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Best Comment Ever

by John Cole|  August 30, 20054:55 pm| 42 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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I have had a few pieces of hate mail, and I have weathered some pretty stupid commentary, but this is hands down the best comment I have ever received (for sheer entertainment value):

Dear fascists on this site:

I am a liberal.

I would rather live as a slave on my knees…

…then die on my feet as a warmonger.

Cindy is better than Jesus and Rosa Parks. You are worse than Hitler.

Fuck off.

A liberal

Worse than Hitler? C’mon Miss Lewinsky, get off your knees.

*** Update ***

Damnit. Same comment left at Jeff’s. I don’t feel special anymore.

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42Comments

  1. 1.

    Mike

    August 30, 2005 at 4:58 pm

    I wonder what college he’s a professor at?

  2. 2.

    Peter T.

    August 30, 2005 at 5:01 pm

    Umm, maybe somebody is trolling? Ya think?

  3. 3.

    Dean Esmay

    August 30, 2005 at 5:02 pm

    The best hate mail is always incoherent. :-)

  4. 4.

    Krista

    August 30, 2005 at 5:05 pm

    Wow….just…wow.

    You know, it’s just really too bad that the wingnuts on BOTH sides are screaming so loudly that everybody thinks that they represent the true feelings of most members of their respective wings. Being in Canada — on the outside looking in, so to speak — it just seems that everybody spends a lot more time arguing and refuting the talking points of those whose sole mission in life is to piss people off and be provocative. All that mental energy and time could be better spent — maybe on starting a real dialogue about how to actually end this war, bring the troops home, and then use the money to beef up home defenses (airports, borders, shipping ports, increased police forces) to help Americans TRULY feel safe?

    Just a thought.

  5. 5.

    KC

    August 30, 2005 at 5:09 pm

    Gawd. Honestly, can’t we just call it a day and say there are looneys on both sides of the aisle. Really, we all have our political prejudices, but this kind of thing is just stupid.

  6. 6.

    Boronx

    August 30, 2005 at 5:10 pm

    You have been trolled, John, feel better?

  7. 7.

    jobiuspublius

    August 30, 2005 at 5:11 pm

    Bah, that guy’s a noob! I see bigger ones flung right here.

    Krista, thought? Doesn’t that imply being less angry? HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. 8.

    Otto Man

    August 30, 2005 at 5:12 pm

    Does anyone really think this was posted by an actual liberal?

    Cindy is better than Jesus and Rosa Parks. You are worse than Hitler.

    You really think that comment came from someone who was being sincere?

    I can’t believe you looked at this twice, much less gave it the honor of its own entry.

  9. 9.

    jobiuspublius

    August 30, 2005 at 5:12 pm

    You have to admit, he’s not as good as Karl at identifing targets.

  10. 10.

    John S.

    August 30, 2005 at 5:14 pm

    John cannot resist the lure of the Sheehan bait…

    If he were Superman, she is his kryptonite.

  11. 11.

    es

    August 30, 2005 at 5:16 pm

    What’s really entertaining is that some people think the comment is genuine. Real boneheads

  12. 12.

    Mike S

    August 30, 2005 at 5:19 pm

    Anybody else detect a bit of DougJ in that?

  13. 13.

    Krista

    August 30, 2005 at 5:23 pm

    Being angry without focus and without a persuasive argument…well, that’s just a temper tantrum. People might listen, due to sheer volume. But will anything actually be accomplished? Nope. I think that people like “A Liberal” have no goal other than to distract everybody, ruffle everybody’s feathers, and keep us from working to solve this problem. Some people get off on sowing dissent and disaccord, and know no other way of communicating than by incoherent, ugly rants. I say we just ignore them until they can conduct themselves like adults.

  14. 14.

    M. Scott Eiland

    August 30, 2005 at 5:23 pm

    Fake. It’s retarded enough to be a real lefty troll–but the spelling and grammar is too good, and there’s not enough profanity.

  15. 15.

    ppGaz

    August 30, 2005 at 5:25 pm

    I think you’re trying a little too hard, John.

    Why don’t you just post a picture of her with the caption “Satan’s Whore” and get it over with? You can turn your blog into the electronic equivalent of the Star:

    “Cindy: I’m Having Charles Manson’s Baby!”

  16. 16.

    Marcus Wellby

    August 30, 2005 at 5:26 pm

    Damn, sounds like there is a liberal version of Doug J out there…

  17. 17.

    jobiuspublius

    August 30, 2005 at 5:28 pm

    But, Krista, there are better ways to deal with the republican base that ignore them.

  18. 18.

    Marcos

    August 30, 2005 at 5:28 pm

    Hey John,

    I am a liberal.

    But I think you’re the coolest Republican blogger around.

    Keep up the good work.

  19. 19.

    jobiuspublius

    August 30, 2005 at 5:29 pm

    *than, not that, dam sperlin broke

  20. 20.

    John Cole

    August 30, 2005 at 5:31 pm

    I just thought it was funny. I couldn’t care less if it was intended or not.

    I mean, better than Jesus and Rosa Parks is pretty damn funny.

  21. 21.

    DougJ

    August 30, 2005 at 5:44 pm

    That was obviously a fake.

  22. 22.

    TallDave

    August 30, 2005 at 5:59 pm

    It’s clearly a parody by a righty, if you look at the email addy.

    Still funny though.

  23. 23.

    Techie

    August 30, 2005 at 6:00 pm

    ppGaz is trying for his own entry.

    I’ve got some ideas of my own.

    John = Evvvvil McHaliburtoin ChimpyMcHitler Amerkkkian Poody-head.

  24. 24.

    Techie

    August 30, 2005 at 6:03 pm

    I wish I got hate mail. It all seems so funny..

  25. 25.

    Krista

    August 30, 2005 at 8:46 pm

    It definitely gets my vote for the “Over-the-top” award. I’m surprised that it didn’t declare that Cindy was the love child of Jesus and Rosa Parks.

    The sad, scary thing though, is that there probably are people out there who think like that. Yikes.

  26. 26.

    Bob

    August 30, 2005 at 8:53 pm

    More popular than Jesus, wasn’t that what John Lennon said?

    This email reminds me of the scene in the Rutles when Nasty was misheard. He hadn’t said the Rutles were more popular than God, he said they were more popular than Rod. Rod Stewart, who hadn’t yet become popular.

    That is to say, this was a forgery.

  27. 27.

    Fascist

    August 30, 2005 at 9:36 pm

    Dear Communists/Socialists (and temporary allies) on this site:

    I am a liberal Fascist.

    I would rather you live as my slave… on your knees

    AND then die as a warmonger at my feet as a barking moonbat.

    Cindy is better than no different than Jesus – useful idiot (Rosa was just damn tired). You are worse than supplicants of the neo-Hitler. As am I – political expediance is paramount, and framing a story trumps all. Praise Osama…

    p.s. Piss off and die

    An Islamofascist and his supporting staff.

  28. 28.

    jobiuspublius

    August 30, 2005 at 9:39 pm

    Seems like amateur Rove strikes again.

  29. 29.

    goonie bird

    August 30, 2005 at 10:06 pm

    A dim-witted egghead dummy who dont know the earth is round and i,ll bet he thinks the world is balanced on the back of a big turtle that walks slowly around the sun and that the stars are little lamps lit by the sky people at night and blown out in the day how backwards is this moron?

  30. 30.

    jobiuspublius

    August 30, 2005 at 10:32 pm

    ROFLMAO goonie what the hell are you doing?

  31. 31.

    Fascist

    August 30, 2005 at 10:40 pm

    Amateur? AMATEUR???

    here you are spreading my propaganda, and You Call ME AMATEUR!!!

    You will meet your maker slower than I intially anticipated…

  32. 32.

    demimondian

    August 31, 2005 at 12:03 am

    Amateur? AMATEUR???[…]You will meet your maker slower than I intially anticipate…

    Amateur. It’s “more slowly”, not “slower”. And you need to use the past perfect, “anticipated”, not the present indicative, “anticipate”.

  33. 33.

    Shep

    August 31, 2005 at 12:46 am

    He has it backwards, this person will die on their knees as a slave, decapitated by hooded men hollering “allahu oakbar!”, mindlessly, over and over. Then they’ll show it on TV and be very proud of their blood-thirsty god. Better to die on your feet, a free man or woman, gun blazing, killing islamofascistic bastards.

  34. 34.

    Mike Slag

    August 31, 2005 at 7:53 am

    Hilarious, I am sad though, I wrote my own little op-ed piece on Sheehan and didn’t receive any comments like that, only supportive ones. Am I doing something wrong? Am I not being Fascist enough, maybe I’ll put and edit on that says…something like…. P.S. Die Cindy Sheehan, followed of course by maniacal laughter. Ah well keep up the good work grapevine.

  35. 35.

    mil0

    August 31, 2005 at 9:16 am

    i just want to point out that, in the case of the beatles, john lennon was right. they really were (are)bigger than jesus, in a literal sense. jesus is big among christians. the beatles are big among anyone who knows anything about music, and a lot of people who don’t.

    oh, and i’m pretty sure that comment was incomplete. it should have included something along the lines of “MAKE ABORTION MANDATORY!” and “ME LOVE MICHAEL MOORE LONG TIME!”

  36. 36.

    SRN

    August 31, 2005 at 9:36 am

    I am a conservative:

    I think all Muslims should be killed and Christianity made the official religion.

    OR

    I am a liberal:

    Bush is actaully the spawn of Hitler and the Devils and put upon this earth to cause kill all people with less than $10M of personal wealth.

    See how easy it is to make a side look bad. Don’t fall for it.

    I am from Kansas, the only things I want taught to my kids is what comes from the bible, everything else is untrue.

    I am from Massachusetts, anyone who believes in God is an ignoramus.

  37. 37.

    Luddite

    August 31, 2005 at 9:49 am

    Umm, maybe somebody is trolling? Ya think?

    LOL.

    I’m SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you to hear there is Trolling on BJ! Next thing you know someone will say DougJ is just a Troll and not a true American Patriot! I need an adult beverage to calm myself.

  38. 38.

    Ann Coulter

    August 31, 2005 at 9:55 am

    I think all Muslims should be killed and Christianity made the official religion.

    I like your thinking :-)

  39. 39.

    RA

    August 31, 2005 at 1:23 pm

    This is just a Kos mainstream Democrat.

  40. 40.

    mil0

    August 31, 2005 at 5:28 pm

    i want to apologize for the kind of incomprehensible (but mostly just not funny) comment i left earlier. i had just woken up, and apparently, wasn’t thinking clearly.

  41. 41.

    skip

    September 1, 2005 at 7:17 am

    The MEMRI/False Flag syndrome:

    More and more posts seem artfully over-the-top as if to discredit the cause they proport to advance.
    Like MEMRI, the “objective” MIddle East source that collects and disseminates the absolute nuttiest Moslem rants, crafty ideologues now give wide currency to the craziest partisan statements as if they are mainstream examples of the opposing point of view.
    Or, like False Flag operations, ideologues wholly invent extreme opponents in order to discredit a cause embraced by more moderate elements.

    It is wise to reflect on the likelihood that much of the worst of what you read is pure moonshine, brewed up by the opposite people to whom it is attributed.

    Skip

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