Republican deathporn

WARNING: this article is inflammatory. It has also been edited (by me) to fit into the time allotted and to fit your screen. The original is here: http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/12/headhunters.php



Headhunters
Posted by James Wolcott

Republican warbloggers have commented:

"May he [i.e., me] be kidnapped by 'insurgents' in Iraq then appear
on an ugly net broadcast. I wonder, if in the moment before the knife
started sawing into his fleashy neck if he might rethink his opinions
on the GWOT."

The spelling was later corrected to "fleshy," lest anyone think I
possess a flashy neck.

This sentence leapt out not only because it was directed at yours
truly but because it fits a pattern of measel spots I've discerned.

More and more the rightwing militant "anti-idiotarians" (as they
deludedly think of themselves)have been relishing the prospect of
antiwar figures undergoing the Daniel Pearl treatment. They keep
bringing it up as the retribution that'll deliver certain choice
heads on a platter. In a sick irony, Daniel Pearl's marytrdom has
provided a negative inspiration to certain super patriots professing
to fight for truth, justice, and the American way.

For example, Anna Benson, the bodacious wife of a Mets pitcher,
recently burst her bodice giving full lusty cry to an aria painting
the glorious prospect of Michael Moore's neck being used as a log.

"You are a selfish, pathetic excuse for an American, and you can take
your big fat ass over to Iraq and get your pig head cut off and stuck
on a pig pole. Then, you can have your equally as fat wife make a
documentary about how loudly you squealed while terrorists were
cutting through all the blubber and chins to get that 40 pound head
off of you."

And just this morning, the day after Christmas and the second day of
Hannukah, blogdom's zestiest Zionist party girl elevated the
discourse by dismissing the concerns of legal scholars perturbed
about Bush's domestic spying thusly:

"Someone ought to tlell those legal scholars not to worry.......it's
smooth sailing once those Radical Islmonazis saw through their
jugulars."

(Her excitable italics.)

Civilized people were appalled, disgusted, and sobered by the vicious
execution of Daniel Pearl, and the beheadings that followed. But many
of the warbloggers are not civilized people. It is clear that despite
their sincere protestations of horror, rage, and pity, the execution
of Daniel Pearl aroused them on some primitive, subconscious level.
They got off on it. It functioned as death porn to their seething,
frustrated psyches. (Frustrated, because the war in Iraq simply
hasn't gone the way they thought it would or should. They have been
denied the glorious clearcut victory they craved.) The beheading
ritual tapped into their sadistic impulses, and excited their own
fantasies of torturing their foes. When rightwing bloggers and
posters conjure that under Islam, Democrats--which they've come to
call dhimmicrats--will get what's coming to them (i.e., the business
end of a butcher's blade), it's as if it's a horrible fate that
couldn't possibly happen to them*--because it's a death wish directed
outward. The Islamic terrorists serve as proxies and stand-ins in
this imaginary theater of cruelty, enacting what they (the
warbloggers) would like to mete out to us (their domestic
adversaries). Sometimes the punishment they seek is more Jacobean, as
when Michael Fumento greeted Cindy Sheehan's threat to tie herself to
the fence in Crawford, Texas to protest the 2000th military death in
Iraq with the sentiment, Good, let her lash herself to the fence:
"Leave her there and maybe the crows will do the world a favor and
eat her tongue out."

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.


(*as another LGF poster put it: "Funny thing, the liberal mindset:
expend all energy on phantom 'enemys', meanwhile the real enemy
pounds at the fucking gate, ready to chop off their heads." Note:
"their," not "our." LGF'ers have a touching faith in the
undetachablility of their own heads under the grisly Islamofascism
they spend so many hours daydreaming about.)

12.26.05 5:04PM

Yea, things are escalating on both sides. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
It's pretty funny to see Wolcott pick out little rare comments from righty sites. Take a look at any thread at all on Kos. Or the Democratic Underground. The left is diseased with this sort of sick crap.

It's going to lead to a lot of violence in the US. There are way too many people here that are now pretty disconnected from reality. Reap what you've sown, hippies.

Lies.

Um, not really. DU has it's share of nutjobs. Then again, so does Free Republic. And MANY others. Hell, pick any blog and you can find some wacko from either side (often both) in the comments section.

Anyone can post in the comments section. It would be silly to profess you know their political affiliation.

I think Stankleberry Sullivan is just grasping for straws.

Hahahaha, well then you can say the same thing about all of the comments that supposedly came from "Republicans" in the Wolcott article, huh? Straws.

Huh? I stopped reading as soon as I saw Anna Benson quoted. Some people are simply not meant to be taken seriously. I'm still waiting for the inevitable discovery that her husband has screwed around on her....

I am not grasping at straws. Unlike you, I did not comment on the original article.

I am not that ravenous.

I just said your statement was a lie, which it is.

Actually, by replying to my comment about the original article, you were commenting on the original article.

Haha, my statement was a lie? Oh yea, you proved that by pretending that all of the sick comments made on Kos and DU are actually made by people pretending to be lefties. Good job with the proving.

By that logic, I declare that by replying to my post you were asking me to shove my dick up your ass. I regretfully decline your proposition.


Yes, it was a lie. It was a blanket accusation that you make with no factual basis to back it up.

By your logic, I could say that you fuck your grandmother and it is true until you can prove otherwise. I would never say such a thing however, as I am a gentleman and there is no place for that type of language in gentlemanly discourse.

You are disgusting.

Perhaps that is true Pot, but I am not a liar.

Lieing: You hate pancakes. (Well, maybe you do, I don't know)

Sweeping generalization: People at the I-Hate-Pancakes.Com forum hate pancakes

See the difference?

Haven't yall heard? The bar on "truth" has been lowered substantially! Hell, you can boldfaced LIE and still be tellin the truth these days! As long as you WISH your statement was true, you're golden! The new term is "truthiness." Check CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/07/word.contest.ap/

And thats the TRUTH, with some CHEEZE on it!

I thought Stephen Colbert made up the word truthiness