Nation Once Again Comes Under Sway Of Pink-Faced Half-Wit

[meegbear]

The latest pink-faced half-wit.

Following an Aug. 28 rally in Washington, D.C. attended by an estimated 87,000 Americans, experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.

The most recent pink-faced halfwit has reportedly captured the popular imagination through the conventional vehicles of a nationally syndicated talk-radio program and a cable news television show. According to media analyst Rebecca Ellington, the pink-faced half-wit has mesmerized the nation by spewing out hundreds of predictably reactionary and emotionally manipulative on-air diatribes.

"This particular pink-faced half-wit is at the height of his persuasive powers," Ellington said of the bloated, hateful multimillionaire. "By exploiting citizens' greatest anxieties during an uncertain time in our nation's history, the pink-faced half-wit has been able to promote his own vain, avaricious self-interests under the guise of standing up for the very disenfranchised people whom he himself is fleecing."

"I've seen a number of pink-faced half-wits during my career, and in the pantheon of bombastic demagogues, this one will surely be remembered as one of the most disgusting," Ellington continued. "It's truly extraordinary: He may well be too ambitious and narcissistic to be able to comprehend how much damage he is doing to our country."

According to scholars, pink-faced half-wits have had remarkable staying power throughout history despite their outlandish, easily debunked claims, shameless self-promotion, and complete lack of credentials. More often than not, experts said, these pasty, shallow dullards skillfully manage to control debate on the most important social and political topics of the day.

"Anytime followers heed his advice and do something illegal, can simply claim that his work is intended only for entertainment purposes," said Ellington, proffering a copy of the current pink-faced half-wit's inane ghostwritten thriller The Overton Window, a thinly veiled conduit for an untenable and potentially dangerous fringe ideological message. "This leaves them free to wield their truly baffling influence in incredibly irresponsible ways without fear of accountability."

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-once-again-comes-under-sway-of-pinkfaced-ha,18076/

[blondeatlast]

1. Says it all, doesn't it?

Just perfect. PFHW has a permanent place in my vocabulary now.

[Richardo]

2. Crap! I hit unrec by mistake - someone please cover me.

I <3 the Onion. :patriot:

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Done.

[Richardo]

6. Merci.

Pardon my French. :)

[DirkGently]

40. Double-done. nt

[Swamp Rat]

3. TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FOUR!!!!

:D

[Thav]

19. No no no,

Two plus Two equals Five, for very large values of Two.

[FSogol]

5. LOL, Beck is only a half-wit if he got a promotion.

"the pink-faced half-wit has been able to promote his own vain, avaricious self-interests under the guise of standing up for the very disenfranchised people whom he himself is fleecing."

:rofl:

[DCKit]

7. When did the Onion go legit? n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

13. January 17, 2001, when it posted this:

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/

[HughBeaumont]

25. That one story by a comedy newspaper . . .

. . . told more truth and predicted more things correctly than 10 years of Bu$hMedia ever did.

[Bigmack]

36. I re-read that piece about once a year... and cry! nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Did he get that condition from being tightly pressed against Boehner's backside?

Could be.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Kick this for the sneaky freepers

And rec.

[Redstone]

10. Amen.

Redstone

[glitch]

11. I thought this was going to be about Gingrich.

Or Limbaugh. :P

[paparush]

28. Or Rove.

[glitch]

29. Damn! I can't believe I missed that one. :) nt

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Like a little pig butt....

[sce56]

14. Yeah I posted this on facebook while I was sitting in the jury pool today!

Here is his reaction to this writeup!


Rather poetic since he uses onions to squeeze out those tears.

[Maynar]

15. I thought it was Vick's Vaporub?

nt

[gtar100]

16. Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.

You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are.
And when your hand is on your heart,
You're nearly a good laugh,
Almost a joker,
With your head down in the pig bin,
Saying "Keep on digging."
Pig stain on your fat chin.
What do you hope to find.
When you're down in the pig mine.
You're nearly a laugh,
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.

[Name removed]

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[Vickers]

20. Thank you for teaching us, O Wise One!!!

:rofl:

Welcome to DU yadda yadda yadda...

Love,

Pink-faced Liberal

[Toots]

23. It is very easy to see where the Hate comes from and it is not the Democratic Party

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Genn Beck, Anne Coulter, etc etc are not Democrats...

[bullwinkle428]

24. Do you believe that Pres. Obama is inherently racist?

[EFerrari]

31. You do know that The Onion is not an organ of the Democratic Party, right?

LOL

[Tsiyu]

32. Um, it's a comedy piece, Dear

And if Caucasian working class Americans are so stupid, they believe the crap Beckerhead spews is truth - "just out of spite against those mean old racist Democrats" - they are absolute idiots and they deserve whatever Beck's bejillionaire sponsors want to do to them.

ANYONE who takes this guy seriously - or who sees him as some champion of the working man - has only him or herself to blame.

"The poison pill of white hatred" :rofl: Oh yeah!

But you did make me laugh with your first "Democratic" post. lol

[Kweli4Real]

35. Controlthepast ...

The irony contained in your past and then reading your screenname, does not escape me.

What's wrong with Kansas for voting against their economic interests is not some supposed "interjection of anti-white hatred" in the Democratic Party.

[blondeatlast]

41. I'd take as much time to explain "satire" to you, but by the time I got done,

I wouldn't be able to reply to this post. :evilgrin:

[Golden Raisin]

18. Neither Beck nor his employers,

Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, are halfwits. They know exactly and deliberately what they are doing. It is the army of followers, acolytes and Beck-believers that are the halfwits. Rather call them dangerous, scared, hate-filled, easily manipulated and with a warped concept of patriotism totally antithetical to the ideals enshrined in our Constitution. Many would fit in just fine at a Nuremberg Rally.

[GTurck]

21. Are....

pink-faced half wits the mark of Cain? Seems if you wanted to make someone stand out in a world of warm colors you would pick something so outlandish as being pink.
Just sayin'

[bertman]

22. Sometimes The Onion shows more wisdom than half of the political

blogs and pundits in this country.

Great find. Thanks for posting, meegbear.

Rec.

[Fumesucker]

26. That is an insult to half-wits everywhere..

The great majority of half-wits are unassuming and gentle people.

Beckerwood is anything but unassuming and the ideology he propagandizes is anything but gentle.

[HughBeaumont]

27. Good article, but why the Michael Moore swipe?

To place someone who tells the truth about LIFE (not political) issues in the same cardboard box with some grade-C Faux carnival barker is kind of stupid.

[Bluenorthwest]

30. Well the 'ariticle' is a piece of satire

and the 'expert' quoted there is a fabrication. The satire here is aimed at both Beckkk types and those who aid them by making much ado about them. It is a semi-complex bit of humor. It is the Onion. The 'pink' thing is part of the satire. As is the 'swipe' at Moore. Which is not really a swipe. It's a joke.
The 'experts' quoted are also being depicted as grade-C hacks. They use wildly strong language to 'oppose' Beckkk, but face it, they want Glennn to remain viable at least until their 'anti Beckkk' book comes out. The 'anti' crowd that is also profiting from the Beckkk thing is not really anti, but part and parcel of the problem.

[CLANG]

37. Michael Moore is part and parcel of the problem?

So people that speak out against bigots, racists, fascists, and money-grubbers are the same as Beck? Weird logic if you ask me.

[lonestarnot]

33. At least he looks his part, big pink rat bastard.

[ut oh]

34. Unfortunately...

I think he's quite a bit smarter than a half-wit...

I definitely agree with this though: "It's truly extraordinary: He may well be too ambitious and narcissistic to be able to comprehend how much damage he is doing to our country."

[CLANG]

38. Or he just doesn't care. That's my take.

[DirkGently]

39. They're like shark's teeth -- always a new one ready to pop up.