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"Tensile" town. Oh those Craig types sooooo make me laugh! Of course what he meant "Prehensile" town.

"Tensile" town. Oh those Craig types sooooo make me laugh! Of course what he meant was "Prehensile" town.

Oh my. That was truly frightening. I was reading through it, and I wasn't sure whether or not I believed it was real. I mean, I guess it just didn't sit well with me at first that somebody would be that careless, especially when sending political messages. Whenever I post something on any website, I ALWAYS go over everything I type, especially when I'm coming out against somebody else. It's a matter of pride for me. I suppose either this guy has no pride in his work, or he just doesn't care.

Speaking as a math major, just the fact that he said "over 51 to 52%" made me cringe, but then when I read that he called it a landslide, I felt actual physical pain. I'll never understand people like him who can just yell at people, not make sense, and make the rest of their party look stupid. Liberal as I may be, I hold my opponents in the highest respect (aside from people like him, of course), and it really hurts that somebody does that to them. Politics should not be about mud-slinging or whatever it was that this guy was doing.

I'm actually disappointed in Wil's reply!

That letter deserves SO much more of a sarcastic ass-whooping than Wil gave him.

Wil, my advice? Remove your reply and then ponder it for a day or two and come up with something brilliant!

That was TOO funny to let off that easily

I think it is important to remember that, in opposing Bush's divine right to rule, we are anti-American terrorist sympathizers who {insert meaningless right-wing insult here} , but only when we're not ensuring the perpetual liberal bias in all media.

Personally, I find things like the new National Defense Strategy referring to the judicial process as a "Strategy of the weak", and equating it with terrorism, as a threat to America... great... Might makes right, eh?

I laughed soda through my noise whilst reading this. And it really stings. Add that to the list of your crimes, Wil. My nostrils have been assaulted by your "lefty from Holly Wood" humor!

Man, that was freaking funny. It almost makes me feel bad about these nutty folks.

Is learning to spell so difficult? Is communicating properly so bloody hard? [shakes head]

It is too bad he didn't bring up all the mysterious voting machine problems, and other election related issues. But, they are too busy cheering for the troops shooting up cars in Iraq.

Yikes! It seems we have met the enemy, and he is illiterate.

*applauds approvingly* well said, wil.

Cripes! It looks like Mommy and Daddy forgot to lock the desktop away from Junior again.

I weep for the future.

Good Lord, the Nigerian phishers know better English than that crapsack. Ironically, little Craiggy-poo is probably one of those folks who shrieks that foreigners should "learn English or go home."

I guess proper spelling and grammar are hallmarks of the "liberal intellectual elite," and therefore verboten to Monsieur R.

You know, I've always wondered: "Who WOULD Jesus Insult". Now I know. Wil, you must be damned! DAMNED I TELL YOU! One of the Faithfool have Fingered you!! THE CHIMPOSITY!!!

The entire Bush Family, in my opinion, are going to hell.

I couldn't read past the landslide comment. How does anyone in their right mind consider barely over half a landslide??

Ok, I am not from the left or right. (Social security needs to be fixed and privatization is a possible answer, Ashcroft may not have been a Nazi but he scared me and Bush seems to be happy wiping his butt with the constitution) I am out here in the middle and trust me there are lots of these people out here but at the same time there are quite a few nut bag lefties too. 51% isn’t a landslide but you can’t tell some people that. Look how the FFC is acting and something like 90% of the complaints are coming from one organized group. I think most people are in the middle and the reason that no one listens to us is because we don’t say anything. Write your congressman when they screw up or something you don’t agree with is up for a vote. Don’t back down and tell them you may not vote for the “other” party but you might not vote in their race at all. This will get their attention real quick.

WOW, typical right winged remark.

No Child Left Behind??

I think if Bush was really the champion of his "consituents" he'd have long implemented (and promptly underfunded no doubt XD) something like say...

"No Redneck Left Behind"

It wasn't until half way through the email that I realized the guy was talking politics. For a while I thought he was lamenting the fact that you were left-*handed*.

Ok, that note was just sad. Maybe that particular person was just having a bad day. Maybe he is on a binge of some sort. Drugs, Alcohol? Sane people don't write notes like that.

Just for the record. You and I don't agree politically but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy dropping by to hear what you have to say. I enjoy reading your thoughts on life, politics or whatever.

Madie

Wow. The US leftys don't have to do any work. The spin doctors for the Democrats may as well resign now. Who needs to undermine the Bush administration when its supporters are willing to do it for them?

Oh, and there's a special circle of hell for people who think TYPING IN CAPS makes their point louder. In cyberspace there is no volume button.

wow, a land slide..... 3%* is a land slide!
only in the right wing world! o and let me guess craig learned to spell from a cracker-jack box eevn i can seepl bteter tahn him, and i'm screwing up on purpose! (you can still read it right?,i knew you could!) and yes holywood, i can imagine would be tensile (am i using this right?), or is it malleable ?
peace out

I guess he didn't see the part in Carrie when she kept remembering the line her mother gave her: "They're all gonna laugh at you you you you! (echo effects are mine ^_^)" We are all laughing at him.

I'm a new reader. I started reading Just a Geek a couple of days ago, and it's been the cause of much fatigue (can't put it down at night and go to sleep!). I think you're doing a great job! The more I read, the more I like.

About your right-wing following: It's important to note that there are in fact, sensible, reasonable, conservatives out there. They're just hard to find. Obviously, this guy's a complete idiot! It amazes me that there are people so clueless, they don't even realize they are their own best argument.

Anyway...looking forward to reading more! And I don't think this is the worst on the net....mine wins, hands down. ;)

That guy is such an idiot. Literally. He can't even spell. No wonder Bush won, look who was voting for him. You responded better than I would have. Good use of sarcasm.

LMFAO! That was just too funny. I haven't laughed that hard all weekend Wil. THANKS! Can we make this a monthly entry?

quoting JOHN MELLENCAMP'S "WALK TALL"..."the simple minded and the uninformed...are easily led astray...and those who cannot connect the dots...look the ther way".

that should read "other way"!

Wow...that note alone explains a lot about why Bush won, not once, but twice.

I think this should be an annual part of the website. Bring on more idiotic hate mail!

Think this might be a joke email? I'd be torn between doing as you did, posting the email, or ignoring because whoever wrote it would like nothing better than to see their little piece on your website. Oh well, pretty funny either way (although I guess the fact that it might be a real email is alarming).

That's like ... WOW. Somewhere right between funny and scary as hell.

Thisis the clearest evidence of WHY the Rethuglicans love to gut public education, isn't it? The stupider and more poorly educated people are, the more supportive they are of the right-wing. Brains go UP, right-wing goes DOWN.

Oh, come now, Wi[l|ll], it's not fair to twist the gentleman's words. He said Bush got *more* than 51 to 52% of the vote, which is obvious from looking at "the" map. Either our president is elected by geographical area majority and not population, or we've all been mistaken and our country really has an even distribution of people all over. New York and LA are just figments of our imagination! There's no way one tiny spot like that could outvote something the size of Montana!

A little chlorine in the gene pool, perhaps? Just a thought.

It's a shame that IQ tests aren't required to vote--there's not much to be said for democracy when a raving idiot has as much say in running the country as someone who can comprehend the long-term effects of his/her actions.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one that thought he was calling you a Southpaw at first...and thinking, "Wow! So is Whoopi! But why is this guy so pissed about it? Is he from one of those cultures that thinks the left hand is dirty?"

I would be tempted to reply to such an email like this: Until you can type using the grammar and spelling most children learn in the third grade, your letter will not be processed in my brain. Thank you.

Jeez, Wil.

Sure, you out-smarted him, but, really, is that an accomplishment?

Sorry, but now I feel like I just watched Muhammed Ali beat the crap out of Emo Phillips. Kind of embarrassed for all concerned.

You're too high a calibre to be fired at so big and flimsy a target.

*snerk*

I... I just can't think about that without laughing. One can only hope he thought he was being funny? sardonic? something other than serious.

*snerk*

As a conservative myself, I can say that "Craig R." is the kind of guy that gives all conservatives a bad name. While I might not agree with Wil's political stance (and there are times I don't agree with George W. Bush's political stance, let alone Wil's), I don't let that get in the way of my opinion that Wil is generally a Good Guy.What we do need, though, is for those on the Left to act more like a "Loyal Opposition" and engage in intelligent debate, not simply define themselves by saying "Whatever Bush likes, we're against it!" (Or worse, engage in groundless name-calling and slander.) I believe Wil has in fact done that, in the few posts here where he's actually mentioned politics at all.Unfortunately, idiocy, it seems, knows no political boundaries. Wil, my apologies to you on behalf of all the reasonable conservatives for having to deal with that little twerp.

The best thing about Bush Jr. being President for his second term is that at the end of his second term he can never run for President again. Thank God!

The best thing about Craig R.'s email to WWdN is that it exposes the illiteracy of the average G.W. Bush supporter.

Um. I don't even know what any of that was supposed to mean! Perchance he was meaning to describe Hollywood as being very strong when subjected to linear pressure and yet still brittle and able to show emotion (tensile is a REAL word so I had to read into it a bit.)

Wow.....just wow. This guy sounds like most of the people in the town I live in. He once again shows the higer intellect of the "ditto head nation". He sure showed you man..I mean, with all the caps and the misspellings..he'sobviously WAY smarter than you or all the other celebrities he amed....you're totally p0wned. LoL
But where was the rambling about how his buddies died face down in the mud so you could have freedom part though? I think it needs some of that. You know the "how dare you speak in a way contrary to my belifes, I sacrificed for yur freedom to speak" contradiction.
I'm still a fan Wil, Picard has nothing on you ^_^
-A fellow "hippy, sewer crap"

once again, that email proves that while we may not have won this election, we did indeed win the war on dumbasses.

i salute you, wil.

I think that people who want to voice their political concerns would be better off doing so with facts. It doesn't make sense to attack someone with a letter that is full of spelling and grammar mistakes.

If Craig is real,pray to God that he and the like minded be saved from the Bush demons or damn them all to their landslide win to hell!!

Wow...I wonder if this Craig person knows that the President's approval rating dropped from 49% in January to 42% in March-April.

Seems you spelled your name wrong there, Wil. Might wanna look into that.

Wow. That was so surreal it was almost performance art. Craig R. could probably make a nice living doing weddings and birthday parties.

I saw this letter on another board. Someone posted this reply after it.

Dear Republican Party,

I want to show my unequivocal support for President Bush.

When he took office, I was struggling in my chosen profession, often attacked by policies of the Clinton administration.

That changed when President Bush took office.

Thanks to him, my company now has multiple avenues of expansion and a whole new market place has opened up for us. He has provided us the catalyst for unlimited recruitment.

Although some members of Congress have wanted to curtail my enterprise, Bush wisely chose not to listen to them.

The President's War on Terror is exactly what I have been hoping for.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help with the re-election.

Yours Truly,

Osama bin Laden

I also have a funny post about Irelands Current view of America which can be found here

By the way, Craigy ole buddy ole pal.... 52% a landside huh....HAHAHAHAHA

First time ever posting here. I thought that I would let you know that I think Craig has really been getting around lately. I received three comments in the past few weeks from someone with a very similar writing style (of course, they left out all of the "Holly Wood" crap-couldn't use it as a valid point in my case).
Anywho, Craig(Tom1257, BushisGod1967 and CheneyforPres in my case) all make the same point-that our public education system has failed us miserably. Also, they have proven that most of America do not know the difference between moderate, progressive and liberal-all are supposedly evil (myself, I identify with the more liberal portion of the market).
Good luck to you-they seem to enjoy passing sites of this nature along to all of their fundie/neocon friends.

I guess someone needs to teach that guy to talk Emerican!

Dear Craig,

It's called spellcheck. Look it up. While you're at it? Locate a dictionary and the right to free speech.

Flee!

~Whit

We like your crazy views on politics, Will! I meant Wil, crap. Sorry. :D

We loves lefties. Yessssss, precious.

In the words of Tom Stoppard, "I'm sorry, but it actually hurts." I'm astonished the buffoon's god-awful spelling didn't make my eyes bleed.

As much as I would've loved to see you snark on that guy's quote-unquote letter, your measured reply (with just the right amount of sarcasm) was a good one.

Oh, and I for one blame the "activist judges" for his poor spelling ability. Glad to see that you continue to deny the whackjobs the pleasure of getting you riled up.

Yay Wil!

sweeet.

Wil, if you're ever in Ottawa, Canada, you have earned free beer for the evening.

R0x0rs. *grin*

mine eyes! they burn.
mine sides! they burn.
::ooof::

that was hilarity in the highest form: a scathing diatribe that utterly fails. complete with all caps finger-wagging and atricous grammer.

you were much too kind to him. however, anything more you could have said would have been lost on him, i'm sure - as he wouldn't have gotten it nor would he have wanted to listen. all in all i think your response was best, considering the source. :/

Wil, take a cue from Mr. T and "pity the fool" who thought that composition would help justify his continuing existence as king of the trailer park.

Hilarious.

Hilarious, yet deeply depressing at the same time.

How a terrible news! Thanks for sharing.

Read the letter. Several times. Read the comments. My poor brain still cannot accept that that was a real letter and not a joke. Then I start to realize that it was real and I just want to cry. I beleve that when he wrote "tensile town" he meant "tinsel town". By itself; not such a big typo. In context; effin' scary.
If you're ever in Toronto, Ontario, it would be this expat's honour to treat you and yours to a nummy brunch.

so if he hates you,your views, and your acting, why the hell did he bother to read anything on your site? some people don't deserve broardband.

I'm inclined to believe this is, as you say, "satire". Mostly because I refuse to believe anyone is that dumb. I am a conscientious conservative but I still have a sense of humor and I'm pretty levelheaded and fair-minded when it comes to politics. I certainly know better than to send a scathing, misspelled, badly-worded e-mail to someone who has a wildly popular and internationally-read blog. Yes, this must - HAS TO BE - satire. I choose to laugh. ^_^

I find it fascinating that of the hundreds of emails you probubly receive, you chose to print the one that was sent to you by some half-wit idiot. Of course you could never post a sensible email like the one I wrote you on March 03, 2005 and never received an answer to. I will repost it here:

Dear Wil,

First of all, I loved you on Star Trek TNG.

I was referred to your blog by a friend who happened upon your musings from the night before the 2004 election. I must say I was very disappointed to learn that you swerve left. But putting all your elitism to the side, I would like to ask you a few serious questions: With Bush in for another 4 years is the world really that bad because of it? Democracy breaking out all over and a really good economy...

It has become a cliché that Hollywood people are all Democrats.

You said about Bush: "Shame on you for four years of incompetent, dishonest, arrogant leadership."

Did you prefer Bill Clinton's total LACK of leadership over arrogant leadership? And can you please tell me where the proof of Bush's dishonestly is. In return, I will show you the transcripts of Bill Clinton's lies about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

You said: "For four years, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have lied to the American people about everything from the cost of Medicare "reform" to their ever-changing justifications for invading Iraq."

Yes, the Prescription Drug Benefit will not benefit Wil Weaton the famous television and movie actor and yes it may indeed cost more than was originally projected by the White House. But older Americans that don't have Wil Weaton to help them out will come to count on this benefit. War sucks but the justifications for the War In Iraq have always been the same. And just because we can not prove what the entire international community said Saddam Hussein had (WMD) does not mean he did not have them. You my friend have been drinking to much microbrew if you fall hook line and sinker for the idea that Somalia (where we were defending Arabs against people the Arabs were ethnic cleansing) was OK but liberating Iraq from a brutal dictator that slaughtered hundreds of thousands was not OK.

You said: Throughout this campaign, they have tried to terrorize us into giving them four more years to mislead the country and further enrage the world.

I am confused. I thought it was Osama bin Laden that was terrorizing Americans. Was it not he that came on our televisions just days before the election to weigh in? I think it is hilarious that you claim Bush is terrorizing us into giving him 4 more years. That is like saying Wil Weaton was the star of “Stand By Me”, too many people would disagree with that statement for it to even be worth saying.

You said: A Bush victory would mean much, much more than just the defeat of John Kerry. It would endanger the values that the vast majority of Americans -- the majority of Americans who voted for Al Gore or Ralph Nader in 2000 -- hold dear. It would be a victory for terror.

Wow! You are one lost dude! A victory for terror huh? Gosh it looks to me that terror is having a really hard time remaining relevant even in the Middle East. Have you been reading the news from other than the Daily Koz (which refuses to cover the good things going on in the ME and elsewhere because it makes the administration look bad) try reading www.powerlineblog.com or my blog, www.socalpundit.com. Endangering values? I don’t get it. Whose values are endangered by Bush’s winning the election? Certainly not mine. And you seem able to live your life and worship or not worship as you please. I guess you were exaggerating huh?

You said: So if George W. Bush wins, I will sit down, and I will cry. I will cry for my children, who will most certainly face a military draft….

Damn you fell hard for the military draft rhetoric that the Democratic operatives like Charlie Rangel were the architects of. Yes, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel and his buddies purposely planted proposed legislation on this and then blamed the president as if to say the President was preparing a draft for right after he won the election. Well… Where is the draft Wil?

Anyway, your comments after the results were known were very limited. You seem to be moving on in your life and I am wondering if this election really mattered to you in the first place.

I hope you and your family remain well and I hope you will branch out in your seeking of knowledge.

PS: I put you on my blogroll.

Regards,

Kevin
SoCalPundit.com
http://www.SoCalPundit.com
techunter@socalpundit.com

"SUFFER IN SCONCE"

baaa ha ha ha ha!

so, does that mean we have to all suffer in a little glass thing hung on a wall? *grin*

What a dunce...

Thanks for posting this, Wil. That's the biggest laugh I've had all week.

Kevin stated:

"With Bush in for another 4 years is the world really that bad because of it? Democracy breaking out all over and a really good economy..."

Ok excuse my french here, but what fucking planet are you living on buddy?!!

Math is hard.

P.S. I can't find Sconce on MapQuest. Can someone direct me? Thanks in advance!

MV

Wow! There is nothing like a trip to a twisted fantasyland. I guess the saying is true, "Never Underestimate The Power of Stupid People In Large Groups".It's okay to be passionateBeing passionate and ignorant is sadBeing passionate and willfully ignorant is stupidIt is no wonder that 61 other countries have a better literacy rate than we do (ref). It also seems that this person is a bit confused since he is now a "Former Next Generation Fan". Apparently he is confusing the character with the actor. It doesn't make sense that he would praise Patrick Stewart and slam you and then choose not to watch TNG. I guess the person is proving that they are lacking class since "...PATRICK STEWART KNOWS WHEN TO KEEP SILENT. YA CAN LEARN ALLOT FROM HIM ON CLASSY BEHAVIOR." I guess the lesson was lost on Craig R.
"Craig" - If you are reading this, please understand... Regarding choosing our leaders, it's not a matter of being a "Lefty" or a "Righty". Nor is it a matter of being Liberal or Conservative. It's a matter of doing what is Right for all Americans. It is not right to cater to half the population while ignoring the other half. It's not healthy for any of us. I salute your passion, but sadly you are not seeing the whole picture. If you truly want to help, do your best to listen to all (not "both") sides and offer solutions and not complaints to help us all.BTW...I admire Caryn Johnson among others. -Dusty

So you're saying that EVERY Democrat is intelligent and well read? I beg to differ, dear. I've met some pretty stupid Libs. I'm not interested in your politics, Wil.

Kevin: I didn't reply to or reprint your e-mail because — although your passionate self-righteousness is oh-so-charming — your missive is factually inaccurate, willfully ignores the facts, and does little more than repeat Republican Talking Points (you know, sort of like the ones your heroes at Powerline claimed came from Democrats, but actually came from Republicans. Kudos to them for quickly setting the record straight and accepting responsibility for just making shit up, though. Oh, they didn't. Never mind.) CRAIG R.'s e-mail, on the other hand, is hilarious. See, you both say pretty much the same thing, but CRAIG R. is just so much more pure.

Tell you what: do some "research" and see if you can get your "facts" straight. I know that "facts" are really annoying for guys like you because they contradict what you'd like to believe about your savior and dear leader George W. Bush. But if you can give it another go, (and punch it up a little bit so there's at least one joke to balance out the Talking Points,) I'll spend fifteen seconds thinking about responding, before I realize that trying to have a conversation with someone who actually links to Powerline is a lot like trying to teach a pig to dance.

Warcrygirl: Please indicate where I suggested that EVERY Democrat is intelligent and well-read. And if you could also throw in some jokes, that would be great. Thanks.

It has to be either a joke or an email written by George W. himself.

It has to be either a joke or an email written by George W. himself.

I'm not sure what saddens me most about that letter. Was it the typos/spelling or the lack of logic? It is difficult to decide.

The letter was amusing to read. I particularly loved the capitol letters. That is something that definitely grabs my attention and makes me want to hit the delete key…I mean reply key.

It might be because I’m like a girl and math is hard (so says Barbie) but 51-52% of about 65% of eligible voters is not a land slide. If the email said that it was sad that in the most heated election in ages only 65% of eligible voters voted, that would have been a valid point. Although I heard that there were places in Ohio and Florida where over 100% of registered voters voted! The Republicans really got out the vote!!!

If that was real, I am sad for the state of American culture.

wow, hooked on phonics really worked for him

Personally, I'm glad Bush is in power. At least I know he's not the Anti-Christ.

As for this letter, well, I just feel sorry for the guy. I don't feel the need to mock him.

- Gailc
Calgary, AB Canada

Like many others, the post gave me one hell of a good laugh.

This poor soul is let another example of a post Tom Smith posted on his political blogsite regarding the "creative design" debate in Pennsylvania.

And Craig R's letter has me intrigued about one thing...what IS the Tensile strength of Holly Wood?

No, but seriously you guys: I had to, regrettably, drop out of school after getting my Master's degree. Therefore, as you will so easily surmise, I'm not really up on the level of education that I could be, so could someone please tell me what "suffer in sconce" means?

It's really going to bug me until I figure that one out. I'm going to seriously lose sleep over it. I'm begging you!

I feel sad that I am uneducated and ignorant.

I mean "iggerant."

See, now, that's just how sad I am.

It's tragic, really.

MV

Wil, what day was that letter sent to you? Was it April 1st?

This confirms my feeling that just as students are required to take an exit exam to graduate from high school, at the same time they should be required to take a second exam. If you fail this second test, YOU CANNOT BREED!!!!

Being the president of the Whopi Goldberg fanclub, I am totally disgusted by the letter Craig sent.

Long live Whopi.

As an Aussie I very quicly get tired of the endless postings around the blogosphere about US politics ....... but this is just so damn funny.

Thanks for sharing your mailbag. Is there more? Please?

Hey Wil,

I wish I was as grown up as Craig!! I have never been that good at spelling. He must have been a brain in school. You know Wil, some people are just one big ASS. I think Craig must be up there at # 1. I'm with everyone on here, if that was a fake e-mail, then that was funny, if that was for real, then go to hell Craig!! As everyone has said your website is the best!! It makes my day to read your great posts. Keep up the good work!! The best to You, Anne, and your family!

This is the reason I have no political affiliation.

Some conservatives forgive you for your political leanings and would hope you will forgive for ours. I don't come here to read about your politics. I come here because you write well, and I enjoy reading it.

I don't begrudge your soapboxing here because this is your corner of the web. You are free to do with it what you like. If I think you are wrong on a subject I will tell you, but I will go after your argument, not you, your profession or the place you choose to call home. If you don't want to hear what I have to say, you can't deletely me, or block me or whatever, and I don't have problem with it. This is your playground, not a public forum

I do hope you don't take that letter to be indicative of all conservatives. It would be faulty, and as bad as assuming that all liberals agree and support the radical feminists who think that the only solution is to kill most men and keep a few around for breeding stock.

Conservatives are people, too, as hard as that may be for some liberals to believe. We have our bad apples and pig headed radicals, but then so do you. (Ward Churchill, anyone?) The world would be pretty dull if we all agreed on everything.

I bet you have more conservative readers than you think, Wil. We don't hate you, and we don't see your politics as reason to, so we don't write hate mail. Heck, I didn't much like you in ST:NG (until they gave the real uniform, and even then I wasn't a fan boy). I found WWdN through a friend who is also a conservative.

Hi Wil!

If this Craig's email is not a joke, then he doesn't know diddly (sp) squat! He's pathetic and just a dickhead like most Republicans!

Ting

You need to use the sick power of sic to comment on those spelling errors and typos! I find this annoys nutbars like this even more. The sconce part was hilarious - maybe he meant scones. :-) Suffer in your scones you lefties! :-) ha ha!

Wil I comment, Wil I not! by the time I had read all the comments I had totally forgotton what I was going to say. Did you look at my Blog yet Wil? How was Hollywood? Oh yeah ,if Craig is serious, it's a very sad day for the illiterate and politically incorrect! Glad to see your a little more cheerful. Hugs from Australia!

Best laugh I've had all day! Thanks for sharing that one Wil!

Hugs!
Tracey in So Cal

Hilarious! The firs thought that I had when I started reading it was, "Wait, why would this guy care if Wil's left-handed?" (Same thought that Jake expressed above.)

I really hope that the email was a joke. Or that "Craig R." was really drunk or something. Heh.

I might be truly dense, and I'm admitting it now. I read through half of that e-mail thinking that he was ripping on Wil for being left-handed. It was only when he started talking about W. that I finally clued in.

I was thinking to myself.. "I didn't know Wil was left handed." As I read further, I found myself trying to figure out what Holly Wood had to do with whether people are left or right handed. It was only after the Bush "election" stuff did I figure out what the message was about...

Sheesh.

Give the guy a break. Maybe he was drunk when he wrote that...or he'd just watched "The O'Reilly Factor" which, as everyone knows, has the equivalent effect on one's mind as throwing back ten shots of 151.

Though, Wil, I must admit I'm shocked to read that you're apparently planning on coming out in a theater. I wonder how Mr. R knew this?

JAB

*snort!*

You know you're a Canadian when you read the title and think "heh, Wil Wheaton's left-handed. So?"

The scary thing is that I used to get book proposals not much more literate than that e-mail. I guess it's true: if you're truly incompetent at something, you're incapable of recognizing your true incompetence at it.

I'm actually a little dissapointed that you chose this email to post. I like you and your work a lot, Wil, but I can't help feeling that this is a teensy bit of a potshot at conservatives. As other posts have mentioned, this is your blog and you can write whatever you feel, so power to the right to freedom of speech. I would like to expect that those who claim they are much more intelligent than others would realize the fallacy that lies in broad generalizations and stereotypes instead of insulting them. Understanding is neccesary for all. Whether the email was satire or not, I am not sure, but I do not consider it representative of conservatives.

I guess all that I am trying to say is I feel somewhat saddened from your choice to dedicate time to this email/post because it has appears to me that bickering and shots between the right and the left does not do much good for anyone.

I do not hold any respect for the content of that email, but for that matter I don't feel that I hold mcuh respect for your response. However, that is an aspect of this country that I do find amazing; we can all have our own views, and express them too.

Laughed so hard I had to go hose down my office chair.

New to WWdN - glad to see the truely moronic gets ridiculed here.

I think the real Wil posted this particular letter is because it is funny. It's funny because the letter itself is its own punchline. I laughed until I cried, both at the letter itself and Wil's reply.

And...guess what? I'm a Republican from Oklahoma.

Wil, I would really be interested in knowing what your "facts" are. You see that is how it works Wil, one person asks a question(s) and the other person answers. If correction of the question is needed then it should be made in the answer(s) given. That is the problem I have with people who think the way you do. You put off this signal that you are too good to answer questions about why you think the way you do. It is almost like you think we are so stupid that none of our questions deserve answers.

Thank you for acknowledging that Powerline, Malkin, I and all the other credible Republicans ran with the truth as soon as the truth was revealed. That is something you just don’t see among the Dems these days (i.e. how long did Clinton deny the affair?). I am wondering if anyone in the Democratic Party or at ABC and WAPO knew who wrote the memo. I think they did not know and simply assigned it to Republicans. So as it turns out, a STAFFER was responsible for the memo and is now fired. Those of us of us in the activist arena in no way sought to gain political points with this issue. The Democratic Party and MSM minions did however make much of the rigged push polls they did on the subject. That is political. It strikes me that The Left is always aghast at Republicans behaving badly but when it is one of their own they are like, what wrongdoing?

I still want answers to my questions Wil. I will do the same if you submit questions to me. And if I feel the questions are unjustly worded, I will make the necessary corrections in my answers.

Ugh. Insert the word "reason" between 'real' and 'Wil' in my previous post. Like I said, I'm from Oklahoma. :-/ Keyboards are still sorta new here...

Man, when did being funny require a political agenda? You guys are too touchy, it was a funny post.

Damn, how many names does Jeff Gannon have?

I personally think that many of you are missing the point. I don't think it is about being Pro or Anti anything with the exception of speaking without good reasoning. The fact that the person was not a "lefty" is besides the point. Every party has it's share of volatile ignoramus' along with the well informed.Let's not jump to conclusions that Wil's posting of this message is so much as a political statement inasmuch pointing out as the current level of reasoning and understanding of the less educated. Continually berating Craig R or anyone else serves little purpose, but I hope the "chiding" will spur this and other people to seek out the facts before they set forth their messages in fury.Regardless of what party that anyone belongs to, if anyone automatically chooses to believe things at face value, they will find that they will be constantly disappointed. They often find out that they have been played because they hadn't taken the time to do their own homework. -Dusty

Too funny! I too know the surrealness of getting an e-mail that I can't tell if it is satire or not.

I blame the internet for permanently skewing my irony detector.

Satire or not it was a funny read. Of course either way it's only a matter of time before the Republicans denounce your e-mail as a Democrat conspiracy hoax. It was probably sent to you by Hillary Clinton.

Man, that was just plain stupid. If it was real.

Hi Wil,

Frst tme postng.

U r not so shmart. Y do u tink that u could ever outwhitt the forches of the wright whng Repuglikans?

And scene.

It's pretty odd that somebody would post something like that on your blog. Smacks of opportunism. Quite a lot of posts that have resulted because of it.

Just know this. I really dig the blog and your posts are always very thoughtful. Please keep posting. And the one about The Bear dying really got to me. Not really a cat person, but then again, you didn't really feel like you made The Bear out to be a person.

Best,
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MV,

I think the problem is that MapQuest is teh suxxors. It can't possibly be that the guy sending the original email is a few french fries short of a Happy Meal....

JSc

Personally, I think it was written by a democrat supporter out to impress us with erudite irony.

Reminds me of the time England's Guardian Newspaper undermined the democrats by organizing a letter-sending spree, where English people sent letters to individual American addresses telling them not to vote Bush. Guardian published the responses. Anyone received the letters?

OMG Wil, great response! It was just enough and it made me laugh so freaking hard. I needed that. Thanks for sharing with us!

(As for the email being real... I CAN believe that people can be that stupid. Cheers!)

True story!

Way back in 1988, one of the math teachers (Mr. Guffey) at my high school (a fellow southpaw) wrote a satirical letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) about how left-handed people were evil and had to be killed for the good of all mankind. What my old math teacher was trying to do was make people take a second look at bigotry.

A good intention, but Mr. Guffey and the editors of the Herald-Leader underestimated the intellect of the average reader.

After Mr. Guffey's modest proposal went out, responses flooded into the Herald-Leader's letters to the editor in-box. Left handed people were simply outraged that someone would exhibit that level of hatred. And those letters kept coming a MONTH after the original satire went out!

Finally, the Herald-Leader had to devote a whole editorial page showing the original letter, all the hate-filled responses and an explanation by the editors that it was SATIRE and please please stop sending responses to it!

At the time, my grandpa (also a southpaw) thought that the original letter to the editor was hysterically funny and couldn't believe how easily people were believeing it

I'll stop by the offices of the Herald-Leader this week to see if they still have that editorial archived (I'm sure they would) and I'll try to make some PDF scans to post.

That has to be a joke, no one is really that stupid...are they? If it's not a joke...how sad.

hey wil,
wow, that was so amusing. i can't believe someone actually wrote that! you HAVE to find out if they were serious or not. If they were, i will seriously start to worry about the human race! aagghh!

hope all is well
take care
rach

Hi Wil looks like at the idiot cafe' we are serving up a large portion of dumbass with a side order of ignorance with ilitercy for desset and washed down with cool glass of stupidity. You know what they say hun you can't cure stupid. I too am a left-handed (politicaly speaking) liberal minded, free thinking Demorcrat (not that it only applies to the Democrats though) and it seems to me that I am in very good company. Keep up the great work Wil. P.S. it looks as though my spell check may be broken lol sorry for any mis-spelled words. working at 4:30 AM will do that

even if it is a joke, there's tons of idiots like that out there who truly think that way, in every country about every subject. "stupid" people exist and they all have an opinion that they are free to share..

still i personally think that its rather lame to post his mail on the website... including the reply, for us to make major fun of it. We dont even debate it (then again, whats there to debate) but we just..pull him down bigtime. I reckon its rather harsh, but hey, thats me.
And on top of that, i dont think it'll matter much. Either one prankster is laughing his ass off at our "serious" replies or one simple Craig is blushing coz of all the attention.

and i dont think its funny either :/
lame joke with equally lame "OMIYAAh LOOK AT STUPID" replies..
*shuts up*

Loved your reply Wil (and since this is my first post here I should point out that I love the site as well), however I do think you could have been a bit more sarcastic. A letter that stupid and ignorant deserves everything it gets, and more.
I just don't get why American politics is so important that people feel they have to hate each other because their views differ...

The RSS feed has an ad at the bottom for (natch) sconces.

Wil, perhaps I read more into it than you intended. You wrote "If it is . . . it explains so much." Just what exactly was this supposed to 'explain'? What I read was that this email was supposedly sent by a Conservative (and presumably a Republican since they seem to run hand in hand) and since the author of this email is clearly the World's Stupidest Person then ALL Conservative Republicans must be stupid.

Now that I've had 12 hours to basically not think about it (plus some tasty caffiene) I am reading it differently. However, our politics don't even come close to meshing so I'm still not interested in reading about yours. I do love your writing, though, and practically devoured Dancing Barefoot (I was the one who bought a copy for my Aunt who then had to share it with everyone else in the office because she was laughing hysterically while reading Spongebob Vegaspants) and I look forward to all of your other posts.

Hey Craig,

I voted for Bush (twice), I dislike the leftist agenda and basic out of touch lifestyle that both coasts have, I disagree nearly 100% of Wil's political beliefs, I dislike Sarandon, Goldberg, and anyone else who pushes a political agenda when they are supposed to be entertaining - however, Craig, pal, check the dosage. You are either taking way too much or not enough of whatever you have been prescribed.

Remember a tea spoon is the small one.

I disagree completely with the liberal position on everything, but you know what, that's fine because they disagree with me! If I knew Wil or ran into him, we could argue, discuss, point out the flaws in each others political positions, I could explain why I support the war and he could explain why he does not. He'll campaign and try to sell his candidates and I mine - and then we could agree to disagree and have a beer and discuss what's really important, his family, my family, gripe about work and then order another round.

Remember, check the dosage, don't mix the liquid med's with the pills and never save time by taking a weeks worth of med's on Monday morning.

I believe Craig is a member of what I refer to as "general public". You see, I like "people" but I find the "general public" quite often contains more uneducated people than educated people. Therefore, I avoid too much "general public" time for fear I will become annoyed and angry. I also feel its very important to only discuss topics you are fully informed on. Therefore, I prefer to NOT discuss politics and religion, as I realize I could ALWAYS stand to learn more. Plus, my opinion is my opinion, and sometimes it's better kept quiet. Craig, take a lesson. Only speak on subjects you understand well, and for God's sake, use spell check, otherwise, no matter how much you may know about a topic, you look like a dumbass.

I know this isn't supposed to be a message board (or a massage board either for the Craig inclined) but I felt I needed to comment on some comments:

JSc: It's a shame that IQ tests aren't required to vote
No it isn't. IQ-like tests have been used in the past to selectively exclude people from voting. It would be pretty easy to bias a test (or bias educati