JABbering Stooge

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.

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.

* Cf.

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.

So Jimmy Carter dared to go there, did he?

How dare he speak the truth?!

Naturally, the reaction from the teabagging, cock-slapping wingnutosphere was swift and unanimous:

What’s a paranoid demagogue who only managed to get ~70K teabaggers to show up at a Klan rally Two Minutes Hate (that he himself couldn’t be bothered to attend) to do when bloggers laugh at his small dick lack of organizing prowess? Why, get his buddies to artificially inflate his manhood the crowd size, of course!

Just watch. By this time next week, Beck, Malkin, Limbaugh and the rest will be saying that there were 6.02 x 10²³ teabaggers there. Because that’s how they roll.

…but President Obama is really a robot spy from the planet Xenu*!

* With apologies to Thom Hartmann.

Even though practically everyone has done it by now, I couldn’t resist my own commentary on the highlowlights of the (Not Quite A) Million Moron March.

Naturally, there were Birthers there.

Hey, moron: I took a semester of Russian in college. I’m pretty sure that Cyrillic doesn’t mean what you think it means. I’ll spell it out for you: sndigeh. (Which I’m pretty sure is not a word in Russian!)

“Don’t Blame Me — I voted for Sarah” — says a lot about the intellectual acumen of these moral midgets, doesn’t it?

Yep. A purely organic movement, I tell you! No astroturfing here. 

Our protesters are more eco-friendly than your protesters. Yes, indeedy. 

Nope, no racism there.  (For the “front” side of the sign, go here.)

You stay KKKlassy, Fetus Fetishists.

And of course, no Glenn Beck-promoted teabagging would be complete without (not very) thinly-veiled threats of violence…

Right. Because if they tell you they’re Fair & Balanced™®© (every five seconds), it MUST be true!

The freaks who get off on torture (especially torture of Democrats) also put in an appearance. (Dale Franks, is that you?)

Glenn Beck for Prez in 2012. Says it all, doesn’t it?

Hey, look! The Jonah Goldberg Fan Club made it! And they’re just as doughy as their hero!

Ironically, the leading cause of death for President Garfield was an armed lunatic conspiracy theorist.

Probably the only true sign in the bunch, but not for the reason he thinks.

I see the Teabagger Big Tent™ still has room for John Bolton fans.

I think we’re done here.

(All pics courtesy of the 9/12 Flickr photostream.)

Reason Magazine’s David Weigel tells us what many already suspected:

Poll: Most South Carolina Voters Back Rep. Joe Wilson

Figures.