JABbering Stooge

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• Dude, I think I just filled the cup.

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
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Rep. Wilson,

I was shocked and appalled at your comments on Face the Nation this weekend. For committing the thoughtcrime of criticizing The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible, you essentially called the Democratic nominee for the office of President of the United States a traitor.

A traitor, Rep. Wilson. If I may be so bold as to paraphrase the late Joseph Welch, have you no sense of decency, ma’am, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

I don’t know what twisted notion of patriotism you adhere to, but it sure as heck isn’t mine. Nor, I would humbly suggest, is it Theodore Roosevelt’s. At the height of World War I, the former President had this to say about dissent in an op-ed in the Kansas City Star:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Tell me, Rep. Wilson, would YOU call the 26th President a traitor? Can you honestly say that? No? Then why the hell is it okay for you to casually fling around baseless charges of treason like a dog chewing up a sofa cushion?

I and those who think like me have spent the last eight years having our patriotism questioned at every single turn by fascist thugs like you, and I for one am sick and tired of it. Frankly, your remarks struck me as confirmation of what Hermann Goering once told his interrogator, Gustave Gilbert, as he faced a war crimes tribunal for his role in Hitler’s murderous regime:

Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

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[V]oice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

Joseph Goebbels would be proud of you, Rep. Wilson.

Just when you thought that Muslim and Christian fundies had bogarted all the misogyny and terrorism in the world, along come the Israeli Orthodox Jewish fundies*:

Modesty patrol’s violence widens Israeli religious rift

JERUSALEM — In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste. They hurl stones at women for such “sins” as wearing a red blouse, and attack stores selling devices that can access the Internet.

In recent weeks, self-styled “modesty patrols” have been accused of breaking into the apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her for allegedly consorting with men. They have torched a store that sells MP4 players, fearing devout Jews would use them to download pornography.

“These breaches of purity and modesty endanger our community,” said 38-year-old Elchanan Blau, defending the bearded, black-robed zealots. [Yeah, and it saps your precious bodily fluids, too! — Ed.] “If it takes fire to get them to stop, then so be it.”

I’ve long suspected that, as the joke goes, the only reason Christian fundies hate Muslims is that they’re jealous that Muslims invented the burqa. Now it appears that these Haredi mamzerim want to join in on the fun hate.

All the more reason to go see Religulous.

* Sadly, the only recent source for this story is from the Associated Wankers. If you have a link for this story that’s not a month old and not from the Associated Wankers, feel free to contribute it in the comments.

So much for “librul” academia…

Florida teacher uses ‘N’ word against Obama

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Liz Sidoti delivers yet again for McCain.

* With apologies to Matt Groening.

And the award goes to…Gov. Mooseburger! (via TBogg)

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of his association with a former 1960s radical, stepping up the campaign’s effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters.

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Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, “Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” She also said, “This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America.”

Feh! That’s rich, coming from the woman whose husband was a member of the Alaska secessionist movement and who gave the same secessionist movement a warm welcome via video-conference earlier this year!

That would be the same secessionist movement founded by one Joe Vogler, who had this to say in a 1991 interview (via TPM Election Central):

The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.

As the late, great George Carlin once said, I’d like to repeat that because it sounds vaguely important:

The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.

I don’t know about you, but that sure as heck doesn’t seem to me like someone who “sees America as you see America and as I see America.”

But really, Governor. By your “logic,” Sen. McRove should be disqualified from consideration for POTUS because of his penchant for hobnobbing with wannabe domestic terrorist G. Gordon “Head Shots*” Liddy.

Lots of people smarter than me predicted this ugly turn from the McRove campaign, but I don’t think anyone thought it would come this quickly. Just one more sign of the desperation in the GOP camp.

* Cf.