BloodLust Rising _ - ^ death threats against Pelosi at WaPo

I was directed to Fred Hiatt's Washington Post editorial on Nancy Pelosi the other day.  By the time I read the bullshit White House talking points he was spouting and got to the comments, there were already over 30 pages of them.  It was apparent right off the bat that Freeperville and all of its related suburbs had been linked there early.

Initially the comments largely were supportive of Hiatt with a good bit of typical angry GOP nastiness and sexism.  All to be expected given the crowd that showed up.  But then I noticed a trend.  The further into the comments I got the more extreme the comments.  I stopped reading around page 30-something to request a post be deleted.  It was a heated comment charging Nancy with treason and demanding she be locked up for life.

Little did I know, the fun had just begun

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I came back later to find 70 some pages of comments.  The tone had also gotten much uglier.  There were a lot of ugly sexist comments, anti-Jewish comments, and the now consensus that Nancy was a traitor deserving of jail.  As disgusting to wade through as this was, it didn't prepare me for the commenter who claimed that Nancy deserved to die for betraying her country, along with the rest of the traitors in Congress.  They were so emphatic on this point that they repeated it at the end of their post.  So again, I requested a deletion.  Going back it was only a few pages further on that a commenter stated that Nancy should be hung.  By this point I needed a good hot shower.

I wanted to copy some of the offending posts to include in this diary but the WaPo editors disinfected the pile of trash overnight and all of the death threats were removed.  I truly hope that they forwarded to Nancy's Secret Service detail as much information as possible regarding the posts and users who made them.

The whole experience caused me to do a bit of thinking on the bigger picture.  It has been obvious for some time now that the administration is backed into a corner and appears to be getting a bit desperate.  The scandal-a-day syndrome, impending subpoenas, investigations everywhere based on substantial evidence of wrongdoing by administration officials, the Iraq funding standoff, Gonzogate, and more.

It occurred to me that this rising level of anger and threatening talk by the freeperazzi was merely a reflection of the current mindset of their hero george and his not-so-merry band of idiots.  And it made me wonder just how far these dead-enders will really go in support of their failed fuhrer.  And how far their failed fuhrer will go in trying to retain some semblance of relevance in his lameduckery.

I foresee a long, hot summer ... for all of us.

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and the ideas that have come forth, I guess my biggest concern is how the bu$hies and the Right Wing Noise Machine will respond.  

If I were Fred Hiatt I would be a bit taken aback by the ugliness and mob anger my words had incited.  But then, if I were Fred Hiatt I wouldn't be writing bullshit, neocon oped pieces either.  I fear that instead of being responsible and pulling back from the brink, they will use and manipulate this mindless anger in their base to try to retain power.

What happens when even the mainstream Republicans are ready to impeach bu$h to try to save their own asses?  Will he take the hint, or will KKKarl give a call to all of his "Fred Hiatts", (Rush, Sean, and wannabes), telling them to whip the mouth-breathers into a frenzy?  Hell, they may not even need Blackwater if they get enough brownshirt support.

I wish I could be optimistic that sanity and responsibility will ultimately win out.  But given their track record I think that is pollyannish.  At every critical juncture where the bu$h administration has faced a choice between the high ground and the low, they have chosen the latter.  In some cases even the low ground wasn't low enough for them.  And so they tunneled into new depths of political depravity.  There is no reason to believe they will not do so in this scenario also.