Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Wingnut Psychology 101

Lance Mannion: A rhetoric of cowardice and vanity:

"As loyal and obedient propagandists for the Bush Administration, Right Wing bloggers have felt a duty to scare the beejeebers out of the rest of us. Now, a lot of them were quaking in their boots themselves and were desperate to prove that their own terror ought to be shared by all of America. And a lot of them have managed to scare themselves, like Cub Scouts telling ghost stories around a camp fire.

But I think all of them, just like the Cub Scouts, enjoy being scared.

They enjoy it because after they're done giving themselves goose bumps, they get to defy their own fear. They get to be brave.

They can scare themselves silly and then immediately start swaggering around as they've just walked up to a fe-fi-foing, grinding Englishman's bones to make his bread giant and spit in his eye.

To live in fear as if the possibility of another terrorist attack is the same as living under the hourly threat of one is a mark of cowardice."

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