"Rush
Limbaugh _____."
(You provide the verb.)
Dear F,
Thanks for your email.
I was unaware of Limbaugh's
most recent sewer slurping.
Please correct me if I
misunderstand the situation.
America's right-wing
commentators - Limbaugh, Beck, Colter, Savage - are vile people, neo-barbarians
whose psycho-spiritual development was arrested in middle school while
playing Class Bully and Queen Bee Wannabe on
the back lot.
I cannot think of a single
left-wing commentator (with comparable "market share") who
"plays" in the same league with The Four Horsemen.
(Well, yes, truth be told, one of the horsemen is a horsewoman... One wonders how Mr.
Limbaugh -- ever the gentile champion of Christian Exceptionalism --
would pronounce "horsewoman" if he were crossed by same.)
Of course, we can not be
certain that Ms. Bialek - or any of Cain's other three accusers - is telling the
truth.
I would think that
Bialek's high profile lawyer is smart enough not to misrepresent the purported
affidavit sworn to by a respected physician, stating that Bialek told him of
Cain's abusive behavior shortly after it happened.
No matter how Bialek's
allegations sort out, my working hypothesis is that Herman Cain - like Clarence
Thomas - is a brazen liar.
The Republican Party has lost
its ability to "win" on the merits of "truth," and, therefore, has allied with The Prince of Darkness, making
falsehood standard operating procedure. (Consistent
with the modus operandi of its conservative
Christian Base, Republican operatives ignore the core truth that
"any text, without a context, is a pretext." If "the truth will
set us free," the GOP will strengthen our shackles.)
Explore the vility of
Limbaugh, Beck, Colter and Savage at their Wikiquote pages.
Rush Limbaugh - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh
When you've done reviewing
"The Good Christians," please send references to similar
cesspools among left-wing commentators. I will be astonished if you
find one.
I also recommend the
following videotapes of America's "Good Christian Party":
1.) Republicans clamor for
the death of "the uninsured": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yva0VSN1_T4&feature=related
2.) Rick Perry applauded for
his commitment to the execution of human beings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocKFSLsZnUo
3.) Herman Cain's lethal border fence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO-q5lI7618
4.) Republicans boo a gay
American soldier: http://thehill.com/video/campaign/183941-dnc-video-attacks-gop-for-not-criticizing-booing-of-gay-soldier
It is shocking enough that
these behaviors occur.
It is more shocking to realize that American conservatives contemplate such barbarism yet fail to see what they have become. "Been lying so long they don't know what's real."
It is more shocking to realize that American conservatives contemplate such barbarism yet fail to see what they have become. "Been lying so long they don't know what's real."
The best Christian fantasists
– Tolkien, Lewis, MacDonald – supply startling portrayals of human beings
who have lost their humanity, who, in effect, became monsters by
embarking lives of brutality.
I do not pretend to know the
relationship between “moral monstrosity” and the loss of a human being's
soul.
I do know that the downhill
trajectory of American “conservatives” -- embracing aggressive ignorance,
expressing contempt for scientific findings, representing opinion as factual
truth, clamoring to kill people at home and abroad, undermining democracy with
theocracy, and circulating whole-cloth lies as "routine
propaganda" -- are behaviors that beg troubling questions.
That The Republican Party's foremost ideological spokespeople include Limbaugh, Beck, Colter and Savage is a turn of events that would have been inconceivable to The Greatest Generation.
It would also have been inconceivable to all the great Republican presidents, including Reagan who, at least, was a punctilious gentleman without hint of coarseness in his personal manner.
That The Republican Party's foremost ideological spokespeople include Limbaugh, Beck, Colter and Savage is a turn of events that would have been inconceivable to The Greatest Generation.
It would also have been inconceivable to all the great Republican presidents, including Reagan who, at least, was a punctilious gentleman without hint of coarseness in his personal manner.
As "pure" as
American conservatives pretend to be, they never wake up long enough to
identify their concubines.
This current generation of
Pharisees professes to be chaste, but they will get in bed with anyone.
Love
A
PS If you can deal with
George Carlin's foul mouth, I strongly recommend "The American
Dream." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
"Dream" is America's socio-political equivalent of Aquinas' Summa
Theologica. It's all there.
PPS I recommend Ms. Bialek's
interview with CNN's Piers Morgan. http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/11/herman-cains-accuser-gives-first-interview-to-piers-
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Quick!
Guess!
Does
Army Staff Sargent Calvin Gibbs tune in to Limbaugh and Beck?
Or,
Olbermann and Maddow?
Soldier found guilty of murdering Afghans
November 10, 2011
This photo from the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Calvin Gibbs' tattoos that are suspected to represent his "kills."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: The sentencing phase begins; Gibbs faces a maximum of life in prison
- A military panel finds Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs guilty of all charges against him
- Prosecutors: Gibbs' platoon staged killings of civilians as firefights with Taliban
- Defense says Gibbs' accusers were high on hashish at the time
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- A military court-martial Thursday found Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses to keep as "souvenirs" and planting weapons to make the men appear as if they were Taliban fighters killed in legitimate firefights.
He faces a maximum sentence of life in military prison without parole. The sentencing phase of the trial began immediately after the guilty verdict from the five-member panel was read.
Gibbs is the highest ranking of five soldiers charged with being part of a rogue "kill squad" that targeted civilians. Another seven soldiers also were charged with lesser crimes including abusing drugs, keeping "off the books" weapons and intimidating a fellow soldier not to speak out against the platoon's alleged killings.
Gibbs had pleaded not guilty.
A prosecutor described Gibbs as a "recruiting poster" soldier. But the tall, clean-cut Gibbs and the "kill squad" he was convicted of leading turned into a public-relations nightmare for the military.
"Sgt. Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality," Maj. Robert Stelle, a prosecutor in the case, told the court in closing arguments Wednesday. "But it was all a bunch of crap, he had his own mission: murder and depravity."
The murders Gibbs is accused of committing took place over a period of five months last year while Gibbs led the 3rd Platoon of the Army¹s 5th Stryker Brigade in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Gibbs' platoon was tasked with patrolling small villages in the area to build relationships with an Afghan population wary of the U.S. presence in their country. Instead, prosecutors said Gibbs and a small group of rogue soldiers allegedly plotted to murder civilians and then planted weapons on them so they appeared to be Taliban attackers.
"Selling a fake engagement as a real engagement, that's what they were doing," Stelle told the court.
In court testimony, Gibbs said he did not execute anyone. Prosecutors said Gibbs participated in the killings of three unarmed civilians: two farmers and a village cleric.
Gibbs said he killed one of the men but he claimed it was in self defense. However, the staff sergeant admitted to ripping and cutting off fingers of all three men he was charged with killing. He kept the body parts, he said, to give to soldiers he favored or to intimidate soldiers he disliked.
"I was numb to the situation," Gibbs told the court about why he taken the body parts. "I wasn't thinking; it's sickening. I am embarrassed."
Gibbs also admitted to posing for photos with bodies against military regulations.
"People wanted to prove they were there," Gibbs replied when asked by his attorney why the soldiers took the photos. The Army later apologized after the photos were leaked to the press.
Gibbs appeared shocked after the verdict was read and his wife, Army Spec. Chelsy Gibbs, began to cry. According to court records, she filed for divorce from Staff Sgt. Gibbs in August and asked for guardianship of their 3-year-old son.
The panel of three officers and two enlisted soldiers started deliberating in a military courtroom near Tacoma shortly before 10 a.m. (1 p.m. ET) and returned its verdict around 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ET).
Phillip Stackhouse, Gibbs' defense attorney, had argued other soldiers were framing his client. Three soldiers pleaded guilty to the killings and agreed to testify against Gibbs as part of plea deals.
"What if there is no hard evidence other than what you have heard from that witness stand?" Stackhouse said Wednesday. Some witnesses also admitted to smoking hashish they obtained from Afghan translators. Their testimony, Stackhouse said, "came under a cloud of hash."
Stackhouse argued Gibbs wasn't where other witnesses said he was during the engagements. And, according to Stackhouse, in February 2010 Gibbs couldn't have smuggled an AK-47 in his backpack into a village where prosecutors said he then planted the assault rifle on the body of an Afghan man he had killed. Grasping an AK-47, Stackhouse showed the rifle would not fully fit into a soldier's backpack.
Prosecutors countered that Gibbs had used a model of the rifle that has a shorter muzzle and could be concealed.
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