This just in: Who the hell cares?

So apparently the Westboro Baptist Church is picketing Elizabeth Edward's funeral.  For those of you who don't know who Elizabeth Edwards was, she was the woman that a somewhat popular political figure cheated on.  Or, at least, that's all the media ever reported about her.

Now the Westboro...well, let's just call them the Morons...now the morons are protesting the funeral just like they protested at soldiers burials and...

You know what? Who the fuck cares?

The Morons are nobodies.  They're a bunch of inbred hicks who have no idea what they're talking about and just want attention because they've been abused all their lives that they can only quiet the idiot voices in their heads when someone's yelling at them.  And the Media is their best friend.

There's an interview I can't seem to find on a legitimate news channel with Shirley Phelps-Roper, the only person that seems capable of carrying any sort of conversation in that herd of moron, which follows the typical route any interview with a group of mentally challenged racists.

Interviewer: Question

Moron: Stupid response

Interviewer: Rational argument that makes the assumption that these people understand rational thought and therefore legitimizes their argument.

Moron: Stupid response

Interviewer: Scoring points by negating their response and yelling at them for being stupid, therefore looking like the crazy person

Moron: Stupid response

WHY ARE WE TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE?! They don't know what's going on in the world, I'm surprised they can drive cars, let alone WRITE LEGIBLY ON SIGNS.

The media has a bad case of the irrelevancies.  And they don't seem aware of the fact that by giving these people a forum, even if it's a forum that's going to make fun of everything they stand for, they are LEGITIMIZING these people's craziness.

Case in point: Glenn Beck.  He really only came into his stride when he started being a right-wing blathering idiot. (That article is a bit long, it chronicles the trials and travails of a drunken nobody.  But if you skim it, you get the idea that he slowly realized that the only way anyone would pay attention to him was if he acted the idiot he always was.)

Case in point: Westboro Church.  Their whole GOAL is to get attention.  They're not trying to convert anyone.  They just want people to look at them the way their parents never did.  And the media, by giving them any attention at all, only gives them victories, only endows their demented purpose with legitimacy.

The fact is, the media, by playing into this silly game these half-wits are playing, are agreeing with them.  The media is saying "yes, these are views people should know about".  It's not difficult to shoot these people down, they don't have any real knowledge, I'm almost certain they can't even read the signs they're holding up.  They don't NEED to be fought.  They need to be ignored.  Entirely.  Like the irrelevant historical subtext they are.