Fright on the Right

[Lautremont]

As I'm not actually American, and they're less likely to be living next door to me, I feel capable of (if decidely scummy about) occasionally looking at Freakshow Republic, that nest of submoronic lickspittles. It alternately amuses and disgusts me. Well, it always disgusts me, but I do it anyway.

In any case, I happened to do so during the millisecond they had a thread about that Sidney Blumenthal editorial on Salon (http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation/index.html) concerning the pathetic bush administration record leading up to the disaster in New Orleans. It was only up for a scant few seconds, with time for a couple of "Well, I never!" kind of non-responses from shocked freepers, before it disappeared.

While it seems obvious that anything from Sidney Blumenthal, and almost anything from Salon, would have a short life at FR, I take the particular light-speed with which this one atomized to be a definite sign that the political reality of what bush has helped wreak on the Gulf is pushing through their jellylike forebrains. And this, if nothing else about the whole tragic thing, makes me feel a little bit better.

[nankerphelge]

1. Most of them wouldn't have been able to read it anyway...

n/t

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Dissenting editorials are remarkably short-lived there.

Not surprising since the general tendency of Hard Righties is to simply deny the existence of an argument that disputes their beliefs. Or they smear the person making the argument. Either way, they are incapable of formulating a coherent response to the actual argument.

[wli]

3. We'll all have a lot to be frightened of by the time this really sinks in

It's not going to be pretty. I'm going to regret not having emigrated worse than I ever have. I may not live to regret it.