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.

Shorter Ann Outhouse Althouse:

“This despicable attack on Assemblywoman Scozzafava offends me personally and exemplifies exactly what’s wrong with Hoffman and his right wing backers.”

• War is peace! Ignorance is strength! Rush Limbaugh’s nakedly sexist attack on Dede Scozzafava is “good feminism!”

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“Law & Order’s” anti-choice propaganda

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Shorter Chris Matthews:

• Is the plunging number of people willing to self-identify as Republican good news for the Republicans like I hope it is? Here to confirm my bias (HA!) is a moderate Republican and a far-right wackadoodle Republican!

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Shorter Howard Kurtz:

Fairfax County, Va.: Hi Howard, This Sunday, I read the editorials in The Post and The New York Times about the surprise Peace Prize. I liked the NYT editorial (which was pro), but like most of us, including Obama, I could certainly have handled an editorial that was anti this choice.

When I read the Washington Post editorial, I felt so sad for what this paper has become. Their whole idea was that the prize should have gone to Neda, the woman who was murdered by the Iranian police. Nobel Peace Prizes can’t be given posthumously. It’s a basic, easy factcheck. There are other fact problems, too (the protests hadn’t happened by the nomination date, Neda may not have been a protester).

So the idea that the committee made a careless or inappropriate choice is refuted by a slapdash editorial “choice” that nobody bothered to check? It just screamed out to me “we laid off almost all the copy editors.” I feel so sad for The Post I grew up with. It’s great to have an opinion. It’s bad to look dumb.

Howard Kurtz: I take your point about no posthumous awards, though by that standard Martin Luther King couldn’t have won after being assassinated (yes, I know he won the prize earlier). My reading of the piece was that Neda was being used more as a symbol (though the rule should have been mentioned). But it’s an editorial. It is by definition opinion. Of course some readers are going to disagree.

• Our opinion pieces are entitled to be unencumbered by those silly things you arrogantly call “facts!”

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…this would be the only type of “art” that could legally be produced. (Yes, I said “legally.”)

The “artist,” Jon McNaughton, is trying to propagate the notion that America is a “Christian Nation™®©,” and that only by ripping the Constitution to shreds and becoming a theocracy can we “get right with Zombie Jesus, as the Founding Fathers intended.” This is basically the radical Christianist right’s version of Piss Christ, only unlike those on the right, I don’t want it censored, I just want to mock it! (That IS still legal, right?)

Shall we?

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:

[…]

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.

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* Cf.

Shorter Longer Phyllis Schlafly:

• Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Huckabee? Children’s ice cream!…You know when fluoridation began?…1792. 1792, Huckabee. How does that coincide with your post-Enlightenment feminazi conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core feminazi works.

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With apologies to Stanley Kubrick and Sterling Hayden.

Evidently not. Here’s Tim Graham, complaining about Mike Malloy being Mike Malloy:

On Wednesday, radical radio host Mike Malloy took a page from Ed Schultz (or perhaps it was the other way around) in asserting that the “neo-fascist right” takes joy in the killing of a Census worker:

• This is what they do. O’Reilly inspires people to go kill doctors who provide private abortion services, legal services to his patients; and then O’Reilly stands there with that dung-eating look on his face — what a SOB he is. ‘It wasn’t me; of course it was you, you thug!’ And the suicide-prone Glenn Beck rails against Census workers, and inspires his people to kill one for sport; I bet you O’Reilly and Beck and the rest of these monsters on the neo-fascist right in this country love this stuff. It gives them something else to talk about. It’s sport.

And here’s Noel Sheppard (whose NewsBusters bio pic resembles Hoyt Pollard’s character in Deliverance), reveling in the implied violence against Al Gore disguised as humor perpetrated by Pillz-E* on Jay Leno’s new prime-time show last Friday:

As NewsBusters’ Brent Baker previously reported, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had fun with Jay Leno Thursday evening actually driving an electric car over a cardboard cut-out of Al Gore.

Prior to that hilarious scene, Limbaugh sat down with Leno and discussed politics, President Obama, Medicare, and even weight loss.

So there you go. The new rules for political discourse in this country, courtesy of NewsBusters. Acting out one’s violence fantasies against an cardboard surrogate for a liberal politician? High comedy. Calling out the right wing for their atomic heat-level hate against anyone who isn’t a member of their straight-white-male-conservative-Christians-only club? High treason.

Also.

* For the thinking-impaired at NewsBusters, this is what I’m referring to.

So, I had lunch with Dad today at a Chinese restaurant here in Austin. The fortune in my fortune cookie was rather appropriate in light of the Quitbull’s recent speech in Hong Kong. It read as follows:

Do not listen to vain words from empty minds.

It seems a fair number of people there were (unwittingly, perhaps) heeding that advice.