It struck me how they must really know their local audience. I thought it was interesting that the local news reporter completely glossed over WHO George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC had directed his potty mouth at. Admittedly Fluke was little more than a minor news cycle blip until “Big Pharma” Rush used her as a strawslut to work out his rage issues for 3 days straight, but even then the story was more about him being an asshole. I doubt she’s a well known figure in the general population particularly, but is hardly an anonymous random woman from the intarnets.

If they HAD included her identity in the report, though, it would have completely changed the dynamic, and I don’t doubt turned into an ongoing trash fire with local wingnuts demanding an equal time segment to counter… something or other.

I will shamefully admit that I was party to a similar event to teenage Mitt’s when I was in college, many decades ago. A nerdy kid down the hall decided to grow a really horrible, patchy beard for unknown reasons, and one boring afternoon a few people came to my door wanting to borrow my electric razor to free him of it. Sure, why not, some silly college dorm jackanapes, all in fun, etc.

We cornered the poor guy and held him down, him screaming for help. After about 3-5 seconds it became clear that the continuous anguished screams of angry humiliation were not of someone who viewed it as “all in fun”. Horrified at what the situation had become, I bailed and helped him to get away to his locked room, much to the frustration of the others who DID seem to think it was hilarious and not in the least bit cruel, dehumanizing and rapey.

I apologized shortly thereafter and on many other occasions as well, and he seemed to forgive me in time though he had no reason to. I had increasingly less and less to do with my co-conspirators after this episode. Even now, I still feel dirtied by my participation, so many years later.

Point of shaggy dog story: if Mitt doesn’t remember his participation in the hair cutting, let alone feel any remorse whatsoever, then there need be no further evidence necessary that he is, pure and simple, an unfeeling, amoral monster.

And thus Mr. Tierney queues up as the next conservative martyr to them evil online liberal fascists who obviously oppose all free speech and thus will speak freely saying mean things to anyone and everyone associated with this little turd, specifically the ways and occurrences in which he has been turdly and how it reflects poorly on them for having anything to do with him.

Just ain’t fair, I tells ya. How’s a man gonna set the world aright if everyone is always undercutting him by telling people about the dickish, “world arighting” stuff he does.

What’s the over/under on how long before they conclude it was actually an operation of Agenda 21, funded by the Bilderbergers, and personally supervised by Obama via his secret half-brother Bill Ayers, general of the ACORN reverse vampire New Black Panther army?

The yoot of today think nothing is cooler than some old fart who looks like the upper management suit who wrote the angry memo outlining the stringent dress code for casual fridays after the infamous culottes fiasco of ’09.

If the Fox Mole has an iron will to hold back The Fist of Death (and the correct ladyparts) they could always try to take the Andrea Mackris route to a Faux News golden parachute, but would have to work up the appropriate tolerance to loofah burns first.

If some guerrilla marketing group had the balls, it could flash mob up several dozen people to stand in a tight, camera ready group in one of the “Protest Zones” thrusting automatic weapons up in the air, à la any street celebration in a war torn region, shouting pithy slogans of whatever it is they wanted to sell.

Would only work for the right products, though. Shouting “Buy a sleep number bed from Serta!” would likely provide undesirable market exposure for the client.

All that being said: You people are by far the most hateful, vile, and disgusting collection of warped, deluded, duplicitous, morally, and ethically sick sociopaths on the net.

It’s always nice to be present at the birth of a new meme.

Aware of All Internet Traditions, bitches. Get some.

TeaBagger fave Allen West came out early with a surprisingly sane statement denouncing the Trayvon Martin killing, but now that it looks like the narrative is cementing around ‘Trigger Happy Gun Nut Murders Teen in Broad Daylight and Walks’ vs. ‘Blackity Black Black Angry Urban Youth Probably Deserved It Anyway’ it will be interesting to see what he does, if anything.

West has an extremely successful direct mail fund-raising operation tapping into the teabaggy “I’m not a racist, I have lots of black friends” crowd, so I suspect he’ll go to ground on this issue well into the foreseeable future. He may be crazy, but he even he knows you don’t shit where you eat.

Someone mentioned upthread that Ol Perfessor could go to Regent or Liberty U to get his gun on – at least with Regent, not so much apparently. From the Regent Student Handbook…
http://www.regent.edu/admin/stusrv/student_handbook.cfm

5.7.9. Weapons Possession. Regent University faculty, staff, students or visitors are prohibited from using or possessing fireworks, firearms, or adjoining property owned by CBN. Firearms are defined as any gun, rifle, pistol or handgun designed to fire bullets, BBs, pellets, or shoot regardless of propellant used. Weapons include, but are not limited to, knives, razors, metal knuckles, hatchets, foils, stun guns, tasers, blackjacks, nunchuks, bows and arrows, or any explosive or incendiary devices.

Liberty U is more complicated, in that anyone with a concealed carry can come on campus with their gun but only faculty can bring them into university ‘facilities’, presumably buildings and the like. However, there is a long laundry list of things that rescind this right…
http://www.liberty.edu/media/1370/Weapons_Policy_11-11-11.pdf

[...]
(3) has been arrested for or charged with any assault, battery, stalking, crime of violence, or a felony, and has such case pending;
(4) has been convicted of assault, battery, stalking, any crime of violence, or a felony;
(5) is restricted or restrained from contacting or communicating with another person pursuant to a no-contact directive or restraining order from the University or from any court or agency; or
(6) is disapproved by Liberty University or LUPD for any other reason.

Just to, you know, keep the riff-raff out. I would think that list would encompass half of all the CC holders, at least if they were in Texas.

How soon before it is revealed that “epistemic closure” is a liberal plot?

Soon after they decide that it’s a bug and not a feature.

Don’t be so critical – the current AI upgrade pretty much passed the Turing Test in a controlled lab environment, only problem being a minor glitch in the humor subsystem that can crash which induces a cascading failure leading to the unpleasant events that necessitated the whole new programming team (again, our condolences to the families of the old team – they will be missed).

Can’t really risk cranking up the gain again on the humor subsystem outside a hardened and secure environment. He’s running for President, for pete’s sake.

What do you mean “back”? They were always thus, just better at keeping their bug nuts insanity in the closet most of the time.

I personally hope they don’t go back into the closet, it makes marginalizing them that much easier with the curtain perpetually pulled back.

You are also forgetting the elephant in the corner that only the most rabid wingnuts will openly discuss, i.e. fever dreams of an increasingly brown, Spanish speaking America.

There’s a reason they called the “adopt some frozen zygotes” program “Snowflake Babies,” afterall.

The purpose of men is to facilitate a quicker and more efficient dissemination of genetic variance in a population than can be achieved through random mutation and parthenogenesis. Assuming your species is capable of parthenogenesis.

Otherwise, men are for standing atop an artificial patriarchal hierarchy over the half of the population that doesn’t happen to have a penis.

So, either or, really.

What’s this? An outside third party group coordinating with the White House on political messaging? Outrageous!

The crack staff at Fox News will no doubt schedule numerous in depth panel discussions about it with representatives from the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Wall Street Journal editorial page, as well as any number of lobbyists and right wing radio blowhards.

I’m sure they will get to the bottom of this unprecedented abuse of power, never seen before in the history of our nation.

Not to mention the whole “they don’t have insurance anyway” thing was what the ACA was meant to remedy in the first place.

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Maybe Karen was pro-choice and pro-birth control when it was illegal, but then when it became legal it lost its appeal to her.

Since she was born in 1960, that means Griswold would have been when she was 5 and Roe when she was 13.

Getting super freaky in middle school, I suppose… or would it be wrong to speculate?

It would be wrong not to.

It is against the Geneva Convention to piss on the bodies of dead soldiers.

Well, yeah, if you’re going to be all technical about it. But I recall during the reign of God-King Dubya that it was declared that the Geneva Conventions weren’t applicable to Afghanistan because SHUT UP, that’s why.

Maybe that determination is still in place. Gitmo is still open, afterall.