
Smarter than Dennis Prager, at least...
If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York Times.
No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today’s left. Virtually every piece is filled with anger, filled with ad hominem responses to arguments, filled with insults of opponents and at the same time devoid of intellectual arguments. A Frank Rich column is essentially a weekly tantrum meant to make his readers nod in agreement and reinforce their contempt for those who differ with them.
Frank Rich? Prager can’t take Frank Rich-level invective? Jeez, one can but hope Prager doesn’t discover the Internet anytime soon, the chickenshit little prissy-ass fuckfaced twerp, ’cause the vile stuff he finds there might just shrivel up his nubby little dick so much he won’t be able to rape his wife properly in the way Jesus intended. (And if you think I’m being just a tad harsh on the hideous poisonous pissant asslicker insect, click those last two links and get back to me.)
Anyway, the problem Prager has with Rich is that Rich said that the people who squawk the loudest about getting rid of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell are (my paraphrase) great horrible homophobic shit-for-brains bigots. As my esteemed colleague Dr. B. Texan has pointed out, this is in fact a pretty accurate description of Prager himself, as well as the swine he lies down with. But waah, waah, Prager stamps his itty-bitty feet and bawls that it’s just not twoo, he is a Big-Boy who Makes Big-Boy Intellectual Arguments in favor of brainless hateful discrimination against people his God tells him are going to Hell because of how abominable they are:
Where is this mainstream conservative “explicit anti-gay animus?”
That would be in the active campaigning to deny gays equal rights, dumbass. We don’t fucking find that sort of behavior particularly endearing. “I don’t think you deserve to marry the person you love! C’mere and give Uncle Denny a hug and we’ll discuss this as intellectual equals!” You know, fuck off.
And why are the arguments that gays in a military unit may fall in love with one another (or with a straight person) or that for the same reason — sexual tension — that we do not have men and women in the same units, showering and sleeping together, we might not deem it a good idea to have sexual tension in an all-men’s unit — why are these arguments “loopy” and “groundless”?
Because, moron, they’re “really fucking stupid.” Look, you not-remotely-smart person whose mental processes most closely resemble that of a meth-addled goat whose brain has rotted away from the effects of acute untreated tertiary syphilis caused by promiscuous chimp-fucking, the current policy allows gays to serve now, and thus all this (largely imaginary) “sexual tension” is already going on. It’s just that nobody can talk about it without getting kicked out in disgrace. Only someone who thinks “hide in shame, pervert” is the correct attitude for all homosexuals to adopt would defend DADT. (Oh by the way look who’s not defending it. America! And, soldiers! Amazing!)
“Conservatives” sure do like to complain about how liberals think they’re idiots. But then what the fuck other assessments are we supposed to make about people who preen themselves on how Very Intellectual they are and adduce as evidence their scientific illiteracy, economic ignorance, and foreign policy lunacy? If you don’t like being called a hateful idiot, well, stop going out in public and openly admitting you’re Dennis fucking spousal-sex-deviant Prager.
I mean, think of the children.



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That was so understated, not sure he’ll “get it.” :)
No mincing words tonight!
Seriously, you don’t have to sugar-coat it for us.
There’s always a risk of too much subtlety when addressing wingnuts.
OK Thers, I know I love you.
If Prager is so concerned with Godly abominations, why is he not boycotting McDonalds (combining meat and dairy), picketing Wal-Mart (cloths of mixed fibers), and burning down Hormel (pork), not to mention stoning half of the elected Republican officials (adultery)?
Eloquent and well reasoned through out. I couldn’t agree with you more!
With Prager, this may be above his grade level.
Look at their technique. Blame the liberals for being angry then turn around with vitriolic homophobia and veiled racism and get away with it. Republicans for the most part are locked away in Richie Cunningham’s garage back in the 50′s when white was white and black and faggot were stomped on.
Because he’s a homophobic asshole.
Fetch me my fucking smelling salts!
Upon reading this bit by Prager I am astounded anyone would even bother to read him.
*wild applause from top of table* THERS!!
Evening all. I hope my feelings towards Prager do not come across as overly nuanced.
True, but I get really fed up with this highly selective reading of Leviticus. As the Rabbi Yeshua said, either you follow all of the law or you follow none of it. So in less he starts keeping kosher, burns his polyblends, and stones Newt Gingrich in the public square, he can kiss my hairy white hillbilly ass when it comes to all that blaming God.
I know, right?
Of course it’s helpful to know he actually said that so it can be linked to whenever he shows his stupid face in public.
Oh, please, help me understand how “mens (sic) nature are similar to theirs.”
WTF does it mean? I know I should spell that out, in the spirit of the post and Thers.
Purist!
So, dumbshit question I guess: How come other countries in the world allow gays to serve and they don’t have any problems with it?
Israel, for instance. I mean, the Israeli Army? The ‘kick ass’ Army of the Middle East has openly gays serving and the state of Israel and their Army hasn’t disintegrated yet? Can somebody please ask Prager to explain that?
No, I think clear (as sound as) a bell is more apt.
Aw, shucks, Thers, you should know by now that we can cope with the subtle complexities of your postmodern analyses of horse-fucking bigots.
I’m astounded he still has a wife. Brrr.
You betcha.
few women know this about men unless told about it
I guess he told her.
Now don’t go trying to confuse poor Dennis with logic. His poor mind just isn’t up to it. Throwing in Israel and God’s Chosen People in the Promised Land on top of it is just mean.
It’s goats, not horses. The horses just laugh at him.
I suspect that is a marriage made in Hell.
So do the goats. It’s the risk you take when you’re toting around a golf pencil between your legs.
You make me laugh! Ha ha ha!
You flatter him.
Dr. Dick, I have been meaning to send you to this link. Maybe you have already read about Kinky Friedman’s cat, Cuddles. It is a bit sad, but I thought of you when I read it.
Nice.
Sorry for OT. Now back to your regular program of the fucking fuckers and such like that.
Not a problem. It was sweet. Now I can ream Prager with renewed the inspiration of what true goodness is.
I grant you their scientific illiteracy but for the other two I don’t see any significant difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Never an OT on one of my threads, BTW. I mean, I finished that post a half hour ago, am I still supposed to remember it…?
I’m not referring to elected officials, but, you know, the People. But I see your point.
We’re having Thersday on Wednesday?
Howdy, ‘pups.
When I first scanned past that I thought I saw, Proust, and I was wondering what the heck Proust had to do with Dickwad Prager.
Frankly, I have a very complex opinion about this.
Being out and gay for a bazillion years, a part of me feels sorry for Prager if he is one of those that fits the “protest too much” category, which generally I have found to be true.
The other part of me intensely loathes Prager for keeping for himself, but denying others, if the “protest too much” really is true.
If the “protest too much” part is NOT true in his case, then loathing moves to “I out and out despise” him.
Bottom line I have worked friends and acquaintances in and out of my life on that complexity.
I suspect if Prager was using that “logic” on his wife then she hasn’t been giving him anything!
I think it would be fine of you not to waste time on Prager, for he is not of “complexity.”
May I introduce you to my mother? She is such a lovely person, and you could have the same conversation with her again and again. It would be new each time to her. :(
Prager has this for you women (I guess he felt the need to really spell this out for you):
You can interpet that anyway you would like!
I’m pretty sure Prager is straight — much to his wife’s regret, as it was no doubt to his ex’s.
Yeah, I’m not worried about any relationship with Prager, per se. He and the Larry Craig’s etc can pee up a rope as far as I care.
Just general observation on the complexity of orientation relationships, political or not.
What were we talking about?
That’s sick in so many ways, I can’t count them.
Yep!
Ladies! Love us Dominionists! We Are Master Of Our Own Domain – AND YOURS!
I am not sure that Prager is in the “protests too much” category, unlike a lot of the homophobes. I unfortunately have already read the stuff Thers links to and some other of Prager’s scribblings. My impression is that he is a sour miserable little worm who is pissed as hell at anyone he suspects might actually be having fun and enjoying sex.
I would rather not contemplate that at all.
In other words, a typical modern-day Puritan.
Prager desperately needs counseling.
Yep. Clearly a joyless marriage and a joyless life and pissed as hell about it.
In a lockdown facility.
With happy-happy joy-joy drugs.
And a straightjacket. Can’t be too careful.
Or enjoying LIFE!
I can’t tell you, it’s remarkable to me how so many are JEALOUS of Chris and myself. Just because we have fun.
Evidently since we’ve been together 11 years, and are pushing 50 (Actually Chris turns 50 this Fall) we’re supposed to be bitter and tolerating each other rather than having a great time!
Without the straitjacket, he might go blind, y’know.
OK, need to be a-sleeping. Niters all.
Kelly,
Congratulations! I can tell you from experience (as you can too) that being married to the right person makes all the difference in the world. And by the way, as far as I’m concerned, it sounds like you and Chris are married. The fact that the Government won’t allow you file the paperwork has nothing to do with it.
The kind of person who praises America for it’s freedoms while condemning Americans for being free.
G’night Thers.
LOL!
He really needs all the drugs you can pump into him!
Ntght. Time for me to toddle off as well. Seminar in the afternoon and a faculty meeting in the morning. Take care all.
Um, were we talking?
G’night, Dr. D.
Prager will never read this. His Internet time is spent jerking off to photos of young German boys in short trousers.
LOL. That sure was a righteous rant! :) Don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel!
I hesitate to dip my toe in tonight – not sure my snark is up to it. But I just have to say thank you to Thers for those links – Unfortunately, I recall reading those at the time (I will not be going there again, thank you very much).
I did not realize Dennis Prager, of the WATB this week, was THAT person. My contempt for him has tripled.
And, it figures.
Actually, just thinking of you. “Birdman of Alcatraz” is on TCM and I’m watching it. You’re the “Bird Guy of the Lake” for one thing.
The other connection to the Alcatraz piece is that Fr. Menard, a religion teacher of mine back in the day, was a part time chaplain at Alcatraz, and a fellow bird dude, and confidant of “The Birdman.”
Don’t ask don’t tell? A quarter of the Republicans in Congress (McConnell, Graham et al) have crammed themselves in the closet.
Don’t ask don’t tell is the official media policy for the Republican hypocrites in Congress. Never ask a Republican Senator or Congressman if he’s gay and don’t tell if you find out.
Ahhhhh…Denise Prager.
I once sent him an excoriating email in response to some mendacity du jour of his, and shortly thereafter I got a call from my cousin over in California saying that one of his friends who listened to his radio show had called him to say that he read it aloud on the air, replete with my name and email address.
Robert Stroud’s is an incredible story. Talk about making the best of a horrible situation.
Peace to Fr. Menard, his colleagues and his feathered companions.
He’s a guy that fits that “complex” category I mentioned above.
Why they won’t admit he died of AIDS is a mystery, yet not a mystery to me. He wasn’t a pedophile. He was just gay.
But he was THUNDEROUS! as regarded Catholic Orthodoxy.
I’d say pissed as hell that someone else might not be in a joyless marriage with a joyless wife. Worse, they might actually be happy.
Why is that always confused with Arthur? A fine but useless movie? And yet, repeated twice? The movie and the phrase, that is . . .
I just don’t get it . . .
*G*
Oh geez, muskrat bloggy love chirps and dweebles abound . . . cue Capt N Tenille . . .
sigh, kids . . . ;-)
Ya had me worried with yer first snarky.
END OF STORY!
Next!!!!!!!
*G*
A bit subtle, maybe, nuanced, no.
N thanks, even if I’m late to the diatribe.
They just want to avoid the implication that he wasn’t chaste. I don’t have a strong feeling one way or the other, it is customary for obituaries to accentuate the positive. Having said that, it would have done no harm to acknowledge that he died of AIDS without speculating as to how it was acquired. It is a missed opportunity to remind the public that yes, people are still dying from this disease.
I’m sure it’s just in the biblical sense . . . forcible intercourse be damned, no matter the orafice.
* Scratches head *
Ummn, so the OP doesn’t like Prager, is that it?
And in case anyone misses my snark wanna be I truly hate this fuck, and what he stands for and does to humans.
/disclaimer
He ought to be glad Trex isn’t still around. His ears would be smoking! Speaking of which, has anyone heard from our favorite theropod recently?
Geez, Kelly, why do you separate loathing and being sorry so distinctly?
I find they match up rather fine, in my theatre of revulsion for all things . . . um, revolting and inhuman.
Nah, let him roam against the concrete walls of his own minds imprisonment.
Let him.
Curse you both for defiling the hetero way of years of marriage and it’s ways!!!
You would soil the Archie Bunker of our reality?
*G*
That’s just wankerous.
Don’t hold anything back Thers. Just let it all out. You couldn’t have picked a more worthy target (well, maybe you could since there are so many worthy targets but this one is pretty awesome as targets of ridicule go).
Excellently well said. Very nice job.