Still the Gold Standard of Hackery After All These Years
Yep, Glenn Reynolds has still got it. His latest crackpot claim is that “eliminationist rhetoric” is far from confined to one nut who took hostages at the Discovery Channel but is prevalent among contemporary environmentalists. His “evidence” for this assertion is as follows:
- The transparently idiotic “what happens when you type phrase into a Google search box” metric. (I especially like this because it’s an indirect way of letting you know that he tried to Google up some actual evidence and came up empty.)
- A willful misreading of a 30 year-old book.
- That is all. But since the beginning of time, liberals have yearned to destroy the sun!
I’m not sure if this quite comes up to the level of some of his past McCarthyite Comedy Classics, but it belongs in the discussion.
UPDATE (SEK): I was going to write about this earlier, but got distracted by this awesome book. Had I not, I would’ve written a post that included the following self-explanatory image:
Go to Google and type in “can a human”
This proves conclusively that concern over human-animal hybridization is well-placed. Bush’s 2006 SOTU address was prescient.
I’m trying to update my Big Book fReichtard Scary Stuff. Do you think Envirokooks should go before or after Kw33rs?
Go to Google and type in “can a human”
One more reason for Rick Santorum to hate Google.
I’m going to go ahead and call it now: SEK wins the internet this week.
This is simply further proof that Obama controls Google.
I am still trying to figure out why the state of Tennessee is paying this man to teach law to students. There must be an affirmative action program for conservatard law professors in this country and every law school is required to hire at least one (which I suppose is better than letting them actually practice law).
Hmmm. That would explain the faculty at I.U. Law.
Tenure.
Your image there seems to suggest that google does manage to accurately reflect the left’s opinion of libertarians, so I consider the evidence on that end a wash.
I have been traversing political forums and blogs on the intrawebs for a decade now, and I have run into enough crazy young environmentalists/animal activists to believe that the majority of people typing in “Humanity is” is probably going to end it in some mysanthropic manner.
Also, one doesn’t need to willfully misread that book to come to those conclusions. I have not read the book, and I doubt Reynolds has, but I was introduced to it basically by hearing how shrill and misguided it was and by reading excerpts like this:
or:
It is not hard to read these as moral stipulations rather than a constitutional stipulations as I understand was the context within which these statements were raised.
Of course, Reynolds merely brought it up as a shot at Obama.
Of course, Reynolds in entirely in the wrong for using the actions of one crazy and violent individual to cast suspicion on an entire group or movement.
Back before the great danger was the Koch brothers and rich libertarians screwing up the country with their money, the great danger was right-wing extremists and their violent ways. I have no doubt that you can look back and see Reynolds shedding a pool of Glenn Beck tears over insinuations that the tea partiers were a dangerous movement because of certain individuals.
There are crazy people! On the Internet! Hoocoodanode?
Look, Bill O’Reilly spent years leading his audience in chants of “Tiller the Baby Killer”, and an extremist murdered George Tiller. And that is an extreme but not an isolated case of right-wing violence. Prominent Liberal voices has called for increased regulation of polluting activities, and no similar outrages have occurred. But if you look hard enough you can find isolated people trying to make a noise using eliminationist rhetoric about pollution and overpopulation, mostly on the internet, so it’s all the same. Because Prince Philip is a raving leftist, doncha know.
But … but … but … the ELF! How can the world ever forget what the ELF did to those poor hummers!*
*Note: Googling “ELF hummers” just proves that Rule #34 is true.
When I typed “humanity is” on Google, my top three were different from his. I wonder why. Perhaps he’s a liar? Number one was humanity is doomed, said in jest about some psychological experiments; #2, humanity is the devil, from an extreme Christian website; #3, humanity is a virus, said by a character in The Matrix. Of course his lie (come on, willful misreading? Way too nice.) about John Holdren is especially vile.
The textbook misreading is totally understandable – most conservatives can’t imagine simply *describing* a philosophy without either internally agreeing with it or deliberately slighting it in the process. See also Texas history textbooks.
Add libertarians are assholes