October 17, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

DEPRAVED RIGHT-WINGERS

For years, faithful Rush Limbaugh fans have called themselves "Ditto Heads." They let Limbaugh do their thinking and their talking for them. So it's probably fair to assume that the Ditto Heads believe veterans of the Iraq war are "phony soldiers," or that Michael J. Fox was just faking his Parkinson's disease. After all, that's what Rush said. Limbaugh and others of his ilk just keeping sinking lower and lower into the muck. They can't talk about legitimate issues because the American people and people around the world don't support their hideous view of the world. So now they attack injured twelve year kids who get government health care assistance, or they foam at the mouth that Al Gore got awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe they're in such a frenzy because their time is quickly approaching its end. Let Limbaugh and O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter go off into that place reserved for the vilest of the vile. This commentary by Eric Boehlert is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

The examples of depravity were everywhere last week, with virtually every robotic right-wing blogger dutifully dumping on the Frost family, and often doing it with a demented sense of glee. Go here to read Weekly Standard blogger Samantha Sault's take on the Frost story and count the number of falsehoods she passed along, while making fun ("just for laughs") of the working family with two seriously injured children. Also note that when the right-wing lies about the Frosts were quickly disproved (i.e. they do not pay $20,000 a year to send their kids to private schools), Sault failed to acknowledge the litany of smears she helped spread about a 12-year-old boy who survived a coma. (No wonder so few people take the Weekly Standard seriously when it lectures The New Republic about journalism ethics; the Standard appears to have none of its own.)

But the whole messy slime offensive against the Frost family came as no surprise to anyone who follows Malkin and her army of true believers. As I detailed last winter and spring, they're most dangerous when they accidentally bump into some facts and suddenly think they're Woodward and Bernstein.