Oh, that Tom Delay blog?

Heard on Olbermann tonight: Tom Delay started a blog and had to shut it down minutes later. Why? A slew of comments, mostly hostile, some deliciously so. Down came the blog and all those comments . . . but not before James Risser re-posted everything.

Scroll down the page to read the “offending” comments. Here are a few choice excerpts.

Zalmay Khalilzad is now resigning as ambassador to Iraq. In my opinion, a staunch supporter of the war such as yourself should volunteer to fill this important post. It would do you some good to get first hand knowledge regarding Iraq . . .

Didn’t we already stick a fork in your ass and decide you’re done?

In case you thought this was a one-sided attack by us lib’ruls,

Tom, you corrupted the conservative cause and brought disgrace to our party. We can never forgive you for that. Please crawl back into your hole.

And even some celeb notice:

hi, tom!!!!

so glad you joined the blogosphere! now you can link to my articles and to michelle’s too 🙂

speaking of michelle, she just received a new batch of iraqi baby blood from general pace…if you would like to come up to nyc, drop in and you can suck on some of it too!

and, to you liberals on here….HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY HOW MUCH I HATE YOU!!!!

December 10, 2006 | Unregistered Commenter ann coulter

Eh, that’s enough. Go see for yourself. (Warning: a lot of those comments are unimaginative, gay-baiting, and/or profane . . . leading me to believe most of these are wingnuts venting their anger. Us lib’ruls are far wittier.)

D.

It could happen here

And it did, of course. See: Japanese internment camps. The Canadians did it, too.

Big snip from a superb Daily Kos diary by Rock Strongo:

On Sunday afternoon, Washington, DC radio host Jerry Klein of WMAL was commenting on the Muslim Imams kicked off a flight. Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.

Among the callers:

“Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country … they are here to kill us.”

and:

Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver’s licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. “What good is identifying them?” he asked. “You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans.”

Finally a half hour into his show, Klien revealed the game:

“I can’t believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said. For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people’s bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver’s license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It’s beyond disgusting.

Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen … We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous.”

Recently, I asked one of our docs if he had to fend off any prejudice. His response (paraphrasing): “Hey, I’m Syrian. So few Americans even know where Syria is.” While I’m delighted he doesn’t have to deal with racist BS — he’s a helluva nice guy and a top-notch doctor, and he really doesn’t deserve any BS — I know that our government knows where Syria is, and they doubtless know where he is. My friend may be safe from local prejudice, but is he safe from our government?

It could happen here. It could happen again. Based on Jerry Klein’s callers, lots of folks are itching to see it happen again. And all it would take is another 9/11.

Sorry . . . but I’m in a pensive mood, thanks to booboo’s hate mail. See comments to the Hanukkah meme, below.
D.

Opening shot to the War on Christmas

On Wednesdays, between surgical cases, I hop around the political blogosphere. Seems us secular humanists have launched the opening salvo to this year’s War on Christmas. Folks, it’s gonna be ugly.

First, at Raw Story, Polish exchange student Michael Gromek talks about his Half-Year of Hell with Christian Fundamentalists (hat tip to One Good Move):

My host parents hadn’t had sex for the last 17 years because — so they told me — they were devoting their lives to God. They also wanted to know whether I drank alcohol. I admitted that I liked beer and wine. They told me I had the devil in my heart.

With all due respect to Catholic priests, no sex for 17 DAYS is pathological, let alone 17 years. Meanwhile, over at Digby’s blog, Digby and Tristero point out that the Quiverfull crowd aren’t just quaint patriarchs spreading their seed willy-nilly to fugly dress-wearing Prairie Muffins. They want good white Christian folk to breed like rabbits precisely to keep good white Christian folk in the majority. Here’s Digby:

Plenty of young people want to come to America and would be more than happy to pay into social security to support all of us old codgers. They just aren’t the “right kind” of people, if you know what I mean. So get to breeding, white bitches. You’ve got work to do.

I am all for having a big tent. But there is no political party on earth that is big enough for me and people who believe that liberalism’s great hope is to create policies that encourage women to have 14 children so we can “outbreed” the competition and make sure the wrong people don’t come in and ruin the place. That’s where I head for the exit.

But what do I know. I’m just a horn-headed Jew, precisely the kind of person who needs to be kept in the minority.

D.

Woo effin hoo!

I’m between cases at the moment.

Our general surgeon is predicting that my taxes will go up 20% under the new Democratically controlled Congress. To which I say: Yeah, baby! Bring it on!

I don’t believe it for a moment (the Dems aren’t so stupid as to trash their hard-fought victory by giving the Repugs fodder for ’08), but even if it were true, it would be a small price to pay for this victory.

We did it!

I am so happy my fears of stolen elections didn’t pan out, but we still need to be vigilant regarding recount shenanigans in Montana and Virginia. 

D.

Doing my bit

It’s a google bomb extravaganza. This explains it (kinda sorta).

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You know you want to.

Here’s an easy way to thank Keith Olbermann.

And, of course, the one time you have ever given us specifics about what you have kept us safe from, Mr. Bush — you got the name of the supposedly targeted Tower in Los Angeles… wrong.

Thus was it left for the previous President to say what so many of us have felt; what so many of us have given you a pass for in the months and even the years after the attack:

You did not try.

You ignored the evidence gathered by your predecessor.

You ignored the evidence gathered by your own people.

Then, you blamed your predecessor.

That would be the textbook definition… Sir, of cowardice.

(Full transcript at Crooks and Liars.)

Why thank the man? Because in a media circus crowded with cowards, it often seems that Keith is the only mensch.

D.