Letters to the Editor
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Saw this @ Americablog...
and thought, "this is directly apropos of GG's postings of late". Lo and behold, you were on it already.
BTW, pls fix - "The ugliest and most obsecene sentiments..."
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More of the same.
Recall Wolf Blitzer's embarrasing attempt to question Dick Cheney about how the Religious-right has attacked his lesbian daughter? Cheney said Blitzer was "out of line" to ask such a question. Blitzer's 'dazed deer in caught in the headlights' look was a disgusting classic.
Let's face it, the right can yell Faggot, Raghead, and so on with imunity. Yet have Obama say "wasted lives" and he is pounced upon; McCain does the same and it's like it never happened.
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Adam Nagourney Averts His Eyes and Ears
Adam Nagourney of the NY Times is covering the CPAC hate fest and in an article just posted on the NYT Web site simply ignored Coulter's comment. He wrote:
"The conference drew thousands of people, many of whom waited in a long line out the door for a late-afternoon appearance by Ann Coulter. Still, the tone of the conference reflected concern among conservatives about the ideological credentials of the three leading contenders for their party’s nomination, Mr. McCain, Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani."
Now, had Michael Moore said anything untoward about the wingnuts, would he have been silent?
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@GG I noticed...
...you didn't post until late in the day today. Were you simply supremely confident that if you waited until Coulter's "presentation" you'd have some material to work with?
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Even Cap'n Ed was taken aback by what Coulter said
"Ann Coulter is speaking at the moment, and drawing a huge crowd -- with longer lines than those for the Rudy Giuliani. She's definitely one of the stars here at CPAC, and I listened to the audio stream for a bit while she opened her speech. I had to take a phone call, though, and I missed a critical, and infuriating, throw-away line. Michelle Malkin reports (from two chairs down):
"I'd say something about John Edwards, but if you use the word 'faggot', you have to go to rehab."
Yeah, that's just what CPAC needs -- an association with homophobia. Nice work, Ann."
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009308.php
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Playing to my own dark side
"...the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity -- who, along with Bill O'Reilly, are by far the most popular and successful right-wing pundits."
Speaking for no one other than myself here, this sorry lot (and Glenn Reynolds, and Hugh Hewitt, and Charles Johnson, and the whole pathetic herd of them following dutifully along) deserve to have the hatred they spew handed back to them ten times over.
As it was explained to me years ago:
Hate that which is evil;
Loathe that which is disgusting;
Despise that which is beneath you;
Detest that which is annoying.
They seem to qualify on all four counts.
They are cheap little bullies, and they will continue until someone knocks them down.
(Note - I am not advocating violence!)
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Bambage
..you didn't post until late in the day today. Were you simply supremely confident that if you waited until Coulter's "presentation" you'd have some material to work with?
Actually, today was my last day to finish all of the editing changes on my manuscript, and my editor was cracking the whip, so I had no time to do anything. I just finished, exhausted and ready to go sit somewhere and do nothing, when I saw news of this little episode and could not get myself to refrain from posting no matter how hard I tried.
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Right on glenn disect them for what they are
wonderful piece and right to the point of the hatred these people have for anyone that disagrees with them. The light has been shown on their incompetence at the mid term election. These people were rejected at large but yet they hold the power of the media in their pocket and therefore it remains to be a moot point to decry them or to put them down for their speech since that is all most Americans are able to hear.
This is how far we have come from a truly free country as there is no free speech unless you own the press or the TV, and then of course it is propaganda.
The point you make is great but the next question should be how do we counter that?
The answer is to break up the multinational corporations control of the media, period. We both know this will not happen as the global elite will not allow this to happen.
The next obvious step is massive civil disobedience but we both know this will not happen.
So what is next? Set by and watch as you are told every move to make and when to make it. The people you talked about in your article are most dangerous and we ain't seen nothing yet.
Welcome to Babylon, and the bitch Ann Coulter that is highly respected.
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The courage of their convictions
I was glad to see this post – that long stretch with no word from Glenn just didn’t feel right!
I’d like to point out that this is another instance of conservatives not having the courage of their convictions. If Coulter really thinks Edwards is a “faggot” then she should say “John Edwards is a faggot.” This would beg the appropriate questions like “do you think he sexually identifies as gay, or are you using that term of art like a 5th grader would, as a general insult?” Her “joke” allowed her to call him a “faggot” without actually doing so. That’s cowardly.
I have to say I was nauseous, literally, when I saw the clip – not when she said what she said, but when the chorus of laughter followed it.
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I don't think they are 'faking' thier upset.
I'm in the middle of reading "The Authoritarians" by Bob Altemeyer (which I found thanks to you Glenn) and this strikes me as high RWA behavior. Their upset is probably genuine (at least for those with a 'follower' mindset). It is more likely that they just don't "see" that their upset is hypocritical.
Thanks again for the link to Dr. Altemeyer's book.
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@Glenn
Shouldn't every rational and decent person convulse with anger or at least scornful laughter whenever this movement claims to find offensive or upsetting indecent remarks coming from others or when they accuse others of being angry and hateful?
Yes.
It is well and good that you could not just go sit and do nothing.