Look, I want to be stay focused on productively working to address this Nation’s serious problems — We have, simply put, too many of them to devolve into a squalor of “I know you are, but what am I?”
That said, enough is enough, and so on a case-by-case basis we’re going to give a Republicans Against Civility & Kindness award. Yup, we’re going to give them a “Nice RACK!” when they deserve it.
A couple of rules: 1) We’re not looking backward, only forward. 2) There’s no expectation on when or how frequently we give out the award — This isn’t a process of giving out a “Nice RACK!” award just for the sake of being able to say, “Nice RACK!” 3) Apologies (even of questionable sincerity) will be noted.
Kimberly Morin, your average Jane jerk
Kimberly Morin (Scott Brown Crazy & Twitter Jerk)
@ConservativeInd on Twitter, Kimberly Morin in real life, is plain old mean-spirited, and let me tell you why.
I should have know where things were headed when her first tweet to me was: “ConservativeInd: @LittleDEM It’s BOTH parties who screwed up. Dem party has become LOON party #ma #masen”. Yeah, yeah, I should have known to just stop and leave it at that. But everyone who knows me knows that I’m an open-minded person, and I just can’t ignore the opportunity to at least try and find common ground.
[Get this, I even offered a coffee / hot chocolate wager on the results of the Special Election between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. Bet you can't wait to read how big of a mistake that was, huh?]
Well, it was a HUGE mistake! And where a downhill-rolling conversation turned really, really bad was when video hit the internet of a Scott Brown supporter shouting “they should shove a curling iron up HER [Martha Coakley's] butt” . . with Scott Brown clearly nodding, then smiling, then saying “We can do that.” (Watch video) Not particularly attractive, and I thought that, as a woman, maybe this was something Kimberly might want to know about.
Well, let’s say things went downhill even faster as evidenced by the following:
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind Your really voting for a guy who smiles at a shout to “shove a curling iron up HER [Coakley's] butt”? http://bit.ly/7jqEA8
ConservativeInd: @LittleDem Better than voting for a woman who let a child rapist go because his daddy was a union exec… he probably didn’t really hear it
ConservativeInd: @LittleDem I’m sure he didn’t really hear what he said… you’re grasping. Coakley is pro-pedophile w/ record to prove it
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind Forget it — Not offering a coffee wager any longer. Assault / Rape is serious. He obviously heard it and did nothing.
ConservativeInd: @LittleDEM COAKLEY DIDN’T PROSECUTE A MAN WHO RAPED HIS 23 MONTH OLD NIECE W/ A HOT CURLING IRON. Ur priorities are SICK
ConservativeInd: @LittleDEM COAKLEY IS PRO-PEDOPHILE Her record PROVES it. SHE had the LAW on her side and did NOTHING.. He prob. didn’t HEAR THAT
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind What the F do you not get? ALL assault is wrong. Take your goggles off for a second and stop being so F’ing partisan!
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind You need to need [read] what you write. Very offensive to say someone is pro-pedophile. Stick with facts, not launch attacks.
ConservativeInd: @LittleDem Her record speaks for itself. She IS pro-pedophile. I find her offensive as a woman, as a human, as a DA and AG.
ConservativeInd: @LittleDEM You started it and I finished it w/ a whopping slap chop of truth. I will gladly talk about something else
ConservativeInd: @LittleDEM If that were true then you wouldn’t support Coakley. Sorry.. her record is horrid when it comes to that
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind Tweet somewhere else, please. Thought we might find some common ground, but you’re too interested in playing politics.
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind For the record, my stance on violence and rape is zero tolerance. Scott Brown had a chance to do the same today and didn’t.
[More vile tweets from @Conservativeind]
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind And just to be clear, no independent would say the nasty vile crap you said to me yesterday. Like I’ve asked, go elsewhere.
ConservativeInd: @LittleDem Sweetheart you make FALSE accusations and I’ll call you out every time and I do this in the name of DEMOCRACY
LittleDEM: @Conservativeind I’m not going to ask you again — Leave me alone. And I’m not your ‘Sweetheart’. Again, LEAVE ME ALONE
[More tweets from @Conservativeind, some of them similarly offensive, each follwed by a request that she stop directing Tweets at me]
Now, this will explain why I’ve taken the effort to document the above — You see, at the same time I’m sending her the link about the Scott Brown video, I’m also sending her a DM, which stands for Direct Message on Twitter (a way of sending a private Tweet to someone), saying that I know a thing or two about sexual assault . . . and that I found it particularly offensive that anyone would do nothing in response to such an offensive comment shouted in public, passing it by with a smile instead.
So, when Kimberly insists on using such aggressive language, continues to accuse someone of being pro-pedophile, calls my priorities “SICK”, and says she delivered a “whopping slap chop of truth” — all the while via Direct Message saying how sorry she is for me but in the same 140 characters how appalled she is by my support for Martha Coakley — then you might have just some sense on how truly appalling I found her behavior.
No apology after making clear I was personally offended by her comments. No honoring the request that she stop directing Tweets at me. instead, she escalates, calling me ‘Sweetheart’ . . . and this after I had specifically, repeatedly, and politely asked her to stop.
Not a very nice person, and you know what’s coming next!
“Hey, Kimberly, nice RACK!”
Oh, and for the record, Kimberly’s friend, @Dr_Rose, is absolutely radicalized and vile. Nothing nice whatsoever. (I think @Dr_Rose’s vocabulary is limited to ‘LMAO’, whatever that means.) I don’t like blocking anyone or anything, but that Twitter Block was one I was glad to make happen.
Either Rush Limbaugh (or what a colonoscopy reveals about what the inside of an asshole looks like)
Rush Limbaugh (’Dickbag Extraordinaire’ anyone?)
Only hypothetically would it be curious to hear what Rush Limbaugh thinks when he’s off-air. I say ‘hypothetically’ because what he says when he’s on-air is already hair-raising enough, not just for its rude and vulgar nature but for its absolute and profound hatefulness.
Within the past week, Haiti has been destroyed by a cataclysmic earthquake. At this point in time it’s estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people perished. That’s not news, with some very early reports having claimed figured in that range — or worse — within 24 hours of the earthquake itself.
Yet Rush Limbaugh, as disconnected as he is from reality and what it means to be human, said the following within 24+ hours of the earthquake itself.
Limbaugh insisted that the Obama White House would use the catastrophe in Haiti to “burnish” the president’s standing and credibility “with the black community, in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community, in this country.”
“It’s made-to-order for ‘em,” Limbaugh said. “That’s why he couldn’t wait to get out there. Could not wait to get out there.”
Not disgusting enough for you? How about this one from Rush Limbaugh’s on-air show this past Thursday, just two days after the earthquake?
Justin of Raleigh, North Carolina: “Why does Obama say if you want to donate some money, you could go to whitehouse.gov to direct you how to do so? If I wanted to donate to the Red Cross, why do I have to go to the White House page to donate?”
Limbaugh: “Exactly. Would you trust the money’s gonna go to Haiti?”
Justin: “No.”
Rush: “But would you trust that your name’s gonna end up on a mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you for campaign donations for him and other causes?”
Justin: “Absolutely!”
Limbaugh: “Absolutely!”
Quoted from Roger Ebert of all people in A letter to Rush Limbaugh.
I’m not quite sure what to say as I’m nearly in tears that America, as great of a country as it is, would dare reward a — and I use the term loosely — ‘person’ a $400M contract to say such despicable things.
Rush Limbaugh at his deranged best
Rush Limbaugh (General Hack)
Amazing that LittleDEM would say that a) we weren’t going to look backward, only forward, and know — by virtue of that decision — that we would be b) skipping past such a deep expanse of Rush idiocy to then be c) ‘rewarded’ with one of his best ever.
Instead of a photo, see the video to the right — It only take a minute. You’ll hear Rush in his very own words (so no one can accuse him of being misquoted). What’s amazing is what he says . . .
” . . . so we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway.” [For editorial purposes, I added the bold to the word 'fabricated'.]
I’m not really sure a) how stupid he is, b) how stupid he thinks his listeners are, or c) both. It is stunning that anyone who claims to proclaim the Truth would so boldly state and assert an outright lie as — gulp — fact.
You know, when I broke something as a kid and lied about it, you know what happened? I got spanked (when I was younger) and grounded (when I got older). It’s really pretty simple — Perpetuating a lie, which is really just lying itself, is one of the first things we’re taught not to do as children. As adults, it’s one of the fundamental tenants of our legal system . . . “To tell the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth”. Where does this guy get off spouting this kind of junk?!?
Rush, there’s nothing civil or kind about knowingly making up and / or perpetuating false statements about another person.
“Hey, Rush Limbaugh, nice RACK!”
(R-wannabe CT) Sen. Joe Lieberman
Senator Joe Lieberman (R-wannabe CT)
Seriously, Senator Lieberman, you need to get your head out of your ass. Your statement that you’ll ‘allow discussion’ but then (possibly) join a Republican Filibuster against a Public Option is inexcusable and, more importantly, explicitly against the wishes of your constituents (and by that I mean the people who actually vote for you, not the CT insurance companies that fund your campaigns). As proof, just look to polling done on the Public Option in August — Democrats and Independents in CT heavily favored a Public Option at that time, with Republican fairly split on the question (see poll)
Either Democrats have a 60-seat, Filibuster-proof majority . . . Or they don’t. That means you only matter when you side with Democrats. Your cry for attention is just that. If you actually join a Filibuster, the next words out of Senator Harry Reid’s mouth (D-NV) should be that you are immediately stripped of your Chair. You simply don’t count if you don’t vote for Cloture.
[I actually accept that you may oppose the Public Option -- What's intolerable about your statement is your inclination to join Republicans in blocking a vote on the matter. That's not Ok.]
As someone I’ve come to know says, “waddle, waddle, quack, quack”, which applied to your case means . . . If it acts like a Republican and talks like a Republican, then it’s a Republican.
“Senator Lieberman, nice RACK!”
Oh, and I can’t believe you were a recount shy of becoming Vice President!
Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC)
Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC)
Our very first award goes to someone who needs little to no introduction, Representative Joe Wilson, for his “You lie!” shout out to the President of the United States in his speech to Congress. Poor form, Joe. And to top it off, you’re using your poor behavior to raise campaign funds. A better platform would have been to deliver the Rebuttal (instead of Rep. Boustany).
Representative Wilson has apologized, though sincerity is in question when he both takes down his House website (where an apology would need to be placed front and center) and frames his apology as an appeal for campaign fundraising.
“Representative Wilson, nice RACK!”
