Wingnuts live in their own world, and they do better when they’re talking to each other, because there, in their echo chamber, no one is around to laugh at them. Except, ahem, those of us who pay attention and expose them to a wider audience.
The other day, Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, one of those redneck goobers like Louie Gohmert and Paul Broun, went on Bill Maher’s show and let those mean reality-based people, including a conservative National Review columnist, make him look like a fool on the subject of evolution. This is a fantastic clip, if only for the constant idiot smile Kingston wears, that whole “where am I and who are all these people?” look so often seen on the faces of garden variety wingnuts:
Kingston was obviously bruised by the normal people, so he ran into the arms of a fellow wingnut-in-arms, Bryan Fischer, whose intellectual prowess will never threaten a man like Jack, so that they could tell each other that liberals are mean and they’re right. It’s truly sad viewing:
Of course, Bryan Fischer’s organization is the American Family Association, one of the most vicious groups on the SPLC’s list of hate groups, and Kyle at Right Wing Watch points out that Kingston isn’t the only Republican politician whining to and cozying up with this hateful hick; recently both Tim Pawlenty and Roger Wicker have laid crying on the couch of Bryan.
That had to be the most hilarious denial I’ve seen in quite some time. These freaks have claimed there are no transitional fossils. Yes, I’m serious!
Jack started out sounding reasonable, but quickly slipped into mindless evangelical babble-gap. Poor dear. Amazing how religeous dogma continues to confuse and confound.
I pity people who reject reason, evidence and logic, for a simple legend written by primitive palestinians about 3000 years ago.
It’s interesting to see how the creationist movement has evolved, thanks to Philip Johnson as mentioned in the clip, into ‘Intelligent Design’ – it’s all been debunked, and most authoritatively in ‘Creationism’s Trojan Horse’ by Barbara Forrest, a few years ago. The book also explains where the funding for what is merely a PR/lobby campaign comes from – Focus On The Family and the viciously homophobic reconstrucionist Howard Ahmandson.
I was laughing myself sick on a thread on this very topic of HuffPost. I wonder if these people actually LISTENED to themselves, they would see how stupid they are. Probably not since being stoopid for Jeebus seems to be a virtue in their world.
// Just came across this on the net. Eugenie //
Big Evolution Discovery !
British professor Nigel Swiggerton of Chapsworth College has recently found a missing link in the evolution/creation debate. Everyone is familiar with the “stages of man” chart found in textbooks which begins with a naked, hairy, bent over, grunting Neanderthal type which over millions of years finally learns how to stand erect while sporting a 1930s-style haircut. Well, Dr. Swiggerton discovered that someone accidentally reversed the negative. It turns out that the first man was actually standing erect with a short haircut but has been descending over the years until he has finally reached the last stage – the stage at any rock concert filled with naked, hairy, bent over, grunting Neanderthal types!
(Ran across the preceding on the internet. Are overly blessed, underly grateful Americans aware that Darwin acknowledged the “Creator” on the last page of his “Origin of Species”? Why did he used this term if he meant an “unknown process”? When God allows some American city to be destroyed someday, will surviving American ingrates pray to the anti-Christian, anti-American Hollywood shmucks that the ingrates have long worshiped more than God? Thank God for Rep. Jack Kingston (GA) who does serve the Declaration of Independence’s “Creator” and the “God” mentioned in all 50 state constitutions – a congressman who was recently “crucified” on TV by God-hating shmuck Bill Maher and his fellow “nailers” for daring to uphold the creationism overwhelmingly embraced by America’s founders! For more on Maher etc., Google Jesus-bashers “Sandra Bernhard, Larry David, Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman.”)
Uh, what?
Your argument is that because Charles Darwin, whom no science-respecting person worships, but rather respects as the first to discover the processes [after which many more discoveries have been made] by which species evolved, acknowledged a creator, that should somehow mean something?
You don’t really understand how science works, though, so I will acknowledge you as the brick wall of “henggggh?” that you are, and move on.
Oh, and the founders were mostly Deists and Thomas Jefferson took scissors to the Bible to cut out all the magic fancy parts.
And as you can see above, Jack Kingston is an uneducated Gomer.
It is important that we don’t lose sight of the main purpose behind Kingston’s b.s. polemics. I go into detail on this on my website: http://www.jasonrizos.com/?p=125