Drowning In A Cesspool Of Hate

A week ago, Jeffrey Goldstein, the author of the protein wisdom blog, ridiculed me and other supporters of Cindy Sheehan as mindless sheep.

Till then, I had never even heard of his blog. So I went over to take a look, and maybe even defend myself. I should not have bothered. Here's some examples of the intelligent debate I have encountered on his blog over the past week:

Ghandi, you fetid, warped globule of walking spittle

ask your Mom if you can borrow your balls.

Jesus, what a fucking little anti-semitic pissant

You wouldn’t know an intelligent comment if it crawled in your ass with a reading lamp, a pipe, a glass of port, and a volume of Montaigne.

filthy dick

chowdahead

pull your head out of your ass

anti-Semitic cretin.

batshit crazy

anti-Semitic little fuck

dickweed

stupid little fuck

stupid fuck

Troll

skinny hindu-troll

a fucking clown

a bigot and a moron

fuckin’ psychic

incoherent anti-semite

Ghandi’s alleged “blog” is one lonely shit hole.

you will die an idiot

a perfect example of the horrors of fetal alcohol syndrome

DAMN YOU TO HELL, GHANDI! YOU AND KENNY CAN BURN, BABY!

Man, what a fucking sad piece of work you are, gandhi. I bet as a kid you had to wear a bell around your neck so your parents could find you when you wandered into a corner and got stuck trying to walk through the wall.

I banged ghandi’s mother.

There was even a poem:

Is that Ghandi Man for real?
Who can take a blog post
Sprinkle it with joos?
Cover it in bullshit
And a homonim or two
The Ghandi Man
The Ghandi Man can
The Ghandi Man can
Cause he mixes it with hate
And makes the kool aid taste good

Who can take tomorrow
Dip it in a scream?
Multiply the sorrows
And collect up all the cream
The Ghandi Man
The Ghandi Man can
The Ghandi Man can
The Ghandi Man can
Cause he mixes it with hate
And makes the kool aid taste good
And the kool aid tastes good


Cause the Ghandi Man thinks it should
Cause the Ghandi Man thinks
Cause the Ghandi Man thinks it should

And let's not forget this gem:

... the notion that we actually needed help from the mighty Australians for military reasons is the funniest thing I’ve read this month. ... seriously we could conquer Australia with the the Ohio National Guard if we felt like it.

Protein is not even considered a far-right blog. In fact, the neocon journal Weekly Standard calls it great entertainment from the "moderate right" (as if such a thing even exists in Bush's USA).

These are the people who campaign on "values" remember?

This today from the TPM Cafe:

Such is the hatred of the far right at the dawn of the 21st Century. And my how the optical worm has turned. Today it is the left invoking faith, flag and family, while the right destroys crosses. Today it is the left that honors the war dead, raises up a Gold Star Mother and publicly prays for our troops, while the right viciously attacks a woman who gave her country everything. Today it is the left that patiently and peacefully respects the Office of the Presidency, while the right diminishes the office by claiming it's more important for the President to go bike-riding with a sports hero than comfort the mother of a war hero.

For the last two presidential elections it has been the Democratic Party whose nominee was a Vietnam War veteran, while the Republicans have sputtered out spurious defenses of their candidate's deceitful draft-dodging.

On Thursday, Dick Cheney, who said he had "other priorities" in the Vietnam era, and so helped himself to five draft deferments, will address the 73rd Convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. I do not think he will express remorse for the callousness with which he explained his cowardice. Nor do I expect him to apologize for the shocking, mocking Republicans who, at their New York Convention a year ago, sported Band-Aids with tiny purple hearts to mock the blood shed by John Kerry and so many other heroes in that misbegotten war.

No, Mr. Cheney, surrounded by body guards who would gladly give their life for him, will no doubt wrap himself in the flag...

The only good thing about all this right-wing hypocrisy is that such hateful invective does not play well to a thinking audience. Certainly not while innocent people are dying, the economy is going to hell in a handbasket and an insouciant President is busy somewhere in the country, pedalling his bicycle.

UPDATE: It's no coincidence that some of the nasty locals at PW just happen to be old "friends" from Iraq The Model, where the right-wing pro-war invective is just as foul. Here's an old "present" from one of them - I wonder if that soldier is still smiling?