Comments on: Obama Loses Krauthammer’s Vote

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:59:35 +0000

“Wheels McDouchebag” is the best name for anything ever.

By: OB-GYN Kenobi

OB-GYN Kenobi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:48:32 +0000

I sincerely appreciate that, Aristophanes. Your apology reflects politeness, self-reflection and self-correction, which, as it happens, are three things the wingnuts lack. :)

That being said, your point about Krauthammer’s facility in the construction and propping up of scarecrows and strawmen was quite well made. I certainly have no issue with honest (and vivid) criticism of Krauthammer’s writing, and his disability certainly doesn’t exempt him from that. By all means, chop away at his strawmen wherever you find them.

By: D. Aristophanes

D. Aristophanes — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:31:57 +0000

OB is right and I apologize for starting the whole thing rolling with the cheap shot kicking off this post on Krauthammer.

By: OB-GYN Kenobi

OB-GYN Kenobi — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:42:44 +0000

As a left-leaning independent, I have no love for the works or person of Charles Krauthammer. But as a disabled veteran, I think that dissing a disabled person for being disabled is just about the acme of Shitty Personness.

Most posters here seem to be good enough people to not go in for such commentary. I certainly hope that those who do will give themselves and their thoughts a thorough inspection before posting again.

By: pablo

pablo — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:45:10 +0000

Why doesn’t Krauthammer just get up out his wheelchair and walk away?

By: Chucky Krwauthammered&nailed

Chucky Krwauthammered&nailed — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:24:39 +0000

want = won’t

By: Chucky Krwauthammered&nailed

Chucky Krwauthammered&nailed — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:23:41 +0000

I bet he’s one of those lazy handicapped people too. You know the type. the ones who don’t want to do any work rolling themselves. Chuckles definetely has an electric weelchair. He may even be faking it just to get the good parking spots. This calls for an investigation. Malkin, Malkin . . . anyone?

By: coeruleus

coeruleus — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:55:52 +0000

Barack derangement syndrome

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:26:33 +0000

Some people across the street from me fly a rainbow flag over a pirate flag. I love my neighbors.

By: Woodrowfan

Woodrowfan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:21:36 +0000

A couple of years ago while visiting a friend in the 5 college area (S. Hadley) I saw a rural home flying a big ol’ stars and bars. For a few seconds I thought I had wandered outside the beltway and was back in Virginia. How confused to you have to be to fly a Confederate battle flag in Massachusetts ?

By: Woodrowfan

Woodrowfan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:32 +0000

Since the wheeled Kraut can lecture blacks on how they SHOULD react to racism, can I lecture him oh how he should react to being in a wheelchair? I mean, he’s soooo lucky, he gets the best parking spots, he can have wheelchair fights, etc. Hey, this is fun!

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:13:55 +0000

Who screams at the rabbi at services? For advocating peace?

I hope that he renounced his faith. Otherwise he is as guilty as Barack Obama.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:10:30 +0000

Pedestrian: The Five College area in the Conn river area is pretty liberal, but there are conservative enclaves. When the paper was The Union News, it regularly ran Molly Ivins and Bob Herbert, as well as some others. Now… they’ll “balance” Michelle Malkin with Broder. Also, Channel 40 was bought a few years ago by Sinclair Broadcasting, famous for their hit piece on John Kerry in ’04.

By: SomeNYGuy

SomeNYGuy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:47:20 +0000

HAs everybody forgotten this semi-famous anecdote?

About three years ago, I saw Krauthammer flip out in synagogue on Yom Kippur. The rabbi had offered some timid endorsement of peace — peace essentially on Israel’s terms — but peace anyway. Krauthammer went nuts. He actually started bellowing at the rabbi, from his wheel chair in the aisle. People tried to “shush” him. It was, after all, the holiest day of the year. But Krauthammer kept howling until the rabbi apologized. The man is as arrogant as he is thuggish. Who screams at the rabbi at services? For advocating peace?

Our courageous wheelchair warrior sure knows how to stand up to those radical clerics. On Yom Kippur. For advocating for peace.

By: Rick Massimo

Rick Massimo — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:35:03 +0000

I love it when white people lecture black people on what their reactions to racism should be. Thanks, Charles!

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:32:15 +0000

g, the only person that I remember suggesting that Arabs are incapable of democracy was Bernard Lewis, but his head has been so far up Bush’s ass through this whole debacle that I doubt that anything that he said was audible.

http://www.slate.com/id/2161800

By: g

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:24:48 +0000

Maybe Krauthammer is where Bush got his strawman “some say Ay-rabs can’t handle democracy” from. Bush trots that little concept out in every speech he gives, but for the life of me, I can’t recall anyone else ever having said anythign like that.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:13:18 +0000

SpokMod beat me to it.

I do so love the, “damn ragheads is to stupid to has demok’cy!” meme. Who knew that forcing one’s political architecture on others at gun point wouldn’t wok out so well?

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:34:39 +0000

Dave, didn’t the Republican used to be pretty liberal? Western MA certainly is. When they divide the state into political regions, it usually gets grouped with Cambridge and Somerville as “left field”

A friend of mine who lives in the Connecticut River Valley said something about it being bought out recently by a right wing ideologue.

By: JDinDC

JDinDC — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:14:02 +0000

Dave, I sympathize with newspaper unhappiness. Here, the Wash Post has turned over its ed-page to the aforementioned Krauthammer, George Will, Michael Gerson, et al. They print David Broder as liberal balance.

Gerson the other day assigned himself the task of explaining why the statements of Falwell & Robertson — that Sept 11 was God’s punishment of the USA for abortion, gays and the ACLU — was different from Rev Wright. The answer: Obama had given financial support to Wright by dropping a donation into the collection plate. Whereas, I guess, Bush was the innocent recipient of the religious right’s largesse.

Do these guys even try anymore?