Thursday, April 26, 2007

CDC: Bauer Simplex 24 Gripping Right-Wing Bloggers

The Center for Disease Control warned the nation today that an epidemic of Bauer Simplex 24 is sweeping through the conservative blogging community.

The syndrome, known as BS 24, causes ordinarily cowardly individuals to boast of their own hypothetical bravery during dangerous real-life events.

“BS 24 is triggered when someone discusses a recently terrifying situation, such as being held hostage, interrogated, or encountering a terrible act of violence,” said Dr. Su Do Nihm of the CDC. “It causes the victims to become delusional and fantasize how they would have responded with the calm, firm resolve of Kiefer Sutherland reading a television script.”

The disease first appeared in 2001 and has become progressively more widespread with every television season. This year had already seen an outbreak after the abduction of British sailors by Iran, with many conservative bloggers exclaiming they would never have been broken under such interrogation, even when facing such tactics as Cheeto-boarding and videogame depravation.

But an especially nasty, logic-resistant strain appeared after the recent news of the massacre of students at Virginia Tech University. John Derbyshire, writing for the conservative National Socialist Review, expressed surprise that students did not “jump” the Virginia Tech gunman, Cho Seung Ho. Derbyshire commented, “At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him....It's true—none of us knows what he'd do in a dire situation like that. I hope, however, that if I thought I was going to die anyway, I'd at least take a run at the guy.”

Dr. Coe Bagz, Research Fellow at the Frasier Crane Institute for Television Psychology, calls this “a classic case of BS 24.”

“In terms of his words, Mr. Derbyshire does in fact seem like a cool, collected, and determined individual, almost as if knows ahead of time what will happen and that the ‘writers’ will protect him,” said Dr. Bagz. “But that does not mesh with Mr. Derbyshire’s real life actions, where he is deathly afraid of having even a penis pointed in his face.

“I wouldn’t say that inspires a lot of confidence in his ‘jumping’ ability,” Dr. Bagz added.

As the disease usually does, it spread quickly to other areas of the right-wing blogosphere, including columnists Nathanael Blake and Carol Ionne.

“Conservative bloggers tend to transmit BS 24 rapidly because of their propensity to have unsafe, often anonymous, rhetorical masturbation in large groups,” said Dr. Nihm. “They tend to splatter their fellow bloggers with their written emissions without considering the consequences.”

Dr. Bagz noted that, while there is no medicinal remedy for BS 24, it does have one known therapeutic cure. “Actual combat tends to clear up BS 24 immediately, so we usually recommend enlistment.”

12 comments:

Churlita said...

“Conservative bloggers tend to transmit B.S. 24 rapidly because of their propensity to have unsafe, often anonymous, rhetorical masturbation in large groups,”

This line is hilarious. It's perfect for the Circle Jerk theme of this blog.

Anonymous said...

Gawd, you and TLB rock when it comes to posts. I hate you both, just so you know!

Anonymous said...

"while there is no medicinal remedy for B.S. 24, it does have one known therapeutic cure. “Actual combat tends to clear up B.S. 24 immediately""

It does tend to clear it up, but a nasty side effect is a bowel movement lasting over 4 hours.

Anonymous said...

Oh man! This was just brilliant!

Anonymous said...

LOL to the whole post. Loved this line...

and that the ‘writers’ will protect him

With adverbs and nouns! And...and...exclamation points!

:)

Brando said...

Thanks, glad you guys enjoyed it. The post The Derb made is one of the worst things I've ever read in response to a tragedy. It just infuriated me, which always triggers my Satire Gland.

Anonymous said...

"The post The Derb made is one of the worst things I've ever read in response to a tragedy."

I agree 100% and why it wasn't stopped, why no one thought, this is waaaaay out of line, is beyond me.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

The sad thing is that the quotes from Derb and others, although representing ACTUAL WINGNUTTERY, read like part of the satire.

If I hadn't seen the originals, I'd have though you made them up, too.

BOSSY said...

Bossy believes there's a cream for such a Simplex. For instance the substance used when the Democrats cream the Republicans in 2008.

bjkeefe said...

>> It just infuriated me, which
>> always triggers my Satire Gland.

Ah, I wish I had your gland. I get so infuriated by wingnuttery that I lose teh funny more often than I'd like.

Absolutely great piece.

Sornie said...

WHat people don't know is that I have anultra-secret cure for BS 24...

Pete Blackwell said...

I think I'm noticing more and more of the ultra-virulent strain, BS 24/7.