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An American Thinks

Regular readers will recall that in Thursday’s Late Night we discussed the psychowingnut-freakout over Obama’s "bow" before the King of All Musselmen.

Now, and this may startle you, certain right-wing commentators did not appreciate the calm, reasonable, civilized tone of the post, which, I hasten to emphasize, was written solely in the spirit of constructive criticism. In no manner did I intend to convey the impression that our conservative friends were, as usual, behaving like hysterical paranoid idiots. I most heartily apologize for any misunderstanding. Let me make it up to you. Here, have a snack.

Of course, none were quite so a-flutter as Thomas Lifson, the Editor and Publisher of The American Thinker magazine. Mr. Lifson apparently felt the post was, heaven forfend, derisive, and rushed to assure the world that merely because I said that anyone who took this bowing crap seriously was a cretin, I was calling him a cretin. Horrors! It would be bad sport not to present his Very Thoughtful Rebuttal.

The left wing blogs are doing their best to ridicule reaction to those who reacted in horror to body language conveying subordination and fealty. A self-identified "community college professor" on the left wing site Firedoglake uses a lot of Anglo-Saxonisms in ridiculing conservative reaction:

The wingnut attention span just isn’t that long, usually, and even by these cretins’ standards this "story" is pretty thin drool.

"Thin drool" is priceless, isn’t it? The expression is "thin gruel", but I guess this "professor" has good reason to write under a pseudonym. There’s nothing more ridiculous than an illiterate calling others cretins.

Interesting. However, in my defense, I suspect that there is in fact something even more ridiculous than what Mr. Lifson identifies; I’ll leave it to you to figure out just what that might be. If you squint hard, maybe you’ll see it. And maybe someday Mr. Lifson will understand what I mean when I call him a "Hitshed."

Lifson’s indictment of the Vast Leftist Conspiracy to call morons stupid is not yet complete, however. Were you aware that there is another blog likewise making fun of the right-wing squawking over "Bow-Before-Allah-Gate" besides FDL? Does liberal perfidy know no bounds?

Another lefty blog, Whiskey Fire is even more pathetic.

I tell you what: I agree totally, and when I find that rat bastard responsible for Whiskey Fire, he’s dead. I’m going to personally ensure that finkwad is properly punished — I’m going to hold him down and force him to consume Irish whiskey. That is his personal brier patch. The only trouble would be in finding him; perhaps there is a clue on the FDL About the Author page where Lifson discovered that he is a "self-identified community college professor." But if this great American Thinker is baffled by such a conundrum, what hope have the rest of us?

In conclusion, many of my friends here at FDL may be at this point be tempted to consider Mr. Lifson a "dingbat," a "tool," an "asswipe," a "clown," "an "assclown," a "clownwipe," a "dingleberry," a "putz," a "wiener," a "gobshite," a "tosser," a "hack," or even "a bonehead too fucking stupid to breathe without a team of trained physicians, a priest, and his favorite widdle binky." But please, refrain from such calumny.

I assure you that people like Mr. Lifson are the entire reason I blog at all, and that I most sincerely cherish his willingness to proffer his opinions, as they bring me immense delight. I love him, and he brings me joy. Honestly. I have seldom enjoyed a blog post more than this latest, and I most heartily enjoin him to produce more of the same. Frequently.