virt, you're hilarious. This, below, was your "classy" apology? ≈

Therefore, I apologize to Joan if I didn't "get" her attempt at humor. But seriously, if you have to explain a "joke" is it really "funny"? Or perhaps the better question might be, "If you think that's so funny, Joan, why don't you marry it?"

Didn't anyone tell you, virt, that "I apologize IF..." is a non-apology? And if you follow it up with another insult, well, that's pretty classy! And then if you whine about someone not graciously accepting your non-apology/new insult? That's our virt -- classless, virt-free and apparently dumb as a box o'rocks. But thanks for all the time you spend here.

Troll-feeding over for the day. I apologize.

virtue001, you know I think you're a pest and a person who posts consistently in bad faith, and I tend to ignore you. Now I'm not sure if your latest confusion is bad faith, or if you're really trying to claim I thought Bartiromo actually said Weiner should marry Medicare -- which combines bad faith with an utter lack of humor and a dollop of stupidity as well. Awesome!

Hope your writing career doesn't require attention to nuance or an ability to recognize satire...congratulations with it!

Thanks to the people who pointed out I was KIDDING when I quoted Bartiromo saying "If you love Medicare, why don't you marry it?" It's a moronic schoolyard taunt and even Bartiromo wouldn't say something that dumb --- but given our current degraded discourse on health care, some of our brighter lights thought I was serious. Sad.

Dear amytalent, I'm really super sure that's not me. I know you're not calling me a liar of course. Last year someone in letters was convinced I was the Joan Walsh who went to Wellesley with Hillary, which really hurt b/c a) I'm a good 12 or so years younger than Madame Secretary (OH GOD,CAN'T YOU TELL??) And 2, all my class stuff kicked in: I had one choice: To go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Big Ten school. We didn't go on a spring break tour of the Ivy League or Seven Sisters; I applied to the best school I could get into, and luckily I got in, and loved it and never looked back. But when people try to link me to the master race via elite schools or faux connections, I just shrug and wonder: Haven't you been reading this blog?

Wow, I'm so sorry that I abandoned my friends reviving last Friday's excellent reminiscences about great 60s/70s TV and movies...it's awesome once again. Watching Kennedy coverage is similar.

Plus: I never saw the Nixon statement: "Have the Secret Service protect [Ted Kennedy] until the election, but if he's shot after that, too damn bad." The people in this thread who hear Kennedy and think Chappaquiddick (which was a horrible breach of conscience) and not assassination are just right wing losers, and we see that every time they splatter their ignorance all over these threads.

If someone provided evidence, I'd readily believe they're working for crazy Democrats, because they so surely drive people of good faith away from the Republican Party. But when you're a tiny circular firing squad, maybe it's all the same.

The right wingers blathering on about the film imagining the assassination of George W. Bush ignore the only way that would be relevant to this debate: If Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi hosted a viewing of the film and praised the filmmakers. The issue is not that some gun-toting racist maniacs are poisoning the debate; the issue is that they are being praised as "great Americans" and encouraged to believe Obama will "pull the plug on Grandma" by elected GOP statesmen like Wally Herger and Chuck Grassley. I have to agree with the person who suggested education reform might be more important than health care reform right now; there are an awful lot of people who lack simple reading and/or reasoning skills.

This thread shows the political disease I'm talking about: rightwingers blame all liberals for the excesses of the few, and get away with it. MoveOn never approved the Bush/Hitler imagery; it was submitted to a contest, and when they saw it, they pulled it from their Web site. No Democratic congresspeople praised the Bush assassination film. No Democratic congresspeople endorsed fringe lefties who may have expressed a wish for harm to befall Bush or Cheney. There is absolutely no equivalence here, but rightwingers like Dick Armey propagate that nonsense anyway, and get echoed by dittoheads on this thread. Sad.

Oh, here's one of VirginiaL's conciliatory letters. From my "How Obama can turn it around" thread. "Liberal Terror" is definitely a conciliatory term to use. Please stop using crack, VirginiaL. I know a lot of great treatment programs in SF, we can help you.

"Take a page out of the Chavez playbook. I mean, he's got enough mouthy, unprincipled, immoral goons between Code Pink, ACORN, MoveOn, and the DailyKos to cement totalitarian rule if he wants. Right?

"Of course, it won't help him with Congress, because he's actually afraid of Pelosi, Frank, Reid, and a few others. But hey, with Liberal Terror squads informing via the White House website, and misuse of email addresses, I am sure that in a few months they could finish turning the US into a Third World country. It is, afterall, the goal."