Jim Stillman
Randy InmanIt’s more than just being without class.
May 28th 2008 20:40
It’s more than just being without class. The Right supports chaos, street riots and political assassination.
Last Fall I submitted a post on Ann Coulter and her suggestion that John Edwards should be assassinated; I was accused by the Right’s Orble apologist, SL, of not understanding and appreciating Ms Coulter’s sense of humor. Mc Coulter has also “joked” about killing a Supreme Court Justice,
“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' crème brulee," Coulter said. "That's just a joke, for you in the media.”
SL, along with others of the Right enjoy equating Senator Obama with terrorists by repeatedly citing his middle name, Hussein, and sometimes adding, gratuitously, Mohammed, which is not part of the Senator’s name. All fun stuff and, again, part of the Right’s sense of humor. Name calling is endemic in those quarters, Billary, Bill the Zipper Clinton, and so forth.
I would just consider this as puerile adolescent humor, except sometimes, the Right pundits go beyond the Pale. For example, Rush Limbaugh has been quite transparent. For weeks, now, Rush Limbaugh has been trying to incite political violence by giving on-air military-sounding orders, effectively 'commanding' his listeners to wage war against the U.S. electoral system.
The right-wing pundit's 'orders' to his Republican listeners have been clear:: vote in the Democratic primaries as a coordinated tactic for sowing division in the opposition party. The goal of such 'chaos,' Limbaugh has stated explicitly, is to foment hatred between different parts of the Democratic Party leading, ultimately, to street riots during the Denver convention. Rush said:
Then, former GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, first “joked” about killing Mitt Romney and his supporters, Governor Huckabee “joked” about an assassination attempt on Senator Obama.
Humor?
Think this is funny? Listen as Ted Nugent, a popular Right-Wing spokesperson offer rational sober political discourse:
Want more funny stuff?
Liz Trotter, on Fox, “confused” Senator Obama and Osama bin Laden. No problem; kill them both.
Is there no decency remaining on the Right?
Last Fall I submitted a post on Ann Coulter and her suggestion that John Edwards should be assassinated; I was accused by the Right’s Orble apologist, SL, of not understanding and appreciating Ms Coulter’s sense of humor. Mc Coulter has also “joked” about killing a Supreme Court Justice,
“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' crème brulee," Coulter said. "That's just a joke, for you in the media.”
SL, along with others of the Right enjoy equating Senator Obama with terrorists by repeatedly citing his middle name, Hussein, and sometimes adding, gratuitously, Mohammed, which is not part of the Senator’s name. All fun stuff and, again, part of the Right’s sense of humor. Name calling is endemic in those quarters, Billary, Bill the Zipper Clinton, and so forth.
I would just consider this as puerile adolescent humor, except sometimes, the Right pundits go beyond the Pale. For example, Rush Limbaugh has been quite transparent. For weeks, now, Rush Limbaugh has been trying to incite political violence by giving on-air military-sounding orders, effectively 'commanding' his listeners to wage war against the U.S. electoral system.
The right-wing pundit's 'orders' to his Republican listeners have been clear:: vote in the Democratic primaries as a coordinated tactic for sowing division in the opposition party. The goal of such 'chaos,' Limbaugh has stated explicitly, is to foment hatred between different parts of the Democratic Party leading, ultimately, to street riots during the Denver convention. Rush said:
This is about chaos. This is why it's called Operation Chaos! It's not called Operation Save Hillary. It's not called Operation Nominate Obama. It's called Operation Chaos! The dream end... I mean, if people say what's your exit strategy, the dream end of this is that this keeps up to the convention and that we have a replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that. That's the objective here.
Humor?
Think this is funny? Listen as Ted Nugent, a popular Right-Wing spokesperson offer rational sober political discourse:
Want more funny stuff?
Liz Trotter, on Fox, “confused” Senator Obama and Osama bin Laden. No problem; kill them both.
Is there no decency remaining on the Right?
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It's politics so what's new, but I didn't say that made it right.
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Hardly the same thing as a spokesperson on a so-called news network is it?
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You call that humor, I call it a death wish for bush. So Jim I have proven just one, and I have more.
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Kentucky has a Democrat governor? wow. That's surprising.
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You call that humor, I call it a death wish for bush. So Jim I have proven just one, and I have more.
Haha, I call that humour because Cheney shot someone on a hunting trip, there is actual grounding for a joke. There is absoloutely no humour in balatantly saying 'gee if I had it my way I'd totally want to see this guy get knocked off'. If your definition of humour is so low brow that it needs to border on the literal rather than the satirical then you're really pushing the limits of what good natured fun is versus bitter resentment.
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Here they are:
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No it isn't alright for anyone to 'want' George Bush dead, but your example of Cheney taking Bush out hunting was a joke, wherein the one about Obamag getting knocked off had no elements of humour in it.
As for the links you've given, it's clear Bill Maher felt uncomfortable about implying Cheney should have been assasinated. What he did say was "What about the people who got onto the Huffington Post – and these weren’t even the bloggers, these were just the comments section – who said they, they expressed regret that the attack on Dick Cheney failed" and seems to have regretted it. However he did say "That’s a funny joke", at a comment on the Huffington Post blog about the bomb being used to assasinate Vice President Cheney had gone to waste. First of all the wasted bomb thing is probably lowbrow humour, however it isn't Maher himself saying it.
He did say "But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow" but still it hardly is as grave as declaring 'we would assasinate Dick Cheney if we could'.
The fake documentary 'the assasination of a president' is just that, it does not laugh or joke about the fictional assasination of George Bush but deals with a hypothetical aftermath, you're going to great lengths to derive insult from that.
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Maybe it is that you share the same feeling as the left wingers. What other reason could it be?
To wish someone harm or death whether it be the right or the left it is just plain wrong.