February 25, 2005

Infotainment Time

[the following is a public service announcement from the Funny Farm News Burro]

Ted Rall has offered a challenge to wrongwing bloggers everywhere (yes, we're looking at the melons over at Powerline, the Instacracker, the Rot-Filled Whiner and the vile Coulterbeast - who supposedly has a blog*, although it's really just a bit of pretty white space that costs a lot of money) to prove to the rest of the world that wrongwingnuts get more violent and threatening remarks and insults than progressives.

We here at the Funny Farm wonder sometimes if we resemble that violently threatening and insult-filled liberal that frightens Republics so. Of course we have been incessantly told by any Republic within earshot that we are; however we have become aware that getting liberals to feel guilty about expressing their anger at their mistreatment is a staple of Republic behavior. We've also scrupulously avoided profanity within these hallowed (cough) webpages, and try to make our insults of the highest quality and greatest complexity (so as not to offend any regular denizens of Free Republic or Little Green Fascists Footballs that might find their way here). In other words, we have given it the old college try to make it as infotaining as possible around here without resorting to continual trashing of the ethically challenged members of the right blogsphere.

We haven't received very many emails of violent, threatening, or insulting nature here at the Funny Farm. We haven't received very many emails at all as a matter of fact - but most of those that we have gotten have been very positive. So we're reasonably certain that we have engendered some respect and adulation, at least in the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan. We have never been told to tone it down by one of our fellow progressives, although we have been notified that we were coming close to skirting the edges of civility from time to time. And we have received a very few emails and comments that disagree with our points of view. They haven't been to the level of virulent negativity that Mr. Rall gets - and they haven't been very threatening or filled with violence. Profanity, yes. But nothing to discuss with the local authorities, or worry about someone stalking us. We have sent off an email to Ted himself, and eagerly await a response from him on his opinion of our level of conversational toxicity, since he seems to have had much more experience in this area than we have. Stay tuned to this station for further developments...

* - we've been particularly amused from day one that, next to AnnThraxx's pic, we see the tagline Ann Coulter speaks her mind... - and then we see nothing but an ocean of white space. It's almost as though Ann is purposely trying to let us all see that there is nothing inside the skull-like object perched on her shoulders.

Posted by (: Tom :) at February 25, 2005 05:28 PM