It’s kind of pointless to satire political extremists if you can’t find any target more vile than yourself.
So Wonkette mocks Trig Palin, and maybe it’s just a case of moronic partisan hatred getting temporarily out of hand, but then the editor for the site tries to defend it. In the fantasy world they’ve constructed, Sarah Palin is constantly using Trig as a prop and that’s what they’re outraged by. Of course, if she wasn’t ever publicly seen with Trig, you know they’d say she was ashamed of him. See, about 95% of everything the professional left these days screams about is just partisan BS, and when you see people act like utter sociopaths like the people at Wonkette, you start to wonder if they have any real human beliefs at all.
No joke, when partisan hatred gets you to the level of the people at Wonkette, you’ve gone from politically active to having a mental illness. They have a divorce from reality (see how much trouble they have at even understanding the outrage) and delusions (the whole made up belief there is some “cult of Trig” and Ken Layne lashing out at Tommy Christopher thinking someone must have put him up to being outraged) and are cut off from normal human emotions (you know, the sort of thing that would tell you, “Hey, maybe because I don’t like someone’s politics isn’t a good reason to attack their child with Down syndrome.”). Are any political views they hold — supporting abortion, wanting more taxes — really worth becoming this twisted?
And you shouldn’t just look at the left. It can easily happen to the right just as well. I try not to write out of anger myself, because the one thing to remember about politics is it is mainly just nonsense. It’s a silly faux-conflict we’ve been engaged in for centuries, and we will continue to go around in these circles for centuries more. That’s why the thing most worth making fun of in politics is the pomposity of it all. The sort of pomposity that makes you think you’re righteous mocking a defenseless little child.
It sucks to be a democrat, because in their fantasy world nothing they say is ever remembered…but, in the real world it is. So, when people remember all the years of them crying and screaming about that ugly little offspring of the Clintons being “off-limits” or the two little spoiled brats that are currently in the White House being “off-limits,” it becomes really inconvenient. They just wish you’d forget them squawking things like “Children of politicians are off limits” or “Truth to power.”
Politics is one thing. Making fun of a baby is another. Making fun of a Down’s Syndrome Baby is way another! These people aren’t even people anymore and don’t deserve to be considered, thought about, remembered or dealt with. They are simply ignorant morons who thrive on hate! Making fun of a politician is way ok, they deserve it! Doing what they did is demented and cruel. Hope I run into this guy sometime!
The Bush twins were fair game if I remember. Civility only applies to liberal children.
If being retarded is currently a no-no for picking on, maybe that is why he liberals complain when we pick on Obama.
Methinks the Wonkette writer needs a hippie face punch to his dumb monkey face.
I’m fuzzy on this, Frank. I mean, it’s been shown that liberalism is a mental illness, so what you’re saying is, “Don’t let your mental illness become a mental illness.”
This is the epitome of bullying. Would liberals defend it if someone picked on a kid with Downs on a playground? No, because it is picking on the weaker kid, and they are supposedly the great defenders of all things not conservative. So now they’re picking on someone not even as ‘independent’ as the kid with Downs on the playground – a fricking baby/toddler. Seriously. Whole new low. I’m really glad MSNBC is covering this story. Oh wait…
I ask the oompa loompas at wonkette this: Why would you call any child retarded given you support Vermicious Knids like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi? That’s hipocrisy.
They did take the post down, but still. I’m sick over this. Tell you what: you guys go get Todd, I’ll go get Jack Steuf. We’ll get them together and see how clever Jack thinks he is when Todd’s done.
I think the key is the level of anger. To a Liberal, if you’re REALLY ticked off at the right, alls fair. They only come down on liberals who aren’t quite pissed off enough. It’s an intellectual Napoleon syndrome.
Does this mean we’re not really going to Nuke the Moon?
*sigh*
Can we nuke Wankerette? Or can we blast Wankerette and all her little Wankers to the Moon and then Nuke the bajeebers out of it? That would be cool!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0411/Advertisers_boycott_Wonkette_over_Trig_Palin_post.html
Looks like they took the post down after a firestorm of advertisers said they were going to boycott the site over it. Shows you the pocketbook really does speak.
Why would anyone WANT to advertise on Wankerette?
They even got snippy with the advertisers at first; they attacked Papa John when he said he was done with Wonkette! Who attacks Papa John (except the Noid from Domino’s)?
I’m so serious: if someone can tell me how to find these people in DC, there is no end to the pranks I can pull. No one gets hurt but I can get really creative with a pet supply store purchase, a trip to Harris Teeter, and some Oreos. I’m like the MacGuyver of pranks.
“Hey, maybe because I don’t like someone’s politics isn’t a good reason to attack their child with Down syndrome.”
My rule for kids (and family) is that they’re off limits if they’re just used as props, but as soon as they open their mouths on a political topic – game on.
Malia wore that peace sign t-shirt, so she’s borderline. But I certainly wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that Malia’s recent month at “summer camp” was just a cover for her going to a clinic to abort the baby that Barack planted in her womb.
Because that would be the equivalent of the Wonkette piece.
Pomposity makes me angry!