"Anyone care to bet the protagonist is a card-carrying member of the Democrat Party (aka nutroot) who is frustrated that Hillary hasn't personally defunded the War in Iraq yet? Might even be a member over at Daily Kos?" ---Rotarymunkey, commenter at MichelleMalkin.com
I have to admit, I never really understood the right-wing sense of humor.
Like when Ronald Reagan joked in 1964 about the 17 million people who then went to bed hungry every night in America, saying that "they were all on a diet."
Or when Rush Limbaugh called 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton a "dog."
Or when George W. Bush yucked it up over the issue of the non-existent WMDs in Iraq during a "comedy" skit in the Oval Office.
I don't know---maybe I just don't have much of a sense of humor, because I saw nothing funny about yesterday's hostage crisis, in which a distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
However, plenty of right-wing folks thought the whole episode was real funny. Take (please) the wingnuts who hang out at the blog of right-wing nutcase Michelle Malkin.
As of Friday night, Malkin's comments section was full of posters who were joking about the crisis and speculating about how the "liberal" media and the Democrats would conspire to spin the episode to Hillary's advantage.
A poster by the name of "Fodder Jack" seemed to find humor in the crisis, writing, "Maybe it is a last ditch effort by the press to get an interview with Hillary."
Another writer called "Reppac122" was (like many across the right-wing blogosphere) already using the occasion to attack the Clintons. "My cynical political thinking here is that the Clintons (yes, both of them) will use this horrible situation for their political benefit."
Another writer, using the handle, "RetFireman," raised the issue of conspiracy: "Now be honest...with all that has come out lately, and I am not saying it is staged, but how many people would be that surprised to find out at some later date that it was? Be honest with yourself, and consider who we are talking about."
Commenter "Eric CharlotteNC" sarcastically mocked Liberals in his post. "If our troops weren't in Iraq this never would have happened! Or maybe global warming got this guy very hot!"
"Blacktygrrrr" added his own two cents: "The bottom line is if the hostage taker is a liberal, he will be dismissed as deranged, since many liberals are deranged anyway."
"Rotarymunkey" had this to say: "Anyone care to bet the protagonist is a card-carrying member of the Democrat Party (aka nutroot) who is frustrated that Hillary hasn't personally defunded the War in Iraq yet? Might even be a member over at Daily Kos?"
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let's be real, even opednews isn't immune to inappropriate reactions. our own resident commenter, ben "your 15 minutes are up" marble, chose this moment to declare his prediction that the "wackos would stalk HITLARY and called it a "hostate crisis."
Malkin and Bill O'Reilly, too, are doing no more the a big fat lying job of CYA when they say offensive comments are blocked.
As for her book, let's lock Malkin up in an internment camp for a week and then see what she has to say about it. And while we're at it, there are a few people who say water boarding isn't torture who should get a sip of that, too.
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Sandy Sand (133 articles, 0 quicklinks, 169 diaries, 1272 comments)
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 8:41:59 AM
and Hitlery had nothing to do with it she is already in NH to capitalize on this. I can foresee 2 weeks of this on the lamestream (which I no longer watch) And the poor little murdering shyster hitlery will be demanding gun bans and homegrown terror bill s1959. The poor black widow is so desperate after seeing Ron Pauls great advances she will jump on anything to try and salvage a hopeless campaign. Grease up the diebolds Hitlery cuz thats the only way you will be electable.
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john riggs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 395 comments)
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 9:50:38 AM
It's hard for anyone with even half a brain to understand the level of hate which eminates from the right wing knuckle draggers. Everything is reduced to a rabid, virulent strain of "us vs them". Unfortunately, this mentality is rampant, and at least partially explains why the present situation in this country, and the world, is so dire.
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Bill Cain (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 271 comments)
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 11:12:24 AM
This has all of the appearances of another “Intelligence operation.”
This is the same sort of stunt that Sarkozy used in France to help his political career. In that instance, several children were held hostage by a man with a bomb, and into the fracas wades Sarkozy, who then carries several children to safety; while the newsreels roll.
That this happened in “Rochester,” New Hampshire, may be a way of affecting the unconscious Minds of some voters, to the benefit of Hilary.
In Politics; "Nothing happens by accident."
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Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 390 comments)
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 4:34:34 PM
She gets to "demonize" the people who commented, she gets publicity. and she can pretend she "cared about the hostages". She's no better than the people mentioned. Another sociopathic politician. I know, she's suppossed to be a "Democrat", excuse me but I find that hard to believe.
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Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 575 comments)
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 5:43:17 PM
Many developments have lead to a lack of civility in public discourse in the U.S. that is not limited to "neocons". Tasteless joking about the Clinton hostage crisis is just the offence of the day and another opportunity for people who do much the same thing to express hypocritical outrage. This kind of trash just keeps going round and round. There is no point to perpetuating it, unless the goal is to further polarize people's opinions and positions instead of encouraging discussion of important issues, and no one has a right to complain unless they refrain from doing it themselves.
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Paul Rye (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 253 comments)
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 11:17:02 PM
And I will remind people that a lot of hate emanates from left-wing "knuckle-draggers" as well. (Actually, I prefer the term "bong-gurgling anarchists".) This is getting tiresome. no matter what side of the fence it's coming from.
This hostage-situation news item is really just a sad sack story. Hopefully, this guy will get some appropriate help (after serving whatever legal consequences arise), and the story will end.
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Scott (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 415 comments)
on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 12:49:25 AM
