scha·den·freu·de
[shahd-n-froi-duh]
noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
Origin:
1890–95; <
German, equivalent to Schaden harm + Freude
joy
I don't understand the accusation that I have gotten over
the past few days that I am guilty of shcadenfreude. Nothing could be further
from the truth. I take no joy in watching the train wreck that has been going
on for a week over at Faux News! Sure, it is somewhat entertaining watching the
extent to which they contort the narrative to assure their viewers that
although their candidate lost, it somehow means their viewpoint is the winner
in the recently completed presidential race.
I watch Fox news not to entertain my morbid curiosity and take
joy in their discomfort as America rejects the long-debunked economic theory
and their draconian and medieval social policy. I watch Fox to see what the
next crackpot misinformation I am likely to hear from my Neo-Con friends is
likely to be. I keep hoping to hear some defensible point. I am still waiting.
It is not as if I think for a minute that they actually
believe these ideas – they're clearly pandering to those factions of the
society that they think they can mobilize to vote for them despite the fact
that their policies are grotesquely unfair to anyone not already outrageously
wealthy and powerful
So, apparently, those wacky radical right-wing mouthpieces
over their at Fox, who have already demonstrated their reticence to accept
basic Biology, Climatology, Cosmology, and Physics over the years, have now
demonstrated that they don't believe in Mathematics either!
I have to say that I was amused if not exactly surprised to
watch on Tuesday night as the pundits over on Fox continued to have faith that
Romney would win despite the mounting evidence to the contrary. Faith is, after
all, the ability to believe a premise despite all the evidence to the contrary.
I particularly enjoyed their claim that Romney had won Ohio even after all the
other networks had called it for the president.
But what I take no joy in is the fact that it shows a basic misunderstanding
of how numbers work. Here's a clue for Faux
And Fiends: your candidate's percentage of the vote was SMALLER than that
for the other guy. That means you lost. That means the views espoused by the
party of the old, angry, white guys was rejected by the populace. It's just
embarrassing, the extent to which you will go to polish that turd! Give it up
and move on.
Wherever you are today I hope you take no pleasure in the
discomfort of others!
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