For what will, regrettably, almost certainly not be the last time, I have had it with the hypocrisy of the hatewingers. All over the wingnuttosphere (Michelle Malkin, InstaHack, and the Freepi, along with numerous lesser lights, all turned up on the first page of the Google search I did: I'm damned if I'm linking to any of that cesspool of human excrement and slime) we're hearing variations on the theme of "Newsweek lied, people died." The fugue on that canon can be read between these lines of the preznit's spokes-hamster at the Tuesday press gaggle, which I quoted earlier today:
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, it's what I talked about yesterday. This report, which Newsweek has now retracted and said was wrong, has had serious consequences. People did lose their lives. The image of the United States abroad has been damaged; there is lasting damage to our image because of this report. And we would encourage Newsweek to do all that they can to help repair the damage that has been done, particularly in the region.
Translation: "Think carefully about what you say and how you say it, because words can hurt real people."
That's a fair point, though I would argue that Scotty "I'm A Big Boy Now" McClellan had absolutely no business applying it to the item that ran in Newsweek--after running in multiple other media sources over at least the last two years, I might add. However, as ever, the Repugnacons seem to have come down with a fatal case (at least from the standpoint of consistency and self-referential coherence) of selective memory.
What makes me say that? Well, how about we open with this bit from the Douchebag of Liberty, which I quoted last weekend:
Because the whole system (INAUDIBLE) you're not going to have --
like going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber. You're not going to let the Democrats do that, say, We're going to -- we're going to confirm this person, we're not going to confirm the other person. They're going to -- they're going to say that this is not the way we're going to do it. They've had all kinds of different offers of that kind.
(Emphasis mine.)
Or how about this screenshot from Faux News, courtesy of Crooks and Liars:
Or how about this little snippet of tape, also from Crooks and Liars, of Senator Man-on-Dog on the floor of the Senate during today's debate over the "nukular opshun":
What the Democrats are doing is "the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It's mine.' This is no more the rule of the Senate than it was the rule of the Senate before not to filibuster.
(My emphasis)
Or consider the following book titles, all of which, with the exception of the Coulternator's (which is available at the store, according to their online inventory), I found staring me in the face yesterday afternoon as I sat perusing a book on German science at the local Borders:
- Michael Savage's latest screed, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
- Ann Coulter, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
- Sean Hannity, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism, and Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism
And those are just the titles that I remember seeing.
So while Newsweek should censor itself so as not to tarnish our precious image abroad (as if G. Dumbya, Condosleezza, Dumsfeld, Big Dick, et aliae hadn't irreparably damaged it long before Newsweek's Qur'an story surfaced), and libruls should all shut the fuck up and get behind our Glorious Leader (because we're at war, dammit!), the hatewingers not only get to declare open season on liberals, they get to rake in six- and seven-figure book deals doing it.
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.
I'm not gonna take it anymore.
Regular readers of my blog know that I am at base a gentle soul, and not one to pick a fight. That policy ends today where the hatewingers are concerned. From here on out, I'm adopting their own "take no prisoners" policy. I will do my utmost to kick them, rhetorically at least, in the nuts at every opportunity that presents itself. They get no free passes from me. I will always portray them, and everything they say, in the worst possible light consistent with the commonly accepted rules of textual interpretation. No more benefit of the doubt: if it can reasonably be parsed to mean something evil, hateful, venal, treasonous, duplicitous, deranged, vile, or any combination of some or all of the above, then I'm going to presume that's exactly what the author meant to convey with those words.
Let them weep their crocodile tears about being hated, because they are the haters. Not me, and not my fellow Democrats or my fellow liberals of whatever political persuasion. We don't hate Janice Rogers Brown personally. We just hate what she's done to our legal system, and the Repugnacons' attempt to allow her to do even more damage in a higher court. We don't hate Ann Coulter, though she manifestly hates us. We just hate the evil, nasty, bigoted, contemptuous, and almost always untrue, things she says about us.
To quote your Dear Leader, bring it on, you Repukes. I've got a black belt in bitch, and I'm not afraid to use it.
*"Deliver us from all hypocrites." Paraphrased from the Ordinary of the Mass, Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, "Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day." That's a prayer I'm going to be repeating with even greater fervor than usual in these troubled times. (Especially when by "evil" I mean "conservatives.")
Cross-posted from Musing's musings.