JABbering Stooge

Greenwald has two most excellent (said in Montgomery Burns voice) posts today. The first, "Jonah Goldberg speaks out against demonization tactics," details, through the example of Jonah Goldberg’s latest rant about the Israel vs. Hezbollah guerrilla war, the typical right wing hypocrisy of decrying Hitler references and demonization tactics coming from the right’s enemies while engaging in exactly the same tactics themselves. Hey Jonah, as George Carlin once said, "Let’s not have a double standard here! One standard will do just fine!"

The second post, "Breaking: Mel Gibson’s Liberalism exposed!" shows that when conservatives want to throw somebody under the proverbial bus, they are quick to call them a "librul." And just in case the knuckle-draggers are a bit slow on the uptake, they liken the "former conservative" to Michael Moore. (bonus points for making a "Michael Moore is fat LOL!!!!!11!!!1!1!!" joke)

Or as Digby put it much earlier and much better than I:

There is no such thing as a bad conservative. "Conservative" is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives’ good graces. Until they aren’t. At which point they are liberals.

Be sure to check both posts out. They’re very informative.

*With apologies to Dan Patrick.

The following was captured by the default comment filter that comes with Blogsome’s version of WordPress (Emphasis mine. Note also that each "article" in the spam had a link. I have removed these to keep their hit counter from spinning. Worse, the same spam was received not just once, but TWICE!):

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And yes, the emphasis is important. Stormfront is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Their big thing is hating Blacks and Jews, in addition to practicing standard right-wing fare: bloviating against "political correctness," taxes, abortion, gays, regulation of private enterprise - the whole nine yards.

So why bother lil’ ol’ me, a (VERY) small potatoes "librul" blogger with comment spam? Well, I suspect that they got their hands on one of those nifty comment spam bots, programmed it to run a Google blog search for something along the lines of "Mel Gibson DUI anti-semitic" and barf the above contents into the comments section of every blog it comes across. Considering that most computers these days can do something on the order of a billion operations per second (at a minimum), even if my blog were hit number 500,000,000,000 on just such a search, it probably wouldn’t take more than a few minutes go get around to my blog.

It just goes to show that the Internets are a double-edged sword.

Forty years ago today, architectural engineering student Charles Joseph Whitman initiated a sniper rampage from the top of the U.T. tower (the building on the right in the above picture). Before Austin police could take him down, Whitman’s fury left 15 dead and 31 wounded.

All available accounts of the incident point to a troubled youth with an abusive father who finally decided to end all the pain by going out in a blaze of delusional glory. In many ways, the the shootings could be seen as a warning sign of the voilence at high schools and middle schools across America to come, most especially the tragedy at Columbine High School.

However, given the hightened level of eliminationist rhetoric directed at those in academia, it is only a matter of time before someone pulls a Charles Whitman in the name of ideological purity.

And in related news to Mel Gibson’s DUI (in which he subsequently apologized for his anti-Semitic remarks), ABC has pulled the plug on Gibson’s Holocaust denial snuff piece miniseries.

While wingnuttia is 100000% positive (only 100000%, though, because some are ready to throw him under the bus) that this is yet more anti-Christian conservative hate on the part of Hollyweird, it appears that the network was unhappy with Gibson’s lack of productivity - namely that he had spent two years masturbating to Holocaust fantasies without a single line of dialogue to show for it. Nevertheless, Disney (which owns ABC) has said that Gibson’s self-financed movie about the Mayan Empire is still on for a slated December 8 release.