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How Dems Have Ruined At Least One Christmas

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When Republicans lie as they do and purposely misinform and distort the truth (e.g. death panels), they know exactly what they’re doing. They’re talking to simpletons like Bunny from Parsons, Kansas. Bunny called in to C-SPAN to let them know how she felt about the health care bill in the Senate.

“I have taken my Christmas wreath off my house. I have taken all the lights down.  This is supposed to be a nation under God, and it isn’t. They absolutely have ruined Christmas.”

“And I would like to see every light in the nation go out, especially in the White House.”

And why does Bunny feel as she does?  TPM…

She also explains that members of Congress are sullying “God’s holiday for the birth of his son” and that she opposes the bill so fiercely because its death panel provisions will unleash a “genocide”on seniors.

Is there any possible way to reason with people like this?  There is nothing that would ever convince Bunny and others like her that there are no death panels.  She’s heard it from Limbaugh and Beck and Bachmann and Palin and for many conservatives, a good lie trumps truth any day.

As Crooks and Liars put it…

I think someone was mixing a little too much Fox News with their eggnog.

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Comments

  1. Frances says:

    And yet, she had the motor skills to dial a telephone and broadcast to whoever was listening exactly how stupid she is. In the olden days, it would have taken us a good two weeks to discover how stupid she is.

  2. janine says:

    Psst Bunny, this has never been one nation under God and Christmas isn’t God’s holiday for the birth of his son. God didn’t send down a mandate that the celebration happen in December. Wasn’t his son born in another month?

  3. Craig says:

    Janine, come on, Bunny doesn’t have time to think. She’s too busy doing “other things”. How d’you think she got the name Bunny anyway? ;-)

    (Probably not with her husband either…)

  4. Melody Brynne says:

    This is just too suspicious. Has anyone really identified who “Bunny” is? I know something about radio call-in shows and how producers can (if they so choose) “select” callers and “screen” callers and even “collude” on a “caller” calling in. When I was in broadcast school, our teacher (who was a radio talk show host and DJ) discussed with me how we students who were good at gabbing could call in to the show, tell his producer who we were, and the producer would put us on because the DJ had told him to! We helped make his show entertaining by calling in and either taunting or telling jokes or whatever to help his show. This “Bunny” sounds too crazy to be a “regular person” and I wonder if someone thought this might represent the “rage” of the rightwing nuts by having her tell this whopper! I think someone has put one over on us! I don’t buy her story!

  5. @Melody – Why not? We’ve all heard stories much more ridiculous than this one from tea partiers. There’s nothing here that is unbelievable when we’re discussing the wingnut set.

  6. MARYKAY says:

    I KIND OF THINK SOME OF THESE CALLERS ARE PAID TO CALL IN,THEIR TALKING POINTS ARE SO SPOT ON TO “OTHER NEWS STATION TALKING POINTS” MY SISTER AND I HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT HEALTHCARE,SHE WATCHES ALOT OF FOX,AND SAYS GLENN BECK IS SPOT ON RIGHT ABOUT THINGS.I HAD TO LAUGH AT HER.I TOLD HER MOST PEOPLE THINK HE”S THE LAUGHING STOCK OF FOX NEWS HE”S THE BIGGEST JOKE ON T.V.RIGHT NOW,I TOLD HER IF SHE JUST WATCHES FOX AND LISTENS TO JUST THEM SHE WILL HAVE THE ONE SIDED OPINION,FOX DOESNT TALK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DONT HAVE HEALTHCARE,THEY DONT TELL HARD LUCK STORIES,THEY HAVE LIES,.THATS ABOUT IT.SHES SAID SHES OPEN MINDED BUT WONT WATCH CNN,MSNBC,ABC,C-SPAN,BECAUSE THEY ARE LIBERAL STATIONS AND JUST ONE SIDED LIES.AND THEREFOR LIBERAL OPINIONS DONT COUNT..SO I HAD TO LAUGH AGAIN.YOU ARE OPEN MINDED,BUT ARE NOT WILLING TO WATCH OTHER CHANNELS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS,TO SEE THE PEOPLE ALL THEIR STORIES OF BAD LUCK AND HARD TIMES.THATS NOT BEING OPEN MINDED THATS A ONE SIDED OPINION,EVERYONES OPINION MEANS SOMETHING AND JUST BECAUSE ITS A LIBERAL OR PROGRESSIVE,OR INDEPENDENT,DOESNT MEAN ITS WRONG OR A LIE.THEN SHE STARTED TALKING ABOUT SOCIALISM, PAY CZARS,NOT BEING THE SUPER POWER WE ONCE WERE.I SAID OMG!MY SISTER IS A GLENN BECK TEA BAGGER AND 9-12ER,SO YOU SEE THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!EVEN IN MY FAMILY.BUT SHE SAID TO ME,WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU ,I THOUGHT YOU FELT KINDA LIKE I DID,I SAID NO I DIDNT I BELIEVE YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT BUT I BELIEVE WE SHOULD HELP OTHERS,HAVE SOME COMPASSION,AND WE SHOULD ALL HAVE HEALTHCARE,NOT JUST THE ELECTED OFFICALS IN WASHINGTON,AFTER ALL WE THE PEOPLE ELECTED THEM TO THEIR SEATS AND WE THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE IT ALSO.SO WE JUST AGREED TO DISAGREE!I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IM THE OLDER, SO I AM THE SMARTER ONE!

  7. Bina says:

    WTF in God’s name does Jesus’ non-birthday have to do with health insurance? If she’s gonna rage about something, how about the fact that people are now going to be forced to pay for insurance they still can’t afford, instead of getting universal single-payer like they deserve! That is what Jesus would do, is it not?

    And PS to Bunny, it’s actually the Winter Solstice. A *pagan* holiday.