How Adults Do Not Campaign

[Aaron Burr]

Republican Party Treachery Rises Again in Tampa!!!!!!!!111


Gods chosen ambassador of freedom and liberty. I know, I thought he would be taller too.

The party of suck and ground up oyster shells....plus pirates and vampires has threatened to set fire to mighty planet Earth if their insidious demands of worldwide chained slavery and roving death squads are not met. Or so some guy at another site says.

There, I've just deconstructed how blogs work.

Anyway. The deal is, this whiny jackass goes off the rails at sentence two of his multi paragraph screed and then tries to shove his entire presented case of ass waxery and choom inspired logic off on God. Like He doesn't have enough crap to take responsibility for already. No bud, this finger fartery is all you. Don't blame the good Lord for your mental pimples. Quit beating off to The Patriot soundtrack so much and maybe things will improve.

Look, I'm not voting for John Albert Dummett Jr. That's a fuggin' serial killer name if I ever heard of one. If that's his entire platform, I say take a number Cap'n. We've already endorsed Linden Borden. Your guy doesn't even tote a butcher knife, much less an axe like our beloved candidate.

Good luck with that.

The actual point is that clearly insane people shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a keyboard, megaphone, soap box and/or local cable access show.

And I have no idea why I'm wasting my time on this poor soul so obviously disconnected from reality. I think it's because the site he's from claims to offer "Conservative" news to people or something. It's a good branding move as BAT SH!T CRAZY HOWLINGS FROM A RAVING LUNATIC!!!! doesn't fit on coffee mugs as easily.

But it does play the Devil with those pesky truth in advertising laws.

[Uncle Al]

Gee, Bob Russell reasonably accurately described what happened at GOP state and national conventions, and fairly characterized those events and actions. I'm somewhat surprised at his restraint in the face of such extreme provocation.

[Aaron Burr]

Bob Russell reasonably accurately described what happened at GOP state and national conventions

See, it's these fuggin' adjectives. People use them like they're tossing pillows around a room when they're more like a sack full of doorknobs.

Adjectives are also the writers pet rock. They're just shiny toys. Strip all that extraneous junk away and most people not only have very little to say, but it's mostly subconsciously self reflective.

Bob's not a happy person. His adjective use is entirely negative. He seems dissatisfied with life and his prospects therein. Further, this sort of dissociative behavior only serves to reinforces his narcissistically based negative world view. The man is peptic at best and a perfidious blastoderm at worst.

Swap out reasonably for hysterically and accurately with narcissistically and it's a date.

[Uncle Al]

Those fuggin' adjectives have meaning, and I used them to convey that meaning. Specifically, I used them because I was not there at those conventions and am relying on multiple accounts from other sources. While there are a few differences in those accounts, those differences are minor. They agree on the main points, as does Russell's account.


BTW, "fuggin'" is an adjective you tossed in there. Why?

[Aaron Burr]

Because I'm a writer. It's my job to know when and how to use mother fudging adjectives.

See, the problems with Bob's article is that he unloads all of his prejudices on the reader in an extremely hostile and confrontational manner. You rarely make friends and influence people that way.

Look at it this way. Suppose you're in a casino and you approach the blackjack table. Instead of greeting you kindly, making small chit chat, the dealer at the table begins to harangue you...loudly, about how all the other games at the casino were rigged by Evil blood sucking mud turtles and that only a fool would play poker instead of blackjack.

I'm no expert at blackjack but I'd be willing to assume that dealer wouldn't rustle up much business. WHICH IS THE POINT OF HIS BEING THERE. The other blackjack dealer, the one who is nice and reasonable, succeeds in the casual miracle of separating you from your money.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED.

My point is that if Bob want's to trick people into voting for his guy, he needs to either get a Hell of a lot of people drunk, or work on his sales pitch.

[Uncle Al]

I suspect Bob was writing to an audience he assumed was already on his side. That was stupid.

But you were objecting to MY adjectives, yes? What specifically was wrong with my usage, other than you'd have preferred a paragraph or two expanding on what I added in the follow-on post?

[Aaron Burr]

"I suspect Bob was writing to an audience he assumed was already on his side."

Unless you're writing in your diary, NO ONE is on your side. Your job as a writer is to convey information. That info can be declarative, interrogative, whatever. The job of the information is to 'persuade' or trick people into doing whatever it is you want done. I.E. buy my book, do what I say, think how I think, laugh...whatever. There is a way to do this. People spend thousands of dollars and years in classes learning how to do exactly that.

Then Bob comes along and scrawls his crayon all over the place. It's embarrassing.

And no, I have no problem with your use of adjectives. It's those f*cking gerunds that drive me to distraction.

[Uncle Al]

The job of the information is to 'persuade' or trick people into doing whatever it is you want done.

Not necessarily. If you want to be paid for your writing, then that's the aim. I assume anyong paying thousands of dollars and years in classes has that end in mind.

But if your aim of the writer is to present himself as a fellow participant to other members of a specific set, then persuasion take a minor role. I offer this to illustrate that there are other valid reasons for writing than to change others' behavior.

I hear ya about gerunds. While I have no particular problem with gerunds myself, I am incensed by those who verbize nouns. (I'm proud of my restraint. I almost wrote "those who practice the verbizing of nouns.")

[Aaron Burr]

I see....so it's O.K. to be an ass as long as your speaking amongst friends...on the internet...on a news site.

Why do you care so much about this mouth breather? He's not even backing your guy...or even a real person.

Just recognize the man couldn't even write Obamas birf certificate and let's move on.

[Uncle Al]

Teh only reason I cared was because you cared. I love ya, man!

OK. Not only could Bob not scribble the birf cert, he'd be totally flummoxed by the task of writing the consumer warnings and user documentation for a shot glass. Move on we shall!