National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Takoma Park, MD.
Worried by those reports that the U.S. birth rate no longer ensures a white majority? D.C. wingnut paper The Washington Examiner offers its readership some comfort on the front page.
— Abraham Lincoln. Wise man.
Abraham Lincoln was a wise man—which is probably why he never spouted that sort of propaganda. These words were actually written by William John Henry Boetcker, who served as director of the anti-union Citizens’ Industrial Alliance.
Heritage, you really need to do your research on these things. (You really are from The Heritage Foundation, right? You’re not just trolling me?) Surely that must have struck you as a bit too convenient? It would be like me being able to attribute a quote about the importance of allowing the top-brackets of the Bush tax cuts to expire to either Ghandi or Reagan.
In the interest of either not further duping your more gullible readers or playing this prank out to its fullest, could you modify the image to attribute the quote to “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”?
Edit: Rather than editing the image as I suggested, The Heritage Foundation has quietly taken it down. However, the image has since been reblogged by a whole lot of conservatives, so I’m going to leave this correction here.
BURN! Don’t you hate when facts get in the way of a good story?
THIS is why I’m thrilled the Heritage Foundation is on Tumblr.
I keep telling ya, folks — they’re not engaged in a war of ideas, they’re engaged in a war of shit and bullshit vs. ideas.
“Guests at the ceremony included France’s leftist political elite, France’s chief rabbi, the head of an umbrella group of French Muslim organizations, the daughter of late president François Mitterrand’s mistress and a host of cultural figures.” —
“François Hollande sworn in as French president,” CBC News
I love the French.
D.C.
Metro.
Inside joke.
I learned about a sitting president publicly expressing support for gay marriage from a mad rush of cynical “well, what took him so long” tumblr posts.
Is it the system that’s too cynical, or the electorate?
No, it’s not the system or the electorate so much as a relatively small group of social media enthusiasts who (rightly) take a cynical attitude toward politics and (wrongly) believe it applies to everything that ever happens.
D.C.