Hostility, Thy Name is Wingnut
Dec 28th, 2005 at 2:33 pm by Susie
James Wolcott on the terrorist leanings of right-wing bloviators:
It’s no accident that it is the rightwing bloggers and pundits who have been avid about defending the use of torture against suspected terrorists. Nor is it an accident that many of them pooh-poohed Abu Ghraib, sluffing it off as no more harmless than fraternity hazing. But what their decapitation odes reveal is that what they’d really like to do is permit torture closer to home. Domesticate it. Trivialize it. Completely destigmatize it as a tool of the state.
I don’t worry about this being actually implemented, though I worry fractionally more every day. I’m interested in it more as a pathological rash afflicting the more rabid warbloggers. It’s a sign of impotence, this lurid fury of theirs. It bugs the hell out of them that those of us who opposed the war have turned out to be right. It thwarts the hell out of them that Ward Churchill still has tenure, that they couldn’t convict Sami Al-Arian down in Florida, and that their latest purple-finger festival fizzled out so soon. If postwar Iraq swirls down the drain, they’ll be looking for someone to blame, and since they never blame themselves for anything (a bedrock neoconservative trait), they leaves nobody here but us chickens. I dread to think of the imaginary punishments they’ll devise for us appeasers, turncoats, and traitors; I’m sure they’ll be quite vivid. I may have to quarantine myself from these sites to preserve my serene disposition.
Simple answer.
They’ll say it’s Clinton’s fault, just like everything else.
Do they believe they’re the only ones imagining punishments for their political enemies? They should realize that some of us lay awake at night, fantasizing about how many right-wing noses we’d like to bust with our fists.
They really are just a bunch of cowardly kunckle draggers. And Gordon’s right. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Fits with the theory that modern conservatives, even the best-dressed, are simple people who can only entertain exactly one political principle: They hate the Left.