True Blood, and the actually scary

[blamebrampton]

'I have proof, scientific, people are much dumber than they realise.'
– Nan Flanagan, True Blood, Season 4, episode 1

I think I have a new favourite line in popular culture ...

In hilarious actual news news, recently, Lord Monckton, Scottish peer and anti-science fruitloop, declared that highly respected Australian economist Ross Garnaut was a fascist and illustrated him with a swastika at a talk in the US.

Monckton is currently in Australia talking at a series of mining industry events in Western Australia. He has responded to criticisms over the Garnaut swipe by saying that the media is hypocritical:

'[Monckton] said one journalist had written in a column that climate change sceptics should be gassed.

' "None of you have gone around to her house and thrust microphones in her face and said don't you think you're being a bit unfair," Lord Monckton told reporters. (Source)'

Well, no, because it was in a comedy piece full of hyperbolic overstatement for parodic effect. Written by a journalist called Richard. Who is a man.

On the east coast, in Sydney, an anti-carbon tax rally was held today. In attendance were several hundred people, including one of the more public members of the Australian Fascism movement, who has public photographs of himself in full Nazi regalia.

You could not make this stuff up.

Comments

[calanthe-fics.livejournal.com]

I need glasses! The headaches have finally killed me. Glasses for reading I tell you!

I actually feel really, really old.

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about the politics, but I so <3 True Blood.

[nenne.livejournal.com]

'I have proof, scientific, people are much dumber than they think they are.'

This goes well with a statement a friend of mine makes from time to time: "You can not underestimate people enough!". Sadly she is often right.

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say... you could not make this stuff up.

But you beat me to it.

[ladyjaneva.livejournal.com]

"who has public photographs of himself in full Nazi regalia."

That type of man I always suspect likes to wank while standing in front of his mirror, admiring his clothes.


I love how it's always those people who are either german and completely dumb* or foreign (and possibly dumb too) who think the Nazis were great. Because they know sooo much, oh yeah...

*a judge once told me that when he sentenced a young man who was 'proud of being a national socialist' just out of curiousity he asked the man when the Second World War had begun and ended. The young man didn't know.
...Since historical knowledge of something is not important when you're really, really into it and 'proud' of it...