JABbering Stooge

Mark Steyn has always been an asshole. Whether it’s calling for mass genocide against Muslims, or purging America of anyone to the left of Torquemada, Steyn has been head and shoulders above the rest of the “kill all the libruls and Muslims” brigade in terms of sheer assholery.

But now he’s really outdone himself, descending to the realm of the truly kooky nutjobs, the Scientologists. In his latest post over at The Corner, he usurps the rhetoric of Tom Cruise’s fellow travellers in calling the family of 12-year-old Graeme Frost (for the crime of poking holes in the right’s “Cadillac-driving welfare queen” BS) “Fair Game:”

Sorry, no sale. The Democrats chose to outsource their airtime to a Seventh Grader. If a political party is desperate enough to send a boy to do a man’s job, then the boy is fair game. As it is, the Dems do enough cynical and opportunist hiding behind biography and identity, and it’s incredibly tedious. And anytime I send my seven-year-old out to argue policy you’re welcome to clobber him, too. The alternative is a world in which genuine debate is ended and, as happened with Master Frost, politics dwindles down to professional staffers writing scripts to be mouthed by Equity moppets.

Let’s look at what Scientology has to say about those declared Fair Game™:

The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to: suppress Scientology Conservatism or Scientologists Conservatives are all beyond any protection of Scientology Conservative Ethics, unless absolved by later Ethics or an amnesty … this Policy Letter extends to suppressive non-Scientology non-Conservative wives and husbands and parents, or other family members or hostile groups or even close friends.

And what should happen to Enemies of Conservatism™®©, according to the Scientology model?

ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist Conservative without any discipline of the Scientologist Conservative. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.

“Destroyed” seems to be an accurate description of what the right wing’s cadre of professional stalkers are doing to the Frosts. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they were driven to mass suicide by the fascist nutjobs claiming sole posession of the mantle of “Conservative.”

Newsflash, Michelle, Mark, and the rest of you thugs posing as human beings: when you’ve made John Cole “fucking sick” of you, you’ve crossed the line. As one Balloon Juice commenter put it:

Too bad Malkin didn’t live in East Germany; she’d have been a model Stasi informant.

Oh, and by the way, attacking the speaker isn’t journalism no matter how many times you claim it is.

“Morning in America” has curdled into malice at midnight.

I’m not sure Oprah’s couch can stand any more jumping upon by these bastards.