from Kristen Atkinson <[REDACTED]>
to ken@wonkette.com
cc jim@wonkette.com
date Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:26 AM
subject my storyDear Wonkette editors,
I posted a very serious article recently in Townhall.com about witchcraft in the White House, and later realized that your website had made a farce out of it. I saw that your staff and readers made a lot of extremely cruel comments about me and my story. Why are you people so rude? Does anybody take anything seriously anymore?
Do you really, truly, seriously think it is OK for a president to use a forged birth certificate? Do you actually believe it is appropriate for a man who was raised a Muslim to pretend he is a Christian and go to a church for 20 years with an anti-American preacher? Do you really want a president who was brainwashed by communists since he was a child, up through university, to hate America to be our president? Do you think that it is fine if a family member of the president defiles the White House with voodoo? Don't you know what fate could befall our nation as a result of allowing Satanic forces to gather over the White House?
After 8 years of a president sent by God to lead the American people and rescue us from the horrors of 911 and Islamo-fascists, it now boils down to this? How incredibly tragic. You folks don't really seem to understand the extreme peril that our nation confronts. Stop making fun of me. Take off your blinders! Wake up!
Respectfully, Kristen
Man, who needs to make fun of Kristen Atkinson...when she's doing a bang-up job all by herself? I could care less that I despise everything she believes in and stands for. It's a free country, and she's free to hold whatever opinions get her through the night. What I find so stunningly amusing is that Atkinson is genuinely offended by the idea that anyone would find her breathless bleatings to be the height of the comedic art. (STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!!)
I'm glad that there are Conservatives willing to voice their opinions. This is still a democracy, after all, and this whole "freedom of speech and expression" has worked pretty well for the past couple hundred years. Open and honest debate is a good thing. If one's open to it, it's possible to learn from the ideas and opinions of others. Here's the problem, though; freely expressing oneself doesn't mean the thoughts expressed are lucid, reasonable, and worthy of serious consideration. In Atkinson's case...well, 'tis still better to be though a fool than to spew all over your keyboard and remove all doubt.
If you've convinced that your belief system has been ordained by God, you're going to have to know that you're opening yourself to ridicule. At some level, you have to understand that "ordained by God" is simply your way of rationalizing and justifying your own narrow beliefs and prejudices. Faith can be a wonderful thing, but it can't reasonably be used to justify elevating your beliefs above all others and/or negating them altogether. The nature of faith is that belief cannot always be proven to be correct or real. If you use your faith to denigrate and dismiss the beliefs of others...well, you just end up looking arrogant and intolerant. Lord knows Atkinson has that going for her...in abundance.
If you're going to paint pictures in hues of religious conflict and Good vs. Evil, you shouldn't claim to be surprised when some pundits treat your "art" like open mike night at the Improv. Frankly, given some of the irrational, brain-dead bile spewed forth by Atkinson, one could be forgiven for assuming she's a (not particularly funny) comedian. "Witchcraft in the White House"? "Satanic forces"? "A President sent by God"? "Forged birth certificate"? This might actually be funny...if Atkinson wasn't so deadly serious and thoroughly convinced of the moral superiority of her beliefs.
If Atkinson can't handle the reality that some folks find her beliefs laughable, then perhaps it's time for her to find another line of work...or just stop reading sites she knows won't be favorable to her. Free speech and debate can often be silly, ugly...and occasionally offensive. Not everyone is a disciple of Miss Manners, so if harsh opinions and ridicule are going to be causes for alarm...well, I'll bet Home Depot just might be hiring....
