Oh, the stoopid, it hurts

I have tried to stop posting my angry rants, but this is too much now. I am going to limit myself so that I don't type a 10,000 word screed against everything that pisses me off. I'm not going to link anything, you can find it all online from reliable sources, like the Red Cross and ProPublica, but here goes nothing:

My daughter has yet to be born, yet she is already smarter and more informed than Elisabeth Hasslebeck, whom is someone I respect* for being brave enough to go on TV despite being a grade-A idiot. I made the mistake of watching the clip of her getting destroyed by Jesse Ventura on her stupid show this morning. I am not going to link it, because I (and this is the truth) actually got so frustrated and angry that I had to bite my lip and pound my desk so that I didn't scream at the computer.

How can someone be so wrapped in a cocoon of stupidity, dishonesty, and immorality? I have no misconceptions that I can raise a perfect child, but I hope to be able to raise a child who is smart enough to understand the basis of her statements, to put one and one together and make two. People like Hasselbeck can't even do that. And for this she gets rewarded with a large national audience every day. It is irresponsible, at absolute best, for ABC to continue employing someone so separated from reality and sense.

I really should just block her show and Fox "News" from my TV. The stupid, the self-contradictions, the incessant blow-hardery, the non-stop dishonesty and downright incorrectness of it all... it's too much to stand. Their current story du jour defending torture (torture!) is unbelievable. It's like watching a B-movie in terms of believability. But then they go and outdo themselves, to the point of self-parody, such as Sean Hannity almost comically tacking "And I'm a Christian!" onto his defenses of waterboarding and sleep deprivation and stress positions.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." --Mahatma Ghandi

The only reason I am thankful for people like Sean Hannity is that they have always been around and were a big reason that I stopped believing in all these superstitions (e.g. God, etc.) when I was 13 or so. And, yes, I am morally equating people like Sean Hannity to child molesters. This may be unfair to child molesters, as the cheerleading of Hannity and his ilk led to the deaths of thousands, and then to unknown numbers more who died being tortured (tortured!) in order to create a reason for the invasion of Iraq ex post facto.

If you watch Fox News, may the FSM and his noodly appendage have mercy on your soul.

Her, Hannity, and the hosts of "Fox and Friends" should have a stupid-off and O'Reilly, Gingrich, Kristol, Barnes, Hume, Krauthammer, and Will can have an intentional-dishonesty off. Not to mention Malkin, Reynolds, Morrissey, R.S. McCain, Erickson, and the rest of the cheerleaders.

Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Yoo, Bybee, Rice, Rove, and the rest of them can go to jail, already. And they should be waterboarded 183 times in a month, for good measure. After all, it's not torture and, besides, Nancy Pelosi may have known about it, which totally makes it OK.

I am hoping against hope that Obama is playing some kind of long-term game, trying to build up public support for investigations and prosecutions by denying the desire for them now, trying to preemptively eliminate the certain cries of "partisan witch hunt" that will emanate from Team Stupid, but if he's not, and he really has no intention of this ever being investigated, he'll lose a large amount of my support.

In all seriousness, if you in any amount agree with anything any of the people I have listed say about torture (TORTURE!), please never come back to this blog. I would happily - very happily - never speak to you again in my entire life. I don't want you near my child. Ever.**

*Not really
** Really

As an addendum: This makes me smile, but I don't understand what's wrong with people who go to church regularly. I understand that a large percentage of this type of people are Evangelical, and for some baffling reason (abortion, only abortion, oh and the gayz) they are married to the Republican party because the the GOP is so "Christian" [Ed. note: Ha ha ha ha ha! Good joke!], but WTF? Go read the Sermon on the Mount and tell me "WWJD?" I hate when I know more about religion than religious people.