So conservative bloggers are now publicly wondering if the murdered census worker was a child predator. Jesse Taylor summarizes the evidence:
1.) What if he was?
2.) Wouldn’t it be irresponsible not to theorize?
Amazing the depths these guys will sink to…
JenJen
At this point, we could have another Oklahoma City, complete with tree-of-liberty-shirt-arrest, and these bastards would still claim it had nothing to right wing extremism.
They’e shameless, and I’m beyond pissed off.
Oh, and living relatively near there and being quite familiar with that part of Kentucky, I wish old RS McCain all the luck in the world. If those are the people he wants to claim as his own, he can have ’em.
Napoleon
Stay classy? Were any of them ever classy?
The right in this country is made up of complete scum.
asiangrrlMN
Fuck them. Seriously. I am so fucking sick of this shit. I can’t even say what’s on my mind right now.
truculent and unreliable
@JenJen: No doubt they’ll soon be claiming that McVeigh was actually a leftist, as well.
Zifnab
I mean, the logic is just fantastic. It not only shows the right wing’s ludicrously low threshold for convicting someone of pedophilia, it shows their ridiculously low threshold for condoning of vigilante justice.
Shit, I wouldn’t feel safe living anywhere near these people. I’m just minutes away from being heckled as a “witch” and burned at the stake.
geg6
These people are seriously horrible. Throwing this kind of stuff around about a poor murdered man who cannot even defend himself. And Reihl cannot even be bothered to do the most simple of fact checking himself, stating that there was no evidence the guy even had teaching credentials when there is video that’s been running for days from the guy’s speech at graduation. Disgusting people.
anonevent
Think about all the crimes Malkin is hiding by her going after little children. The mind just reels with the speculation.
Gary
Now John, don’t rush to judgment.
I assume that you are not a child predator, but remember, it takes one to know one.
Maybe Jesse Taylor has a special insight by looking into his own soul.
JenJen
And you know, if this McCain douchebag is a reporter for American Spectator, why does he have to raise funds in order to travel to Kentucky to file a report? This guy calls himself a “shoe leather journalist” but he needs donations? Is this even remotely ethical?
Zifnab
@geg6:
It’s a parade of ignorance over there. They can’t decide how many kids he has and are all thoroughly convinced he was a loner with no friends (projection much?)
Warren Terra
@ Gary, #8
Gary, your snark would have been more effective if you’d clicked the links, read more carefully, or in some other way known that Jesse Taylor is a liberal blogger at Pandagon, and is quoted skewering this nonsense, not creating or propagating it. The person who you want to investigate for possibly possessing special insight into the souls of child molesters is Dan Riehl, not Jesse Taylor.
Warren Terra
Re Robert Stacy McCain, there really is something special about a guy who managed to get himself fired from the Washington Times for being too much of a sexist, racist, neoConfederate asshole even for them.
Llelldorin
@Napoleon:
In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy, Ron Burgandy used “You stay classy, San Diego!” as his signoff phrase until someone tampered with the teleprompter, upon which–in precisely the same tone of voice–he signed off with “Go f*** yourself, San Diego!”
I just assumed the first phrase was generally being used in place of the second.
Emma
I’m not much for resolving an issue with violence, but I can think of no better answer to something like that than a punch in the nose, so I’m going to take John’s tag literally and let him read the asshole so I don’t have to…
donnah
Dan Riehl is lower than dogshit on a shoe. That piece and the responses he made afterward are despicable. If he was writing for shock value, he overshot the mark and ended up somewhere beneath contempt.
Warren Terra
Is “stay classy” ever used in the internets other than in a sarcastic fashion, to indicate that the person being so admonished is in fact profoundly lacking in class?
JenJen
I just read that Dan Riehl post, and it is fucking abhorrent. He basically has a hunch that the murdered Census worker was gay. Then he adds that he was a teacher, which means he “gravitated toward kids.” So, combine teacher and gay, and, in the “Riehl World”, this must mean he liked to bugger kids. Truly. That’s what this guy is opining. He even brings the man’s poor, suffering mother into it, that’s the kind of piece of shit that Dan Riehl is.
Pardon my language, but this kind of shit really raises the hair on my back. How about Occam’s Razor here, you fucking assholes? How about the most obvious explanation? Why are they behaving as though he couldn’t possibly have been murdered because he is a Census worker?
Morbo
@JenJen: Better yet, they would claim it was an inside job by the Obama administration in order to push through their policies. I mean, if you think Truthers and Birthers are bad, imagine the kinetic malevolent stupid energy of the two colliding.
freemti
hmmm, maybe it was him that raped and murdered that girl in 1990?
Barbara
It has occurred to me that the murdered census worker might have been gay and entrapped along those lines. I don’t have any evidence, but the fact that he was found naked and hanging (even if his feet were touching the ground) made me wonder about it. That would still make it a hate crime, I hasten to add, but the truth is, there could be several possible explanations, some of which are not mutually exclusive. It’s also possible that certain evidence was created to hide other motives.
Who really knows at this point?
jrg
I smell a Fox news gig for Robert McCain!
kommrade reproductive vigor
I must note that Dan Reihl has repeatedly failed to address accusations that link him with an infamous gang of goat blowers.
The Grand Panjandrum
It seems to be a new wingnut version of “fact finding” perfected by Glenn Beck that speculating the worst about ones opponents is clearly appropriate, because … well , it would be irresponsible not to speculate. (I use speculate because that really is what they do.)
Aw, Nooners we hardly knew ye.
soonergrunt
It is possible that Dan Riehl fucks goats. There’s no evidence that he doesn’t. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
(There’s another lexicon entry if I ever saw one.)
SpotWeld
I think the truth should be obvious. It’s something that conservitive bloggers are terrified of.
The undead zombie corpse of Ronald Regan has broken free from it’s confirnment as is now shambling across the contryside wrecking havor across the land.
General Winfield Stuck
@JenJen:
Because they are shaking scared that what this looks like will be confirmed. And that their precious new conservative movement, or bowel movement of tea bagging patriots will get (rightly) blamed. There will be no way to spin themselves out of the label “whacko killer wingnuts”, so they are pre-spinning to plant doubt. Which obviously makes their plight worse. We are witnessing an entire political party have a massive mental breakdown to it’s core elements. And that is pure unadulterated mean spiritedness.
Kit Smith
We should throw in a couple of Cavuto marks just to make sure we cover all of the bases.
Brick Oven Bill
First they called them ignorant, but they were not ignorant.
Second they called them scared, but they were not scared.
This appeal to honor is a much better tactic.
Let the ignorant speak loudly, and let them be judged. Let the scared do whatever. Encourage everybody speak their mind.
“Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
As an example, I just read Riehl’s piece and find it poorly argued and disrespectful of the dead. Therefore, Riehl loses credibility in at least one individual’s eyes. The Left needs to have more confidence in the ability of the population to reason.
Napoleon
@Llelldorin:
Ah, thanks. Now it makes sense.
truculent and unreliable
On Twitter, he’s all like, “BWAH HA HA HA HA LIBS! You fell for my joke!!!”
Because, you know, “speculating” as to whether or not a murdered man is a child molester is a fucking RIOT.
Crashman06
@Brick Oven Bill:
Careful who you’re quoting there, Bill. That kind of talk can get you kicked out of the Wingnut family.
Warren Terra
“Irresponsible not to speculate” is already in the lexicon.
The tradition of alleging the blowing of goats by people who make unfounded accusations about their enemies might however merit inclusion to the “Irresponsible not to speculate” lexicon entry. Unfortunately, the history of this practice starts, so far as I know offhand, with Slate blogger Mickey Kaus absolutely plotzing over the National Enquirer’s reporting rumors of Edwards’s infidelity, for which rumors the Enquirer had at that point not yet offered any evidence whatsoever. This led to a highly entertaining trend of saying that Mickey Kaus blows goats, or that we’d heard rumors to that effect and it would be irresponsible not to specualate, and it was all a lot of fun so long as you don’t like Kaus. Unfortunately it was later revealed that the Enquirer was right all along. Of course, Kaus had no evidence when he went to town on Edwards, he didn’t even know whether the Enquirer had any evidence, and so his turning out to be correct doesn’t really vindicate him – still, it did rather take the fun out of the goat blowing accusations.
soonergrunt
@Warren Terra: I understand what you mean about it taking the fun out of it, but really, Kaus never has denied blowing goats, has he?
Comrade Mary
Balloon Juice: taking the fun out of goat blowing since 2008.
Ash
Riehl also said he didn’t have any kids. He was a single father. God, USE FREAKING GOOGLE YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT SCUMBAG.
Comrade Darkness
@Llelldorin: Waiter! LEXICON alert at table 13.
Rick Massimo
Yeah, he must have been a child predator; that’s why he had “CHILD PREDATOR” scrawled on his chest.
The Moar You Know
@Rick Massimo: SHIT SHIT SHIT you JUST beat me to it. I was going to write that I misspell “PEDO” as “FED” all the time.
Violet
Any man who works with children must be a predator. So says the “conventional wisdom.” I have a male friend who teaches elementary school and he’s had to deal with this sort of speculation and fear from various people, especially the parents of his students, for his entire career. There’s no reason for them to speculate. Nothing in his past or current conduct or anything else gives even the hint that something could be off. And yet the questions are there, apparently because of his gender. He’s a very good teacher and has a great reputation. He wins the doubters over by the end of the first semester. But still the questions pop up again and again.
With poor Mr. Taylor, it’s especially horrible for his family. It’s not bad enough that he was horrifically murdered. Now his entire reputation has to be dragged through the mud. These people are awful.
Ash
Yep, we all know that only the womenz can be teachin our kids.
Catherine F.
Wow. I was wondering how the hell the wingnuts would try to spin this, but this particularly vile speculation actually shocked me. I mean, even from Dan Riehl, it shocked me.
Ash Can
And yet, the Michael Gersons of the world lament that it’s the anonymous bloggers who are scuttling civilization with their scurrilous comments. Real, honest-to-goodness, 24-karat evil is standing right in front of them, yelling “HERE I AM” in their faces, and they still can’t figure it out.
Or maybe there’s some reason they’re not only giving that evil a pass, but deflecting scrutiny from it. It would be irresponsible not to speculate, right?
Bubblegum Tate
@truculent and unreliable:
Some of them already have been claiming that for a while now. I wish I were making that up or being snarky, but I’m not.
soonergrunt
@Ash:
Teaching and Pediatric Nursing–the only professions available to decent women in winger-land. Reserved for women, in fact. Coaching children and teens is still man-territory, though.
Svensker
@Comrade Mary:
LOL.
JenJen
@General Winfield Stuck: This is exactly correct. You basically have a Unified Wingnuttia, with Riehl, Malkin, RS McCain, et all weighing in and casting doubt on what is beginning to look like an obvious motive for murder. It is shameless. It is astounding to me, the lengths some people will go in order to preserve ideology. It’s just sickening.
@Brick Oven Bill:
Umm, BOB? Where do you see a lack of confidence? Speaking only for myself, that 10 Million vote margin in November 2008 gave me enough confidence in the American people to last until 2012.
@Rick Massimo: Brilliance!
Svensker
@General Winfield Stuck:
Ann Coulter is going on TV to say that it was liberal plants who did all the mean and nasty stuff at the teabag protests.
But that’s because she belongs to the Party of Personal Responsibility — otherwise known as the Poopers.
truculent and unreliable
@Bubblegum Tate: God bless Jonah Goldberg.
I’m beginning to think that wingnuts live in an alternate dimension and have just found a way to communicate across time and space.
What was that Patton Oswalt bit about living in Bizarro World? Because I think he may have been right.
rh
It seems Riehl now is putting on the same act that idiot at Cornell did when he got unexpected attention for freaking out about Obama wanting Dijon on his burger. Implying that his original post was some kind of brilliant nuanced satire or intertubes performance art and that the people who are taking it at face value just don’t get it, maaan.
ChrisB
What a complete asshole that guy Dan Riehl is. Now I know never to click over to him again.
Gary
@Warren: Doh.
I assumed JC read this stuff so I didn’t have to.
Mnemosyne
@JenJen:
Don’t forget, these are the same people who claim that Oklahoma City was actually bombed by agents of Saddam Hussein and McVeigh was just a dupe.
I am not making this up. It was Dick Cheney’s favorite theory.
camchuck
From the comments on Riehl’s post:
“Maybe he was the kind of pervert who fantasizes about beating up kids he sees on the subway.”
Refering to this, of course.
truculent and unreliable
@rh: This man is shameless, so you know it’s bad that he’s trying to save face. A decent person would say, “Whoa, I obviously tried to make a point that fell flat, and was completely disrespectful instead. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.” That may have begun to undo some of the damage.
But Riehl is not a decent person, of course.
JenJen
@truculent and unreliable: WOW, I just saw that! I see he calls out more than a few tweeps in his post late last night, too.
Dan Riehl is a limp-dicked goat fucker. I read it on Twitter, so until he denies it, I’m assuming it’s true.
(Damn this Riehl guy has really unleashed my garbage-mouth this morning. Does he have this kind of effect on all good people?)
ETA: I see he and Ana Marie Cox are having a bit of a spat. Good for Ana Marie; I also like that she added the period in front, so that everyone can read her tweet.
@DanRiehl: Blogging history suggests she prefers to be approached from behind. ; ) RT @kill_truck: How does @AnaMarieCox have over a million followers?
about 12 hours ago from TweetDeck
@anamariecox: .@DanRiehl Not to be embarrassed about: Enjoying it from behind. To be ashamed about: Publicly speculating about a stranger’s sex life.
about 11 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to DanRiehl
Tsulagi
Crime sleuth Riehl misses the obvious. The motivation couldn’t have been the census worker was a child predator. If it was, instead of writing “Fed” on the body the killer would have wrote “Republican.”
Brick Oven Bill
JenJen, I was referring to the literate ones.
Bubblegum Tate
@camchuck:
Ha! Whoever left that comment just won themselves an internets.
truculent and unreliable
@JenJen: He also has some sort of obsession with Ana Marie Cox’s ass.
canuckistani
Pretty much, though pigfucker was the word I would have chosen.
Jen R
@Violet:
My husband recently told me that he’s uncomfortable being out in public alone with our 2-year-old daughter because he’s worried that people will think he’s up to something shady. It’s one of the saddest conversations we’ve ever had.
Fuck you, Dan Riehl.
Ash Can
Dan Riehl obviously has the mentality of an abusive boyfriend who takes a few shots at his girlfriend with a hunting rifle, missing her head by inches, then when she protests says to her, “Aw, can’t you take a joke?”
truculent and unreliable
@Jen R: :( I can’t believe that people would think that for no good reason except that he’s male. It’s also fucked up that it’s some sort of anomaly for men to be alone with their children in public.
I, personally, love to see daddies alone with their kids in public, especially if they’re good, engaged dads. It’s probably different in other parts of the country, but where I live, that’s very, very unusual.
JenJen
@Mnemosyne: Whoa, Laurie Mylroie! I haven’t heard that name since 2003, I’ll bet. I knew about some of her crackpot theories, but not the OK City one. Jeebus.
Neocon wingnuts actually used to be scary.
@Comrade Mary:
Attencion, Attencion John Cole: Time for the first-ever clickable tagline update!
Kryptik
@JenJen:
Used to be? They’re not scary now?
Brick Oven Bill
Ann Marie Cox’ intellectual prominence seems to be another excellent example of Natural Law.
noncarborundum
Riehl’s strangest contenton is that all of this is excusable — or perhaps even praiseworthy — because he’s engaged in some new endeavor called “crime blogging” that actually has, as its goal, solving a crime. This just blows my mind.
JenJen
@Kryptik: Yeah, I don’t find them nearly so frightening when they’re out of power. If anything, they’re laughable when not in charge. I mean, just look at the last nine months; they were always whacky but now they are conducting the train to Crazytown.
I do worry about random acts of increasing intensity, which is why Sparkman’s murder is so upsetting. But at least I know for a fact that Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney, the Architects of the Iraq War, et al, aren’t running the show anymore, and as loud as they complain, they’re at present impotent. So I do take some comfort in that.
Tom
Plus, his mom was once quoted as saying “I don’t know what my son does every single minute of the day” which, you know, leaves the door open for goat blowing.
SGEW
@Brick Oven Bill:
Thomas Aquinas rolls over in his grave and throws up in his mouth a little every time you reference “Natural Law,” B.O.B.
liberal
@Zifnab:
Cueing obligatory Monte Python sketch in 3…2…1…
Kryptik
@JenJen:
Arguably, the Crazytown express is exactly why I find them even more frightening now. They’ve doubled down on the insanity, and the media continues to treat them as relevant figures, if not outright acting as their sockpuppets. Death Panels, Creeping ‘Soshulizms’, Van Jones, ACORN, Obama’s approval rating, ‘This is a Center-Right Nation’, etc. Not only that, but some of our own damn Dems continue to act as abused spouses in the face of them.
Glenn Beck still has a job. That’s proof enough that something’s deliriously wrong with out political discourse right now.
gocart mozart
Before any people start going bonkers that I’m accusing Dan Riehl of being responsible for the rape and murder of Sparkman, take a breath. I’ve done a fair amount of crime blogging mixed in with politics over time. One doesn’t rule anything in or out without some firm answers. People feel free to speculate about Meth labs and pot fields but none have been reported in the area, yet. All I’m doing is looking at any and all possibilities. You’d think a moonshiner, or Meth head would have just buried the guy. Why hang him and invite the Feds into it by writing Fed on his chest? Why would Dan Riehl strip him naked and bind and gag him, which has serious sexual overtones, unless he wanted to rape him also.
liberal
@JenJen:
Occam’s Razor has a liberal bias.
liberal
@SpotWeld:
Already happened. It’s called the Housing Bubble.
:-)
Cyrus
Wow. I’d thought I was beyond being surprised by right-wing nuttery, but this is surprising.
Betsy
Shudder. I wish I had followed my better instincts and not clicked on either of the Reihl posts. Reading the comments from the devotees there was like finding myself in Bizarro World.
mutt
The pedo bit is Hillary’s masterstroke! Cleaning up a loose end from her murder of Vince Foster.
you heard it here first.
gocart mozart
On a more serious note, If the victim was found naked, most likely he was also sexually assaulted which makes this case even sadder. It was not uncommon for lynching victims to be found naked and or be sexually mutilated. Also, the Deliverance line “squeal like a pig” was not invented out of whole cloth.
There is no evidence that Dan Riehl does not have sex with underage goats, a claim which he has never denied. If true this would make him a kid-rapist. Just speculating.
Midnight Marauder
@Betsy:
Seriously, those people do not exist in the same world that we do. I am strongly convinced of this. It’s some of the craziest shit I have ever heard/read in my life every time one of those links to CrazyTown pops up.
All the more reason why I adimire JK for constantly rummaging around and posting the links to all the wingnut sites…even if I think it’s absolutely the most nonsensical way to use one’s time. I am appreciative, nonetheless.
Brick Oven Bill
Hi SGEW;
“A patient pursuit of facts, and cautious combination and comparison of them, is the drudgery to which man is subjected by his Maker, if he wishes to attain sure knowledge.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Aquinas’ Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Temperance, Justice, and Fortitude.
Thomas Aquinas’ Three Theological Values: Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Glenn Beck’s 9 Principles
Glenn Beck’s 12 Values: Honesty, Reverence, Hope, Thrift, Humility, Charity, Sincerity, Moderation, Hard Work, Courage, Personal Responsibility
For your consideration and comparison.
Here’s Patricia, who is one of over 18,000 912ers in one New York group alone. Wow. Feel free to drop on by and share your ideals.
SGEW
@Midnight Marauder:
But as far as the actual, physical world goes, alas, tragically, they do. And we have to live with that fact, and somehow coexist with them in a representative federal republic. Problematic!
Alan
I’m going to reserve judgment on this until Rush Limbaugh declares it’s reasonable and Ann Althouse agrees.
gocart mozart
Things that make you go hmmm.
Why is B.O.B. off topic?
truculent and unreliable
@gocart mozart: Don’t know, but damn, he’s tedious. Y’all need a better class of troll around here.
gocart mozart
Ann Althouse is sticking with the meth lab theory. It fits in better with her slightly left of completely crazy political posture. She always takes a position slightly to the sane of completely crazy.
Midnight Marauder
@truculent and unreliable:
Sadly, if you can imagine, there was a time not too long ago when he was considered the crème de la crème of trolls around here.
What a mighty fall from grace we have witnessed, indeed.
Cain
@Jen R:
You should see what the shithead Kevin Mannix’s measure 11 did to Oregon. I was reading in the dead tree version of the Oregonian about two people who got caught up in measure 11, one was thrown in jail for 6 months because she allowed the back of the head of a 10 year old boy to touch her boobies, and another guy got thrown in jail because he brushed the ass of a little kid. We are at war with our children. I think there was some statistic that the sex laws are mostly grabbing people who are 17 or 18 years old. Hell, if you’re 13 and you took a picture of yourself naked or even in some kind of pose you could be thrown in jail for child pornography.
It’s like we are returning to the puritan and their salem witch trial mentality. Fuck this shit.
cain
Measure 11 – mandatory minimum sentencing
steve s
“Why is B.O.B. off topic?”
He’s not. He always talks about pie.
Cain
@Brick Oven Bill:
it’s usually polite to put in NSFW when you send out links of somewhat sexual nature. Thanks.
cain
SGEW
@Brick Oven Bill:
Protip: Examine the underlying justifications for categorizing conceptual structures, not the nominal categories themselves.
The question is not “Should one practice ‘Charity'”; the question is “Why should one practice ‘Charity.'” Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Aquinas, and Glenn Beck all have rather different takes on the second question. And it’s an important question: this is where the different conceptions of “natural” law are critical, and why your supposed idea is radically different from the traditional definition of such.
Additionally, your quote mining is effectively random, to the point where you are either arbitrarily grabbing phrases out of context because they contain some words or concepts you vaguely understand, or you are seeing patterns in surface level platitudes that aren’t actually there. I recommend a first year, freshman level college course in basic philosophy. In a few years you might even be able to get Barack Obama to pay for the class, with socia1ism.
[To everyone else: All apologies for “feeding.” I can’t help it! It’s a sickness, I know.]
David
I think we have to face the fact that the Right Wing movement is using basically the same shtick as the Fred Phelps/God Hates Fags gang.
They’re all addicted to hate and false outrage.
Bad Horse's Filly
@Zifnab: I’m with you, I don’t know what they’d do with someone like me and the things I’m able to do/see. Scary.
truculent and unreliable
@Midnight Marauder: I’d give him credit if he just came up with some new material.
Mmmm, pie!
shoutingattherain
@noncarborundum:
Fxed.
shoutingattherain
@Cyrus:
The real surprise is that anyone is surpised by right-wing nuttery.
Midnight Marauder
@truculent and unreliable:
True enough. But then he wouldn’t be the good ol’ BOB we’ve all come to know and
loveloathe.wasabi gasp
To shave your junk, dip it in kool-aid, stick a feather duster up your ass, and run naked around town square getting your cock-a-doodle-do on discharges a fella into a lifetime of limitless possibilities. Riehl knows enlightenment. Also, too, Occam’s razor is gunked up with pubes.
asiangrrlMN
@Zifnab: I hear you. With the things I do/have done, yeah, I would be labeled a witch so quickly, it would make your head spin.
Dan Riehl is still a disgusting piece of shit.
Zuzu's Petals
And the source of this “speculation” is of course…Dan Riehl.
The same guy who speculated that Obama was going to Hawaii just before the election to smother his grandmother with a pillow.
His response to the resulting criticism? “I imagine his compassion would compel him to use a plastic bag.”
parksideq
Peak Wingnut Theory: Consistently Wrong Obliterated Since 2008.
soonergrunt
@JenJen:
Frank “I’m a Birther, Secret Muslim Conspiracist, and whore for Lockheed Martin” Gaffney was pushing this idea as recent as last March:
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/hardball-trying-defend-gwbs-record-fr
Bad Horse's Filly
@asiangrrlMN: I knew I liked you.
asiangrrlMN
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Right back at you, Bad Horse’s Filly. Times like this, I wished I dabbled in the dark side. Not really, though, because it always comes back to haunt the one who practices it.
Da Bomb
@Ash Can: Just when you think they can’t can’t get any lower, they prove us wrong. Eventually they will get so low that they will find themselves getting porked in the ass by Lucifer’s pitchfork.
Slimy, the whole lot of em’.
Steeplejack
@Brick Oven Bill:
Okay, I’ve had it. Brick Oven Bill has got to be a spoof. He goes all “patient pursuit of facts,” then cites “Glenn Beck’s 12 Values” and lists them. Except there are only 11. Maybe the 12th one–I’m guessing it’s “cynical demagoguery” or “bipolar douchebaggery”–is a big secret for insiders only.
Way to put the Nerf ball up on the tee for everyone to whack off, BOB. (Pun intended.)
SGEW
@Steeplejack:
I think one could operate under the assumption that B.O.B. is a self spoofing troll who has achieved self-awareness, and has thereby crossed the Turing threshold; accordingly, he should be treated, for all intents and purposes, as an autonomous entity.
Or you could just pie filter him. One or the other.
Steeplejack
@SGEW:
So you mean [shudder] . . . it’s alive!
Actually, your explanation–“a self-spoofing troll who has achieved self-awareness”–makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately.
Dayv
We could all learn a lot from child predator Dan Riehl. There’s no evidence that he is a child predator. More importantly, there’s no evidence that he is not.
chrome agnomen
maybe the poor guy was just writing ‘def’ in the mirror.
/
gocart mozart
New entry for the lexicon?
“Crime blogging”: when you steal your Cheetos from the 7/11 before setting yourself down to type. See Riehl, Dan
Dreggas
@Jen R:
in 4 words…to catch a predator. That show and people’s obsession with that sort of tabloid tv have really fucked things up. I can’t blame your husband for feeling tht way. To hear it on tv all men are predators.
pseudonymous in nc
MkKKain’s hoping to score some primo weed from Kentuckystan.
steve s
“To hear it on tv all men are predators.”
Sex and its Discontents
Donald G
@Dreggas:
Around the house, I have taken to referring to that program as “Dateline: Pedophilia by Proxy”, because you just know that a significant portion of the audience of upright citizens that is “shocked, shocked and disgusted” by the the perps is also secretly getting off on the taboo nature of the crime and Chris Hansen’s recitation of the censored chat-logs.
See: “Two wetsuits and a dildo” in the lexicon.
See also: Having one’s cake and eating it too
gocart mozart
Since this thread is near death, You can continue the mockery of all that is Dan Riehl here
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/25535.html#comments
Makewi
Right on. Clearly the classy sort of speculation lays this murder at the feet of Bachmann or Beck. Well, anyone really, so long as you can lay the right-winger label around their neck.
gocart mozart
Not so much classy Makewi, but rather logical and most likely.
Dream On
It was Richard Jewel, all along.
Bruce Webbb
@Makewi:
Way to stay classy!
Oddly Bachmann left her anti-census riff out of her public speech yesterday and when asked about it after the speech “recoiled”.
‘As you sow so shall you reap’. Which is in the part of the Bible omitted in the wingnut Cliff Note version.
Steve in Sacto
Lexicon dictionary entry “Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to” really needs to renamed as “Noonan’s Law.”
General Winfield Stuck
@Makewi:
Absolutely goddamn right!
Makewi
@gocart mozart:
We clearly differ on the meanings of “logical’ and “most likely”.