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Paging Conor Friedersdorf

by DougJ|  February 23, 20115:22 pm| 30 Comments

This post is in: Both Sides Do It!, General Stupidity, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts

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Daniel Foster has written another thoughtful piece for National Review that deserves a hearty heh-indeed from every serious conservative.

There’s no pay-wall this time, so you can peruse it yourself, but it’s pretty easy to summarize: a few college students tweeted that they wish Scott Walker would DIAF and Foster made a YouTube video of it.

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  1. 1.

    Sockpuppet

    February 23, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    All those young layabout punks with their hip hopping and political incivility…

    I think they’re wrong about wishing immediate death on Walker, though. It’ll be so much sweeter to politically annihilate him to the point he doesn’t even dare run for reelection first. Or even recall his ass.

    Then he can die in a fire.

  2. 2.

    Zifnab

    February 23, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    The one analogy between Scott Walker and Hosni Mubarak that the Madison protesters’ bogus narrative gets right?

    Wait, you mean the bogus narrative first brought up by none other than Wisconsin House Rep and Republican Economic Wise Man Media Darling Paul Ryan? That bogus narrative?

    Or even recall his ass.

    After watching Gov. Davis in California get replaced by a Hollywood cardboard cut out of a Governor, nothing would be sweeter than seeing Wisconsin can Walker’s ass.

  3. 3.

    Mark S.

    February 23, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    The Corner allows comments now? They must police the shit out of them, considering the average number of comments seems to be about 2.

  4. 4.

    Dork

    February 23, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    Just to lighten the mood here a little, I’d thought I’d offer this little ditty. Made me laugh.

  5. 5.

    Fuck U III: The Duck Fucks Back

    February 23, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Shouldn’t he be investigating Cox right now?

  6. 6.

    daveNYC

    February 23, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    So Daniel Foster is not aware of all internet traditions?

  7. 7.

    Susan of Texas

    February 23, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    “Drusilla”? A Goth Buffy fan is now the face of the left? I’m a Buffy fan too but I don’t think anyone elected this one president of the left.

    Next they’ll accuse liberals of wanting to bury conservatives underground for three day, help them rise from the dead, and go shopping.

  8. 8.

    JGabriel

    February 23, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    Hopefully, it will start a very important and necessary conversation about the threatening rhetoric directed at conservatives on a daily basis — conservatives, who, despite the death threats, and at great fear for their lives & personal safety, still courageously fight to protect your right to free speech and bear arms!

    .

  9. 9.

    freelancer

    February 23, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    Right, well it’s not like the Atlantic could even cover the story without being snobbish and snide. Here’s Sullivan writing about Scott Walker making a damned fool of himself:

    …The raw partisanship and threats confirm to me that this is a classic piece of partisan warfare under the guise of fiscal conservatism. It also confirms every left-wing conspiracy theorist on the power of the Koch brothers. “Bring a baseball bat?”

    Jaysus, regarding the Trig mess, that takes some balls. Here’s the email I fired off at him:

    The link between the Koch Brothers and Republican campaigns last year, their funding of the Tea Party and the groups making up its infrastructure (Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth, Chamber of Commerce, Fox News) is well documented fact, and has been reported without speculation about black helicopters and nebulous, circular “evidence” that just raises more questions, things that are part and parcel of every conspiracy theory. You can’t even concede that Scott Walker is out on a limb without delegitimizing the concern that the pernicious influence of money in politics is eating away at the middle class and making our politics more toxic.
    __
    Are you crazy? Listen to how this man who holds the highest office in a Midwest state reports, with little prompting or redirection from the man he thinks is David Koch, to him as if he were Koch’s subordinate. The tone and subtext is disgusting in that it is now obvious that there is a coordinated effort amongst Republican officeholders, conservative media to dismantle unions in any way, shape, or form. This is mentioned by Walker that he’s talking with Mitch Daniels and Rick Scott, other freshman GOP Governors. This coming months after it was revealed last year that Fox News directly gave money to the Republican Governors Association. This is not “theory”, this is plain as day for anyone open to the facts and not blinded by an ideological bias. As a reader of yours, that drop-in phrase of calling people who have been weary of the Koch brothers’ meddling in politics for quite some time “conspiracy theorists” is as ridiculous as it is insulting.

  10. 10.

    Loneoak

    February 23, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    Conservative strategery:

    1) Appointed or elected Republican says something terrible and violent.
    2) Find some idiotic and misspelled twitter or facebook comment from a lefty college student.
    3) Both sides do it; our most competent people are like reflexively liberal but kinda dumb college undergrads.
    4) Profit!

  11. 11.

    Moonbatman

    February 23, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    few college students tweeted that they wish Scott Walker would DIAF

    Progressives heros tweeted that they wish Scott Walker would DIAF

    Only wingnuts should be civil and follow the new tone.
    Peace Out. The power is yours.

  12. 12.

    Guster

    February 23, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    @freelancer: Blah blah blah ‘evidence,’ blah blah blah ‘facts.’

    Dirty?

    Yes.

    Fucking?

    Check.

    Hippie?

    Definitely.

    You probably think the Koch Brothers are trying to outlaw patchouli or believe the wild allegations that they’re the sons of a prominent member of the John Birch Society. Freak.

  13. 13.

    MikeJ

    February 23, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    I might point out there there is a difference morally and legally between wishing that something bad would happen to somebody and inciting people to make it happen.

    In other words, I think there’s a large gap between “I wish X would DIAF” and “everybody bring your guns to the town hall meeting.”

  14. 14.

    Davis X. Machina

    February 23, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    @Susan of Texas:

    “Drusilla”? A Goth Buffy fan is now the face of the left?

    To be fair, the Reuther brothers are both dead.

  15. 15.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 23, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    1) Appointed or elected Republican says something terrible and violent.

    My mom (a Republican) and I have come to a general agreement to avoid freakouts over every stupid fucking thing that 300 million people might come up with:

    For death threats, you can’t call it ‘real’ until it gets taken up by some madman. Yeah, even threatening is fucking stupid, but at least one of the jobs that your elected representative is elected to do is to give credence to their supporters’ views. In these cases, you have no idea whether its even the stupid fucking idea of the elected representative, or if they’re just saying some idiotic idea along on behalf of voters that they represent out of some excessive sense of responsibility.

    But forcing everyone to wait until someone has been killed avoids a lot of completely unnecessary (and often unfair) freak-outs.

  16. 16.

    Southern Beale

    February 23, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    Well ya know, after the fanboy braggadocio and arrogance revealed by today’s prank phone call with Fake David Koch I’d say Walker wishes he could DIAF too.

  17. 17.

    J.W. Hamner

    February 23, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    I honestly have never understood why it’s so important to some people to be able to say “your side is crazier than mine!” I feel like it’s one of the dumbest internet arguments of all time.

  18. 18.

    fasteddie9318

    February 23, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    FSM, the quality of the trolls is just awful anymore.

  19. 19.

    Michael

    February 23, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Were Scott Walker to DIAF, it would be no loss.

  20. 20.

    Dennis SGMM

    February 23, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    Who can blame these people for over reacting? After the mandatory pot smoking and promiscuity of the Sixties, the surrender to our Vietnamese overlords in the Seventies, and the banning of organized religion in the early Eighties, they have every right to make shit up. If it wasn’t for the terrible swift sword of Ronald Reagan this country would be a mess.

  21. 21.

    Lev

    February 23, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Curious: this hasn’t been nominated for a Moore Award at Sully’s place yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. I think he’s no longer in his manic mode.

  22. 22.

    piratedan

    February 23, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    strangely if Scott Walker were to find himself in a fire, then he would have to rely on union firefighters to put him out. Granted, they would most likely extinguish him without a query about his stance on the collective bargaining rights. It seems to me that Republicans are like teenagers in a certain respect, they never expect to ever have to use the social safety net that liberals have erected for the good of the people and thereby don’t believe its actually necessary for it to exist.

  23. 23.

    PIGL

    February 23, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    @J.W. Hamner: I’d like to explore this. Are you saying that both sides are equally crazy? Because that would be a claim about the distribution of mental states among and between two separable groups. Hence, subject to disconfirmation by data.

    Or, are you saying rather that it doesn’t matter if one or both sides is crazy, or not? How then should we chose between sides? Would we expect their policies and agendas to be interpretable, independent of their relative crazyness?

    Perhaps instead you are seeking to disguise the craziness of your team because you suppose that if nobody notices, they would better carry out their crazed agenda.

    If you a fourth way caching out your statement, I am keen to hear it.

    it an empirical question that could be or that it does not

  24. 24.

    Delia

    February 23, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    I was intending to just comment that I watched the first 40 seconds of the youtube that idiot put together and now regret that 40 seconds I’ll never get back. Then I read all the trolls who came here to comment and I’m now looking around for a good brain bleach.

  25. 25.

    J.W. Hamner

    February 23, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @PIGL:

    Or, are you saying rather that it doesn’t matter if one or both sides is crazy, or not? How then should we chose between sides? Would we expect their policies and agendas to be interpretable, independent of their relative crazyness?

    The policy merits of any proposal have absolutely no relationship with the relative number of people on each side who are nutjobs. If you need to dehumanize your political opponents to the point that you consider them a band of raving lunatics, then it becomes quite clear that it is you who is the one with a problem.

  26. 26.

    M. Bouffant

    February 23, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    @J.W. Hamner:

    When our political opponents (Not merely college students, but actual gov’t. legal officials.) call for using “live ammo” to shoot people exercising their First Amendment rights, I think we can pretty fairly paint them as “raving lunatics.”

  27. 27.

    J.W. Hamner

    February 23, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    @M. Bouffant:

    I guess I’m charitable enough to assume that he’s not a sociopath contemplating mass murder, and is just an idiot with dumb ideas.

    It appears everybody is David Broder when the incivility is coming from the other side, but staunchly freedom of expression when their own are being criticized for tone.

  28. 28.

    JW

    February 24, 2011 at 9:17 am

    @Lev:

    Screw Scully

  29. 29.

    someofparts

    February 24, 2011 at 10:18 am

    Yeah, and the way these guys roll, those twitter comments are probably from their own planted operatives. meh

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