The Best of Conservapedia

If I could pick one moment that really gets to the black, oozing heart of Bush-Era Conservatism, it would have to be Bill O’Reilly blowing up at Jeremy Glick. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, this was something that happened about a month before the Invasion of Iraq, where Jeremy Glick, the son of a victim of the 9/11 attacks, was pulled on The O’Reilly Factor so that Bill could yell at him for signing an Anti-War Resolution. What was great about it was that early in the Yell-Session, Jeremy reminded Bill that the same people who carried out the attacks were trained by the US Government, a point which Bill, assuming the smug, assholish tone of a Vice Principal chewing out a student who cut class, dismisses as a “Far-Left Viewpoint”. (Here’s the video)

This, to me, is Modern Conservatism in a nutshell. Anybody with even a passing familiarity with 20th Century History knows that this is absolutely true. Damn it, O’Reilly knows this is true. However, since he and the rest of the demons at Fox News know that it’s inconvenient information, they know they can write it off in the minds of their flag-waving audience by simply branding it “Far-Left”, and thus either irrelevant or downright treasonous to cite.

I bring this up because it’s this same mindset that has given us such hilarious/frightening phenomena such as The Fox News Channel itself, World Net Daily, and, of course, Conservapedia. All of these are monuments to the Neocon Legacies of willful ignorance, brutish reasoning and rabid, commie-crushing paranoia. Conservapedia, however, might be my favorite.

Just like the Fox News Channel, the site was created because of alleged Liberal Bias of an existing institution. Where Conservatives started fomenting conspiracy theories of a Marxism within the pages of the New York Times, and the content of CNN, the Fox News Channel was created. Years later, they got the same ideas about Wikipedia, and thus Conservapedia was born.The geniuses behind this even went so far as to have a lengthy catalog of Wikipedia’s Covert Socialism.

The general, outstanding dumbness of all of this is pretty obvious. I mean, if your problem with Wikipedia is clearly biased, then simply make an alternative that you feel is more objective. But no, Bush-America ain’t havin’ none of that. That’s why instead of seeking objectivity, they just create a much more skewed version, one that caters to their stubborn worldview, reality be damned.