Quite an odd coinkydink.
Less than a month ago, a laptop with veterans’ personal information was stolen from the home of an employee who had taken it home without authorization.
Now, a laptop with similar personal data (including SSNs) of 13,000 D.C. employees and former employees has also been stolen from “the Washington home of an employee of ING U.S. Financial Services, said officials with the company, which administers the district's retirement plan.”
The company did not notify city employees of the theft until late Friday because it took officials several days to determine what information was stored on the laptop, ING spokeswoman Caroline Campbell said.That sure is a lot of laptops being stolen out of employees’ homes that just happen to have personal information about government employees on them. Add these 21,500 people to the millions of veterans who have become compromised by a nearly identical crime just a month ago, and that’s a heck of a lot of people who have been made vulnerable by eerily similar crimes.
The laptop was not password-protected and the data was not encrypted, Campbell said.
Two other ING laptops containing information on 8,500 Florida hospital workers were stolen in December, but the employees were not notified until this week, said ING spokesman Chuck Eudy. Neither laptop was encrypted, he said.
The Gut Speaks
The legendary Bush Gut, which, combined with the president’s amazing ocular powers of soul-knowing, has discerned the goodness of various world leaders, including most famously Vladimir “Pootie-Poot” Putin, has spoken once again, favorably sizing up Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
President Bush flew to Baghdad last week to size up Iraq's new leader. "I have come not only to thank you," he told American troops gathered in the Green Zone on Tuesday, "but to look Prime Minister Maliki in the eyes -- to determine whether or not he is as dedicated to a free Iraq as you are."This is good news indeed. The Bush Gut’s track record is stellar, having been utilized at Harken Oil and Gas (nee Spectrum 7, nee Bush Exploration, nee Arbusto Energy), which saw a $23.2 million loss in 1990, the Texas Rangers (including trading away Sammy Sosa), and throughout his tenure at the White House, in decidings about tax cuts, the Iraq War, and—though it was not widely reported—a hypothesis involving pretzels as an oxygen substitute.
The presidential determination? "I believe he is," Bush said.
Now the Bush Gut sees good things to come for Iraq. That’s good enough for me—as well it should be for any patriot.
(Crossposted at Ezra’s place.)
Baghdad violence continues, security crackdown or no
It's been four days in Iraq since the government there announced it would retake its own capital via a major security crackdown. Somewhere between fifty thousand and seventy-five thousand Iraqi Army personnel were put to the task, supplemented by over seven thousand American troops. Since then:
Wednesday
Clashes in the northern Baghdad district of Azamiyah
Car bomb in the northern district of Qahira kills at least four civilians, wounds six
Roadside bomb explodes near a police patrol in northern Baghdad, wounding one civilian
Gunmen kill civilian in western Baghdad as he drives his car
Roadside bomb in western Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood kills one police commando, injures another
Thursday
Gunmen kill an engineer and kidnap another
Worker at vegetable oil factory shot dead in Baghdad's Al-Bayaa neighborhood
Security forces find bombs planted throughout a cemetery
Friday
Eleven killed, twenty-five wounded in suicide bombing at Shiite mosque in Baghdad
Saturday
Twenty-three killed in string of Baghdad attacks
More to come.
(Cross-posted. All links but the last courtesy of Today in Iraq.))
The Virtual Pub Is Open
In case you can’t make out the name over the door, here’s a closer shot of the pub sign on the left of the building, which is located on Rose Street in Edinburgh:
That’s right. Filthy McNasty’s.
I’ll be popping in and out all night, so if I’m not around, help yourself to whatever you can find behind the bar. As always, all drinks are on the house.
So…what’s happening, Shakers?
Question of the Day
Re: Zack's most excellent post earlier, were you ever bullied? Were you ever a bully?
I was never bullied constantly by one person. I got teased about my looks by boys: Fat, four-eyes, ugly, metal-mouth, pizzaface. Mostly, it didn't bother me, because they were usually just pointing out obvious things; how hurt can you be by being told that you're overweight, or wear glasses, or have braces or zits? Tell me something I don't know.
The times it did bother me were when it came from someone I liked, who appeared to lash out at me for no reason. In retrospect, I realize they were getting picked on, too, and were paying it forward in a (probably futile) effort to make themselves feel better. At the time, though, I was always left a little stunned when someone with whom I'd been on good terms suddenly launched a "Fat cow!" at me, seemingly out of nowhere.
Both Sides Are Just As Bad
[Content Note: Violent rhetoric; racism; misogyny; homophobia; antisemitism.]
With Ann Coulter’s latest indecency, and Michelle Malkin going on the offensive against the “obscene, abusive, unhinged jerk Keith Olbermann,” the Right has turned once again to that old and well-polished chestnut: “Both sides are just as bad.” It’s come up in a comments thread here today yet again.
It’s time to put this preposterous—and flatly wrong—assertion to bed.
Who is the Left’s equivalent of Ann “We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too” Coulter, best-selling author and syndicated columnist, who has been a guest on Your World with Neil Cavuto twice, Hannity & Colmes sixteen times, The O’Reilly Factor six times, Real Time with Bill Maher six times, The Tonight Show twice, guested at least once on Larry King Live, At Large with Geraldo Rivera, Fox and Friends, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Today Show, and has co-hosted The View?
Who is the Left’s equivalent of Michelle “In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror” Malkin, who has been a guest on The O’Reilly Factor eight times, and Hannity & Colmes three times, and Real Time with Bill Maher once, among others?
Who is the Left’s equivalent of Pat “Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path” Buchanan, who has been a guest on Hardball twice, The O’Reilly Factor three times, The Situation with Tucker Carlson once, Face the Nation once, and has guest-hosted Scarborough Country and Crossfire?
Who is the Left’s equivalent of Pat “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians” Robertson, host of The 700 Club, who has been a guest on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes five times?
Who are the Left’s equivalents of Bill “And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead” O’Reilly, Sean “'I hate America.' This is the extreme left” Hannity, Tucker “Cross-dressing and abortion, two great Democratic values that go great together” Carlson, Don “Fudgepack Mountain” Imus, and Chris “I mean [Osama bin Laden] sounds like an over the top Michael Moore here, if not a Michael Moore” Matthews, all of whom have their own television shows?
Who are the Left’s equivalents of Rush “I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus—living fossils—so we will never forget what these people stood for” Limbaugh, Michael “Howard Dean should be arrested and hung for treason or put in a hole until the end of the Iraq war” Reagan, and Michael “Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people” Savage, all of whom have their own radio shows?
Don’t give me Michael Moore. Michael Moore is a filmmaker, and a media personality at best. He’s not entrenched in the political process. He doesn’t, for example, sell access to “unnamed members of Washington’s Power Elite”—and doesn’t have that access himself. He doesn’t host a cable news show, and is rarely asked to be a guest on one, and he certainly hasn’t been asked to guest host, like Pat Buchanan. He’s been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher—a favorite of progressives—one time less than Ann Coulter, for crying out loud.
Of all the times I’ve written about this, never has someone who asserts that erroneous notion been able to provide me with a single concrete example of a prominent, household-name Lefty who has as much uncritical mainstream media attention as any one of the above and has also made outlandish statements as often as all of the above.
The Right’s best counter to the obvious and indisputable evidence that the conservative movement is rife with indecent, hatemongering assholes is to reinforce the fallacy that both sides are just as bad. This is patently false. And we need to start calling it for the bullshit it is every single time we hear it.
[This post has been updated to add a content note and remove disablist language.]
Quote of the Day
The Internet for the Left of the Democratic Party has served as a way to mobilize hate and anger -- hate and anger, first and foremost, at this President and Conservatives, but then also at people within their own party whom they consider to be less than completely loyal to this very narrow, very out-of-the-mainstream, very far Left-wing ideology that they tend to represent.The article does not note whether he said this with a straight face.
The Dems represent a “very far Left-wing ideology”? Seriously, when will this lie die? It’s laughable. Their presumed nominee, Hillary Clinton, is hawkish on the war, supports a flag-burning amendment, and doesn’t support gay equality. Get real.
And who comprises “The Internet for the Left of the Democratic Party”? Kos? Pandagon? Shakespeare’s Sister? Does anyone who listens to this drivel really think every lefty blogger is a Democrat? Might those who criticize centrist Dems perhaps not actually be Dems at all? Duh.
As for the anger, well, some of us have a lot to be angry about these days. I’m not about to apologize for it.
Caption This Photo
President Bush greets a guest as White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten
plays bass guitar with his band 'The Compassionates' at the White House
Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House, June 15, 2006.
(Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
More light, please
When I was a kid, I got made fun of a lot. I’m sure most of you can relate to that, although the abuses vary from person to person; I had big lips for my face, so I got that thrown back at me (they called me “Nigger Lips” for a while, which is just so marvelous because it manages to be hurtful to anyone with a working brain), and there was this one asshole in elementary school, Wayne the Pain, who would slam me into a tree over and over, shouting, “Fuck the tree! Fuck the tree!” Good times. It got better when I hit high school, but it’s the sort of thing you never really get over- certain kind of people (ie, non-geeky straight guys) will always make me nervous, and I’ll always hear the worst in anonymous laughter.
My parents weren’t much help at the time. I can sympathize with their impotency now- it’s a near impossible situation, and I’m sure they did their best. But it made things doubly painful to spend the school day dodging assholes, only to come home to get a hug and a confused look, and not a whole lot more. Their big thing was that I should ignore it. Ignore the bullies, and the bullies will go away. Such is the message of parents ad nauseum, and the lesson to be learned from nearly every kid’s show ever made: bully’s get their power from you, so if you ignore them, they can’t hurt you.
I’d like to officially call bullshit on this. For one thing, it doesn’t work; if you were somehow able to achieve the near superhuman patience required to endure a week’s worth of taunting without reacting, you might succeed in getting them to move on, but kids with that sort of inner strength are few and far between. Which means that somehow, the taunting is now your fault, because you were too weak to let it slide; it’s your failing that let’s them get to you, in the fifth grade everyone should have the Zen-like balance to not be bothered by the contempt of your peers.
There’s been some talk lately that the lefty blogosphere (what a marvelously goofy word) is overreacting to the shrill rantings of sociopaths like Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. Ignore them and they’ll go away, some say. Initially, I agreed with that sentiment. Picking out the flaws in Coulter’s arguments seemed ludicrous. It’s like taking Mayor MacCheese to task over his poorly designed “Burgers For Everyone!” policy- Coulter doesn’t exist to speak truths, she exists to let other people believe the most horrible things they want to believe, to lend the credibility of the printed word to the dark windings of bigotry and contempt that seem to lay in the hearts of so many Americans. Of course what she says is a lie.
I still believe that (in the same way I believe that my name is Zack Handlen and I have blue eyes)(no one knows what it’s liiiiiiike), but I think I was wrong in believing she could be ignored. In a perfect world, she would be, but we don’t live a perfect world. We live in a world where bullies grow to positions of power without ever having learned anything so simple as basic human decency. Ann Coulter, and all her ilk, is a bully. You don’t ignore bullies. You face them down, and you tell them that they are an abomination and you will no longer tolerate their actions. Maybe you get beat up- although honestly, Ann, I’ve met Wayne the Pain, I’ve been brutalized by Wayne the Pain, and honey, you are no Wayne the Pain- but what matters is that you show them it doesn’t matter how loud they scream or how low they get, we’re not fooled. Change the nature of the argument, redefine the boundaries, alter the past, monopolize the present- it doesn’t matter.
Bullies are essentially brain dead vampires. So, more light, please.
“It Makes Me Wanna Go Poopy”
I love HBO. Love it, love it, love it. When, for years, I didn’t have cable, the only thing I really missed was HBO. There are many reasons to adore HBO, but one of my personal favorites is their comedy specials; I’ve seen every George Carlin special ever, and I say with all sincerity that my life is better for it.
Now, I also love Louis Black. His “Back in Black” segments are one of my favorite bits of The Daily Show.
So when HBO teamed up with Louis Black, well, I was just a happy, happy girl.
He’s got a new (his second) HBO special, called Red White & Screwed, which is running on HBO this month (and available OnDemand, if you’ve got Comcast). It’s brilliant; I’ve already watched it twice and can’t recommend it enough.
Arlen at The Daily Background spliced together these two bits from the special—a segment on the Katrina disaster and another on gay marriage, which is both righteous and hilarious. (NOT WORK SAFE.) But seriously, if you have the opportunity to watch the whole thing, do. His riff on Cheney’s hunting accident nearly ended me—and he also speaks at length about doing the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last year, which gives new perspective to just how brave Colbert really was.
Meanwhile, Back in the States...
I was reminded of this lovely bit of compassionate conservatism oozed by Tony Snow:
Q: Tony, American deaths in Iraq have reached 2,500. Is there any response or reaction from the President on that?... by Kathy at The Green Knight's place, who says:
MR. SNOW: It's a number, and every time there's one of these 500 benchmarks people want something.
I doubt that's what bereaved families and friends think.Indeed. Of course, he immediately sugarcoated this with:
Any President who goes through a time of war feels very deeply the responsibility for sending men and women into harm's way, and feels very deeply the pain that the families feel. And this President is no different. You've seen it many times. You saw it, you saw it when he was in that ballroom, Terry, and you had this crowd of servicemen and women who were cheering loudly for the President, and he got choked up. So it's always a sad benchmark, and one of the things the President has said is that these people will not die in vain.
I don't know about that. This is not just a number. The casualties of this war are not just numbers. They have names, families, friends, children, and loved ones. All of these brave people should still be alive. For you to infer that there is no difference between one and 2,500 deaths is an insult.
And with his naps and 10pm bedtime, we know Bush isn't losing too much sleep over this.
(Baby, baby... the cross-post is no good...)
Culture of Corruption: Move Along; Nothing to See Here
Grumpy Old Man passed this one along.
Once-secret documents obtained by The Associated Press show a disaster supply management company went unpunished for Sept. 11 thefts after the government discovered FBI agents and other government officials had stolen artifacts from New York's ground zero…That’s certainly a new one. Can’t prosecute the ghoulish thieves who stole artifacts of death from 9/11 sites, because some of them are members of the investigating agency—and that’s just a gosh darn conflict of interests. Oh, well.
The lead investigators for the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency told AP that the plan to prosecute KEI for those thefts stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer 2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground zero.
That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the Pentagon.
“How could you secure an indictment?'' FEMA investigator Kirk Beauchamp asked. “It would be a conflict.''
Further, the two whistleblowers who first raised the issue eventually “lost their jobs, received death threats and were blackballed in the disaster relief industry.” So, if you’re keeping score:
Thieving bastards: 1
Whistleblowers: 0
American people: -1,893,482
Why stop with the queers?
Why not go after everyone who makes a choice with which you disagree?
The owners of a roller skating rink have fired an 18-year-old woman they called one of their "Top 10" employees because she moved in with her boyfriend, violating a company ethics policy that prohibits "live-in relationships of an intimate nature."Firing Plotner was legal, because marital status, along with sexual orientation, are not protected by law, and Skate Pizza put right in the employee handbook that “liv[ing] in an immoral way with a member of the opposite sex or same sex” is grounds for termination. Of course, what’s one person’s “living in an immoral way” is another person’s “living.”
"I loved my job and I didn't want to leave," Crystal Plotner told the Coeur d'Alene Press this week.
She said she was fired after casually telling her bosses, Skate Plaza owners Marvin and Pat Miller, that she planned to move in with her boyfriend in mid-May.
Before terminating her, Plotner said the Millers said she and her boyfriend should "check out their church." She declined.
"Even if I had gone to their church, I don't think it would have saved my job," said Plotner, who worked at Skate Plaza for three years and made $9.25 an hour. "They didn't want me to live with my boyfriend. They were pushing their religion on me and I was offended. I don't have the same religious beliefs as they do."
…Skate Plaza's moral and ethics policy also bans such behaviors as "public displays of promiscuous activities, homosexuality, intoxication, use of profanity, lewd behavior, use of illegal drugs, child abuse, spouse abuse, unlawful relationships, cross-dressing, stalking and nudity."
I wonder how Skate Pizza would have felt about my living arrangement around the same age—rooming with a gay man. I probably would have prompted a change in that employee handbook. “And no skirting the rules by living with a homosexual of the opposite sex!”
(Hat tip to Ms. Julien.)
Dead Elvis
Behold the faded, tattered glory that is the Dead Elvis t-shirt!
I have owned this shirt for fifteen years. It is indeed torn and stained, but has held up remarkably well, all things considered. The shirt is an artifact from my days at Left Bank Books, a promotional item from Doubleday Books. There's precious little money to be made in bookselling (despite what you may have heard), so people in the trade set great store by the pitiable perks that come their way: readers' copies of new titles, the odd poster or hat, or t-shirts. This particular garment is a advertisement for the hardcover edition (now available only as a used book) of Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus. (The title has since been picked up by Harvard University Press.) Wearing it is the closest I've come to actually reading a Marcus book. No knock on music journos or cultural critics, mind you; that's just how it is.
But enough about the book; we're talking about the shirt. I've attracted much attention and praise with this shirt over the years. I've had people offer me money for this shirt. If I had the mindset of a collector, I'd have boxed it up and removed it from light, heat, or humidity, then sold it on eBay. But there was no such thing as eBay when I first acquired this shirt, and selling it never came to mind anyway.
My favorite memory regarding the shirt comes from a night many years ago when a friend dragged me across the Mississippi to Fairmount Park, there to watch the ponies run. I'll confess that spending time at the track wasn't high on my list of fave things to do (though I had a pretty good time the second time I went), but I endeavored to make the best of it. I found that I was attracting a fair amount of attention for no reason I could discern. Eventually, I figured out that it was the shirt that piqued the interest of others, but I still couldn't account for the high level of interest. It wasn't until I saw a promotional stunt taking place - an Elvis impersonator being lowered by helicopter onto the track - that it finally came home to me.
It was Elvis Night at Fairmount Park! Now what were the odds of that, eh?
I recall clearly just one exchange with a track habitué over the shirt. He was a large and bleary-eyed specimen with a plastic cup of some Anheuser-Busch product in his hand. He studied the front of the shirt, then puzzled over the words on the back: "A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession."
"What's that mean?" he eventually asked.
I thought for just a moment, then said: "It means Elvis will always be with us." Then I smiled. So did he.
I have no idea who that guy was, for I never got his name. But as the song says, I have reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland.
(Cross-post my heart and hope to die, well I wouldn't tell you no lie...)This just in: GeneralÃssimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
And Michelle Malkin is still a stinking hypocrite!
Earlier this week I posted about Michelle "it's conservatives themselves who blow the whistle on their bad boys and go after the real extremism on their side of the aisle" Malkin's half-assed "whistle blowing" on Ann Coulter. Coulter, apparently drunk on the non-stop media rimjob she's received since slamming the 9/11 widows, has scraped the bottom of the barrel into non-existence; opening her cracked, yellowing beak and screeching:
John Murtha: The reason soldiers invented "fragging."(See the link to Shakes if you're not familiar with the term "fragging." Basically, once again, Coulter has insinuated that someone should be killed for the crime of disagreeing with her. (I'd also be interested to hear how Murtha's fellow soldiers feel about this slimy comment.)
While I'm sure that her usual "It was just a joke" excuse is in full effect, I suppose I'm going to have to state the obvious: If, say, Michael Moore had said something along the lines of: "George Bush: The reason we have abortion," conservatives would go completely apeshit. But, since this is Coulter, we're supposed to completely laugh it off. Oh, you liberals! You have no sense of humor!
Ann Coulter is as funny as a case of genital warts.
Coulter has gone beyond "joking," and her statements are appalling. She has become so "unhinged," that even conservatives are beginning to realize she's going too damn far. So, one would think that Malkin, Miss "Conservatives Police their Own" would be all over this, right?
You foolish, foolish person.
How can she blow the whistle on Coulter when that goddamn Keith Olbermann has the goddamn nerve to publish a book? I should warn you, that link goes to Malkin's blog, but if you want a perfect example of Malkin hypocrisy, it's there in a few sentences.
The obscene, abusive, unhinged jerk Keith Olbermann earns his own prize.
His book, "Worst Person in the World," is due out in September.
The "worst person" designation, he told a reporter last December, is "for somebody who's wrong and egregiously stupid and abusing their own position."
Takes one to know one.
Gee, was she kicking her widdle feet and holding her breath until she turned blue while writing this? Apparently, according to her links, Keith should be ashamed for being so nasty and abusive to people such as... get this... Ann Coulter! Of course, when Dick Cheney behaves in a similar manner, it's just fine. And when this happens:
Olbermann's antagonists, who asked not to be named, repeatedly claimed in their June 8 E-mails that dead Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was Olbermann's "hero," prompting the television star to advise: "Hey, save the oxygen for somebody whose brain can use it. Kill yourself."He's evil. EVIL!
Coulter? Just a comedian.
Not to mention, that this book cover:
...is nasty and evil and not at all nice, especially when conservatives have never, ever even considered stooping that low, right?*cough*
*cough*So, let's recap:
Ann Coulter saying John Murtha should be fragged: Just fine.
Keith Olbermann writing a book that's more or less exactly what Malkin wrote: "Obscene, abusive, unhinged jerk."
The "worst person" designation, he told a reporter last December, is "for somebody who's wrong and egregiously stupid and abusing their own position."Wow... that must have really stung, eh Michelle? Anticipating your own chapter or something?
Welcome to Coulter's world, Miss Boo Freakin' Hoo. Your thinly-veiled racism, lying, dishonesty and assorted wingnuttery, haven't quite put you on the same level as the Screeching Harpy, but you're soooo close...
Try suggesting a prominent liberal should be killed. Or encourage people at a speaking engagement to attack opposing voices. That should catapult you directly into Wackyland.
After all, it's obvious that in your mind, shenannigans such as these are just fine. If you're a conservative.
(What you want for nothin'? A rubber cross-post?)
This makes me laugh.
Via Comandante Agi, who wanted to be MacGyver when he was a kid.
Yeah, MacGyver was pretty cool—but let me tell you a little something about Richard Dean Anderson: He’s an idiot. Many, many years ago, my mom was a contestant on the $20,000 Pyramid—which, due to inflation, is now the $100,000 Pyramid—and one of her celebrity partners was Richard Dean Anderson. I have seen the video many times. Generously, I will submit he was quite possibly stoned.
The only person I’ve ever seen give more disastrous clues than he was my mom’s other celebrity partner, Gena Hecht, best known at the time (and probably since) as doofy neighbor (or something) Jean DaVinci on Mork & Mindy. Passionately, desperately, she implored Mama Shakes with, “Italy is in…? Italy is in…?” “Europe,” Mama Shakes said. “Western Europe. The northern hemisphere.” Gena’s hands flapped wildly. “Italy is in…? Italy is in…?” Mama Shakes continued to guess futilely.
The word was “Rome.”
Coulter draws new line in the sands of ghastly rhetoric, then promptly crosses it.
Some are of the opinion that Coulter is best ignored by media critics. Frankly, I disagree. I think it’s a telling commentary on the state of our media that she continues to find a place on mainstream news and entertainment programs, even while she spews vile filth like this:
John Murtha: The reason soldiers invented "fragging."Daou points to the definition of fragging: “Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one's own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim's tent at night. A fragging victim could also be killed by intentional friendly fire during combat. In either case, the death would be blamed on the enemy, and, due to the dead man's unpopularity, no one would contradict the cover story. The intended victim of a fragging was sometimes given warnings, of which the first might be a grenade pin on the sheet of the victim, and later on, a tear gas grenade.”
Yep, that’s right. Ann Coulter, self-proclaimed Christian and supporter of the troops, has suggested that a former marine, Vietnam veteran, and sitting Congressman for over 30 years should be murdered in cold blood.
What, pray tell, would it take for the media to stop giving this revolting harpy a platform from which to spew her venom? On the same day the interview from whence this quote came was published, she paraded her maniacal rantings on the stage of The Tonight Show, the worthless, appeasing host of which compared her to Michael Moore, who—like him or not—has never remotely approached such depths of contemptible discourse. Just how unbelievably depraved does this walking sack of shit have to be before she is permanently relegated to the obscurity she deserves?
And the odious renditions to which we are regularly subjected by the likes of Coulter are just the first part of the story.
Not only is she a monstrous font of diarrheic vitriol who disgorges a continual torrent of loathsome rhetoric against progressives; the infrequency with which she manages to emit accurate assertions is approximately as common as photographic evidence of unicorns. She is a factless, pointless wonder. I’ve heard more astute political observations from a pile of day-old puke. Neither clever nor talented, she has traded in on her willingness to be a freak show exhibit—a scum-sucking fembot explicitly self-designed to process the grimiest, tar-black slime she can find and turn it into little nuggets of nourishment for a mass of ravenous ghouls, who clamor to worship at the altar of the allegedly alluring beauty with the most rancid mouth and putrid mind ever to darken America’s doorstep.
She is the uncontested queen of a sickness that plagues America, rotting the brains of the pathetic sods who shuffle their zombie corpses in front of the telly every night to listen to a stream of lunatics marginalize progressives as traitors, terrorist sympathizers, seditionists, just for having a different bloody opinion.
In the world that Ann Coulter has helped create, suggesting that any one of the president’s myriad of failures might be down to poor policy is akin to treason, but calling for the murder of a sitting Congressman is just good, plain conservative fun. We have reached the Bizzaro Point. Finding our way back to the Real World starts with the media treating Coulter like the poison she is, once and for all.
