Idiot
(Note: This post has been updated (1) as of 5:25 AM Eastern on 6 Nov. See below)
Spoken like a true, hard-core Stalinist Leftist. I especially liked this choice bit:
I’m hearing whispers in blog forum conversations that the exit poll percentages match the final vote percentages in areas where voting took place with a paper trail, and do not match in areas where voting was done on paperless electronic machines. I can’t yet find any hard numbers or analysis, but it’s early, and people were up late last night. I certainly hope it’s true, because I am reluctant to think that 58,000,000 hateful bigots whom I am obliged to call my countrymen decided to proclaim to the world that the torture at Abu Ghraib was acceptable; that killing 100,000 Iraqis, most of them innocent women and children, was a good policy...
...etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.
I intuited there was more of a reason to keep this character off my Culture Weblogs listing other than his insufferable cheerleading for no-talent "post-classical" composers.
Idiot.
Update (5:25 AM Eastern on 6 Nov): More from the idiot:
I’m writing about politics now not because I believe I know more about it than anyone else, but because after November 2 - an even darker day for America than September 11 (better 3000 Americans killed than 59,000,000 voting their approval to genocide and sexual torture) - I couldn’t find anything on the internet to make me feel better.
The mind boggles.
