I owe Ann Coulter a public apology. For the past couple of years I’ve been saying she’s a little too over the top; snarky, nasty, and downright mean to liberals and Democrats. Guess what? She’s right. You can’t be nice to them. We’ve tried that. Liberals and Democrats (the same thing) take anything nice and decent a person does and twist and turn it into something perverse, filthy and downright ugly.
I’m a little slow on the uptake. For that I humbly apologize. From now on I will not make the mistake of assuming ( ass – you – me) (ass as in Democratic Jackass Donkey) that there is anything remotely resembling that old milk of human kindness buried deep within the recesses of that black void of a soul that Democrats and liberals do not possess.
I know the rant is a little over the top, but I’ve reached the end of my tolerance, and I’m known to be an extremely tolerant person.
The final straw came when I saw the following line from a lovely columnist with Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi. He said of Rush Limbaugh, “...he's abrasive, he's divisive, he's...a fat, pill-popping idiot…”
Try this: Barack Obama is a brainless, air-head, coke-snorting (once upon a time) pathological narcissist who is the most incompetent President we’ve had the misfortune to experience in our nation’s history. He makes Jimmy Carter look like a statesman.
There.
It’s not much fun, is it?
I really don’t give a rip if I defend Rush Limbaugh or not. That’s not the object of this specific rant and rave. It’s all about the fact that activist liberals are the nastiest folks I have had the misfortune of encountering. Now, watch the comments for this piece. They will cry. They will protest, and they will say all sorts of nasty things about your humble correspondent, AS IF I CARE what they say.
I am what you call a normal (shut up), average Republican who’s not too conservative and not really moderate. Contrary to all the vile things you precious little liberals have said over the past couple of years, I’m basically a nice person. I don’t deliberately go around hurting people and saying nasty things about people. For the past eight years I’ve put up with all the vile, ugly, deceitful, prevaricating, filthy, perverse, and completely false things liberals and Democrats have said about George W. Bush.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Baritone
"Do you feel insulted?"
Considering the source? Not at all. Knock yourself out. Have a good time. I do hope you feel better, even if your rant is all meaningless drivel.
B
2 - roger nowosielski
SJ Reidhead is known for her rants. "Ranthead" would be much more suitable for her pen name.
3 - JohnD
Here's another clue for you: They're not liberals, they're Leftists.
When it comes to Leftists, never assess as stupidity that which can be explained by malice (update of quote attributed to Napolean).
Liberalism of the Founding, Yes. Leftism, Nyet.
4 - Cindy
George W. Bush should should have been hung.
If he wanted to find a WMD, all he had to do was look in the mirror.
SJ: I am really nice person, everyone tells me so, you fucking bastards.
5 - roger nowosielski
"Now, watch the comments for this piece. They will cry. They will protest, and they will say all sorts of nasty things about your humble correspondent."
You're deluding yourself, Ms Reidhead. Most of your writings doesn't deserve a response. You should work on your frustrations, whatever they are. Then you might discover there is a cooler, more rational you buried somewhere beneath.
Good luck!
6 - Clavos
When one doesn't like the message, killing the messenger is always the most popular response.
7 - Silas Kain
Wow, this is a lot to swallow. (No punch lines, Nalle.) I'm gonna go out on a limb here. The problem is Rush and Anne do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT speak for the entire Republican cause. As a matter of fact that are extremists on the Right who claim to be Conservative Republicans but what they are is baseless media whores who stir up the dim-witted base that celebrates them.
A true Conservative Republican is not heartless. A true Conservative Republican does believe in less government and that includes the right of two people, regardless of gender, to marry. A true Conservative Republican obviously would welcome the chance to work in tandem with Barack Obama. The fringes would have you believe that the President is some wild spending liberal who is going to undo the 8 years of Bushite rule. Well, a true Conservative Republican would welcome the chance to take back the party away from the Far Right and most of all from Conservative Christians who are nothing more than hot air-filled windbags who have more in common with the Taliban than with the Constitution.
8 - Dr Dreadful
The thing with political insults is that when they come from your own side you're far more likely to see them as containing an element of truth rather than being gratuitously nasty. That's why I don't buy SJ's protestations that she thinks Ann Coulter is over the top.
If she truly believes the Right has been unremittingly nice up until now, I need only point to some of the ripe brown poop that is hurled with monotonous frequency - much of it on this very website - by right-wingers at some of their favourite targets: Barack Obama, Clintons B and H, Ted Kennedy, [insert name of Hollywood star here], Harry Reid, the 'liberal media', and of course the Antichrist herself, Nancy Pelosi.
9 - Dan(Miller)
JohnD,
I see no problem with the usage of "Liberal" in the article. Thomas Jefferson and a bunch of other old, dead males wouldn't appreciate it, but they don't know anything because (leaving aside the minor point that they and all that they stood for are dead) the meaning of the word has been greatly transformed in recent years. On April Fools day of last year, I wrote article and concluded, with some regret, that the word Liberal should be retired. Alas, that has not happened. So, as a public service, I felt obligated to provide a new definition. Here is the modern definition. As the comments following it make clear, it is an accurate definition, even if I say so myself.
Dan(Miller)
10 - Cindy
When one doesn't like the message, killing the messenger is always the most popular response.
Yeah, but, what if one just doesn't like the messenger? lol
11 - roger nowosielski
She might be likable once you get to know her. You're only seeing her mean, Internet side.
12 - Silas Kain
...and of course the Antichrist herself, Nancy Pelosi.
If I were the AntiChrist I would be insulted. The Madame Shrieker of the House is the largest political whore seen in Washington since that pool party in the Kennedy White House back in '62.
13 - Baritone
SJ seems to conveniently ignore the constant vitupritive nature of the rants promulgated by the likes of Coulter, Rush, Hannity and many others for years. Conservative talk radio far outdates the Bush years. Rush and the rest are just what Silas says, media whores.
Rush now fancies himself as some kind of icon who brandishes his newly realized power against anyone amongst the right who has the temerity to speak ill of him. Even worse, are those who let slip something less than flattering about that tub of guts, and then quickly and abjectly apologize, throwing themselves at his feet for mercy. It's sickening.
As I've said before, Bush and company earned the wrath they received. And, SJ, by 2006 it wasn't a question of "wanting" Bush to fail. That ship had sailed long before.
B
14 - pablo
Gonna take your marbles and go home now Reidhead? Awwww
15 - Clavos
She might be likable once you get to know her.
I find her quite likable, and don't know her at all (except through her writing here on BC).
Chacun à son goüt...
16 - roger nowosielski
How can SJ "conveniently forget," B-man, while she's a ranter herself? It's physical impossibility.
17 - Clavos
...goût...
18 - Dr Dreadful
"Goüt"? Is that Turkish?
19 - Baritone
Clav,
I was gonna say... :}
20 - Clavos
B-tone,
Fair enough.
vituperative
21 - Clavos
Doc,
Actually, it's from a rare dialect of Lower Slobbovian, spoken only in a small area of the Hitthewrongkey Mountains there.
22 - Silas Kain
Slobbovian, eh? I thought it was Dutch for 'gay'.
23 - Ruvy
SJ,
I enjoyed reading your rant. It was actually funny. This stuff you call insulting is kinda mild compared to what I'm used to reading here in Israel. By Israeli standards, you are not vituperative at all - in fact, you sound as if you are just getting your engines going.
However, my dear, what your fellow Americans call the vituperative hate-filled bitching filled America's airwaves while Obama was still running around with his Pakistani friends in the Middle East and South Asia. And it started with conservative talk-radio. It took a long time for the other side of the aisle to even get going. Al Franken, the senatorial hopeful from Minnesota trying to claim his seat, tried to rush Limbaugh from the left, and failed utterly. NPR has finally mastered the art, and has done it by sounding edumacated - more edumacated than the so-called stupid fools on the conservative side of the aisle.
And do you know what is so funny and entertaining about it all? Both aisles are being sideswiped by History and "conservatives" are being forced to implement socialism in a failed free market economy. In the mean-time all you guys do is scream at each other!
I suggest, madame, that it is time for reflection rather than vituperative screaming. Leave the hatred and vituperativeness to us Israelis, who are expert at it....
24 - Joanne Huspek
Wow. Could you tell us how you really feel? :-)
I actually enjoyed your rant too. This is BLOG Critics. Blogger rant; that's the nature of the beast. Most long-time bloggers grow a thick skin. Bloggers are not journalists, so there's a certain creative license you can use while exposing your thoughts.
25 - roger nowosielski
Why not just say then fuck, screw it all, and all the other cuss words?
If verbal ejaculation is your idea of blogging, go for it, but I wouldn't encourage SJ if you even halfway consider yourself her fried.
She's got serious problems to resolve - in the bedroom.