I’ve tried to be bipartisan in both my support and bashing of the two presidential contenders but Sen. McCain has just crossed the line. His campaign is trying to say that playing Dungeons & Dragons is a BAD THING!!! In a blog post on McCain’s site some NPC named Michael Goldfarb wrote:
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Nor is this the first time that McCain’s campaign has tried to make D&D the equivalent of being called a “pinko.”
In an earlier post Goldfarb described the editors of the NYTimes as having “all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons.“
After that first ad hominem attack scads of Wingnuts stood up and proclaimed that they too were out and proud about playing D&D. Mr. ‘Farb responded to one of them (Ace of Spades) with the following:
Not surprisingly Mr. Spades is now doubting the sincerity of that apology.
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I think there is more outing to do here. I think that Mr. Goldfarb is covering for the fact that he, too, is or was a D&D player. This fits 
into the classic behavior pattern of closeted homosexuals joining with gay bashers in an attempt to deny their own behavior. It is time for some enterprising journalist to get their hands on a copy of Mr. Goldfarb’s high school yearbook and start making some calls! C’mon, doesn’t this look like the face of someone who cried when his 10th level magic user died after failing to check for traps? I find it difficult to believe that this man has NOT spent many Saturday nights playing with his 20-sided dice.
Gotta say Mike, Dungeons & Dragons is not going to be the next “limousine liberal” or “brie-eating” in the political lexicon. This is especially poor timing given that the pale and the (usually) dateless like myself are still mourning the death of Gary Gygax.
Mr. Mencken’s quote was never more apropos: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” I wonder how many attack die that hobgoblin gets?
August 20, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Great stuff, Constantine. I passed on some kudos to you at http://www.walterhunt.com/blog/?p=430.
Social media maven? Huh? Must be the tattoos. . .
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October 31, 2008 at 2:10 pm
michael goldfarb is an idiot
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