Alric Knebel
2005-02-27 12:32:08 UTC
Normally, the criteria for the C-SPAN Right-wing Loon Call of the Day® is
that the caller be loony because he or she is just partisan hateful, so
hateful that's he or she becomes obviously stupid. He or she is crazy only
by the impetus of their partisanship. Sure, we get those zany Christian
callers, with all of their biblical prophesies and their religious
fanaticism making them somewhat crazy in a socially mainstream way. But
rarely does a caller really declare themselves as psychotic in a very
clinical sense. This caller does just that. This is one of those literal
conspiracy nuts -- you know, the type on guard for subliminal messages --
and I almost hate to offer her up as the object of entertainment. In fact,
if she had been on the left, I would have let it go, in sympathy with her:
George Bush drives me crazy, too. But, happily, she's from the right:
http://ironeyefortress.com/20050225-1.mp3.
This is from Friday's edition of Washington Journal. The call-in portion
was the question, should C-SPAN stop airing the daily White House press
briefings. In her rambling, ambling response, poor woman went off into a
kind of polite rant that just ended up somehow asking Lamb if he's Jewish.
Mr. Lamb was a gentleman and indulged her as long as he possible could, but
when it got off onto this Jewish thing, he cut her off. I feel a little bit
guilty for this one, which is why I'm not putting it on one of the buttons,
instead offering the file through the link only, bypassing the C-SPAN loon
page.
that the caller be loony because he or she is just partisan hateful, so
hateful that's he or she becomes obviously stupid. He or she is crazy only
by the impetus of their partisanship. Sure, we get those zany Christian
callers, with all of their biblical prophesies and their religious
fanaticism making them somewhat crazy in a socially mainstream way. But
rarely does a caller really declare themselves as psychotic in a very
clinical sense. This caller does just that. This is one of those literal
conspiracy nuts -- you know, the type on guard for subliminal messages --
and I almost hate to offer her up as the object of entertainment. In fact,
if she had been on the left, I would have let it go, in sympathy with her:
George Bush drives me crazy, too. But, happily, she's from the right:
http://ironeyefortress.com/20050225-1.mp3.
This is from Friday's edition of Washington Journal. The call-in portion
was the question, should C-SPAN stop airing the daily White House press
briefings. In her rambling, ambling response, poor woman went off into a
kind of polite rant that just ended up somehow asking Lamb if he's Jewish.
Mr. Lamb was a gentleman and indulged her as long as he possible could, but
when it got off onto this Jewish thing, he cut her off. I feel a little bit
guilty for this one, which is why I'm not putting it on one of the buttons,
instead offering the file through the link only, bypassing the C-SPAN loon
page.
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Alric Knebel
http://ironeyefortress.com/C-SPAN_loon.html
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Alric Knebel
http://ironeyefortress.com/C-SPAN_loon.html
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