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Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy

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    Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy | 26 comments (26 topical)
    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#1)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:30 PM EST
    Funny. But doesn't comparing Coulter with Jeffrey Dahmer play right into her standard complaint?

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#2)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:30 PM EST
    ...her standard complaint What? We're supposed to take her seriously? Ah, if only our assault-and-battery laws allowed for a simple fist-fight.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#3)
    by jarober on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:30 PM EST
    That's what I love about the left - comparing political opponents to cannibals is ok if said opponents are on the left - so is calling the opposition The new theocracy But if anyone on the right criticizes leftist dogma in any way, it's hate speech. TL, atrios, TPM (et. al.) can dish it out, but the lot of you can't take it.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#4)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:30 PM EST
    My apologies, James... is Coulter a non-serious entertainer or a canny observer with keen observations? Ann Coulter called me a traitor--and, yes, I took it personally.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:30 PM EST
    James, Coulter is offensive as Jeffrey Dahmer, and I would venture to say that they are both sociopathic. And what is this infantile arguement of "You can take it but can't dish it out"? Come on, if you have a point make it, don't just sit there and waste everyones time with inane crap like that.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#6)
    by pigwiggle on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    “James, Coulter is offensive as Jeffrey Dahmer … “ Of course. Lets see, Coulter has a disparate political ideology and Dahmer poured cleaning chemicals into the gutted heads of young boys in an effort to make them his sex slaves, eating his failures. I get it.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#7)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    You folks should have more respect for AC. After all she's the person who inspired the term B***H slap.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    Pigwiggle, I agree: I don't think Coulter is capable of kidnapping young boys and eating them. Therefore, she is not as much a deviant as Jeffrey Dahmer.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#9)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    Dahmer was a sociopath who, thankfully, never affected my life, or my society, in any way. He never attacked me by word, or deed. Coulter is a sociopath who affects my life through public policy. She attacks my society on a daily basis, and calls me a traitor. So James, Anne is MUCH worse than Dahmer. BTW- When Bush quits using nazi propaganda tactics, I will stop calling him on it. Fair enough?

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    No, Pigwiggle, she just advocates violence towards anyone who doesn't agree with her and her particualr "political" ideology. So yes she is just as offensive and repugnant as Dahmer. I find it funny that you don't dispute that she is sociopathic, but then again most Right Wing Conservatives are, which is probably why you find her to be a kindred spirit.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#11)
    by pigwiggle on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    “but then again most Right Wing Conservatives are, which is probably why you find her to be a kindred spirit.” Disagreeing with your crippled reasoning doesn’t make me right wing or conservative; simply critical.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#12)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    "That's what I love about the left - comparing political opponents to cannibals" Wow, because that was the whole point of the strip. Republicans = Cannibals. Brilliant observation, James.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#13)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    ...well, let me elaborate. It seems pretty clear to me (and anyone with a third grader's reading comprehension) that Tom was pointing out how the Republicans will stubbornly defend absolutely anyone who's far enough to the right. I hope James's post was merely caused by his knee jerking and hitting the keyboard because it reads like he kinda saw the title and wrote boilerplate faux outrage comment 37218903-A.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#14)
    by jarober on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    Ann Coulter: obnoxious pundit who would rather try to score points than win an argument Jeff Dahmer: Murdering Cannibal The Left: Unable to telll the difference

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#15)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    I guess we can all agree that both of them are sociopaths. And let's leave it at that.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#16)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    ayn coulter calls for the deaths of all liberals; ayn coulter wishes RW terrorist McVeigh had blown up the NYT; ayn coulter wants a crusade that kills all muslim leaders and impose christianity. Then she says she was just joking. Tom Tomorrow writes a FREAKIN' COMIC STRIP, and JR says we can't tell the difference. Sheesh, what a maroon.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#17)
    by ppjakajim on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:31 PM EST
    et al - Whatever she is, she has a sharp tongue, a ready mean wit and the ability to stir up the Left. All to her advantage, and to the advantage of her purse.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#18)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    Good words Jim... Much the same can be said of Michael Moore... But you go off topic... As I am sure you are well aware... What of Ann Coulter calling all who disagree with her Mussolinian political views traitors? What of her espousing the view that we need to bomb the enemy, and convert the survivors to Christianity? What differentiates that view from Osama? What I have observed about most wrong wingers in there support for Ann Coulter is that they barely ever offer justification for her hate crime-like thinking... And Ann would not even have a chance to spew her wrong wing poison if it were not for progressive, liberal thinkers one hundred years ago... She would not even have been able to vote! And she tears into the very same people that fought, sometimes to the death!, to giver her the right, as a non-peni5 possessing human, the ablity to vote and etc etc etc... Go Ann Coulter... LOL As if anyone with an IQ higher than 43 would ever look at her as anything other than a running dog for the supposed GOP....

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#19)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    Funny how no one noticed that the cartoon is not about Coulter or Dahmer, it is about us, all of us. Willing to promote any crazy shill who says what we want to hear. We could all look in the mirror.......

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#20)
    by pigwiggle on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    “Funny how no one noticed that the cartoon is not about Coulter or Dahmer … “ Scar did, but rightly pointed out it was specifically about conservatives. I’m not a big fan of TT but a free local rag carries his cartoons and I often read them. Still waiting for a jab at the left; won’t hold my breath.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#21)
    by ppjakajim on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    Johnny - I read a lot of books, and a lot of blogs. Admiration of a baseball player's ability to hit the curve ball doesn't mean I agree with his politics. Unfortunately, this attitude is mostly missing in both the far Left, and in the far Right.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#22)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    Jim, I tend to usually agree with your comment above, but it does sound a bit like admiring Dahmers skills at making human flesh edible.

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#23)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    How many did Dahmer kill? Couple dozen, most? Coulter calls anyone who attacks the President a "traitor" and advocates violence against them. Last count: American KIA in Iraq, approaching 1,700 Iraqi civilians killed "finding WMD's", anyone's guess, starting at or around 10,000? And you guys wonder who's worse? Jeffrey Dahmer on steroids couldn't kill the number of people this Administration has, and counting... So those of you who defend Anne Coulter...you're in good company...

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#24)
    by ppjakajim on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    Roger - Jeffrey didn't have a blog, or play baseball. ;-)

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#25)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:32 PM EST
    No, but he worked in a chocolate factory!

    Re: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy (none / 0) (#26)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:33 PM EST
    "No, but he worked in a chocolate factory!" Forrest Dahmer " Life is like a box of chocolates ..." ;-)

    Jeffrey Dahmer and the Right Wing Punditocracy | 26 comments (26 topical)