It's the difference between having a barnyard animal who accuses Max Cleland of having his arm blown off reaching for a beer and a nuetered domesticated miniature dog that just yaps continuously. It's annoying but at least he's not chewing the furniture and crapping all over the place like Dumbo the Elephantboy. Now all we need to do is cut their vocal chords and get them each a pair of these:

http://www.neuticles.com/

Paraphrasing the "soon to be put down for good" Grover Norquist:

"[We] can best advance the cause of civility by working hard to finish off the hopes of the [Republicans and conservatives] for any return to power. It is like neutering barnyard animals: they are much calmer, less likely to cause damage, and easier to control. As the vet says, 'They will be happier; this is good for them.'"

Shooter... Then why do you people waste time pointing fingers at the past rather than pushing for a better present.

To figure out a cheap and efficient way to shoot "you people" into the sun.

Was the "lieberman in blackface" at FDL some kind of insult that the blog apologized for?

WHY?

Jane Hamsher was guilty of Blogging While Female and BWDemocrat or BWLiberal.

FDL is responsible for helping average people understand the Plame Affair. The enemy tried very hard to muddy that up and she had to be brought down.

That was Wonkette. Ana Marie Cox.

"I belong to no organized [political] party. I'm a Democrat."

--Will Rogers

"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." -Frank Zappa

The uglier the expression, the more it deserves protection.

The only reason it was a big deal is because of what team Jane is on. True, there are people on the left and right who would ban hate speech, guns, alcohol, drugs, Frank Zappa or rap and even baking soda.

It made no difference to me. It may have been perceived by some as in bad taste but it is part of the art of edgy political blogging. Calling Jane Hamsher a racist is ludicrous. If there was any truth to it, she'd be a Republican. I don't want to cut their vocal chords so they can't bark, but I do think we'll all be happier when they're neutered like Grover Norquist suggested.

Fools on the left started this PC shit and it has come back to bite them on the ass. The right, at first opposing it, has learned to wield it like a club, along with the "faux civility" crap. It's all "quietism" by another name. I can see no guarantee in the Constitution or Bill of Rights that you will not be offended by speech or expression. If I use racist images in an article about Jim Crow, am I a racist? Insensitive to race? You think the blackface Lieberman was bad? Have a look at this:

http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/files/jpg/Thing-Fish.jpg

But Frank Zappa was hardly a racist, far from it, and that album was very political, if not readily accessible, like most of his work. And he was a genuine genius, just not overly sensitive. Granted, the folks at FDL did not handle it well, and it probably would have been better to keep the image at FDL and not post it at HuffPo, but this crap goes no place good, unless you think Canada has a better idea, where hate speech can send you to jail. The "thought police" are the "thought police" whether they are the neocons and Fox News or people on the left who want "everyone to be nice to everyone". It ain't never gonna happen. Deal with it. These days, I don't feel like being nice to everyone most of the time, especially certain people of any political persuasion who want to police what I can say, write, draw, read, watch or listen to. If you are running for political office, you might not want to say "Macaca!" but going on Rush Limbaugh's show seems to be okay if you are the VP or President. I doubt it's going to hurt Hillary.

The people who got offended by that are a humorless concern trolls and scolds, like Tipper Gore, Susan Baker and the rest of the PRMC from back in the day. Hopefully, Al will keep Tipper busy doing something else if he runs, and I hope he does. In the mean time, read this:

What we've made of Uncle Tom

In the 150 years since it burst onto the American scene, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' has been credited with starting everything from the Civil War to the culture wars

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1029/p17s02-legn.html