I saw the post about us being on MissHell Malkins' page, and I wonder:

[Redstone]

Why is it that so many rightwing-loser sites have such a fascintaion with us, to the extent that a hell of a lot of them have specific areas devoted to watching and quoting our posts?

Is it because we're so attractive, because we're to intelligent? Or both?

I know this is an old question, but I'd like fresh thoughts.

Redstone

[frazzledmom]

1. Hey Stone, do you have a link? Or the article name?

I looked on MM's front page but I couldn't bring myself to read through everything to get to DU.

[Lerkfish]

2. its like Penis envy: you covet what you don't have. in this case,

intelligence and articulation of coherent thought through language.


:)

[Midlodemocrat]

7. LOL. Although as a female, I must admit that I don't suffer

from Penis envy....


:hi:

[Lerkfish]

11. I know, was making an analogy.

:)

[Midlodemocrat]

13. BTW, congrats on making Malkin's list.

I do have Malkin envy in that regard. Kudos.

[Lerkfish]

14. thanks. not like I did anything on purpose! just shooting off my mouth

like usual.

:)

[hippiechick]

3. Conversely, why are we so fascinated with them?

Why do so many DU'ers feel the need to go to FR, Drudge, etc and post their shit here ?


:shrug:

[Doctor_J]

5. Like minds, HC

see below. It's not liek the freaks ever say anything new. Why do we have to sift through dozens of their thought every day on this board?

[peacetalksforall]

17. You're right. Nothing new. I read it in the 90's because I was trying to

figure out what was going wrong with the country. But, it is the same old stuff. Unfounded fear. Misplaced fear. Hate. Bigotry. Exclusivity - the world must be arranged according to ONLY their rules and plans. The lies are very boring, predictable, and tiring because they are boring and predictable. I don't think they have said anything new in 10 years. They remain very organized, however. Those are some tight talking points that are provided to them.

Just thought of something - the one thing that is new is the growing hate for Moslems, Venezuelans, Cubans, and probably now it will be Bolivians - and anyone from the Middle East even though a grand per cent may not even know where the countries are or even what continent athey are on.

What I would like to know is how the have-more pearl-necklaced and suit-and-tied Republicans are feeling.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. I think more of us don't go.

I used to read Drudge, because I had a morbid fascination, but I realized I was helping him to profit, so I never go there or Freepville, or any other RW site.

I stick with the librul elitists.

[frazzledmom]

10. Because it pays to know what your enemy is up to

and make no mistake about it, these people are the true enemy.

[Doctor_J]

4. Considering there are dozens of cross-posts from FR

here every day, it's not that surprising. For me, every post I see that's is entitled "Look what the Freepers are saying" or "Rush is over the top today" or some such crap, I hit the ignore button.

[Snotcicles]

6. I think it's like the little kid looking in the department store window.

The ideas are so grand, so full of goodness, and their own reality tells them it's only a dream.
So lets knock it down so everyone can wallow in our hatred and self loathing.

[AnnInLa]

8. for the same reason we like to look at the Freeper site

we are alien to each other, and find the other side fascinating

I like to read RW sites, because I think it's better that we know what they are thinking and doing at all times....it is really not in our best interest to stay in a liberal bubble on DU and just read Lefty blogs, websites, et. We should be aware of their mindset, because their mindsets and frames of references affect us, like it or not.

Sometimes at work, when I am supposed to be working (I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me) I will start following RW links, just following them and following them....have ended up in some very scary places, but it is still interesting. I think they find us just as alien-scary-fascinating as we find them.

Know Your Enemy

To Be Forewarned is to Be Forearmed

[mwb970]

15. There is something fascinating about winger sites.

Maybe it's that stop-to-look-at-the-car-wreck thing, but sometimes I just can't help reading these LONG right-wing threads, especially on topics I have special knowledge or concerns about. They look at the same basic events and the same basic media coverage I do and then, time and again, pass what they've seen and heard through a prism that only permits certain pre-determined patterns to get through, resulting in an analysis directly opposite to mine.

Could I be doing the same thing? Their prism seems to demand, for example, that everything Ted Kennedy (or Michael Moore, or Barbra Streisand, etc., etc.) says is automatically not just wrong but criminal and treasonous - exactly how I feel about Cheney, Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter. Their prism only allows through the idea that the Bush administration is honest, resolute, and Christian - mine says it is incompetent, corrupt, and dishonest.

With our assumptions all paired in opposites like this, of course we come to opposite conclusions. If I were starting from where they're starting from, I would probably end up where they are. But I'm not, so I just shake my head in wonder as I read their posts.

[AnnInLa]

16. Exactly! You said it much better than I did!

My brother, who is very RW, but kinda a nice RWer, told me one time, that the absolute, utter frustration, and outrage, and sense of helplessness that I feel about and toward this administration, is the exact same way he and his family and other RWers felt during the Clinton years. I just looked at him in amazement. How could they have been feeling the same things we are feeling now? He and I are two sides of the same coin, with the same upbringing, and many of the same life experiences, yet have very different views of the world, especially politics, and what is best for this country. How can this be?

Perhaps my favorite RW site to regularly check out is redstate.org. I will spend hours just reading the comments to the posts. They have some very astute observations, and have really interesting, well-thought out differences of opinions. I've learned alot from perusing the RW sites. The main thing I have learned is how much they value POWER, no matter how they couch that term, everything is pursuit of absolute power. Amazing.

[shenmue]

12. I think you've got it

We're smart and funny. She is crazy.

I think that explains it. She envies the normal world.

:crazy:

:P