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Thu Nov 15, 2012, 02:04 AM Nov 2012

Orson Scott Card has a meltdown. [View all]

The author of "Ender's Game" has a full-on right-wing meltdown.


Orson Scott Card, the author and National Organization for Marriage board member, lashed out at the media for covering up Obama’s lies and acting like Nazis!

Barack Obama is still a liar -- you didn't change that, you merely hid it.

Barack Obama is still the selfish, cowardly commander-in-chief who abandons American public servants -- you didn't change him, nor did you give him any reason to change.



If America had a Joseph Goebbels who would arrest any journalist who reported anything that would make the administration look bad, did you write or say or report anything during this election campaign that would have put you inside a jail cell?

Everybody at Fox News would have been jailed, and Fox News would have been shut down. But you already do everything you can to get people not to listen to Fox, so the actions of such a propaganda minister would merely make official what you already try to accomplish by other means.

Don't you dare say I'm lying or exaggerating, because the Democrats did try to shut down conservative talk radio, and you supported them in that effort, allowing them to get away with calling the proposed action "fairness."

You go along with the big lie every day. You did it obviously and openly in these last weeks before the election, allowing Barack Obama to conceal, cover up, lie -- all because, like good obedient party flacks, you knew that nothing was more important than keeping the Beloved Leader in power.



But far more likely is the other alternative -- that, faced with your monolithic groupthink, your insistent flacking for the Beloved Leader, your dishonesty that is equal to his dishonesty, your emulation of Pravda, the Republicans in Congress will give up, Fox News will drop the story, it will all go away, and the Beloved Leader will continue in power.

Then, when his appeasement of our enemies results in a nuclear explosion in Tel Aviv ... When more and more Al-Qaeda-style attacks kill more Jews and more Americans around the world ...



Just because brown-shirted thugs aren't beating your opponents in the streets doesn't mean you aren't every bit as much the enemies of democracy as any Nazi or Bolshevik ever was.

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2012-11-08-1.html

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Damn. Liked so many of his books. Didn't come across as a hate-filled whack. gateley Nov 2012 #1
Agreed. eqfan592 Nov 2012 #18
Haha! Don't blame you. But once I learn something like that, I can't read or watch without gateley Nov 2012 #21
Patricia Heaton does a good job with her character? Hugabear Nov 2012 #34
Never saw that show -- never have seen her in anything else. gateley Nov 2012 #36
It's sad as much as annoying Posteritatis Nov 2012 #24
He doesn't write about his own character. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2012 #27
When Ender's Game first came out... phantom power Nov 2012 #30
He's been a fucking nutbag for years. FVZA_Colonel Nov 2012 #2
Yeah, people here in Greensboro tend to avoid him and he avoids everyone... tledford Nov 2012 #23
Yes, I could tell from his books by the late 90's that he'd gone religiously wacko Sundome Nov 2012 #3
I think she pulled herself back from the brink. If I recall, she was furious at gateley Nov 2012 #22
Her best books were written after she had a crisis of faith... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #26
Ender's Game the movie is scheduled for release next year TeamPooka Nov 2012 #4
It's been scheduled for release for over a decade. Maybe this is a new one. Sundome Nov 2012 #6
directed by Gavin Hood the guy who did Wolverine. TeamPooka Nov 2012 #10
he's a Fox News whack job Skittles Nov 2012 #5
It's not so much a meltdown as it is hate speech. SleeplessinSoCal Nov 2012 #7
Do these people hear or read what they say? kelliekat44 Nov 2012 #8
Delusion here, delusion there defacto7 Nov 2012 #9
I'd Flatpicker Nov 2012 #11
Like a tantrum from a 14 year old girl. Lex Nov 2012 #12
did he damage his brain somehow? eShirl Nov 2012 #13
yes, with Fux News Lex Nov 2012 #15
kid's stuff sigmasix Nov 2012 #14
Mormon Right-wing loon Card is Romney's favorite author, by the way cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #16
Ah, so someone's not going to be hanging out at the White House. Indpndnt Nov 2012 #20
You have to wonder how much longer people like this can go on ... Ganja Ninja Nov 2012 #17
Orson Scott Card. Ray Bradbury. Clint Eastwood. randome Nov 2012 #19
Oh what a pompous gasbag. closeupready Nov 2012 #25
Your church is lead by a former Nazi. Dawson Leery Nov 2012 #28
He's a REALLY CRAPPY writer, too. n/t RomneyLies Nov 2012 #29
amen.....I tried one of his outhouse t p ers once.....made it about 5 pages. exCRUciatingly hack Gabi Hayes Nov 2012 #37
because he's a full-on, right-wing nutjob, and always has been. montanto Nov 2012 #31
He's a Mormon and a total Wingnut obamanut2012 Nov 2012 #32
Quite a bit of projection in that screed. caveat_imperator Nov 2012 #33
Not listening to Fox News is being a Nazi? Huh, wut? ck4829 Nov 2012 #35
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