Did you give a lot of thought to Sarah Palin when you woke up this morning?
Yeah, neither did I.
When I wrote my piece from earlier today, expressing my feelings about what happened across the United States last night and its transformational power for both our country and the world, I didn't think -- even for a minute -- about wasting any copy slamming the lunatic fringe on the right. I was feeling far too good and didn't want to sully any of it by doing a lot of thinking about how the Fox News Channels, Rush Limbaughs and Ann Coulters of the world were reacting to the brutal smackdown they'd just gotten at the hands of a pissed off, fed up America.
Besides, wouldn't the biggest insult to the formerly deafening bullies on the right be to deny them the attention they've reveled in for eight long years? I figure sociopathic media whores like O'Reilly can handle just about anything except suddenly having their views marginalized, disregarded or flat-out ignored.
But while I tried to suppress the desire for a little good natured, knife-twisting schadenfreude, the folks at the Huffington Post were quick to remind me just what kind of despicable assholes we were talking about here and how often they've delighted in the disenfranchisement of those who don't think like them.
So I took a look at some of the reaction from the far right blogosphere and other assorted mouthpieces that HuffPost has compiled.
Needless to say, the God, guns, and guts crowd is, for the most part, handling the election of Barack Obama with the kind of dignity and grace you'd expect.
Here's what Caption This! has to say:
"If only one good thing has come from this election, it's that it is crystal clear who the enemy is. We don't have to compromise any more. We're liberated from having to back mushy moderates just because if the alternative gets power, it would be worse. Well, now the worse alternative is in power, and we have nothing to lose. The things that really matter are our faith and our families. And not even Chairman O can take those away from us. Take hope. Take Christ. Take faith. Much like Frank Stallone, we are down, but we are far from over!"
Or how about this terrifying little nugget from paranoid gun-fucker "Uncle Jimbo" over at the lunatic quasar known ominously as Blackfive:
"America's sheep have spoken and elevated one of their own to the Presidency. Uber Sheep (no offense UP) Obama will now lead the flock from the front. The United States of Socialist America has been established... The CHANGE Obama and his legions of adorers want to enact is unprcedented [sic] in US history and the country they want to make would be unrecognizable to the Founders. I refuse to submit. I refuse to HOPE or CHANGE. I refuse to surrender... 1-20-09, the day we begin the fight to stop the left from telling the rest of us how to live our lives and pussifying American society. I went with Chuck Z today to his favorite local gun shop and where last week there were dozens of AK and variants for sale, today there were half as many and a line to buy. "
Then there are the tinfoil hats who put together Moonbattery:
"Congratulations, moonbats. You finally have your revenge for being forced to look at all those flags after 9/11. This is a day of celebration for everyone hostile to America and the principles of individual liberty for which it stands. Enjoy it while you can. There are people lowdown enough to know in advance who and what was elected yesterday, and to have voted for the Moonbat Messiah anyway. What they have done to this country is beyond forgiveness. But an ultra-radical leftist like Obama could not be elected in a center-right country, or even a center-left country, without a great deal of deception. Thanks to a radicalized liberal media willing to sacrifice its own long-term credibility to put a leftist in power, Obama was never publicly vetted. Moderates did not vote for a real person, but for a two-dimensional phantom temporarily conjured into being by hype."
And of course let's not forget the special brand of drug-induced stupid that we've come to expect from Rush Limbaugh's radio show (remember that this is the most "mainstream" opinion of the bunch):
"Now, for all of those of you out there, not in this audience, but the faint of heart on our side, who want to go through this rigmarole game of appeasement and conciliation, congratulations, work nice. McCain last night... The reason I asked you if he got booed last night, was because I was booing. When he came out and said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, my friends, I want us to come together tonight in unity with Senator and President-Elect Obama.' I do not want unity with President-Elect Obama! Ladies and gentlemen, let me count the numbers here. What do we have? By the time all this is all over, 57 million Americans will have voted "no" on this stuff! I, for one, do not think it wise to abandon 57 million Americans who want no part of an Obama agenda, and I for one will not abandon 57 million Americans who want no part of it. Unity with Obama? Can you spell defeat?"
I get that these clowns still have a voice, and that there are still plenty of people who will listen to it -- particularly now that their worst conspiracist fears about the direction this country is heading in have been stoked and they can indulge in masculine fantasies of being oppressed freedom fighters ready to make the Founding Fathers proud with their righteous last stand.
But it's nice -- really, really, nice -- that at least for the moment they're nothing but a lot of talk.
Talk that the world's joyous celebration is easily drowning out.
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