Summer Hathaway and Nance Greggs

[Billiam Pitts]

It looks like Summer Hathaway is the sock of one Canuckian exile by the name of Nance "Dried up Old" Eggs. An old bat who used to post her amateurish scribblings on DU and who almost gained cult leader status of the likes of the Pied Piper from Cambridge. That is until some certain DUmmies defrocked her and she exiled herself in shame to another Barry Sotero worshiping site.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023125519#post76

Summer Hathaway (2,120 posts)

Isn't it amusing to watch people who have called Obama-supporters 'worshippers'

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for years on this site now objecting to the use of the term when it comes to Snowden-supporters?

Of course, there is one glaring difference between the two groups:

Obama has been a known entity for a very long time - via the political offices he has held, the public statements/speeches he has made, the books he has written, and the positions he has taken.

Needless to say, once elected POTUS, Obama, like any other president, has been scrutinized by supporters and non-supporters alike. He has been questioned on every issue, every stance, every word he utters. The minutest details of his life have been laid bare.

Those who support him do so based on all of the above - which, I doubt anyone would disagree, is a rather substantial body of knowledge to be weighed and evaluated in coming to a decision as to whether one supports him or not.

Snowden, on the other hand, was deified by many here within forty-eight hours of his name being heard for the first time. They had no idea who he is, what he stands for, what his motives were in doing what he did, etc. He was simply hoisted on the collective shoulders of those who heard what they wanted to hear - accusations that the Big Bad Gov't was 'spying' on them, a statement that many saw as the "smoking gun" that could be used to bring Obama and his administration down in flames.

In other words, the Snowden-supporters based their support on the word of a man they knew absolutely nothing about.

As soon as details started to emerge about Snowden the man, his supporters were quick to insist that it's not about the man, it's about what he had to say. And the fact that what he had to say was (a) old news, and (b) assertions never proven to this day, was irrelevant. They had chosen their hero, and as that hero proved less than heroic, they refused to hear anything that might destroy the sainthood they'd already blindly conferred.

Any queries into Snowden "the man" were immediately characterized as "smears". Any facts brought to light about his past were labelled as "character assassination".

And one can't miss the irony in the fact that the same people who post every single detail they can find about every Obama appointee - in an effort to get all the facts about an individual on the table, usually in order to yell Is THIS the kind of man/woman who should be placed in this position? - are the same people who think Snowden should not be subject to the same scrutiny in order to assess his credibility.

The phrase "just ignore the man behind the curtain", oft-invoked by those who think there is something suspicious about the people behind every Obama administration position or decision, are now telling everyone that it is the curtain that we should all be focused on - while the man behind it is not to be so much as peeked at, lest he be proven to be something other than as advertized.

Those who jumped on the Snowden bandwagon without kicking the tires before hopping on board now have no valid argument but to admit they leaped before taking the time to look. And yet they continue to insist that they couldn't possibly have been wrong in their decision to do so - despite all mounting evidence to the contrary.

Melinda (5,362 posts)
72. You lost me after "for years now on this site" when you've been here 18 months.

Really.

And for the record, I was with Jan Schakowsky waaaaaaaaaaaay back when.

Starry Messenger (21,799 posts)
113. It's a sock of a rather well known columnist here.

Not sure why she's allowed two accounts, but that's new DU for us.

Melinda (5,362 posts)
133. And they seem to be multiplying.

Like gnats.

[Delmar]

It looks like Summer Hathaway is the sock of one Canuckian exile by the name of Nance "Dried up Old" Eggs. An old bat who used to post her amateurish scribblings on DU and who almost gained cult leader status of the likes of the Pied Piper from Cambridge. That is until some certain DUmmies defrocked her and she exiled herself in shame to another Barry Sotero worshiping site.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023125519#post76

I always had it in my head that Nance Greggs wasn't an old woman, rather a flamboyantly gay man.  Is her true gender known?  I know that she used a picture of old bat/amateur scribbler Molly Ivins as a profile picture.  But the gay rainbow was also part of her profile picture.  It doesn't matter much but I like to have an iconic image of a DUmmy in my head when I'm reading their posts--something like a misshapen pineapple head or big giant bazooms.  Not knowing for sure if Nance Greggs is a tubby old bat or a sassy little gay man makes for a distraction when I'm reading one of her posts.   

[Billiam Pitts]

Here is what she looks like on her facebook

https://www.facebook.com/nance.greggs

She used to have a picture of herself in her signature line making a duck face.

[Delmar]

Here is what she looks like on her facebook

https://www.facebook.com/nance.greggs

She used to have a picture of herself in her signature line making a duck face.

Maybe it was the Nance that threw me off--Nance, short for Nancy-boy is a common gay epithet.  Maybe it was the sassy Oscar Wilde wannabe posting style.  You've straightened me out--she does look like a younger Molly Ivins. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Here is what she looks like on her facebook

https://www.facebook.com/nance.greggs

She used to have a picture of herself in her signature line making a duck face.

Canadian, eh?

[BlueStateSaint]

Canadian, eh?

Hoser.

[franksolich]

It doesn't matter much but I like to have an iconic image of a DUmmy in my head when I'm reading their posts--something like a misshapen pineapple head or big giant bazooms.

Weird.

I do exactly the same thing.

[BlueStateSaint]

Weird.

I do exactly the same thing.

Guilty as charged on this one.