Sunday, September 06, 2009

MISTER LOPEZ GOES TO HEEVAHAVA COUNTRY

For today's LATimes, Steve Lopez went to the sticks to find "common ground" with the tribe of Glenn Beck.

It's an exercise in nut-picking, now common because the crazy and stupid are so easy to find, something still frequently played as a shocking development in media centers.

So right off Lopez runs into a discouragingly standard fool, from Santa Clarita: "I've seen documentation that states people will be considered terrorists if they wear blue jeans and talk excessively about the constitution. You're thinking I'm a kook, right? Look it up and you'll find it to be true."

Lopez finds the American heevahava gets his news everywhere -- from other conspiracy theorists, a local physical fitness fanatic, Beck, the virtually inexplicable -- like this guy, material functionally similar to stuff straight out of "The Turner Diaries" only diluted by distance from the original source, e-mails and Google searching.

Heevahava Country, in terms of media exposure, is fully wired. But the wires are uniformly filled with the stuff that sputters and sparks with paranoia, a trip through the benefits of instant mass communication after being hit over the head with a shovel and been dealt such a bad hand of brain-damage there's no treatment, no coming back.

Lopez finds there is no common ground between himself and the denizens of Glenn Beck country. He briefly finds a broader obvious issue -- "9/11 was used to rally support for unjust wars" -- but it's like saying DD has something in common with electromagnetic pulse crazies or rock critics because we all breathe air.

The only thing missing from the column is a Jack D. Ripper-like discussion of fluoridation. It's been replaced with 9/11-was-an-inside-job and Obama-appointees-are-communists.

"I thanked [the man] for being so forthcoming and then I hit the road, driving past Magic Mountain and out of Glenn Beck country at a good clip, headed for home," he concludes.

"[Maybe] by the end of the year and the passing of Obama care, [we shall see] a diabolical plan that will replace and circumvent God," writes one man from Pennsyltucky, who -- for the sake of illustration, DD has linked to before.

The mind as roast from coast to coast.

What is to be done?

Well, I hear there's these FEMA camps where we can put people who wear blue jeans...




Related:

The Chronicles of Heevahava

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