...just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water

[primroseburrows]

Apparently some of the Bush-era asshats stayed around after their Leader left the scene, as evidenced by

Exhibit A (for asshat):

and Exhibit B (for, I dunno, something horribly, terribly insulting that begins with B):

There isn't a word for how furious both of these asshats make me. Because holy shit. These guys make Ann Coulter seem tame (I couldn't even finish watching the second one. I mean, I'm nauseated enough today).

If this is supposed to be comedy, it's not even close to being funny. It's disrespectful and hurtful and just plain MEAN.


(links from maggiesox and mcollinknight)

Comments

[peacey.livejournal.com]

...aren't there are some subjects that are simply beyond bad taste to mock?

Sure there are, and you named three of them. However, just because they're in bad taste to me, or even to 99.9997% of people the world over, doesn't mean I'm not going to fight for their right to say/write it. It's easy as all hell to say "Yay, free speech!" when we agree with what's being said. The test comes when we don't.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I don't question his right to say it at all. I'm one of the First Amendment's biggest fans (Dude. It's on my LJ interests list!), and he has every right to be a dumbass on national television.

Free speech goes both ways, though, which means that I have the right (and IMO the obligation) to scream at ignorant arseholes like this guy and for being, well, ignorant arseholes.

This asshat isn't the first ignoramus to draw breath (example: Fred Phelps, who has the audacity to picket funerals like Heath Ledger's and this Iraqi war vet-- horrible, terrible acts, but hey, he has the right to do it on publicly-owned land, according to the first amendment), and he won't be the last. Which is even more reason why people like Phelps and Greg Guttermouth deserve to know what us 99.9997% think of them.

[peacey.livejournal.com]

Free speech goes both ways, though, which means that I have the right (and IMO the obligation) to scream at ignorant arseholes like this guy and for being, well, ignorant arseholes.

As I said in a previous response, absofreakinglutely you do. For someone like me who actually enjoys intelligent, unemotional confrontation, I live for it.

As for the rest of your reply, yes. In fact, had I been at either funeral, I likely would have come away from it with my first mugshot for trying to kick the living shite out of said Mr. Phelps. So much for unemotional confrontation, eh? ;)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

In fact, had I been at either funeral, I likely would have come away from it with my first mugshot for trying to kick the living shite out of said Mr. Phelps.

Hey, after you're famous, you could autograph the picture to raise money for some anti-defamation league, or something. :)