Michelle Bachman relieves our anxiety regarding global warming on the House floor when she informed us that carbon dioxide gas is not harmful because it is natural and comprises 3% of the atmosphere.
Dick Cheney will defend torture as being something other than torture because it works.
Sean Hannity will undergo waterboarding voluntarily to prove its not torture.
Glenn Beck (and other assorted right wing nutjobs) think all our various pecadillos at Gitmo and elsewhere were not torture because he “doesn’t think it is” and “it’s a matter of perception.” I guess when Beck looks up the definition of truth in the dictionary he reads “Glenn Beck’s opinion.” The philosophical problem of relativism never bothered him.
Republicans call for the resignation of Janet Napolitano because of a Homeland Security Report that presumably targets right wing extremists. They fail to extend their criticism to the Bush Administration which started the program of tracking extremists, which, by the by, included left wing extremists.
The examples of patently absurd and embarrassingly transparent illogic are legion.
This might all be for 'shits and giggles' if it weren't for the fact that much of the right-wing lunatic fringe, Conservative and Republican rhetoric decays into the absurdities of dualistic oppositions that preclude the possiblility of discourse, inquiry, dialogue and self-reflection. For this ideologically fanatical mindset self-criticism of America by Americans is equivalent to treason.
Voltaire is more relevant than ever: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
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