Yeah Yeah I know I'm just linking stuff, but they're good links like this one.
I couldn't stop laughing. And if you read a little further you will find that the person running the sessions is a "facilitator'. Any group session run by a person who calls himself a facilitator is, by definition, a bullshit session.
Twenty John Kerry supporters met for their first group therapy session in South Florida Thursday, screaming epithets at President Bush as they shared their emotions with licensed mental health counselors. The first of several free noontime therapy sessions at the American Health Association in Boca Raton was designed to treat what mental health counselors have dubbed Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST). “If I had a cardboard cutout of President Bush, and these people wanted to throw darts at it, I would let them do it,” Robert J. Gordon, AHA executive director, told the Boca News after the session. “It’s no joke. People with PEST were traumatized by the election. If you even mention religion, their faces turn blister-red as they shout at Bush.”
Read the rest but make sure you're not drinking any liquids. Must not splatter your computer.
Posted by denny at December 4, 2004 03:58 PMHow appropriate!
Boca Raton means 'Rat's Mouth!' LMFAO
Posted by: The Moose on December 4, 2004 06:35 PMAll the time I'm reading this, I'm thinking this must be some kind of joke, but it's a "real" story isn't it? Boca Raton...hmmmm
Posted by: Robert on December 4, 2004 07:16 PMRobert,
I thought it must be satire at first, but it looks legit.
Personally I had to stop reading it and take a break a few times I was laughing so hard.
Posted by: mt on December 4, 2004 10:48 PMBuried near the end of the story is the revelation that many of these people were already undergoing treatment for "severe mental problems" before the election. Now there's a shocker.
Posted by: Tim on December 4, 2004 11:04 PM“The media outlets, especially Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on talk radio, scare our patients to death,” said Gordon, facilitator for the meetings. “More than anything else, people with PEST tremble physically.”
Well, I suppose that trembling explains why they cant correctly use A FREAKIN PUNCHCARD BALLOT! Also explains why they dont just change the freakin channel if Rush et al upsets them so much.
Maybe these folks will drop out of the political system. Good riddance. We'd be better off if they just stayed in their homes and peed themselves on election day.
I'm a liberal and I find PEST ridiculous!!!! Grow up already you sore-loser twits!!!!
Posted by: Rachel on December 5, 2004 01:22 PMHey Tim What do you expect? they're Dumbocraps for crying out loud. It amazes me that more of them are not in therapy, but the old addage is that you are the last to know when you have a mental problem. (I don't me you as in you, Tim.)
Posted by: jeremy Meyer on December 5, 2004 08:13 PMMy two favorite quotes were from the last two paragraphs of the article:
The trauma specialist, whose bills were covered by clients’ insurance companies, was later accused by some colleagues of unethically “cashing in” on the misery of Kerry voters....Conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh recently offered their own “free therapy,” irking the AHA counselors.
Priceless!!