Prequel II: The Preliminating

I have gone over to the dark side. (Details forthcoming.)

In the meantime, here’s some background on our pal PJ at DUmmie FUnnies, whose most notorious Freeper campaign was stirring up a mob to harass Andy Stephenson while Stephenson was dying of pancreatic cancer:

PJ comix made Andy Stephenson’s last days on earth hell …
Cancerous Campaign

Voter activist Andy Stephenson fights charges he faked his illness—from his hospital bed.

The Internet saved Andy Stephenson’s life. In May 2005, the voting-rights advocate’s online community came together and raised $50,000 in 11 days to pay for surgery to treat Stephenson’s pancreatic cancer. Now, the World Wide Web has spawned a bizarre campaign that accuses the nationally renowned activist of faking his illness.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2005-07-06/news/cancerous-campaign.php


But one day later Andy died, despite his surgery.

http://www.google.com/search?q=andy+stephenson+site%3Awww.freerepublic.com

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=andystephenson

Here’s the DU fundraiser for Andy’s surgery campaign:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3561640
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3622212

A post about the DUFU blog that now may be awarded Funniest Blog:
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/7728.html

More background, via PJ and another commenter at the Weblog Awards page:

pjcomix
Junior Member

Nice try but then you better label the head of the Democratic Underground as well as the other big DUmmie there, William Rivers Pitt, as haters, since they were also questioning Andy’s veracity. Don’t believe me? Then here is the thread chronicling Pitt getting upset with Andy. Check it out.

http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/2005/05/dummie-funnies-05-17-05-im-pretty.html

stef
New Member

And I’m very glad you posted that link to your site, so folks can get a taste of what you consider “funny.” Tormenting a dying man. Hah Hah.

Since you’re here, allow me to explain how Andy’s story got distorted and led Will to question his condition. Andy went to Johns Hopkins for his surgery. Unfortunately, thanks to the harrassment by you and your pals (which caused his paypal acount to be temporarily frozen), his check from the fundraiser did not make it to the hospital in time. The surgery was rescheduled for a week later. While he was waiting he came to NYC to visit me. He was in a lot of pain and spent most of the weekend in the apt, but one night we went out to Hoboken to visit another DUer, Betty Ellen. Over dinner Andy announced that there was good news, Johns Hopkins had found that the tumor was “encapsulated” which indidcated that it had not metastisized, i.e., hadn’t spread to other organs. Betty misunderstood “not mestatastisized” to mean not cancerous, and she posted that at DU as good news. It was a simple mistake, but you and your lovely team of hatemongers seized on it and started your campaign to demonize poor Andy as lynig about his illness.

Pitt got sucked in by you guys but quickly learned the truth and apologized, and in fact gave Andy’s eulogy when he died a few months later.

I can’t imagine how pathetic your life must be that you spend so much of it hating people you’ve never met, but I pity you. And no, I don’t think you’re funny. Not at all.

[Teh voting, in case you’re of a mind to vote against PJ (and for us, Jon Swift, or any of the other entrants), is here. Everyone can vote once every 24 hours.]

 

Comments: 77

 
 
Smiling Mortician
 

Gavin, you are such a tease. Not that I’m not, y’know, intrigued.

 
 

C’mon already, you’re killing me.

 
 

I have already chosen sides, and I’m in up to my ass.

Whatever you’re gonna do, m’man, I have your back and will gladly sit on the perimeter with you all night. Or at least as long as there’s snacks.

Bring it all, Gav. Get some…

mikey

 
 

I have already chosen sides

I will cluck a little bit about impropriety and then do whatever Fred Hiatt says.

 
 

Well, the fact of the matter is, he probably died as a result of unionized nurses or non-native American doctors or something politically correct in the hospital.

Hey, it’s 0317 & it’s dark out!! Wha’hoppen?

 
 

Gavin, I’m been hyped into blue balls by professionals (teases, not sex workers) but there’d better be something good forthcoming.

 
 

Oh, so that’s where I’d heard of DUFU.
I didn’t connect that story with the…. piece you’d linked.

And whatever you did worked. S,N! has retaken the lead.

 
 

Get them in your sights. And. Take. Them. Down.

 
 

I LOVE this. The breeze has stopped. There’s a portent in the slightest sound. An omen in the whisper of the night.

Put Ma Deuce inside the perimeter. Tell the mortar sections to pull three. It’s gonna be close work. Put the sixties on the northwest and southeast corners. And make sure they’ve got plenty of ammo.

Go from hole to hole. Just talking, sharing a last cigarette, making sure everybody has plenty of ammo, knows the rally points, and that the claymores are set and everybody knows where the clappers are. It’s early on whats gonna be a long night. Everybody laughs, and talks about home. Maybe everybody won’t be alive the next time we see the sun. But dammit. You love these guys, and you know when it gets hard, they’ll help.

Fuck it. Bring the noise…

mikey

 
 

I just hope it’s worth the hype. Not that I don’t trust you’re skills Gavin. But all this buildup had better have a worthwhile payoff.

On a related note, i’m amused to see that S, N! has pulled into the lead. It’s a slim lead, so I hope no one gets complacent about it. But it probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for DUFU’s ridiculous campaign. Ever read “Blowback” DUmmie?

 
 

Don’t tell me Gavin decided to join Pajamas Media.

 
 

Don’t tell me Gavin and teh shrieking harpy have joined forces.

 
 

GAVIN IS DATING PAM OSHRY??!?!!?!!!

 
 

When Do the 2007 Weblog Awards Nominations Start?

« Thread Started on Aug 9, 2007, 7:37am »
Just so I can take a quick nap from staring at this board 24/7 since last December, when do the nominations begin for the 2007 Weblog Awards?

That’s PJ starting a new thread at the Weblog Awards’ discussion board back in August.

 
 

Vice-President Cheney Gavin:

I’m going to be careful here, Tim, because I–clearly it would be inappropriate for me to talk about operational matters, specific options or the kinds of activities we might undertake going forward. We do, indeed, though, have, obviously, the world’s finest military. They’ve got a broad range of capabilities. And they may well be given missions in connection with this overall task and strategy.

We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we’re going to be successful. That’s the world these folks operate in, and so it’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

 
 

Hey, it looks like S,N! is in the lead! Freakin’ Sweet!

 
Smiling Mortician
 

Holy shit. I went over to the Weblog Awards discussion board through the link, Gavin. This PJ guy is a real piece of work. I had no idea it was this bad. He’s so deep into denying what he wrote — what he did, actually . . . he’s got freepers and christian rightists and everyone on his case to just own up to his rancid cruelty but he just won’t do it. What a sad, pathetic piece of refuse he is.

 
 

Disgusting assholes.

 
 

What a sad, pathetic piece of refuse he is.

This desribes the entire Rethuglican party.

 
 

I’m amazed this slimeball thinks he deserves anything but a swift kick in the ass. Anyway, the scales have fallen from my eyes: SADLY, NO! MUST WIN THE 2007 WEBLOG AWARD FOR FUNNIEST BLOG.

 
 

can’t vote for S/N again ’til tomorrow morning. You guys would do a lot better if you had a crazy-cute cartoon character named “Sadly”.

 
 

Considering that Malkin and Town Hall are in the “Best Blogs” category, I’m not too surprised.

 
 

Not that anyone asked, but I’m pretty sure I can swing retroactive immunity for *cough* certain actors involved in *cough* certain things.

 
 

i donated to andy’s fundraising as a DU member and remember how nasty people were to him.

just when you think you’ve seen the worst in people they still can surprise you with their viciousness.

that’s why dogs are better than people.

 
 

Made one correction:

We do, indeed, though, have, obviously, the world’s finest miltary satirists. They’ve got a broad range of capabilities. And they may well be given missions in connection with this overall task and strategy.

 
 

I lift my Full Sail Wassail to you, Gavin. All six of them, in fact.

 
 

Thanks for posting my posts here, Gavin. I’ve added a few more since then if you get a chance to read the thread again. Over my dead body will this little creep win any kind of award for his hate site. I want the entire internets to know who this worm PJComix is and what he did. You can get an idea of his character (or, lack of it) just by reading his responses in the thread. He’s so busy fingerpointing and trying to change the subject his head is spinning.

 
 

GAVIN IS DATING PAM OSHRY??!?!!?!!!

Would it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!

 
 

OMG, Gavin is breaking it off with Giuliani.
http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/ronrosenbaum/2007/10/29/shocking_inside_dc_scandal_rum.php

Heads’ll fuckin’ roll.

 
 

Dear Sadly,

I’m not sure what you’ve got up your sleeve here — taking pictures of the DUFU guy at a bar in boston so we can laugh at how fat he is perhaps? — but I think you should reconsider. I read that weblog award comment thread and that guy(s) is a real fucking monster. When somebody attacks some poor dude dying of cancer, going after the perp with sammich humor seems like the wrong approach to me.

 
Innocent Bystander
 

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stef said,

November 5, 2007 at 5:20

Thanks for posting my posts here, Gavin. I’ve added a few more since then if you get a chance to read the thread again. Over my dead body will this little creep win any kind of award for his hate site. I want the entire internets to know who this worm PJComix is and what he did. You can get an idea of his character (or, lack of it) just by reading his responses in the thread. He’s so busy fingerpointing and trying to change the subject his head is spinning.”

Great work stef! Nothing will please me more than to see this unfunny turd get the real exposure he truly deserves. That flaming coward crossed the line of decency when he went after a physically sick individual.

 
 

The fact is, anyone, dying of cancer or not, is fair game if they criticice the USA and our President. People should think about the consequences before they use their so-called Free Speech to tear down America. Voter rights is mostly a crusade to allow illegals, dead people, trade unionists and criminals to vote. I prefer to attack voter fraud.

 
 

Another fact: liberals have no sense of humor, especially when their muslim and minority friends are attacked. “Hate speech” they cry, and then decry our attempts to expose them and their hate as hate speech, it is irony my friends irony and bias and hate.

 
Gary Foehammer !!!
 

The indisputable fact is, that I, Gary Foehammer !!! am a sorry Bastian-buggerer.

 
 

Why wouldn’t trade unionists be allowed to vote?

 
 

Congrats to Gavin and his new gig at the Atlantic!

 
 

Huzzah for Gavin and his new Undersecretary of Secretary’s Underpants position!

 
 

Mr. Roarke’s Brand Salad Dressing’s Poops said,
Huzzah for Gavin and his new Undersecretary of Secretary’s Underpants position!

Hey, that’s a damn prestigious position, and it’s been filled with honor and duty by many heroic and patriotic men.

 
 

GAVIN IS DATING PAM OSHRY??!?!!?!!!

Would it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!

You’re right, Jeff! I think they’re picking out monogrammed towels now!

 
 

Oops, missed a closing blockquote.

 
 

By the way, I hope this isn’t just about some photoshop tomfoolery.

 
 

¿Gavin ees at The Atlantic?

Do me a favor, Gav, and eef joo see Marc Ambinder, give him a good fong right ‘twixt the uppers.

Por favor.

 
 

Under a universal health care plan none of this would have happened to Andy. The same loonies who raised the money and then withheld while they harassed him literally to death don’t believe in universal health care plans.

 
 

I have never been so appalled at (sub)human behavior as I have at reading PJComix’s own defensive comments (Weblog Award site thread) regarding his ghastly treatment of a dying man. Not only did he ridicule a dying man in horrible pain, but he continues to do so and doesn’t have the balls to admit how malicious he is. His defensive comments in themselves totally echo the original malicious posts.

Not only does he NOT deserve to win an award, but he deserves to have his butt thrown out of the competition for sullying the reputation of the Weblogs Awards.

What a piece of crap this…PJComix is…

 
Innocent Bystander
 

PJcomix’s defense of his actions are pathetic. “Will Pitt did it too” or “What about Bev Harris?”….like they have anything to do with his actions. Just another RW crank who is unable to take responsibility for their actions.

He’s just a shameless self-promoter. It really is embarassing how desperate he is to win this award….I think he’s been planning on this award for the past year. He’s going down in flames and I think the joke is going to be on him…..

 
 

Snark fails me at times like these.

I’ll get it back, but I just don’t have any right now.

Bring on teh Cheetos.

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

“It really is embarassing how desperate he is to win this award”

All the more reason to make sure he doesn’t win. I didn’t really care before I read about his campaign against the guy dying of cancer; now I want him to lost so bad I can taste it. On the good news side, Sadly, No! is currently ahead by about 400 votes. Oh, and Postsecret.com is beating Malkin by about 17,000 votes.

 
 

It seems to me that every time I go to vote (after the first time), it tells me I’ve already voted within 24 hours, and I think I haven’t. Is it just me? And my panting ardor? Or what?

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

“And my panting ardor? Or what?”

I don’t know nuffink about the odor of your pants, Monsieur Wonderful, but I know that it seems to work for me. Try tossing your cookies (snerk) and try again if you’re sure it’s been more than 24 hours.

 
 

Heh heh. S, N!’s lead just keeps getting bigger.

I guess that whole “go to office buildings and badger people working there to go to a sight they’ve never heard of, to vote for a sight they’ve never read, in a contest they don’t care about, and pick up hawt chicks while doing it” strategy isn’t working out so well.

Gavin, I think you’re going to get that stupid award. And the best part is that DUmmie has no one to blame for it but himself. I love it when creeps like that screw themselves over.

 
 

You know someone has *really* put his foot in it when he’s got Freepers condemning his behavior.

 
 

I think it should be noted that this award seems kinda dumb and arbitrary, but that if S,N! gets the prize to derail the apparently long-cherished hopes of the PJ Comix asswad, that is pretty cool. In other words, we seem to be kind of the karmic vessel of choice to hit that particular cobag where it hurts. But nothing more.

 
 

I think we should all send him ‘special’ mayonnaise sammiches, properly molded, as a consolation prize.

 
 

I guess that whole “go to office buildings and badger people working there to go to a sight they’ve never heard of, to vote for a sight they’ve never read, in a contest they don’t care about, and pick up hawt chicks while doing it” strategy isn’t working out so well.

It’s been woking quite well for me, & over the weekend yet. The “hawt” ladies dig the Sadly, No!

 
 

The fact is, anyone, dying of cancer or not, is fair game…

For the record, when Gary Ruppert is dying of cancer, preferably in a state of destitution as well as great pain, I fully intend to mock him as a serial liar and a loser. I know that’s not very progressive of me, but there are some jerkwads up with which I will not put.

 
 

Various oyzterz and scallopz are not fair game, I’ll tell you that much.

 
 

Well, we’re all dying, it’s just pathetic Ronald Reagan optimistic dementia that makes us say we’re “living.” Barely alive, most of us. So any one is fair game.

 
 

The thread exposing PJ-COMIX for his screeds of mocking libelous hatred against a dying man is now up to 2150 views…. in about 8 hours total. Pretty much the most popular topic at that forum (page views/hr) in its history.

I dare say, as that thread gets linked more and more places, which it undoubtedly will, SN! is gonna end up making PJ cry in his bag of cheetos when the awards are announced.

Get ready for a barrage of “I Was Swiftboated!” posts from PJ, the irony of which will blow right over the comedian’s head.

 
 

The only fate worse for PJ than being outed as a terminal cancer patient stalker-harasser would be getting caught in the men’s room in two scuba suits with a dildo up his ass. Maybe next year!

 
 

btw, the perfect theme music for this particular blog awards scandal might be Frolic from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

 
 

500 votes in the lead now, sirs.

I consider it a labor of love to have added to that total. Seriously, even for right-wingers, who pulls stuff like this? I honestly feel bad for Michelle Malkin to have to be tarred by the same brush as this guy.

Also, I almost consider his tedious, repetitive “wisecracks” against the DU thread more unforgivable than the sentiment they convey…. if that page comes into contact with actual humor, they’ll cancel each other out.

 
 

Wow, quite the little feud you and DUFU have going on. I’ve read a few of their articles and didn’t really find the, er, funny in any of them. A rant is still a rant, no matter what else you call it. I don’t pretend I’m writing how-tos at my blog, do I? Good to see you up in the polls. Blogs with class are nicer to read.

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

I was cruising the FreakRepugnant vote-begging threads that DuFu created, and saw this comment in re Sadly, No!: I also was suspicious about how the reader can change the theme from ‘White’ to ‘Colored’. Thought that was a bit odd.

Hoo boy. Them fellers let’s ye change yer background from White to Darkie. They’s sumpin mighty suspicious ’bout that. Whut sorta mischief do they be up to?

Ah, the self-parodying wingnut. They are like sugar to me!

 
 

I honestly feel bad for Michelle Malkin to have to be tarred by the same brush as this guy.

After what Michelle wrote about the Frosts? You’re kidding, right? Michelle would have been first in line to accuse Andy of fudging his cancer.

 
 

Oh, and Postsecret.com is beating Malkin by about 17,000 votes.

Well. Reading PostSecret makes even me, a notorious misanthrope, feel closer to my fellow human beings. Reading Malkin makes me want to hurt a lot of my fellow human beings, or at least go hide in a dark cave where I won’t have to deal with them ever again.

 
 

[…] From comments this evening: Rightwingsnarkle said, November 5, 2007 at 7:33 […]

 
 

Mr. Wonderful: I’ve had the same experience. I tried to vote yesterday and they said blah blah you voted less than 24 hours ago. I just now went and got the same message. They’re lie-heads and doo-doo-pantses.

 
 

“They’re lie-heads and doo-doo-pantses.”

I know, MzNicky–harsh words, but we’ve been provoked. I’ll try what Johnny Oldfish suggests and clear my cookies.

(Too intimate? Not for this site.)

 
 

It didn’t work.

I intelligently looked in Firefox’s Preferences, found Cookies, and hand-deleted the two cookies for the Wizbang site where the poll is. Then I even more intelligently closed out FF and re-started it.

Now when I click a link to the poll, I get sent to the Results page, and still get that “You already voted less than 24 hours ago” message.

Did I? It’s possible. I can’t be more intelligent than this. I’ll have to wait until tonight, apparently.

 
 

Watch out, since he’ll be desperate to explain away the humiliating defeat he’s about to suffer, the little rat may use that as evidence of systematic left-wing VOTE TAMPERING!!!!1

 
 

[…] One of the sites responsible for this attack is a finalist in the 2007 Weblog Awards for “funniest weblog.” You can read details about it from Sadly, No!. […]

 
 

I’m all ska-rewed up because of the change in Daylight Savings Time, but I think I have to wait until 7 before my 24 hours is up, and I’ll be in class at 7, so I’ll have to wait until later to vote again.

That BOSSY site is Teh Funny, but sadly, many of the commenters don’t seem to understand Sadly,No and are outraged at both the main contenders, feeling that they’re somehow ‘cheating’ their beloved Bossy out of the win. I suspect most of the Bossy folks, although quite literate, are not political.

 
 

“Just talking, sharing a last cigarette, making sure everybody has plenty of ammo, knows the rally points, and that the claymores are set and everybody knows where the clappers are.”

…and remember kids, there is a reason why the following words are on the front of the claymore:

“FRONT TOWARD ENEMY”

 
 

That’s one of the most horrible things I’ve ever read. Who the hell spends time accusing someone of not having cancer? If someone’s a well-known pathological liar, maybe. But good lord, that’s just cruel, unconscionable, and obscene.

 
 

Agreed, Batocchio. But sadly (yes), this kind of fracas isn’t all that uncommon. There are a lot of people out there who are so mean-spirited that they go apeshit when they see someone they dislike being helped by online donations. Most of them don’t take it quite this far, but I suspect that it’s happened more often than is common knowledge. And there’s also the case, well-known among Harry Potter fans, of Cassie Clare’s fangirls going after a cancer patient whom they felt had gotten in their way.

 
 

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