care is a "right?" Let me know if you find that one in your copy of the U.S. Constitution....

Let me know if you find "you don't need to actually count the ballots" in the Constitution. Let me know where in the Constitution it says that drug addict Rush Limbaugh has a right to privacy. I presume that Mr. McNickle is very up-in-arms about his tax money going to subsidize the health care plan of the entire federal government and associated bureaucracy.

Redistributionist economics Posted July 29, 2004 10 :53 PM Mr. Kerry says he wants to roll back tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans ... those richest 2 percent of Americans. That just happens to be the cohort that pays the greatest percentage of taxes. The Kerry plan is income redistribution -- nothing else.

Well, who said Kerry wants to distribute to the poor or the middle class the money earned from rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy? Seems to me that Senator Kerry would like to, oh, pay for Bush's Iraq misadventure, for instance. I guess he's right.

Kerry's economic [sic] Posted July 29, 2004 10 :53 PM John Kerry says he wants an America that "exports products, not jobs." Which, when you get right down to it, will make products here less affordable and supress wage rates.

Yeah. Jobs in the US is a bad idea. I really, really hope the GOP reads Mr. McNickles' blog and runs with his deep ideas. Exporting products is, in Mr. McNickles' opinion, a bad & counterproductive thing.

Family 'values' Posted July 29, 2004 10 :53 PM John Kerry wants to "value families" by raising the minimum wage (that will reduce the pool of entry-level jobs), add more and more government to health care (which will raise the cost of health care and lead to rationing), and "protect" Social Security (which will go bankrupt when our children are older unless steps are taken to privatize it, which will lead to greater benefits for everyone). Help is on the way? Heaven help us.

So many gems in this one. If we raise the minimum wage, is McDonalds all of a sudden going to use robots to get your fries with that? Will Starbucks become self-serve? Social security needs to be privatized? Hell, let's privatize everything, because privatization = good thing for everything, right? With the dow hovering lower than where it was in the summer of 2000, I'll bet some retirees are pretty happy that they have something a little more stable than mere market whims backing a piece of their retirement.

Oh, really? Posted July 29, 2004 10 :51 PM How did John Kerry ride his bicycle into East Berlin without getting shot?

Well, it depends on when Kerry was in Berlin. If it was before 1961, he could have crossed freely between East and West Berlin, possibly being stopped at an allied checkpoint. If it was after 1961, he probably just showed his diplomatic passport to the guards at Checkpoint Charlie. Idiot.