From NY Magazine:

Here’s the link to a video of Rabid Letterman Protesters Turn Out to Be Big Leno Fans

Or, if you can embed an IFrame:

Probably the best response to this grotesque display of hatred and ignorance comes from a commenter named msdusti who wrote the following:

WOW. Looks like a bunch of people fell through the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down!

The last remaining residue of conservative idiocy is available for all to see on 54th and Broadway - but the emotion we are seeing here isn’t too difference from what happened after Nixon took office in 1969. Shortly thereafter, we saw the rise of angry far-left activists like the Weathermen and the SLA who went as far as bombing and kidnapping to spread their messages. While those two groups had manifestos to define their rebellion, these morons have only bad judgement.

Now, I’m not suggesting these particular people who stand in front of the Ed Sullivan theater will move to that level, but their anger and frustration at losing a political voice - and in the case of many conservatives having a kindred spirit in their prejudices and discrimination - is displaying itself in abortion doctor assassinations and attempts on Obama himself.

All in all, I find these people pathetic. They are all lemmings - and don’t have one independent thought between them. Their anger is completely irrational - in fact, what it does show us is that these people are simply looking for a way to vent anger any way they can and this tame Letterman joke provided them with a vessel for their hatred.

Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter and Fox News are fanning the flames. If this were happening on the left instead of the right, the right would be screaming “treason!” We’re a little more level headed than those idiots.

So anyway, far right, if you want to continue with this stupid support of an ignorant hick from Alaska who can’t even form a coherent sentence, have at it. If you want to convince yourself that David Letterman, a perfectly gentlemanly mid-westerner who I think is funny most of the time, is a closeted molester, you are alone in your stance.

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While this is nothing new for most of you who argue with that pathetic 22% of dead-enders, it’s important for everyone else to understand how desperate and manipulative some of these conservative blogs have become since Obama’s innauguration.

I’ve posted in the past about WizBang Blog, but I’d like to talk specifically about their new comment editor. While I know nothing about this woman, she’s single-handedly turned WizBang Blog into a joke by not only altering the posts of those with more centrist or left-leading views, but sometimes lying about their intent altogether. Her routine is something like this: a lively debate begins in the thread for some particular post, the right wing crazies say the most inflamatory and insulting things about the left and, when the left tries to defend/debate/provide facts or an alternative opinion to the discussion, they are, very indescriminantly having their posts scrambled, complete with a “comment” by the editor that suggests something even more inflamatory was actually written by this poster (as it is now scrambled, new readers wouldn’t know this to be a lie). Unfortunately for that commenter, his/her response to these false accusations is always eliminated.

Now, if you have a troll in there who’s making a complete mockery of things or trying to flame I can understand, at the very least, the motivation for shutting him/her up. The problem with this woman is she’s not an honest dealer. She targets commenters based on nothing more than her own personal justifications at the time of the post. It’s obviously a power trip for her.

Point in fact: Yesterday’s post, Conservative Speakers Need Body Guards when Speaking at College Campuses had a bit of a a back-and-forth with Liberal Brian and Conservative Marc. Marc, at one point, accuses Brian of twisting his words around and, essentially, diverting from the post. Brian, very smartly, followed up with this:

Let’s see:

Brian: “conservatives need bodyguards”
Kim: “Conservative Speakers Need Body Guards”

Brian: “to protect them”
Horowitz: “taking protection to a college campus”

Brian: “from ‘anti-free speech’ liberals”
Kim: “Leftists … are so … anti-free speech”

Brian: “who are provided a microphone by said conservatives”
Horowitz: “Prof. Cloud stepped up to the microphone … I did her the courtesy … by letting her talk.”

Brian: “that they are hesitant to relinquish.”
Horowitz: “the protocol for such occasions restricts audience participants from making their own speeches”

So my comment followed exactly the claims from Kim and Horowitz, yet you call it a “twist”. Could you be any more transparent that you are not interested in the topic, but only in making snide, insulting, and factless comments?

Marc follows up with a comment essentially calling Brian a serial liar, with a link to a past post to prove it. Brian follows up with a link to a post of his own to refute the claim - a post from a few days before on the Tea parties. Now, he never mentioned this subject, just simply, wrote this:

This is when our pathetic comment editor, Maggie, steps in:

Now I got involved, first responding to the post itself, to the comment editor, and in defense of Brian. Here’s my part of the thread, under the name “Verbl”:

Straight forward, non confrontational and in complete compliance with the site’s rules of sticking to the thread. Nonetheless, when you have a biased comment editor on a power trip, even a reasonable response is a threat. Here is what she did to it:

I followed with a post simply stating “Very professional.” True to form, she pulled it - since it reflects on her and, of course, she won’t have that. It wasn’t inflamatory. Not the slightest bit trollish, but to a sad little person on a power trip - working on a website that caters to the few idiots who still believe George W. Bush was a great President - it is too much to handle. I’ve included these screen grabs since much of this post may be pulled if she catches wind of this. Just for the record, you, the readers, know how this really went down.

This is happening all over the web. It’s sad, but the byproduct of a culture mired in acceptable lies. The republican dead-enders have been exposed and, instead of accepting their falsehoods as having been a bad detour, they’ve embraced them completely - and people like this comment editor have become mini-Karl Rove’s, manipulating their landscape and expecting the public to believe the larger lies. It just won’t work anymore.

And as far as WizBang, I’m hardly the exception here. This woman pulls this stunt continuously. What you have as a result is a political website that has no credibility whatsoever. Fine if they want to control the argument, but they shouldn’t try to present it as having any kind of truth. That’s not their strong point.

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