I don’t know how I missed the dustup over an anti-choice blogger that mistook a seven-year old Onion piece for a real article. I ran across it while surfing the ArchPundit site. It’s pretty hysterical. Apparently, he had to cancel out the comments feature of his blog because he couldn’t take the resulting ridicule.
Here’s a sample of Pete’s more intelligent posts.
Euthanasia – Terri Schiavo was just the tip of the iceberg. Since her execution hospices have been killing people across America like flies. We were lucky enough to save Andrea Clark before her execution in Texas, but many more haven’t and won’t live.
Baby body parts from abortions have been sold on the open market. How can an abortion not be the killing of a human being when the abortion results in the sale of an eyeball or a liver?
The guy is more nuts than stupid.
Wowee. A guy that dumb (on so many levels) might just be the religious right’s best argument against the theory of evolution. On the other hand he can hardly be attributable to intelligent design.
I haevn’t laughed so hard since I saw the trailer for Snakes on a Plane a few days ago. Thanks, BooMan! š
Seriously, though, what a major tool!
Even funnier than Pete’s post, were the comments. There were well over a thousand. A few of the best were saved for posterity over at DKos. My favorite:
Faith makes all things possible. At least in the minds of its fanatics.
take before hitting post for blogs or send for emails. We all have had moments when after the fact we realize it was not what we thought it was going to be!
Ahhh, yes- such a rich Oniony broth it was.
Allow me to share a few favorite comments i saved in an email draft:
i love that last one – so subdued, in the face of nearly-unprecedented levels of collective delight/horror/amusement/awe.
BooMan, your first link goes to a horrible bloodied/cut up baby image now, and a message that our laughter is causing it or some such nonsense. Just thought you should know (not sure if that was there when you posted that link.)
By following the Archpundit link and a few more, I see that Pete-who-loves-life complained vigorously about the amount of cuss words in the comments, as in this peculiar and somewhat esoteric passage:
(suppressing giggles…)
oh, then by wednesday afternoon he claims it was a joke but the rest of his writing makes it pretty apparent that he’s just trying to save face… ok, now it’s actually getting sad. (wincing, but still laughing at the same time)
In a race between stupid and nuts, it’s a dead heat. However, I’m betting on stupid over nuts by a fetal nose. To believe what the Rapture Right believes requires a conscious choice to disregard so much of reality that it is the perfect definition of IGNORANT. Crazy people don’t choose to be crazy.
omg, did you just say “a fetal nose”-? (laughing)