skippy the bush kangaroo: steve writes so we don't have to

Saturday, July 18, 2009

steve writes so we don't have to

we perused mememorandum the other day, and were a bit bothered by the headline why trig has divided america, supposedly from politico.

now, unless the piece was about how high schoolers simply hate studying higher mathematics (which, from what we remember about sines and co-sines, could be very possible), the premise was about sarah palin's baby, and made no sense whatsoever.

it turns out the piece was written by gary "don't fall off that stage" bauer, head of jesus will kill all liberals or some other church organization, so the lack of reality involved suddenly made more sense. but still, we wondered aloud, what makes anybody on the right think that anybody on the left even thinks about trig, let alone gets divided by the poor little guy?

luckily for us, steve @ no more mister nice blog, was able to express our feelings before we even knew we had them:

don't know anyone on the left who ever thinks about trig palin, but the right desperately wants us to despise him for existing -- and if we don't, the right will make up a trend of left-wing trig-hating out of the flimsiest of evidence. now i see that our old pal gary bauer (whom we actually do despise) has written a politico piece on the subject with daniel allott:…

... at talking points memo, an article sarcastically suggested that palin resigned because "she wants to spread down syndrome ... because down syndrome is just too cute to be reserved for one in 800 births."

a paliban daily article titled "sarah palin’s retarded platform: more trigs!" interpreted palin's outspokenness on disability rights as a political ploy to win votes....

those reactions echoed the hateful response that met palin when she introduced trig on the campaign trail last fall. nicholas provenzo of the libertarian center for the advancement of capitalism discussed being "troubled" by trig’s existence because "it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with down syndrome." ...

working backward, i'll start by saying it's news to me that "the libertarian center for the advancement of capitalism" -- which "is dedicated to advancing individual rights and economic freedom through ayn rand's philosophy of objectivism" -- is part of "the left."

as for the paliban daily piece, i see that it was so representative of the depraved thinking of the left that the editors of the site responded a day after it was published by asking readers whether he should be fired, and a day after that he quit writing for the site. the tpm piece was written not by a regular tpm writer but by a diarist with no "followers" -- in other words, he's just a blogger who decided to create his blog at tpm (a blog with a whopping two posts since late june), and who's elicited very little response.

i know you righties really, really want this to be about trig, just as you'd really like it if we lefties killed kittens for sport or engaged in similar heart-tugging acts of depravity. but listen to me: we don't care about trig. many of us, faced with a pregnancy in which down's syndrome was evident, would make a choice very different from palin's. but our response to palin's choice is "go with god" (or whatever the atheist or flying spaghetti monster-worshipping equivalent of that might be). we don't like palin and her followers using him as a prop, or a bloody shirt -- but her choice to bring trig to term is something we simplty don't think about.

we must needs echo steve's sentiments. the only reason the left even thinks about trig palin is because his mom flaunts him so incesssantly, and is so in-our-face about it, that there's no way we can't not be aware about him.

poor little guy.

posted by skippy at 4:09 PM |

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If this keeps coming up, I suspect Michael Berube, the fighting liberal artist, will write something devastating about it. There's also Sam Crane of uselesstree who might have something to say. Both of them have personal experience to bring to bear, not that that means anything to the wrong-wingers like Bauer.

commented by

gmoke, 7:51 PM PDT

Trig who?

commented by

The Sailor, 11:38 PM PDT

I wondered at that myself Roo...
I was put off by her cheerful insistence in shoving all of her family in my face and Especially Trig...and Trig,...and did I see Trig??

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Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., (C), 4:47 AM PDT

not only trig (whom i never think about) but the other 4 palin spawn - the props that prove princess stupid is truly a woman of the people

and she had to tell us that the other son (Trac?) is not a republican

who friggin cares

i hate her.

and i feel sorry for all 5 of those kids to have parents like that

commented by

Distributorcap, 6:52 AM PDT

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