One student asked what she would do if she had a child who came out as gay.
Coulter replied: “I’d say, `Did I ever tell you you’re adopted?'” (LINK)
What makes the members of the great right wing wurlitzer truly happy? What warms the cockles of their red blooded American hearts? Shooting and scoring, of course (courtesy one of the nastiest new conservative bloggers, Atlas Shrugs):
We Shoot! We Score!! The Patriot Act
OK, altogether now, E-X-H-A-L-E, score one for the good guys. CONGRESS AGREES TO EXTEND PATRIOT ACT.
Despite CAIR’s, The
EnemyAnti-Patriots best efforts, key Republicans from the House and Senate reached a White House-backed compromise Thursday to renew the broad powers granted to law enforcement agencies in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil.Senator Russell Feingold, a Democrat of Wisconsin, threatened to filibuster a bill he said lacked adequate safeguards to protect constitutional freedoms. [Mr Feingold, you are an inadequate safeguard to my freedom to live free without fear, putz- Atlas]
Sadly, this is all to common an attitude among the right. It’s all a game to them. The value of any policy or law to our country, or the lack thereof, is irrelevant compared to the vicarious joy they get in defeating and defaming their enemies: Democrats, progressives and liberals. Whether the policy violates our Constitution, whether it tramples on our civil rights in ways that thoughtful conservatives find disturbing, matters not one iota.
For such bloviating conservatives, making this country a better place isn’t part of the agenda. For them, taking pride in what’s worst about our country, and bragging rights over “liberals” are all that matters. A good example of this can be seen in this post about the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams from Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller:
Enjoy the Needle, Tookie!
Filed under: Public Announcements, Useless SwineThanks to LC Godandstarcraft, we’ve just received this most welcome news:
SAN FRANCISCO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday refused to spare the life of Stanley Tookie Williams, the founder of the murderous Crips gang who awaited execution after midnight in a case that set off a debate over the possibility of redemption on death row.
The swine can now go “redeem” himself in Hell where he belongs and should’ve been for the past 24 years.
. . . To honor his memory, we’ll be chuckling our ass off, saying “you should’ve heard the gargling noises that pig was making as his diaphragm got paralyzed and he choked to death.”
Yes, ultimately, it all comes back to hate. Which is why Rush Limbaugh is so adored by this crowd, and Bill O’Reilly, and of course the great Ann Coulter. Because being able to hate openly, freely, being able to wallow in your own hate for other human beings is so liberating. A good example of the benefits of venting can be seen in the “beautiful thoughts” of this “beautiful person” opining upon that ultimate demon of the right, Michael Moore:
I honestly have to tell you…I hate your fucking guts. Forget about how un-American you are, how politically retarded you are, or how fat you look while slobbering your political garbage all over everyone, mainly, I despise you for the fact that you make money off of influencing the young minds of America to be Bush-haters.
You are a pariah to our nation…a fat kid that got beat up by the jocks at school, and this has formulated your hatred of America. If I didn’t know any better, I would thing George W. himself went to school with you and kicked the shit out of your pie-hole everyday for being such a candy-ass. If you are so passionate about politics, use some of your blood-making money to make it a better place instead of making movies that only benefit your fat-ass fanny-pack. No one likes to see Hollywood try to engage our minds with their ridiculous and one-sided political rants during award ceremonies. Your “movies” are just a façade for your own political agenda, which, by the way, is fucking warped.
You are a selfish, pathetic excuse for an American, and you can take your big fat ass over to Iraq and get your pig head cut off and stuck on a pig pole. Then, you can have your equally as fat wife make a documentary about how loudly you squealed while terrorists were cutting through all the blubber and chins to get that 40 pound head off of you. I dare you to go to Iraq and diarrhea all over our soldiers; they would love to strip you naked in the streets and leave you so that the terrorists can pick you up and dispose of you the way terrorists do. If you believe that Iraq and Al-Queda were not together, go over there and see for yourself.
[Note: Ms. Benson’s diatribe comes to us from Tom Watson courtesy of Digby via James Walcott]
Boy howdy. That must have been such a relief to get off her chest, don’t you think?
is such a “Christian value”…these people make me mourn for this nation, and wonder if fighting for true freedom is really worth it with people like these in the country.
Who was it who said, “Those who relinquish freedom for security deserve neither”? And I’ve read the Beatitudes backwards and forwards, and I have yet to find the one that said, “Blessed are the haters, for they shall be a sword of judgement upon the earth.” Of course, I’ve got one of those “liberal” Bibles…can’t trust anything there…why, it even says that God is love, the wimps…
Jesus wept…and I just may join Him. sigh
After all, I can find you many progressive sites that are full of hate for the far fight, especially fundamentalists.
What I don’t see is the sheer delight in the pain and death of those you don’t like. And I don’t get why we don’t call the right on this more often. They want to claim the high road on values and yet their insults consistently contain threats of or wishes for pain and death for the left. Look at Ann Coulter’s wish for reporters in 9-11 — let’s just imagine what would the right have said if a lefty had said anything even remotely equivalent.
You’ll find similar hate on the Left (and that pains me as well), but they don’t claim the veil of “Christian moral values” like many of these on the Right do.
Jesus said, “By their fruits shall you know them”…unfortunately, all too well; bullies and cowards are not limited to the schoolyard.
Their hate merchants have TV programs, nationally syndicated opinion columns and get signed to book deals with Regnery.
Our hate merchants? Crazy professors from the U. of Colo, who no one ever heard of before the right wing hate merchant David Horowitz ran across his path.
So my question remains — given the hypocrisy of the far right in claiming high moral values while publicly exhibiting an amoral delight in pain, suffering, and death, why doesn’t the left go after them for this?
This is another example of the blowback that Chalmers Johnson has talked and written about.For many years, people in Asia and Latin America have experienced first hand the ferocity of American warmongers who professed great affinity for Democracy, Freedom, Human rights ad infinitum.That dichotomy between our professed intent and the actual deeds is now coming home in the form of Bush, Rove, Cheney who are inciting the dormant passions of the racists,homophobes,xenophobes,misogynists and assorted hatemongers.Cheney, Rove and Bush have an unlimited supply of assholes to draw from, starting with Ann Coulter, Benson, Jean Schmidt and others.
Paraphrasing Mencken, I would say Bush, Cheney and rove have placed their bets on the invincible ignorance of Americans.A good bet IMHO.
Okay, let me get this straight. The author of a blog called Atlas Shrugged is promoting a law that severely restricts civil liberties.
You know, I may have to reconsider. I don’t think I’ve been sufficiently hostile to Objectivism.
For the time being, at least. The cloture vote in the Senate a short while ago fell short, 52-47. Dems voting in favor of ending debate were Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Repubs voting against (in favor of continuing debate) were Larry Craig of Idaho, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John Sununu of New Hampshire. (I don’t include Bill Frist’s vote against cloture as counting, because this was merely a procedural move that permits him to call for another vote on the measure.)
So if Atlas considers Sen. Feingold as inadequate safeguard to his/her freedom (and a putz, to boot), should we expect to see Sens. Craig, Murkowski and Sununu singled out for excoriation as well? I somehow doubt it.
Hate is a mutation of fear, and these wingnuts are, in the end, terrified of their own inadequacy and lack of “specialness”.
It would be great if the architects of this hate meme, (those who are working so hard to make this sort of hate the primary motivational element of the mass psychology of the rightwing), could all be “Baker Acted” and provided with accommodations in the mental ward at Bellevue Hospital, but that’s not likely to happen.
I’d prefer to see those of us who opposed these lunatic’s behavior doing so more with language that describes them as pathetic and insecure cowardly creatures rather than expressing the traditional outrage and anger, because it is the anger and outrage we express that feeds the flames of their insanity; it’s exactly the kind of attention they’re seeking in the first place.