I just don’t want Glenn Greenwald to think he has a lock on all the good hate mail.
O’Reilly went after me a couple of weeks ago for having the temerity to tell Elizabeth Edwards not to repeat Republican talking points, saying I “threatened her.” Hate mail from his legions of fans ensued, who obviously felt so strongly that Elizabeth needed defending they were willing to disconnect themselves from their respirators and their powerscooters to do so.
My favorite:
Miss Hamsher,
You stupid, fascist, weasel of a woman. Don’t you EVER criticize someone for standing up to the idiots and Moveon.org. MRS. Kerry was right on and you have proved yourself to be just another far left loon that hates the very country that has given her the freedom to be a far left loon. You are pathetic.
It’s touching to see how much they care.
Yes, O’Reilly did call me a fascist (as Glenn said, “as though all that is required are strong (liberal) opinions, with the slaughtering-the-Jews-and
I guess when you think about it, that really is pretty end of the bus line when O’Reilly won’t give you a slap and a tickle. Even for a “Democratic Strategist.”
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Zed!
Heh, Gotta love those Rightards, ‘Mrs. Kerry’!!! ;-0
Jane!!!
Speaking for myself only, I like when idiots criticize me. I especially love it when they rant.
Hi Jane/Christy and fellow FDL folks:
They’re publishing my letter to the editor tomorrow in the LA Times, critiquing an article about John Edwards.
I guess the media do pay attention when we call them out on lazy reporting!
Personally, I love loons.
hi
Jane, I love you too. Get out there and kick some more butt!
I never get hate mail. *s*
oh wait, there’s a letter from Sen Bayh I haven’t opened yet, so there’s still hope….
Dont infuriate Bill’O’s TeeVee fans. I mean his audience numbers are like those of a Family Guy rerun on the cartoon network.
Nuthin like a good-lookin loon I always say.
“Yes, O’Reilly did call me a fascist “
It’s the final step in getting your lefty blogger badge criox de falafal to wear on your blue sash at the annual DKos Fanathon
Weasels, weasels, don’t be slow!
Crush those Connies – go, gang, go!
Must-e-la!
;>)
CTuttle @ 1
Congrats, Buddy !!!
Hi Jane, today is Gandhi’s birthday and I think this quote of his was meant for people like you …
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Love & Peace to you, Jane !
(… and to all Firepups and Mods as well … )
…who is this “O’Reilly” fella I keep hearing about? …does he run a falafel stand or somethin’?
I thought he was Assistant Principal O’Reilly.
1,615 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
I feel yer pain, sister Hamsher, such pressure from the fossilized fascist set is heavy but you ken take it. Seriously though, maybe we’ve reached a tipping point…the fascist Wurlitzer takin’ off against bloggers and Move On, the Waxman hearings on Blackwater, the Senate keepin’ the pressure on the lawlessness behind the entire war project and, FINALLY, the Democrats (Obey and Murtha) standin’ up and sayin “no more supplementals”. I find it interesting also that when Obey and Murtha held their press conference Mrs. Pelosi and Stenny Hoyer were nowhere ta be seen…wazup with that?!! Are we seein’ a coup de main from the Democrats on the fascists or is there a very real revolt of the senior Democrats in the House against the Clinton leadership team?
I get the feelin’ that somethin’ BIG is happenin’ inside the Democratic Party in the Congress and the corporatists and the A*P*C shills aren’t gunna like it.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, ALL THEY GOT IS OUR MONEY!!
Petrocelli @ 14
Mods do rock.
Loo Hoo. @ 16
You’re absolutely right. I’ll change.
Why Jane, you are becoming more powerful every day, clearly more and more people are hearing your thoughtful and most reasonable considerations. Most of them, I would venture to guess, are impressed and appreciative. But when you are so easily able to rouse some to wrath and invective, then for certain you are a force to be reckoned with. Even more power to you! When your voice is heard with regularity, then honesty and hope will have returned, signifying a far better tomorrow and the ending of a dark and dangerous era. I thank you for your courage and your wit.
bill-o is such a pill…. just gag me now ok..and of course he took after jane…anyone who comes with truth anddd facts why thats just unforgivable in his mind – errrrrr whats left of it
Rachel Maddow is talking about Rush right now, and Rush’s viability with Clear Channel. Swamping the advertising on the Limbaugh show is the way to go, perhaps.
deco todd @ 5
At least the Left Coast media do. Don’t hold your breath for those on the Right Coast.
Petrocelli @ 14
Even me??? Thanks and big hugs, Petrocelli. (Blowing a kiss to Jane, too!)
Rush and O’Reilly. Can you beleve there are people, lots of them, that believe what these two characters say? It’s extraordinary.
Oh well, Jane, I’ve been browsing this book called Pledged: the secret life of sororities. Apparently one of the instructions to the sisters reads: (paraphrase) if someone talks about politics or uses words you don’t understand, get away as soon as possible. could that be some sort of rationale for Kirsten Powers? And well according to Olbermann, O’Falafel is threatening to strangle his critics. So . . .
Jane -
But pathetic, far left loon, stupid, fascist, weasels are my favorite type of woman!
You should take compliments from wherever you can get them.
“You could almost see her deflate from “perky” to “crushed” as the segment ended…”
Rush Limpdick feels the very same way when the meds wear off.
juslin @ 21
Now, now, Bungle O’Bill lost his mind on safari long ago, stark raving he was…Bit by an IceTea fly whilst hunting loofalawfuls in deepest Harlem, y’see.
;>)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 25
And most of them are over the age of 75, so it’s understandable, what with the senility and all.
I saw that earlier and I thought “I’m so proud of her..”
I hope you wear it like a badge of honor. The attacks are a strong indicator of how relevant you are becoming to the national discourse and how irrelevant BillO and his ilk are becoming…
smapdi @ 10
Obviously Kirsten Powers is one of O’Falafel’s biggest fans. Has she ever worked on any campaigns(besides maybe Clinton)? I wonder why she’s only on Faux and never on Tucker.
I would say it is quite an honor to be personally attacked by Bill O’Really and his legions of evil gnomes.
I do have one question:– out of al the things they could’ve called you, “fascist” seems to be among the strangest of choices. What precisely is O’Really’s definition of fascist? Anyone who disagrees with him? With the party talking points? Has he ever clarified precisely how one demonstrates one’s fascism by engaging in that time-honored fascist activity – free speech?
Jane’s hate mail reads:
Now, since you are one of those standing up to the idiots, I don’t think you would criticize yourself. And that statement could also be read not to criticize MoveOn so there ya go, not so much hate mail as telling you to keep on keeping on.
YMMV
darkblack @ 29
Bungle O’Bill? I LOVE IT!
Did you come up with that? That’s got legs!
I thought it was interesting that Clark came out for taking Rush off the military radio station AFTER Jane had written her excellent article.
Loo Hoo. @ 36
she’s an inspiration!
Obama and Hillary have collected around $80,000,000 each for the campaign. It’s disgusting. Buying elections is not the same thing as Democracy.
If Hillary or Obama become president can we be assured of an end to the Iraq occupation?
your great Jane! this fight to restore truth, freedom, democracy, civil rights, dignity and honor to America is worth fighting.
Dear Mrs. Hardin-Smith,
May I get a slap and a tickle? I promise not to enjoy it all, and maybe I’ll even throw in some mother-lovin’ iced tea.
Sincerely,
DFH
Oklahoma kiddo @ 38
No.
As Atrios says, this had been another simple answer to a simple question.
Mad Dogs @ 35
It’s a title…I blame the Beatles myself, those moptopped miscreants.
;>)
Blub @ 33
SOP for NeoCons … accuse someone of being exactly what you are (fascists), it has worked well all these years …
((((( Loo Hoo )))))
I love the sound of Rethugs squealing in the evening. It sounds like . . . victory. (With apologies to Robert Duvall.)
HumboldtBlue @ 40
Shouldn’t you be talking to Jane rather than Christy?
Poor Bill-o. The wimmin, Negroes and Spanish types are at the gates and he’s getting the heebie-jeebies.
Break out the sheets.
Bill O’Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have.
-GSD
Ken Starr. Of Blackwater and Whitewater infamy.
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr.
http://www.salon.com/news/feat…..ater_bush/
Ann in AZ @ 45
I was under the impression that TeddySF and TRex had the slap/tickle portfolio on this here he-man women’s blog.
Hope the correspondent doesn’t mind the ‘change of venue’, as it were.
;>)
Petrocelli @ 43
This is a standard gambit used by a rabid right wing friend of mine. Apparently, they deliberately and insistently conflate fascism with socialism, because the Nazis were called the National Socialist Party. Then they focus on the authoritarian attributes of Soviet Russia, and ignore the authoritarian attributes of the unitary executive/corporatocracy system they worship. Et voila, we are the fascists, and they are not. Don’t try to make sense of this, just accept that it is.
darkblack @ 48
Excuse me, the term is “foul-mouthed fem” blog, I believe, and Jane holds the key to that kingdom! *g*
Pat Robertson doesn’t think Jews should be elected prez. John McCain says we are a “Christian nation”. And Joe Lieberman says McCain is not a bigot. That does it. I want and agnostic for Prez and Veep.
Ann in AZ @ 50
I stand quite corrected…Blame it on leftover fevers from the IceTea fly.
;>)
toby martin @ 49
hehe.. Apart from being self-descriptive, I really don’t know why they like that label so much. I mean.. there are surely other ways to insult somebody: tehrurist apologist, anarchist, red, commmie, pinko commie, radical, defeatocrat, hippie, librul or just Democrat (as in, a member of the Democrat Party, as shrub likes to say).
Ann in AZ @ 50
Please do not encourage DB ! *g*
If he links any more photos, I’m gonna spew pasta all over my Mac …
OT: Gay man has heavenly body (named for him):
Blub @ 53
I think they figure that if they call us the fascists, then we’ll never get around to calling them the fascists, cuz, like, the label is already affixed somewhere else.
The leaders of my political party are cowards. They condemn moveon.org and won’t condemn Rush.
Blub @ 53
There you go again, thinking all intelligent- like … *g* … just this once, think like their base … “fascist” covers all those tags and then some …
Everyone do the Sulu dance.
Take a chance.
-GSD
OT but really really funny, in a very twisted way:
CNN quoting a Blackwater cockpit voice recorder on a doomed flight, moments before it went boom -
CO-PILOT: “You’re an X-wing fighter Star Wars man”
PILOT: “I swear to God, they wouldn’t pay me if they knew how much fun this was”
I’m glad they like their jobs so much.
I love it that, in addition to all their other lunacy, is “Mrs. Kerry.” hahahahaha
Eli upstairs
Loo hoo @ 22 – That’s the key. It’s tough though, look at how they hang onto Tucker and Glen (won’t call him Beck, two too many great musicians there) despite cratered ratings.
Imus went that way, and comparatively speaking he should have been much more difficult to dislodge than this ass.
So what’s the action? Who do we bug, phone, e, mail, etc. – thx
TeddySanFran @ 55
” I think these are fascist people. I think they’re Nazis.” BillO. There are certainly some younger people who are not familiar with the Italian Fascist and later Nazi systems of total terror. Hate, lies, violence, deception and fear were a historical record.
Jane Hamsher, and Marcy Wheeler are only two of many examples of freedom fighters, in a dangerous time. Time and time FDL has stepped up to fight a real Amercian Fascism, a criminal war, a corrupt right wing regime, and a disinformation machine. BillO is a cog in this machine.
What has BillO done? Wrote dirty books, falsely claimed his “Peabodies”, and lost a ten million dollar sexual harrassment lawsuit. Oh yes, he now lies about Firedoglake.
Thank you Jane, but I really love it when you ATTACK!
we fail to grasp that oxyboy is doing the corporatists and the repugs bidding….they’ll not condemn him!! he is their standard-bearer doncha know
Oh, that mention of “foul-mouthed fem blogs” reminded me to check out the latest at Turn Maine Blue- they were in the forefront in reporting the Collins/ Lance Dutson blow-up re: fmfbs.
Interesting new post:
http://www.turnmaineblue.com/s…..iaryId=469
Links to YouTube of voting in Texas legislature, members casting multiple votes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6X-xtVask
And, wtf? Watch though, and you’ll see a Repug casting a vote on behalf of Noriega!
Irony. Irony. Irony abounds.
Ann in AZ @ 45
Anne, that was my feeble attempt to mimic the emailer, who referred to Mrs. Kerry, not Mrs. Edwards.
Sorry, Ann (mom spells it with an E)
Your comments about Elizabeth Edwards did not
seem that extreme to me at all. What is the
right-wing blogosphere so up in arms about?
Budly @ 70
Just trying to turn us against each other. They will exploit any opening, no matter how small, for that purpose. Elizabeth spoke against MoveOn, so they instantly, albeit temporarily, align themselves with her to attack the lefter target. Tomorrow, they’ll be back to calling John a faggot.
Jane , people like myself always feel the beauty in the things you have to say. With O’Reilly and Rush, well when they open their mouth it’s like looking at an earthworm, you really don’t know the difference between it’s head or it’s ass, and once you stick a hook in them it doesn’t matter to the ” sucker” that bites, you know what I mean?
It all does sort of depend upon what their twisted little minds define as being a “facist”, now doesn’t it?
darkblack @ 29
LOLOLOL!!707!
“Speaking for myself only, I like when idiots criticize me. I especially love it when they rant.”
First rule of the internit, when the other guy loses his shit and descends into a ranting frothing rage, you have won.
“Democratic Strategist.” on Faux news, isn’t that an oxymoron?
No mention of Malmady??? 2 out of 3 ain’t so bad ;-)
I pity the O’(loofah/fallafel)Reilly viewers. Needless to say fallafel boy just does not have the guts to call to his show the people whose views he is distorting.