When Saying ANYTHING Gets Scary
Sometimes the things they’ll say cross over from garden variety inept or untruthful or moronic to the horrific and debase and psychotic. Digby, over at Hullabaloo, has the story of how Sacramento, California, Republican county chairman, Robert MacGlashen, took “credit” (strange term, but perfectly wingnutty) for the ad suggesting we “waterboard Barack Obama.” Showing the opaque morality and utter ignorance of the far right wingnut, MacGlashen found it within his brain stem to vocalize, “Some people find it offensive, o
thers do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things.” Can’t comment on how your average “people” might “interpret” this: “Hugo Chavez, Jane Fonda, and Hamas are all voicing support for Barack Obama”? Agreed, that needs a meeting of Talmudic scholars to noodle over. “Just what,” Rabbi, “are they trying to enunciate? What is the purpose?” Let’s go ecumenical and call in the Vatican Curia and every linguist we can round up.
Mr. MacGlashen’s comment proves a corollary to our blog motto, i.e. they’ll say ANYTHING about the anythings they say . . . Truth, fairness, humanity, and reality are on a permanent holiday for wingnuts like Mr. MacGlashen, and he’s the Chairman of the Sacramento County GOP! He’s the one they chose as their public face, their media guy. . . Imagine the folks the county GOP didn’t think were quite ready to meet and greet the public. Call Central Casting, Torches & Pitchforks Dept.
Here’s another one from the Torches & Pitchforks crowd. It’s a nasty molting of the lizard skinned Republican Party of Virginia, reported at RK , Virginia’s Online Progressive Community. They highlight a recent GOP mailer that plays the old and worn out wingnut meme that Obama is an “appeaser” who endangers America by suggesting that we talk with those who oppose us. RK then describes the return envelope included with the mailing, “a brown-
skinned man who looks very much like Barack Obama, with the words ‘America must look evil in the eye and never flinch’ superimposed over his face, [and this] is vile. Whether or not it IS Barack Obama – and it’s close enough that a lot of people could reasonably conclude that it is – this is basically arguing that anyone with skin darker than baby powder is a potential threat.”
Nothing unusual here for the RPV. Their state party Chairman, Jeff Frederick – channeling the Sacrament County Chairman MacGlashen – recently offered the psychotic observation that “both Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have friends that have bombed the Pentagon. That is scary.”
What is correctly scary is these kind of low blows, and notice, it’s coast to coast. Evil winds blow. Forecast: more of the same for a long, long time.
