JABbering Stooge

Why does Sen. Tom Coburn hate the troops?

So, I had this totally awesome snarky post about the “librul” media’s reaction to the special election last night all ready to go, and I come home to find that Ed had already done it better than I ever could.

Damn you, Ed.

With “the conservative intelligentsia,” the correct order is “shoot first, shoot later, then shoot some more just for the hell of it.” “Try to figure out if it was too good to be true” never really enters into the equation. (That’s French and gay, don’cha know?)

Yep, electing President Obama sure put the kibosh on the seething, roiling cauldron of American racism, didn’t it? 

That was the sound of millions of wingnut heads exploding at the news that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is good news for the Republicans, sayeth the Village Idiots™.

* Cf.

Sweet Mother of Mercy:

Also.

Go ahead, NewsBusters. Tell me how The Left™©® is the sole source of political violence in America. I dare you.

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Yes, Tom Blumer, let’s talk about civility:

Also:

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:

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Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.

Shorter John L. Perry:

• Look, I’m not advocating a new White House Putsch, even if thinking about it does give me a stiffy. I’m just saying that a Final Solution to the Obama Problem may be necessary.

Sidebar: Seriously, how crazy do you have to be to be too crazy for David Horowitz’s House of Macrowaved* Muslims?

And in other news, T3h Left is a bajillion times more prone to violence than wingnuts because Mike Malloy had the temerity to call out the Reich-wingers on their hardon for Race War v. 12.5 Civil War v. 2.0. Tim Graham said so.

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

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Big Hollywood The Andrei Zhdanov School of Conservative Correctness, Andrew Breitbart’s monster creation, caught falsifying charges of Hatch Act violations in the Obama administration that they were perfectly okay with when The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible did it.

Remember when I chastised Michelle Malkin for illogically claiming that the teabaggers were a counterinsurgency, only to walk it back a little bit in light of new evidence that suggested the previously unconsidered possibility that she honestly believes that only conservatives are the legitimate rulers of ‘Murrka?

Well, it’s not just Malkin. On Thursday, John “Spathi” Hinderaker verbally fellated Andrei Zhdanov School of Conservative Correctness founder Andrew Breitbart for courageously teabagging the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s fresh corpse from the safety of Twitter. Wiping Breitbart’s jizz from his chin, Fwiffo concluded thusly:

It’s time for conservatives—mainstream Americans, in other words—to throw off the shackles and get aggressive. Our beliefs are correct, our values are the foundation of any society that doesn’t have a death wish, and our interests, unlike those of the leftists, are legitimate. We deserve to govern this country, and before long, we will.

Yes, you read that right. John Hinderaker believes that conservatives are the only legitimate ruling party in America. Kind of like the Divine Right of Kings™ that the war that gave birth to our country was all about getting away from. If that’s not anti-democratic, then nothing is.

Worse, this isn’t the first time that the Sense of Entitlement That Dare Not Speak Its Name™ has bubbled up to the surface on the right. Let’s not forget that barely two years ago, Rev. Joseph Fuiten famously let slip to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that he believes that non-Dominionists are illegal aliens in their own country:

As Sara Robinson noted at the time, Fuiten’s outrageous (but in hindsight, hardly surprising) remarks were ignored by just about everyone in the punditocracy (both mainstream and — to a lesser degree — the blogosphere) in favor of the “sexier” (and thus more “newsworthy” in the eyes of T3h Village Idiots™) “BattleCry” rallies. And now we’re seeing the consequences of ignoring Fuiten’s sentiment as it becomes safe to espouse on the mainstream right, particularly as it seems to come in response to the “horror” of having a black president.

It’s a feat that flows naturally out of the backlash against “Political Correctness” which has done so much to erode the taboo against being nakedly racist (to the point where Rush Limbaugh feels safe suggesting that buses be re-segregated). The further right the Overton Window gets pushed, the more acceptable it becomes to utter certain odious notions — Inciting the murder of abortion providers is a “profile in courage,” digitally teabagging a recently deceased Senator via Twitter makes one “fearless and aggressive,” anyone who doesn’t subscribe to a Christian Dominionist theology is a “secular illegal alien,” heckling the first black president in violation of Hosue rules is perfectly fine, etc.

It is for this very reason that Sarah’s comment at the time was disturbingly prescient:

As I’ve been noting, this kind of remark is hardly an isolated incident. If they’re willing to talk like this on national TV, you know that whatever they’re saying in private among themselves is far, far worse. This is a meme that’s already covering the countryside — softening the ground for those Battle Cry/OSU-trained Christian soldiers, who are actively preparing themselves to take back the country for God, and transform our democracy into a theocratic kingdom by any means necessary.

He said it. Right out loud on CNN, without even trying to make it sound PC.

We’d best start taking these people at their word.

Indeed. However, it brings to mind an even more disturbing thought. If the idea that adherents of a particular political ideology are the only ones fit to rule in America is now so readily espoused on the right, what are they saying in the smoke-filled back rooms NOW that won’t be “safe” to utter in polite company until after the next election cycle passes?

John “Spathi” Hinderaker, looking for any excuse to delegitimize charges of a racist element to the teabaggers:

In that 12 percent, we have identified the hard core of President Obama’s support—those who, if the Obama administration said the moon is made of green cheese, would believe it. Or pretend to, anyway.

Right. Because John Hinderaker would never eagerly perform verbal fellatio on a politician just because their political views mostly meshed! No, not ever!

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

Oh. Well, that’s different, then.