This lovely bit came by way of the feedback page:

Voting card photo from Ohio...

It is fake, numbers always increase as the list goes down. I can see little blur on 1's before the numbers 2 and 4. It was number 12 and 14 before it was photo-edited. Duh...

You guys are as fake as Michael Moore. You guys never check like Dan Rather never did check on authenticity of Bush's National Guard records.

You are just one of another dissents who complains that Republicans were stealing election again. I hate those Democrat crybabies who are really Communist crybabies as well.

Wow! Methinks thou dost protest too much. But then, loyalist wingnuts seem to have trouble with reality.

So let's talk about these things, shall we?

1. The "voting card." I assume the anonymous wingut is referring to this photo. It's something I found back in October 2004, before the election. Of course, facts aren't anything winguts can be bothered with. I guess because I haven't deleted the photo, and accompanying blog entry, I'm still harping about it. Well, I'm not taking the photo down. I cited the source. If the source is wrong, take it up with them. (That's why I cited it.) Provide me with evidence that this is photo does not reflect a real voting card, and I will mark it appropriately and amend the blog entry (which is on the old site). But there are many instances of voting irregularities like this. And it can favor or disfavor either party.
2. "as fake as Michael Moore." Hmmm....was that an insult? Sure, Moore is a loudmouth buffooon, but he's the first to admit that. And while I did not consider Farenheit 9/11 a perfect movie, he did raise some interesting points, such as how it's the poor who fight these wars, and how, for all of Bush's talk of freedom and democracy, his family has deep, long-standing financial ties to the Saudi royal family, who (by the way) own Saudi Arabia (hence the name) and who (by the way) do not offer democracy or freedom. It's where al-Qaeda is from. Why don't we "spread democracy" there? But of course we don't want to talk about that, do we?
3. "Dan Rather." What I or anyone else has to do with Dan Rather, I don't know. I do know that he's made a lot more money than I ever have. I never watched his broadcast. Sorry. On the other hand, I don't seem to recall that he was taking quarter-million-dollar payments from government administrations to promote their political agendas. It's one thing to be sloppy. It's another to be corrupt.
4. "Bush's National Guard records." I assume this is in reference to how he was AWOL from the Texas Air Force. Nixon had an 18-minute gap. Bush has a year-long gap, where nobody knows where he was, not even his commanding officers. No, there's not much evidence. But one thing we do know is that W., the big right-wing Vietnam hawk, did not go to Vietnam. Clinton dared to parlay his Rhodes scholarship into an education abroad, but he wasn't supporting the war out of the other side of his mouth. Both dodged the draft. One was honest about it. Go figure.
5. "stealing election." I don't consider fair elections to be a partisan issue. I don't care who's rigging it, I want the people's choice to win. It so happens that the past two presidential elections came down to close votes in states where Republicans were in charge of the elections themselves. Hell, Harris was Bush's campaign manager and supposedly also remaining "fair and balanced" in how she supervised the elections. I'm sure, Mister Anonymous Wingnut, you'd be swawking a different tune if it were a Democrat-run state and your boy lost. Why you think that cheating isn't important as long as you win seems to reveal a lot about your character (or lack thereof).
6. "crybabies." Hmmm, the people I hear crying all the time are the Republicans who happen to be running all three branches of government these days. They still cry victimhood, and refuse to claim responsibility. Which takes us back to....
7. "You guys never check." Facts seem to be big problems for BushCo. They never seem to get them straight. They talk out of both sides of their mouths all the time, while doing whatever the hell they want. WMD? Nukes? Iraq-al-Qaeda connections? Imminent threats? Where are they? Tens of thousands of people have been killed in this little escapade in Iraq, including a daily toll of young American soldiers. All this was made possible by faked and distorted intelligence that supported an Iraq invasion agenda that, according to Bush's own people, was on the table 10 days into Bush's first term. Why? Don't take my word for it. Do a little research, and follow the money.
8. "Communist." Now you're speaking in tongues.

Stepping back for a moment, I think it's quite disturbing that so many people, like our anonymous wingnut here, are so afraid. They go through life as if they were oppressed by it. Victimhood validates their reality. And reveling in that, instead of working through it and past it, leads to fear. And that leads to irrational behavior.

With war in the winds and the Great Depression wearing the country down, FDR said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

It's a New World Order alright.

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