How do tea-bagger knuckle draggers know how to breath oxygen? One might think that the natural born instinct would prove far too complex for their tiny pickled shit beetle brains. This is on par with those idiots protesting the protesters in Wisco. Or the "human compromised waistline" Rush Limbaugh making fat jokes about Michelle Obama.
These piles of fetid excrement are heavily armed with remote controls and trigger fingers double-dipped in Hidden Valley Ranch dressing. If they weren't such sorry lumps of skin, hair and cellulite I would be a little more concerned.
Fuck!
What happens when you a are a politician who angers NASCAR fans? Apparently, you get death threats.
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) alerted Capitol Police Thursday after a threatening fax arrived at her office attacking her proposal to strip Pentagon sponsorship from NASCAR teams.
McCollum's staff tells TPM this is the first time they've alerted the police about a threat made against here office since the health care debate.
"Yo, Slut Betty," the fax, which arrived at McCollum's DC office Thursday morning, reads. "Shut Your Phucking Pie Hole!"
The fax then goes on to say that "without exception, Marxists are enemies of the Constitution" and "Death To All Marxists, Foreign And Domestic!"
Rep. McCollum's proposal, which would ask the Army to stop its sponsorship of Ryan Newman's NASCAR vehicle, is projected to save millions in taxpayer dollars.
There have been no reported threats against Republicans who have proposed stripping funding from abortion, family planning, public television, health care, environmental protection agencies, WIC, the FBI, NASA, state police, education, Medicaid and Medicare.
Via Talking Points Memo.
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All I can say is, "Par for the course."
I see that Gomer in the photo couldn't find his blue tinted shades and decided to go with the gold tinted ones...
Did the text of the fax mention the NASCAR funding issue, or is this just too good a chance to get our righteousness juice flowing?
Good press for McCollum, aka, Mrs Toby Flenderson.
Righteousness? Nah, just dumbfounded by the level of discourse the slack-jawed yokels have taken in defense of their pasty-assed past times. The shit is downright hilarious and sad at the same time. Odd that you're defending a death threat though, Luke.
Oh and here is the fax, to which the mouth breathing bigot references NASCAR funding...
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2011/02/mccollum-hate-mail.php?page=1
Do you really think I'm defending a death threat?
Nice spin.You should work in advertising.
No, I'm asking whether the actual death threat contained mention of the Nascar proposal.
I've looked for the full text, but all I come up with only mentions the Marxist nonsense and the threat.It seems like if it was in the fax, they'd post that text, don't you think?
It's not like Lefties don't fantasize about slaughtering the John Boehners of the world (which is ok with me), it's that they're too well socialized to fax it to others. Poor middle American weirdos have less to give a fuck about.
This kind of thing is hyped for a reason, and it's to promote this kind of P.R-driven culture war that now passes for political engagement. Mrs. Flenderson (to Mark Dayton's Toby, of course. ) scored some serious points at home with this story.
They work us all into a frothy rage and we're theirs.
What does this story tell us about political realities? —That there are idiots who don't like Democrats?
Great. I'm with them. And I'm with you. I hate them all.
—Luke
Thanks for the link to the fax. I didn't see that till just now. I don't find it that surprising.
Hope you're doing good.
-Luke
Regarding defending a death threat: You questioned the validity of the claim despite the fact that the link to the fax was in the article I was quoting (and linked to). You then insulted me in the process.
It's ok, I'm over it.
I don't have any sympathy for "poor middle American Weirdos." I also don't want the guy dead (or John Boner for that matter).
I also don't take a death threat aimed at politician regarding a topical issue lightly either. You're free to insist it's nothing but PR, but I wonder how you would react if something like that happened to you or your family.
I'm good. Thanks for asking.
Casey
Casey, if you're not willing to address these things honestly, why bother? What are we supposed to get out of it? We get to watch you posture and wave flags for the blue team?
You know plenty of Lefties might fantasize about crushing their enemies. You do the same when you call middle americans bigots who you deserve no sympathy ( I guess they're the wrong color.)
You don't give a shit about the death threat. You know it's nonsense. You're using it to get yourself psyched-up on your team, and how you're much better than some imaginary band of yokels you call Republicans.
It's all in your head. Not a place I want to visit. Pretty fucking humorless.
I missed the link, Casey. I questioned it because I read three other articles that didn't quote specific mention of the Nascar proposal ( which I'd obviously support).
Take Care.
"Casey, if you're not willing to address these things honestly, why bother?"
What exactly have I been dishonest about?
"What are we supposed to get out of it? We get to watch you posture and wave flags for the blue team?"
Well I hope you would get a laugh, and realize that there are some fucked up people out there that get worked up about some pretty stupid shit. I don't know enough about McCollum to support her in the "ra ra" sort of way. I know she's a victim of a death threat. That's enough for me. I didn't come out and support McCollum or her policies in the post either.
"You know plenty of Lefties might fantasize about crushing their enemies. You do the same when you call middle americans bigots who you deserve no sympathy ( I guess they're the wrong color.)"
I don't know any "lefties" that want their political adversaries dead, Luke. They might exist, but not in my world.
"You don't give a shit about the death threat."
I do give a shit about the death threat. My point is that the level of discourse coming from the far right has become so diseased that stuff like this is now par for the course. It just so happens that the cause this bigot is so charged up about happens to be a slow pitch softball. It truly defines him and his mouth breathing brethren that are engaged in so much misguided huffing and puffing across the country right now. It bums me out that an elected official might have an inkling of fear when they go to work everyday. Considering the climate out there, I don't think that is out of the realm of imagination.
"You know it's nonsense. You're using it to get yourself psyched-up on your team, and how you're much better than some imaginary band of yokels you call Republicans."
To think that I baked in some agenda to a blog post that I scribbled out over a lunch break is pretty far-fetched. I wrote a blog about a story that I thought was scary and funny at the same time. I don't expect everyone to agree with it. I'm glad it raised your ire, even though it's obvious that we don't agree on the topic.
"It's all in your head. Not a place I want to visit. Pretty fucking humorless."
You're spending an awful lot of time on a "humorless" blog then.
I really don't want to fight with you. maybe I misunderstood where you're coming from, but it's hard to read the kind of rhetoric you posted and not see it as pretty much a mirror-image of what's going on with certain people on the "right" ( not like these people have a real grasp on political philosophy). I mean, calling them unevolved, calling them bigots; It's just another form of bigotry itself.
These rubes are getting manipulated, just like the majority on the Left are getting manipulated. Like I wrote, I think they more often lack the kind of socialization that would stop them from faxing in their fantasies of domination to the other team. It doesn't mean the Left doesn't have those kinds of fantasies. Both sides need that kind of frothing inanity to keep the ball rolling.
I do have sympathy for the jobless and shitty in Middle America.They've been devalued over the last 30 years, and now that the credit/housing bubble has popped, the chickens are coming home to roost.
We should be carrying pitch forks to Wall Street right now, but we've been divided and conquered.
Did you read the fax? This guy is very clearly a racist asshole. I wasn't making any of that up, or tossing up a stereotype. It's in the fucking letterhead of the fax.
My rhetoric is pretty satirical in nature. If you've followed this blog over any period of time I imagine you would glean that from what I write. I mean "trigger fingers double-dipped in Ranch dressing" isn't supposed to be some high societal definition. It's supposed to get a laugh at a racist fear mongering asshole's expense.
I know these rubes are getting manipulated. That's the fucking point. I go after the manipulator's too, even more so. That's also not going to stop me from verbally eviscerating some racist knuckle dragger that can't see the forest from the trees.
And yet...I don't think the guy should die...
I don't call that being "socialized." I call it being a civilized human fucking being. Big difference.
You keep moving the goal posts, Luke. You would have had a point if the fax contained no reference to the NASCAR funding issue, but it clearly does. You would have had a point if I was cheerleading the cause of McCollum, but I never have.
You just made a whole shit ton of assumptions about a blog post that was meant to get a chuckle out of a few people...and you have continued to insult me, you're supposed friend, in the process. So it seems to me you do want to argue. About a longstanding difference in opinion.
I mean, you're speaking in terms of "them" though, applying your rhetoric to a huge swath of America.
I get that you're trying to be funny, but that doesn't mean it's not hateful ( justified or not) and it doesn't mean we should agree with the premise of the joke.
I don't think I'm moving a goal post. My point has been the same throughout; I think this story has been hyped in order to keep the fires of the culture war burning.
Yep, and you're making a judgement call that is way off the mark.
Look at this blog. On the very page you're reading these comments, I have a film about a moonshiner named Popcorn Sutton, and a video clip about Bill Withers, a blue collar dude who was making fucking toilets when he hit it big. Both of these people would probably fit into that "huge swath of America" that I'm supposedly vilifying right?
Culture wars my ass. You have this uncanny knack of assuming shit when you have no idea of what you're talking about. Not to mention, changing the argument midstream to fit your convenient accusations (that's exactly what you intended when you initially posted).
Furthermore, nobody is forcing you to accept my point of view.
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