The Colorful Summer

Shorter my advice to the very prestigious Noel Sheppard:

Better deal with the bullshit in your own eye than try to remove the "fuck" from mine, asshole.

Comments

[Colleen]

This guys favorite show is 24 and he gets his panties in a bunch over the word fuck? Dude, it's time to shut the TV set off and in the immortal words of VP Cheney, "Go fuck yourself".

[Nim, ham hock of liberty]

Another profanity-laced diatribe from "Wingnuttery!"

And my fainting couch is in the shop today....oh, cruel fate.

[Steve]

Typing "fuck" and "shit" into the search engine at Daily Kos. Who says the wingnuts are too lazy to do research to back up their claims?

And do you think he deliberately misnderstood your point that he was a "poor little fucker" because his enjoyment of televised torture had been ruined by a single climate-change PSA? Or your larger point (or is this Roy's larger point?) that these poor little fuckers can never enjoy anything that hasn't been ruled double-plus good according to their various political litmus tests?

[rea]

Ordinarily I am rather chaste in speach, but this guy's okay with torturing people on TV, but balks at the word, "fuck"?

Fuck that bullshit.

[Ripley]

That's some pretty righteous indignation from a guy who's hotlinking images for his website. I busted Sheppard on this a few months ago and he's still doing it. (Seriously, go check.)

Maybe we should refer to him as a "little thief" instead.

[TRex]

Holy fuck! FDL only used to F-word 11 times in July?! It that fucking all? What the fuck? I've got some lost fucking time to fucking make the fuck up for.

[Gabe]

The first two sentences of the first comment on the Newsbusters item: "I have seen a rise in open vulgarity in local high schoolers. Loud cursing in very public places, I believe they are trying to shock for attention." Ah, good news then. Teenagers being the foul-mouthed canaries in the coal mine, that statement can only mean the decline of civilization stalled and leveled out around 1950...except for maybe all those panty-less celebrities. And that's really more an eye-of-the-beholder thing.

[mattsmom]

De-lurking here. I do not ever go to right-wing sites unless someone fools me into going there. This time I went knowingly and, sadly, I found it to be much worse than I expected.

I agree with the comment above about the fainting-couch; seems to be a lot of pearl clutching. I do declare, perhaps someone needs to fetch the smelling salts!

Back to lurking.

[Phila]

This may be the best comment I've ever read anywhere:

Just before the hippie movement, Lady Chattersly's Lover was released. D. H. Lawrence's purpose in writing the book was to put s*** and f*** back into common usage. I think he succeeded.

"Back into common usage," mind you.

Where the f*** do you start?

[Silver Owl]

LOL! Swearing makes the white conservative men cry but being unmigated sadistic assholes makes them feel manly.

Today's conservatives are just fucking nuts.

[Mike in London]

the last comment is the best in my opinion:

'I am not surprised, Noel, that you found what you did. I think it is part of the liberal agenda to de-sensitize thoughtful people, and the use of vulgarity is just one language tool for that purpose.'

Really. . .someone thought about it a bit and typed this into their keyboard; oh the horror!

And, pray tell, how does Cheney get a free pass for uttering f**k on the Senate floor?

losers. . .

There is another great post about the grammatical errors on liberal websites which is hilarious, but I will spare you the twittering indignation

[¡El Gato Negro!]

Of course, sometimes los bloggeros a la izquierda have good reasons for their choice of language, no?

so.

[The Kenosha Kid]

This was my personal favorite:

This is reminiscent of the 1960's and the Yuppies where demagogues like Abbie Hoffman loosely used vulgarity in their dialogue.

Well done, Wingnuttery.