Daniel Foster has written another thoughtful piece for National Review that deserves a hearty heh-indeed from every serious conservative.
There’s no pay-wall this time, so you can peruse it yourself, but it’s pretty easy to summarize: a few college students tweeted that they wish Scott Walker would DIAF and Foster made a YouTube video of it.
Sockpuppet
All those young layabout punks with their hip hopping and political incivility…
I think they’re wrong about wishing immediate death on Walker, though. It’ll be so much sweeter to politically annihilate him to the point he doesn’t even dare run for reelection first. Or even recall his ass.
Then he can die in a fire.
Zifnab
Wait, you mean the bogus narrative first brought up by none other than Wisconsin House Rep and Republican Economic Wise Man Media Darling Paul Ryan? That bogus narrative?
After watching Gov. Davis in California get replaced by a Hollywood cardboard cut out of a Governor, nothing would be sweeter than seeing Wisconsin can Walker’s ass.
Mark S.
The Corner allows comments now? They must police the shit out of them, considering the average number of comments seems to be about 2.
Dork
Just to lighten the mood here a little, I’d thought I’d offer this little ditty. Made me laugh.
Fuck U III: The Duck Fucks Back
Shouldn’t he be investigating Cox right now?
daveNYC
So Daniel Foster is not aware of all internet traditions?
Susan of Texas
“Drusilla”? A Goth Buffy fan is now the face of the left? I’m a Buffy fan too but I don’t think anyone elected this one president of the left.
Next they’ll accuse liberals of wanting to bury conservatives underground for three day, help them rise from the dead, and go shopping.
JGabriel
Hopefully, it will start a very important and necessary conversation about the threatening rhetoric directed at conservatives on a daily basis — conservatives, who, despite the death threats, and at great fear for their lives & personal safety, still courageously fight to protect your right to free speech and bear arms!
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freelancer
Right, well it’s not like the Atlantic could even cover the story without being snobbish and snide. Here’s Sullivan writing about Scott Walker making a damned fool of himself:
Jaysus, regarding the Trig mess, that takes some balls. Here’s the email I fired off at him:
Loneoak
Conservative strategery:
1) Appointed or elected Republican says something terrible and violent.
2) Find some idiotic and misspelled twitter or facebook comment from a lefty college student.
3) Both sides do it; our most competent people are like reflexively liberal but kinda dumb college undergrads.
4) Profit!
Moonbatman
Progressives heros tweeted that they wish Scott Walker would DIAF
Only wingnuts should be civil and follow the new tone.
Peace Out. The power is yours.
Guster
@freelancer: Blah blah blah ‘evidence,’ blah blah blah ‘facts.’
Dirty?
Yes.
Fucking?
Check.
Hippie?
Definitely.
You probably think the Koch Brothers are trying to outlaw patchouli or believe the wild allegations that they’re the sons of a prominent member of the John Birch Society. Freak.
MikeJ
I might point out there there is a difference morally and legally between wishing that something bad would happen to somebody and inciting people to make it happen.
In other words, I think there’s a large gap between “I wish X would DIAF” and “everybody bring your guns to the town hall meeting.”
Davis X. Machina
@Susan of Texas:
To be fair, the Reuther brothers are both dead.
Just Some Fuckhead
My mom (a Republican) and I have come to a general agreement to avoid freakouts over every stupid fucking thing that 300 million people might come up with:
For death threats, you can’t call it ‘real’ until it gets taken up by some madman. Yeah, even threatening is fucking stupid, but at least one of the jobs that your elected representative is elected to do is to give credence to their supporters’ views. In these cases, you have no idea whether its even the stupid fucking idea of the elected representative, or if they’re just saying some idiotic idea along on behalf of voters that they represent out of some excessive sense of responsibility.
But forcing everyone to wait until someone has been killed avoids a lot of completely unnecessary (and often unfair) freak-outs.
Southern Beale
Well ya know, after the fanboy braggadocio and arrogance revealed by today’s prank phone call with Fake David Koch I’d say Walker wishes he could DIAF too.
J.W. Hamner
I honestly have never understood why it’s so important to some people to be able to say “your side is crazier than mine!” I feel like it’s one of the dumbest internet arguments of all time.
fasteddie9318
FSM, the quality of the trolls is just awful anymore.
Michael
Were Scott Walker to DIAF, it would be no loss.
Dennis SGMM
Who can blame these people for over reacting? After the mandatory pot smoking and promiscuity of the Sixties, the surrender to our Vietnamese overlords in the Seventies, and the banning of organized religion in the early Eighties, they have every right to make shit up. If it wasn’t for the terrible swift sword of Ronald Reagan this country would be a mess.
Lev
Curious: this hasn’t been nominated for a Moore Award at Sully’s place yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. I think he’s no longer in his manic mode.
piratedan
strangely if Scott Walker were to find himself in a fire, then he would have to rely on union firefighters to put him out. Granted, they would most likely extinguish him without a query about his stance on the collective bargaining rights. It seems to me that Republicans are like teenagers in a certain respect, they never expect to ever have to use the social safety net that liberals have erected for the good of the people and thereby don’t believe its actually necessary for it to exist.
PIGL
@J.W. Hamner: I’d like to explore this. Are you saying that both sides are equally crazy? Because that would be a claim about the distribution of mental states among and between two separable groups. Hence, subject to disconfirmation by data.
Or, are you saying rather that it doesn’t matter if one or both sides is crazy, or not? How then should we chose between sides? Would we expect their policies and agendas to be interpretable, independent of their relative crazyness?
Perhaps instead you are seeking to disguise the craziness of your team because you suppose that if nobody notices, they would better carry out their crazed agenda.
If you a fourth way caching out your statement, I am keen to hear it.
it an empirical question that could be or that it does not
Delia
I was intending to just comment that I watched the first 40 seconds of the youtube that idiot put together and now regret that 40 seconds I’ll never get back. Then I read all the trolls who came here to comment and I’m now looking around for a good brain bleach.
J.W. Hamner
@PIGL:
The policy merits of any proposal have absolutely no relationship with the relative number of people on each side who are nutjobs. If you need to dehumanize your political opponents to the point that you consider them a band of raving lunatics, then it becomes quite clear that it is you who is the one with a problem.
M. Bouffant
@J.W. Hamner:
When our political opponents (Not merely college students, but actual gov’t. legal officials.) call for using “live ammo” to shoot people exercising their First Amendment rights, I think we can pretty fairly paint them as “raving lunatics.”
J.W. Hamner
@M. Bouffant:
I guess I’m charitable enough to assume that he’s not a sociopath contemplating mass murder, and is just an idiot with dumb ideas.
It appears everybody is David Broder when the incivility is coming from the other side, but staunchly freedom of expression when their own are being criticized for tone.
JW
@Lev:
Screw Scully
someofparts
Yeah, and the way these guys roll, those twitter comments are probably from their own planted operatives. meh