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PORTRAIT OF A MOONBAT
Via the Washington Post, a compelling image of online leftoid Maryscott O’Connor:
Maryscott wasn’t pleased with the Post’s photographic choice, and—according to Maryscott—neither was WashPost journalist David Finkel:
He groaned on the phone just now when I told him which one they picked. “not THAT one! Oh, god, I’m sorry."
Hmm. I suspect Finkel may have been aware of the Post’s front-page photo choice before O’Connor, seeing as it’s his story and he works at the paper. Still, an entertaining piece. Great line from Charles Johnson:
It’s amazing how closely this matches my mental image of these lunatics.
Not quite so amazing is O’Connor’s grasping gesture, variations of which are common on the left. Here’s Margo Kingston with a bad case of Gimme Hands. And Andrew West seems to be illustrating his demand for a wage increase.
(Further blog reaction here)
They can complain, but I’ve seen that exact face ranked three deep at every protest I’ve ever countermarched. She is the Madonna of the Malignant…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 16 at 11:50 AM • permalink#3, 91B:
You shouldn’t malign “angry dishevelled drunks” in such a way. That is really hitting below the belt.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 04 16 at 12:03 PM • permalink”...and I’m just stabbing him and stabbing him and stabbing him and he keeps saying ‘Why do you hate freedom?’ with that smirk and there’s blood everywhere but HE JUST WON’T DIE and then Cheney and Rove pull me off him and then I woke up.”
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 04 16 at 12:05 PM • permalinkLefties have grasping gestures. I prefer Rumsfeld’s fighting techniques myself.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 16 at 12:07 PM • permalinkAnd the expression on her face is priceless. It’s like she’s chanting “DIE BUSH! DIE CHENEY!” to go with that stabbing gesture.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 16 at 12:09 PM • permalinkThat wine glass might be half-full now, but it wasn’t a minute ago. At least we can’t see he tattooes.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 04 16 at 12:17 PM • permalink"If I can’t rant, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” is how she signs her comments, in the place other people might write “Sincerely."
It doesn’t say that’s from Emma Goldman, maverick feminist, ``If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.’’
A picture with a tutu would have been a nice joke.
I prefer Rumsfeld’s fighting techniques myself.
And I’m partial to The Ten Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You.
This does seem to have side Left in a bit of an uproar. Congrats, Mr. Finkle. I spoke my piece on the fetching Ms. O’Connor at Captains Quarters. Happy Easter, everyone!
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 16 at 12:29 PM • permalinkThe Post portrays her as an angry lunatic and she’s upset by the photo?
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 04 16 at 01:03 PM • permalinkThat wine glass might be half-full now, but it wasn’t a minute ago. At least we can’t see he tattooes.
That is a wine glass, Mystery Meat, but how do we know it’s full of wine? That could be bourbon.....or Leftie Kool Aid™.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 16 at 01:20 PM • permalinkAlso, her desk is several degrees off level.
Either that, or she needs to spend a bit more on wine glasses.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2006 04 16 at 01:34 PM • permalinkThat is rich - complaining about choice of photographs. As if I can find an AP wire story that doesn’t have a picture of Rumsfeld or Cheney frowning, scowling, etc.
Welcome to their world, Ms. Angry.
Posted by Major John on 2006 04 16 at 01:43 PM • permalinkHmmmm.
Definitely 5 beers shy of a six-pack.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 04 16 at 01:48 PM • permalink#1. Why did she pick that shirt?
Well the article opens before dawn as FruitLoop rises and heads to the PC to compose a post on Dafur. So she’s thrown on any old shirt so as not to offend the journo, who’s arrived at dawn ! Towards the end of the WaPo article, with comments starting to roll in on Dafur, her 6yo son gets in from school. Obviously night school. A major continuity problem here.
Regarding FruitLoop, she’s an abject lesson in courting cancer. I’ll give her three years, tops.
#19 ErnieG
It’s obviously a Photoshop job. They cleaned up the foam around the mouth, and the flecks of spittle on the screen.
Maybe somebody at Fark.com could fix it back. (hint,hint)
I don’t care about the spittle, what was she grasping in her hand?!?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 04 16 at 02:27 PM • permalinkMaryscott said...There have been worse pictures taken of me than the one in the paper… but I can’t recall any at the moment.
Mary dear, it must be the one with the donkey...God you took it so well.
Sometimes, I actually look pretty.
The donkey thought so....the donkey especially loved the OH GOD, OH GOD, OH GOD.
The grasping gesture is closely related to the politician’s ‘clenched-hand-thumb-press’, popularized by Bill Clinton and most recently appropriated in my neck of the woods by Premier Dalton I will say absolutely anything to get elected McQuimby.
But Charles Johnson really summed it up best there.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 04 16 at 04:18 PM • permalinkHas anyone read the WaPo article?
What an uncomprehending, incomprehensible retard."Darfur is not hopeless,” she begins typing, and pauses.
“Ugh,” she says.
“You are not helpless,” she continues typing, and pauses again.
“Weak.”
She deletes everything and starts over.
“WAKE THE [expletive] UP,” she writes next, and this time, instead of pausing, she keeps going, typing harder and harder on a keyboard that is surrounded by a pack of cigarettes, a dirty ashtray, a can of nonalcoholic beer, an album with photos of her dead father and a taped-up note—staring at her—on which she has scrawled “Why am I/you here?"
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 04 16 at 04:21 PM • permalinkAnd if you needed more proof of the above fact, just check out her manifesto. What a simple world this woman inhabits.
That’s an utterly appalling shot of Margo, incidentally.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 04 16 at 04:35 PM • permalink#32 “WAKE THE [expletive] UP,” she writes next, and this time, instead of pausing, she keeps going, typing harder and harder on a keyboard that is surrounded by a pack of cigarettes, a dirty ashtray, a can of nonalcoholic beer, an album with photos of her dead father and a taped-up note—staring at her—on which she has scrawled “Why am I/you here?"
Does Finkel write scripts for Hollywood B movie whodunnits?
The next line should be: “Little did she know...an evil presence was lurking just outside her door.”...And then I’m going to the closet! To change into some actual clothes! YEEEAAAAGH!!
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 04 16 at 06:00 PM • permalinkMaybe Condi could talk to her about bad photos…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 16 at 06:19 PM • permalinkWhat a sad, sad, woman. She really needs to take hold of her issues and get rid of them.
I don’t know how her husband puts up with her, and her son will no doubt grow up to become one of the Dark Lord’s closest confidants. The inside information he could provide the growing army of RWDBs will be invaluable in the battle for hearts and minds everywhere.
I think Lord Rove should start infiltrating his school asap.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 16 at 06:37 PM • permalink#33 James: I read the manifesto, as you suggested. What an awful plunge into a mind warped by solipsism, narcissism, and most of the other noxious “ism’s” that characterize the modern left. The whole thing reads like a declaration of independence from rational thought, a laundry list of neuroses. I think I can make a positive ID on the beverage shown in the photo: it’s 180 proof bile.
I don’t know how her husband puts up with her
Is she married Nilk? She seems the architypal screaming banchee, resentful of the world single mom.
If she is married then her husband is probably a milksop.
What kind of love can live in an atmosphere of so much unmittigated hate?
-- Nora
PS There’s leis for everyone over at The Thin Man Returns
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 16 at 07:05 PM • permalinkI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
No woman over 30 should have long hair.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 04 16 at 07:14 PM • permalinkI read LGF’s piece. It was for people like this that the phrase get a life was invented.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 04 16 at 07:20 PM • permalink#15 - That was my thought as well, but with one difference: saying “the Post portrayed her as an angry lunatic” implies that she is not.
She most certainly is.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 16 at 07:35 PM • permalinkAnd I feel so sorry for that poor child, living in fear of his insane mother’s rants. Obviously he is terrified of her. I am.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 16 at 07:37 PM • permalink#17
The clinched-hand gesture represents the reflexive grasp on an imaginary knout, with which the unconscious mind longs to flog those who possess dissenting views. Very common disorder among “blogrades” (rhymes with “comrades").
I dunno, paco… the clenched-hand gesture might also be the reflexive grasp on a fist full of pills about to be washed down with the rest of that glass of ‘180 proof bile’. And let’s face it, she’d need something to get her through the screeching hysteria of each new day!
No woman over 30 should have long hair.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 04 16 at 08:00 PM • permalink#46 Nora, yes she is. I read the article and waded through her ‘manifesto’. More like her favourite wankfest topics.
And Walter (#47), I guess I’d better rush out now for the number 2 clippers. Bugger, and it took me years to grow my hair this length.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 16 at 08:09 PM • permalink"The note that says “Why am I/you here?” is because she is in constant search of an answer.”
Maryscott should try some new reading material.
New friends and a whole new philosophy might help as well.How can one find the truth when one looks in the wrong place?
Unfortunately the LLL loop appears closed.
Pity the poor innocent who stumbles onto a LLL website searching for the truth.
Eventually they become...*shudders*What is in the glass near her left hand? Is thay why she looks so upset?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 04 16 at 08:45 PM • permalinkThat picture is clearly a hatchet job though, and a deliberate one. Wide angle lens (I’m guessing 25-28mm), low camera placement, and a “Dutch tilt” of about twenty degrees to the right (look at the line of the bookshelves in the background; if the camera were held level, that line would be level too). It makes her look like something out of Mr. Arkadin.
These are all tricks film folk use to give the impression of insanity, or of a world gone mad. Often used in the genre of psychological suspense by directors like Welles, Kubrick, Polanski, Reed. We may think it’s the approriate treatment in this particular moonbat’s case, but it’s hardly objective news gathering, is it.
I like how the photog told what’s-her-name that he couldn’t open the curtains because he wanted a truthful, objective photograph, and then feigned disappointment when “that one” was chosen.
Heh. Indeed.
Just because we agree with their point of view in this one case doesn’t mean the media has stopped their habit of lying about everything.
Posted by Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis) on 2006 04 16 at 08:59 PM • permalinkNon-alcoholic beer --- BLEAH!!! Even
Texas Lone StarBudweiserBilly Beer is better than that horse piss.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 16 at 08:59 PM • permalinkI had a look at the Manifesto.
Part 1 : Election Reform
We need election reform, and anyone who doesn’t agree is either ignorant, deluded or an asshole (FROTH FROTH) or even a member of Radical Right Wing Neocon Christofascist Zombie Brigades!!!!!Not a promising start.
When the source code in the computers that register and count votes is not available for inspection and verification, there is simply NO WAY to ensure that fraud is not being perpetrated.
Well, yes, there I agree, but a disclaimer here: I’ve actually worked on open-source voting systems in competition with the ...umm.. less than secure systems used in the US.Subtract the ranting, raving and Leftist Lunacy and she has a point.
Part 2 : The Democratic Party should move to the Left.
I think all fanatic Conservatives would cheer that statement, as it means a Republican lock on power in perpetuity. But I happen to believe Democracy requires a genuine choice, Left vs Right, not Insane vs Sane but competent or Sane but incompetent.Part 3 : Abortion :
As the parent of a child born 4 weeks premature, I consider later-term abortions to be infanticide. Abortion in the first trimester, I’m against on a “slippery slope” basis, but don’t consider it to be murder. In between is difficult, and reasonable people can disagree, even without bringing Religion into it (I’m not religious).Part 4 : Healthcare :
The Devil is in the details. Universal unlimited free healthcare? Who pays? But I don’t like the current US system much, and the “socialised medicine” of the UK, Canada and NZ (where they recently arbitrarily cut 18,000 people from the waiting lists for specialists as there was no reasonable chance they’d ever get to see one), that’s worse. Again, reasonable people can disagree.Part 5 : Education :
Equal amounts for allHang on, that doesn’t work either… Her program here is incoherent, as is much Leftist philosophy. Again, we need to nut out the details here, the current system is broken, we just have to find a way of fixing it, regardless of ideology.Part 6 : Social Security :
OMG I actually agree. What she’s asking for is minimalist and reasonable.Part 7 : Energy :
Agreement there too, but again, we may differ in details. Nuke Power is Not an Invention of the Devil, though it may not be cost-effective under some conditions, do the sums and ditch the superstition.Part 8: Environment :
Every reputable scientist on the planet seems to agree that not only is global warning real, it is dangerous, imminent - and caused by human behaviour.
No they don’t. Next.Part 9 : Gay Marriage :
Well, yes. But we might not call it that to avoid not just offending, but actually hurting large numbers of deeply religious people. It’s a civil, not a religious matter, and to that extent, rights should be equal. To the extent that the Law is supposed to be agnostic, civil partnerships with legal rights equal to that of traditional marriages should be allowed, while strictly maintaining separation from the religious and spiritual aspects, which may or may not be in accordance with various religious beliefs.Part 10 : Prohibition of Narcotics :
Like prohibition of another dangerous drug, alcohol, this hasn’t worked so well. Control, yes, Prohibition no. We balance the deaths and social destruction from alcoholism with the prevention of the likes of Al Capone, and the common disrespect of the law that Prohibition caused. On purely pragmatic and health grounds, Prohibition of Narcotics may not be such a good idea - though there are arguments for and against, again, reasonable people can disagree.Part 11 : Death Penalty :
She raises some good points, and although I don’t agree with total abolition, execution should not be a punishment for anyone who committed a crime while still a juvenile. Exactly what age “juvenile” is, that’s open to debate. A safe age is under-18. Iran’s habit of imprisoning 9 year old girls for their crimes, then hanging them on their 18th birthday is not what was meant when we tried to prevent execution of minors, and the US system, while being radically different in degree, has led to some questionable results.Overall, I could agree with many of her policies, if only she wasn’t a total Nutter.
Gun Crazy : re #62 :
That was my take too. Rather than crowing, we should take the journalist hatcheteers to task for their dishonesty, no matter who they do the “hit” on.If we don’t complain about it the one in ten thousand times our political opponents get hit by this slimy practice, how can we decently complain when the other 9,999 times when they do it to us?
Then we can take the subject apart for being a demented Moonbat. Which she is, fairly self-evidently. It doesn’t need smoke and mirrors to give that impression, so we should eschew them on purely pargamatic grounds, as it leaves room for doubt. There’s also a matter of “journalistic ethics”, but I have difficulty writing that phrase without rolling on the floor laughing.
O/T - I saw a new name for Prez Bush at LGF recently -
‘President Cokespoon McFlightsuit’Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 04 16 at 09:22 PM • permalinkThose little post-it notes that Maryscott’s got pasted on her shelves?
I bet one says ‘Must remember to enrol to vote’.Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 04 16 at 09:24 PM • permalinkWe may think it’s the approriate treatment in this particular moonbat’s case, but it’s hardly objective news gathering, is it. ... Just because we agree with their point of view in this one case doesn’t mean the media has stopped their habit of lying about everything.
Absolutely. Still, it’s always tremendously entertaining when gullible lefties are made to find that out the hard way. I bet she believes (and will continue to believe) every single printed accusation she’s ever read about the Bush administration.
At any rate, the article is damning enough, the picture is merely gravy.
Incidentally, just the other day I realized that lefties are seemingly capable of existing in only two different states, as illustrated by this paragraph:
"I was not like this before,” she says. “I was riddled with empathy for everyone suffering in the world. Classic bleeding-heart liberal."
That’s the “I can single-handedly change the world, and nobody can tell me any different” state. And once they’re forced to realize the world doesn’t actually operate that way, it’s off to the polar opposite, as represented by this screeching harpy of a woman and the rest of the Kossacks. Ranting and raging just for the sake of ranting and raging.
Sure, they may profess to believe in certain ideas (and even write boring and longwinded “manifestos” about them), but nothing they do actually helps achieve any of those things. Instead it’s just a big jumble of stream-of-consciousness idiocy being posted to the internet to make oneself feel better. I’m actually surprised that people like her manage to retain enough functionality as members of society to hold down jobs and have families, as this woman’s future has “crazed old woman with dirty cats” written all over her.
Also, I think one so-far overlooked part of her neuroses is the “album with photos of her dead father”...who the hell keeps that kind of thing on their home office desk?
"Not quite so amazing is O’Connor’s grasping gesture, variations of which are common on the left.”
Grasping gesture? It looks to me like she’s trying to insert an imaginary key into her computer’s ignition.
As for the photo: it may well be a hatchet-job, but one glance at those eyes and you realize that this gal is a four-star, gold-plated lunatic. I pity anyone who has to deal with her; her son in particular.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 04 16 at 10:01 PM • permalinkWalter, you make a good point about long hair and older women (although Nilknarf pulls it off really well). For most of us though, it tends to drag one’s features down.
Her photo is not bad. She just looks like she’s mid-sentence. Those sorts of things don’t say much about someone. I’ve seen worse, including a photo of me looking like an utter wino at the office Christmas party. I’ll never be president as a result.
Thanks to Zoe for putting us in the know about the manifesto. When I clicked on the link I just got a pink page, which is lovely and nice. Ideologues are the enemy of reason, regardless of the ideology. Another thoughtful contribution from the Brain.
Posted by Major Anya on 2006 04 16 at 10:16 PM • permalinkI didn’t mean Nilknarf is an older women.
She’s the same age as me, so she’s very young.
Posted by Major Anya on 2006 04 16 at 10:18 PM • permalinkUrbs — Ah, but the WAPO sneakily put the Wacko filter on the lens to bias their depiction…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 16 at 10:39 PM • permalinkLOL Major Anya :) Thanks. I just tell everyone I look great for 45. Works every time.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 16 at 11:02 PM • permalinkZoe, you should wander over to betsyspage.blogspot.com and check out the defense of Ms Nuttizen.
Much like her, they’re so convinced they’re right that they respond with outrage to any opposition.
I could agree with some of her stuff, too, but she’s obviously unwilling to listen or to compromise. Face it, people this angry on the Left are Stalinists whether they know it or not. They’ve given up on debate and are ready, once they get power, to go ahead and abuse the system in all the ways they accuse Bush and conservatives of. Talk about projection.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 04 16 at 11:04 PM • permalinkWhoops. That read wrong. Besty is not defending her, posters are responding to Betsy’s pointer with ‘defense’ (mostly ad hominems).
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 04 16 at 11:05 PM • permalink#70Also, I think one so-far overlooked part of her neuroses is the “album with photos of her dead father”...who the hell keeps that kind of thing on their home office desk?
PW you’ve hit the nail on the head there. I also think her mother needs a smack upside of the head with a lump of four by two.
If she’s still bleating about her dead father at nearly 40 then she’s got serious problems. I know quite a few women who lost fathers as babies, children and teenagers, and in general, the most damage seems to be done when a parent is lost during adolesence.
No doubt whatever has occurred throughout her life, it would have all been better if Daddy had been around, and because he wasn’t, her anger at him is transferred to the safest target: The Government. In particular the republican side of things, as that is the party that most espouses the nuclear family and all that she never had.
OF course, I could be way off target and her mother remarried young, and Maryscott had a lovely stepfather. If that is the case, then I’ve got no idea how she turned into such a nufnuf.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 16 at 11:08 PM • permalinkThe wife and I saw her a few days ago on John Gibson’s show. Had no idea who she was. She had that wide-eyed, jittery, “in twenty years I’ll have a house full of cats” look. The picture is a pretty accurate representation.
My non-political, never-read-a-blog, “Yes, dear, that’s very interesting” wife said, “I think that woman might be crazy.” So there’s an unbiased opinion right there.
I dunno...any experts on bio-degradation here?
I thought plastic is not bio-degradeable.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 16 at 11:37 PM • permalinkNote to self. You have only three cats. Do not, I repeat, do not get any more cats. If you want another pet, get yourself that black or brindle bull terrier you always wanted.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 17 at 12:20 AM • permalinkNilk - sounds excellent idea, but perhaps a long-haired dog would be nice.
James - how odd that the largest section of her “manifesto” is all about gay marriage - hell, forget the war, she’s really, really, really, pissed that gay people are not allowed to get married. Weird.
Have finally had a bit of a look at the blog, and the “daily rants” - devoid of headings or any useful identifying information - and I have to say that the whole thing is actually a dogs breakfast - design-wise, and the content is bland, asinine, vapid, uninteresting....you get the drift. I guess the lunatic rants only happen when a reporter is present, or something. I’m very disappointed. Nothing to see here.
The most revealing and interesting thing was the quote in the Post article, when she learned:
"about the effect of being both heartfelt and vicious. “It’s impactful,” she says. “It gets attention."
“heatfelt and vicious” - a good summary of the left, at least on the Internet. In real life the left don’t seem capable of squashing an ant.
Yep, being vicious gets attention. That’s all it gets.
I read the manifesto and saw the other pics of her and her family and have to say that afterwards the WaPo peice starts to look a little unfair.
There is an an angry, and frequently deranged left, and she is definitely suffering from Bush derangement syndrome, but the picture was unfair, and like Zoe a fair bit of her manifesto is stuff that, whilst I may not agree with all of it, I would allow is stuff that reasonable people can disagree on.
Indymedia and Daily Kos would have been better targets.
All that said Bush and Republican hatred and anger that this lady definitely suffers from just does not help her case. A fairer Journalist would have pointed out that this partisan hatred acts as a wall, and between left and right there are probaly a whole number of issues on which a workable consensus could be created if it was not for this poisonous hatred.
I do think that the current infestation on the left is far more serious than the attack dog politics on the right of a decade ago, and not just because there is a war on.
The picture was a bit unfair I suppose.
It reminds me of the shots of Senator Norm Coleman (R) of Minnesota, that ran in the Minneapolis Star (The Red Star) and Tribune, back when he was running for the US Senate, in 2002.
The pics all seemed to miraculously catch him (an otherwise very photogenic guy), in mid-sneeze.
Gun-Crazy and Zoe are right, just cause they do it to us all the time, doesnt mean the MSM should get a free pass, when they do it (the 1 in 10000 times) to the other side, moonbat or no.
/bleeding heart conservative.
and like Zoe a fair bit of her manifesto is stuff that, whilst I may not agree with all of it, I would allow is stuff that reasonable people can disagree on.
Well, you might have a “let’s agree to disagree on this” attitude to it, but would she? Obviously not.
It’s not that her opinions are all that outlandish when viewed separately - and really, unless she were to call for all Republicans to be gassed or the like, there’s little she can say that would go so far beyond the pale that “agree to disagree” simply wasn’t possible. Rather, it’s that the aggregate of her opinions suffers from irreconcilable inconsistencies and outright contradictions (see her scolding the US for not doing anything about Darfur, when the only viable option is doing exactly that which has been done in Iraq and is being opposed by her), and that she wouldn’t go for any kind of compromise even if being offered one, anyway.
Reasonable people may agree to disagree on something, but that does require reasonable people on more than one side of the issue.
At any rate, her husband will likely be a goner as soon as the kid’s in college, if not even earlier. 12 years and counting, Maryscott.
BTW, one thing I’d found odd while reading the article was that the writer didn’t refer to her KIA father as a draftee, given that that’s usually part of Vietnam soldier stories in the press, so I just presumed that he volunteered. And upon re-reading, I see that he was a Marine...didn’t somebody here mention on a different subject recently that the Marines didn’t draft? I guess that would confirm my presumption if so.
In other words, this seems to be Cindy Sheehan redux, just with the generations reversed.
Hmmmm.
So let me get this straight:
If she both believes in and acts under the influence of BDS, and extols the most simplistic angry nut-tastic nonsense, any subsequent picture of her that actually represents her accurately is “not fair”?
I judge fairness on whether or not a picture is accurate. In this case I’d suggest that accuracy standard has been met.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 04 17 at 02:42 AM • permalinkPW—correct. The Marines have always been an all-volunteer force. Her father was not drafted. Yep, another Cindy Sheehan in all respects, save the generation reversal.
And correct as well in your analysis of the real problem with Maryscott: she simply isn’t reasonable, nor rational. Many of her positions, taken by themselves, are rational. Taken as an aggregate? She’s clearly a person with serious emotional problems. And that’s being kind; other people have referred to her as an unhinged moonbat, or something similar.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 17 at 02:45 AM • permalinkAnd I must say, if the WaPo set up this interview just to display her as a moonbat, shame on them. I don’t much like this person or her politics (in case you couldn’t tell by my earlier comments), but this bait-and-switch tactic of Finkel is reprehensible. And irresponsible.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 17 at 02:49 AM • permalinkTalking of barking moonbats two of our home-grown ones surfaced today:
Four Christian activists were to face a committal hearing this week for breaking into a top military base in central Australia.
The Christians Against All Terrorism (CAAT) members will face Alice Springs Magistrates Court on Wednesday over a break-in at the joint US-Australian facility at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs on December 9.
Former “human shield” Donna Mulhearn, 37, of Sydney, who was abducted and briefly held by militants in the Iraqi flashpoint city of Fallujah last year, is among those charged.
The others are Jim Dowling, 50, of Dayboro near Brisbane, Brian Law, 51, of Cairns and Adele Goldie, 29, of Brisbane...
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 04 17 at 03:32 AM • permalinkDonna Mulhearn is a Christian? And she’s destroying government property in order to break into, and trespass on, government secret squirrel property? Wow. Must not have heard of rendering unto Caesar.
Wonder if she’ll do the Christian thing, i.e., plead guilty and take whatever punishment is meted out to her.
#97 Texas Bob
You’ve hit it smack, dead-centre, on the head.
Donna Mulhearn “never felt so powerless or helpless” in her life the day that she couldn’t save a girl who was dying of leukaemia.
People who talk like this present themselves as caring, compassionate and humble but actually they’re in the grip of infantile egomania. What really gets to them is that they’re not God when, deep down, they think they ought to be. And therefore they ought to be able to tell everybody else how to live. And therefore nothing they do is wrong.
Therefore I’m thinking she will plead not guilty.
Maryanne is another one of those nasty pieces that promote the theory that Israel is the Dead Roach in America’s Salad
Either that, or she needs to spend a bit more on wine glasses.
(Yes she does. And, just for the record, it’s not one of mine ~ moonbats are strictly verboten from purchasing. I have standards, you know.)
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 04 17 at 09:36 AM • permalinkJeff S - I agree: mocking the mentally ill is always in poor taste. For the WaPo to be doing it on page 1 is reprehensible.
But the article did get people talking about the paper - even people like myself, who normally don’t read it. And, presumably, it racked up newsstand sales and web hits: which the point of the exercise. The spirit of William Randolph Hearst lives on in today’s MSM.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 04 17 at 10:04 AM • permalink#95 ah, Brian Law! Quite the troll, that one.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 17 at 10:23 AM • permalinkThe Real JeffS — Actually, the Marines did, briefly, draw from the draft during WWII, IIRC, but only after they had suffered horrific casualties in several island campaigns. It quickly ceased.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 17 at 10:27 AM • permalink
What on earth does this woman know about Darfur? How does she know it’s not a hopeless case? How is it not? What does she want America to do? Invade like they did with Iraq? Why should we listen to some ignorant woman telling us to “wake the fuck up”?Darfur, she finally decides. She will write about Darfur.
“Darfur is not hopeless,” she begins typing, and pauses.
“Ugh,” she says.
“You are not helpless,” she continues typing, and pauses again.
“Weak.”
She deletes everything and starts over.
“WAKE THE [expletive] UP,” she writes next
Skimming over her blog, its most obvious deficiency is the sheer lack of understanding of anything much at all - it’s completely sustained by spittle-flecked conjecture, deeper knowledge of subject not exhibited nor required. How can you blame the Post for spinning her as an anger-crazed ranter when that’s precisely the message she gives out in spades on her blog?
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 04 17 at 10:34 AM • permalinkBrian Law!
Bingster! You must be teary eyed at the mention of your old bestest buddy in the whole WIDE (being the operative word around Monsewer Law) world. Everybody step back and let him compose himself.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 04 17 at 10:35 AM • permalinkI really am overwhelmed, Sis.
[sniff-sniff]
First fellow I ever banned at the Coalition.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 17 at 10:46 AM • permalinkWhat bothers me most about people like O’Connor is that they seem to think that rage, in and of itself, is a sign of moral superiority, and even of greater intellect. It must be sad for O’Connor to go through life completely surrounded by immoral louts ("Why don’t they listen to me? I’m shrieking at the top of my lungs!"). This is why blogs like hers, even though they may occasionally make the odd logical point, will continue to be largely ineffectual: they are little more than the equivalent of political methamphetamine for junkies seeking the sublime high that comes from feeling smarter than, or morally superior to, all those “other people” out there.
Darfur, she finally decides. She will write about Darfur.
“Darfur is not hopeless,” she begins typing, and pauses.
What the hell does she think we can do about Darfur? If she and her fellow lefties are adamantly opposed to military action in Iraq, how does she think we can do anything other than begging to bring changes to Darfur?
The truth of the matter is, as bad as Darfur is, Iraq and Iran should be our immediate concern. This is from a column by Amir Taheri in Sunday’s Daily Telegraph of London:
Last Monday, just before he announced that Iran had gatecrashed “the nuclear club”, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disappeared for several hours. He was having a khalvat (tête-à-tête) with the Hidden Imam, the 12th and last of the imams of Shiism who went into “grand occultation” in 941. According to Shia lore, the Imam is a messianic figure who, although in hiding, remains the true Sovereign of the World. In every generation, the Imam chooses 36 men, (and, for obvious reasons, no women) naming them the owtad or “nails”, whose presence, hammered into mankind’s existence, prevents the universe from “falling off”. Although the “nails” are not known to common mortals, it is, at times, possible to identify one thanks to his deeds. It is on that basis that some of Ahmad-inejad’s more passionate admirers insist that he is a “nail”, a claim he has not discouraged. For example, he has claimed that last September, as he addressed the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York, the “Hidden Imam drenched the place in a sweet light”.
(snip)
While waiting Bush out, the Islamic Republic is intent on doing all it can to consolidate its gains in the region. Regime changes in Kabul and Baghdad have altered the status quo in the Middle East. While Bush is determined to create a Middle East that is democratic and pro-Western, Ahmadinejad is equally determined that the region should remain Islamic but pro-Iranian. Iran is now the strongest presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, after the US. It has turned Syria and Lebanon into its outer defences, which means that, for the first time since the 7th century, Iran is militarily present on the coast of the Mediterranean. In a massive political jamboree in Teheran last week, Ahmadinejad also assumed control of the “Jerusalem Cause”, which includes annihilating Israel “in one storm”, while launching a take-over bid for the cash-starved Hamas government in the West Bank and Gaza.
Ahmadinejad has also reactivated Iran’s network of Shia organisations in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen, while resuming contact with Sunni fundamentalist groups in Turkey, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco. From childhood, Shia boys are told to cultivate two qualities. The first is entezar, the capacity patiently to wait for the Imam to return. The second is taajil, the actions needed to hasten the return. For the Imam’s return will coincide with an apocalyptic battle between the forces of evil and righteousness, with evil ultimately routed. If the infidel loses its nuclear advantage, it could be worn down in a long, low-intensity war at the end of which surrender to Islam would appear the least bad of options. And that could be a signal for the Imam to reappear.
This is some serious shit folks.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 04 17 at 11:08 AM • permalinkZoe Brain: “Well, yes, there I agree, but a disclaimer here: I’ve actually worked on open-source voting systems in competition with the ...umm.. less than secure systems used in the US.”
W’assmatter with using small pieces of paper, drawn out of an old wooden box, only one marked with a black spot?
This crazy lady just screams Shirley Jackson…
#112: It is serious, indeed, and particularly dangerous since the West has largely lost its capacity to understand the strength of religious belief in motivating large numbers of people, toward good OR evil. The Shia belief system may strike most Westerners as “quaint”, but it is held to most passionately by, among others, a group of Imams who consider a nuclear holocaust to be all in a day’s work. As James Burnham wrote, it only takes one side to declare a war and define its stakes. The ultimate destruction of the power of Ahmadinejad and his fellow fanatics is now not only the linch pin for the success of sanity in the Middle East; it is perhaps vital to the physical survival of the West.
Please please PLEASE, someone give this woman her own reality TV show!
Posted by beautifulatrocities on 2006 04 17 at 11:26 AM • permalinkRichard, Jeffs & PW--
Didn’t the occasional Army draftee get shunted off to the Corps during Viet Nam? You know, as mandatory volunteers?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 17 at 11:38 AM • permalinkWronwright--Mark Steyn deftly addresses the same issue: Policy on Iran nukes seems to be off-target
You know what’s great fun to do if you’re on, say, a flight from Chicago to New York and you’re getting a little bored? Why not play being President Ahmadinejad? Stand up and yell in a loud voice, “I’ve got a bomb!” Next thing you know the air marshal will be telling people, “It’s OK, folks. Nothing to worry about. He hasn’t got a bomb.” And then the second marshal would say, “And even if he did have a bomb it’s highly unlikely he’d ever use it.” And then you threaten to kill the two Jews in row 12 and the stewardess says, “Relax, everyone. That’s just a harmless rhetorical flourish.” And then a group of passengers in rows 4 to 7 point out, “Yes, but it’s entirely reasonable of him to have a bomb given the threatening behavior of the marshals and the cabin crew."
That’s how it goes with the Iranians. The more they claim they’ve gone nuclear, the more U.S. intelligence experts—oops, where are my quote marks?—the more U.S. intelligence “experts” [he fooled me on this one--I thought the quotes would be around “intelligence"] insist no, no, it won’t be for another 10 years yet. The more they conclusively demonstrate their non-compliance with the IAEA, the more the international community warns sternly that, if it were proved that Iran were in non-compliance, that could have very grave consequences. But, fortunately, no matter how thoroughly the Iranians non-comply it’s never quite non-compliant enough to rise to the level of grave consequences. You can’t blame Ahmadinejad for thinking “our enemies cannot do a damned thing.”
I just can’t believe that the Bush administration would kick the can down the road on this one, but time will tell…
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 17 at 11:52 AM • permalink#112 Wronwright, you ain’t just whistlin Dixie. Ahmadinejad is trying his hand at brinkmanship and looking beyond his Persian chest-thumping, he’s tipping his hand a bit. I believe he’s banking on his newly acquired “nuclear power” status to give him the needed leverage to shape the region to his liking. He’s somewhat of an unknown quantity in this regard. Will he overbid? He’s pushing pretty hard and might find he’s gone too far. The Iranian-loving jerk William Beeman (prof from Brown Univ.) was stating the other day that the West was over-reacting, that the peaceful Iranians were only doing what they said they were, pursuing nuclear energy.
Never mind that Ahmadinejad says they’ll take out Israel in one “storm”.
Folks like Maryscott better heed their own advice and “WAKE THE [expletive] UP.”wronwright, they scare the shit out of me.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 17 at 12:42 PM • permalinkEvery time I look at Ahmadinejad, I get the creepy feeling the little bastard’s picture is going to be in a lot of history books. After all, when did Hitler stop being “that funny little man with the funny little mustache?” After the Blood Purge? After the Reichstag Fire? After the Sudetenland? After the Anschluss? After Czechoslovakia? After Poland? After Belgium and the Netherlands? After France? After the Holocaust?
In a world gone mad, the mad will rule: Iran Elected to UN Disarmament Commission :
Under threat of United Nations Security Council sanctions for its own nuclear program, Iran has been elected to a vice-chair position on the U.N. Disarmament Commission, whose mission includes preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 17 at 01:45 PM • permalinkAnd he looks like such a nice guy in his comfy, Oxford professor cardigan and all. Just goes to show you can never tell. I wonder if the “nail” tells him how to dress in a non-threatening Western manner.
Hidden Imam: Mahmoud! Mahmoud, Owtad of the Imam! Oh, don’t grovel! If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s people groveling.
AHMADINEJAD: Sorry--
Hidden Imam: Self flagellation ~ how many times do I have to tell you. And don’t apologize. Every time I try to talk to someone it’s “sorry this” and “fatwah me that” and “I’m not worthy of 72 virgins”. What are you doing now!?
AHMADINEJAD: I’m averting my eyes, oh Imam.
Hidden Imam: Well, don’t. It’s like those miserable Psalms-- they’re so depressing. Now knock it off!
AHMADINEJAD: Yes, Hidden Imam.
Hidden Imam: Right! Mahmoud, Owtad of the Imam!—your Knights of the Slightly Smaller Table shall have a task to make them an example in these dark times.
AHMADINEJAD: Good idea, oh Hidden Imam!
Hidden Imam: ‘Course it’s a good idea! Behold! Mahmoud, this is the Holy Uranium of Gaseous. Look well, Mahomoud, for it is your sacred task to seek this Uranium of Gaseous. That is your purpose, Mahmoud—the Quest for the Holy Uranium of Gaseous which can then be spun at supersonic speeds, turning it into enriched nuclear fuel which can also be used for the core of a nuclear bomb if we wanted to. The Germans will help.
AHMADINEJAD: A blessing!
LAUNCES BOILS ALOT: A blessing from the Hidden Imam!
GALAHADABAYA: Allah akbar!
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 04 17 at 01:56 PM • permalinkre #106—richard, thanks, I didn’t know that. But the Marine tradition remains volunteers all.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 17 at 02:51 PM • permalinkPW 126
That reminds me of a long-nagging question ...
How does one pronounce “91B30” ?Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 17 at 03:01 PM • permalinkFor all those above concerned about draftees and the USMC –
The USMC drafted men in WW2 and during the Vietnam Conflict. In the beginning of 1969, I was almost one of these myself but enlisted in the Army to be in helicopters instead. The Marine recruiter told me that they could also enlist me to be a helicopter crewman but wouldn’t guarantee that I would, in fact, go to this training. They said that if the Corps needed infantrymen more than wingnuts, then I would be trained as a grunt. Khe Sahn had just happened and things didn’t look good. The Army at least guaranteed I’d get the training.
The Marine recruiter also said that in the next draft call-up, half the inductees at their MEPS station were going to the Marines and that the selection process was simple. They lined everyone up by height and took the tall half. At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, I knew where I was going. I had no objection to the Marines but did not want to be a “drafted Marine”. I, therefore, enlisted in the Army and was trained as a helicopter mechanic and gunner. Through a process I’m not going to bore you with here, I wound up, less than a year later, as an infantry officer on my way to Special Forces training. All that maneuvering didn’t really matter.
So, yes: the Marines did have draftees but it was under extraordinary circumstances.
The salient feature to remember of all this draft talk is that professional military people, both on the uniformed and civilian side of the house, do not want draftees. The memories of the personnel/personal turbulence that occurred during the Vietnam Era are still too real. None of them want to trade the motivated (oh, yes they are) professional volunteers of today for the bad-attitude, regulation-violating dopers of the Vietnam era. They will fight it to the finish rather than go back to the “bad old days”.
PFC Ronald L. Coker USMC, won the Medal of Honor in 1969 posthumously. In combat he saved a wounded Marine and used his own body to absorb the explosion of a grenade. He was a draftee from Colorado.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 04 17 at 04:18 PM • permalink135 Well that certainly fits a lot of extra syllables into five characters! How’d you doooooooooo that?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 17 at 04:59 PM • permalinkMeta-question: Is Rob C. = Rob Crawford? (Just asking...)
Not in this case.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 04 17 at 07:55 PM • permalink#13 Kyda, thank you for giving me my belly-laugh for today!
Someone called this creature’s policy statements a dog’s breakfast. I disagree. Even a dog’s breakfast goes through some processing. Her squawks are more parrot like; sounds which hold no real meaning, picked up from the environment. Hence her fear. A real parrot is just doing what parrots do. No matter how much this woman, and others like her, wants to be able to exist without using her reason, nature’s built in alarms are going off all the time, trying to relay that she is in danger. Without reason to identify and explain it, however, one is left with only the emotional response of abject terror, and a demand that SOMEONE do some thinking.
#139 Stoop-if I told you it was super top secret RWDB code (Iraq initiateds only), would it help me with the local cabal of you, Wron and the rest?
91B30, please don’t group me with the lower class members. I’m a Henchman 1st Class and Fascist Trainer. (adopts a look of utter disdain, the result of hours practicing in front of a mirror while sniffing French cheese)
And to answer your question not directed towards me. NO! You’re still unwashed rabble unless Karl taps you for admission to our
evil cultbenevolent society. Until that happens—if that happens—please stand over there with the rest of the uninitiated.Posted by wronwright on 2006 04 17 at 09:26 PM • permalink144 Ens Wrongway
And to answer your question not directed towards me. NO!
Did Cdr McEnroe issue you that opinion, sir? Reason I ask is, that is, what he told me is, that, well, if the benevolent society wanted my opinion, it would issue me one. But then he wouldn’t tell me where the application chits were! It’s almost as if ... oh never mind!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 17 at 09:45 PM • permalinkStoop — You never submitted a properly formatted request for authorization to requisition an application form.
That thing you turned in looked like it was xeroxed at a Kinko’s somewhere.
91B30 — Iraq vets get the special pass. Especially when their MOS lets them bring the good opiates. Welcome aboard and don’t let wronwright detail your HumVee. He’ll mess up the CARC paint every time…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 17 at 10:55 PM • permalink#84- I just got two black/brindle Staffordshire Bull Terriers, hence I haven’t had time to blog. They’re probably crazier than this old bat, but they’re definately better looking; what is it with leftist females and having a face like a dropped pie/smashed crab/hatful of arseholes/diseased paw-paw etc etc?
I know when I was a pinko I did it purely for ideological reasons and not to pick up chicks.
(While some naughty camera techniques were used, there’s no getting away from that look in the eyes- if she hadn’t veered to the left she’d be throwing meat at women going into abortion clinics- a complete fruitcake, with currants for eyes).
#151, Ck:
Well, so you did. I guess I transferred that thought when I started reading her “positions.” They seem to be made up of this bit and that notion and the other news item, devoured out of the ether and thrown up together in a regular dogs breakfast. This is why, by the way, some of what she says sounds sane. The fact that she parrots it all back, occasionally getting something in order, is pure accident. That accident says nothing about her own sanity, however. So, though I misremembered your specific allusion, my point remains.
I do apologize for misrepresenting what you said, and I promise to be more careful in the future.
saltydog – no prob’s; I wasn’t taking a defensive swipe or anything. I quite admire anyone prepared to take the time & effort to familiarize themselves with the content.
I’m not sure what disturbs me most: the blogger, or the fact that she has hundreds of thousands of people visiting each day to hang off her every expletive in order to get their jollies.
As much as it’s easy to have a bit of a laugh about it, the fact is, some day, albeit a way off, the right will manage to lose elections, both here & in the US (at the federal level), and this, and many other, lefty blogs display such a deranged level of anger that, after a while, it does beg the question: will the left, in all their euphoria at winning an election stay both “mad” and “get even” when they come to power? There is certainly no showing of rationality or soundly considered alternative policies; it’s pure undirected & undiluted rage.
In my lifetime I don’t ever remember an entire side of politics being so fucking furious just because they don’t have power. It’s all out of proportion to anything that is actually happening in politics or around the world.
Besides, I can be vicious and swear like a wharfy all on my own; I don’t need to vicariously participate in a daily group masturbatory-rage-fest.
There’s something very disturbing going on here.
#51 Splice (and others):
Nope, what you see there is a classic Squirrel Grip.
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 04 18 at 05:37 AM • permalink150 Habib.
Beauty is skin deep and ugly goes to the bone? Could that be it?As for staffys, I’m pretty sure that they’ve been outlawed in quite a few municipalities down here in Braxtopia. We are well on our way to becoming Victoria:The Police State.
But I’ve always wanted a bullterrier. Something like this.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 18 at 08:25 AM • permalinkDamn—Margo makes MoDo look like Miss America. And God, I never thought I’d use the terms “MoDo” and “Miss America” in the same sentence.
Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 04 18 at 10:14 AM • permalinkMonroe Doctrine — “MoDo makes me miss America.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 18 at 10:34 AM • permalink#140 Rob Crawford:
Thanks. You two kinda sounded alike at times, so I was wondering if it was simply a case of somebody using two accounts from different locations. (I’ve known people who couldn’t remember their login to some site anymore, so they had to use different ones from work and home.) Apologies to you and the other Rob C for the intrusion, but this was driving me nuts.
#153, Ck, thanks.
When I think of all the people who visit someone like this, I try to remember to factor in those like myself, who visit for reasons other than agreement. It’s sort of like rubbernecking an accident.
You are right that all of this kind of thing is disturbing. What you are seeing are the consequences of over a hundred years of Progressivism in education. The state run school’s haven’t been educating people ever since the Progressives began experimenting with our minds. One deadly premise they’ve consistently held, is that reason is a myth, and its consequential corrolary, human minds are infinitly malleable. Women like this blogger are part of the collective that went along, thinking they were safe allowing others to do the thinking for them.
But, of course, reason isn’t dead just because there are those who chose to ignore it. Nor are human minds infinitly malleable, as demonstrated by folks like Tim and many of the people who comment here. Reasoning individuals are always a slap in the face to the collectives.
But, while recognizing the disturbance, don’t give these people too much credit. They are dangerous only when reason is silent. So don’t be silent.
Islam can’t even formulate their own mystic tradition! They nicked the 36 Hidden Saints (Lamed Vav Tzaddikim) and perverted the whole idea.
According to Jewish tradition-- vis Zohar (Kabbala), Midrash, Mishnah—there are 36 lofty souls present in every generation (not necessarily Jewish) who sustain, nurture and guard the world.
They guard it, but remain hidden and unassuming as well. These 36 righteous people are sparks of an immanent yet transcendent G-d or oversoul. Through their refined consciousness, light, warmth and wisdom flows into and permeates the world.
Nice, eh? Problem is, once this number falls below 36 things start getting real dark real quick.
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Why did she pick that shirt? I mean, she knew a photographer would be showing up, yes? Nobody held a gun to her head and said “That one… the one that looks like an ill-fitting tent.” I don’t claim to be a clothing expert but I sure as hell would have buttoned my cuffs, if nothing else, before showing up for the photo op.