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womzillaA long post by "Kevin K." at Firedoglake includes these gems and others:
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Remember, in the immortal words of Digby, warbloggers are people who spent the entirety of September 11th pissing themselves and want to mop up the puddle with the Constitution. They are pitiable, in much the same way Smeagol was, though still dangerous, as Gollum was.
I didn’t really follow the explosion of bedwetting blogs post-9/11 because I was too busy languishing in my pre-9/11 NYC liberal mindset, but apparently the blogosphere was flush with dorks in crouched-down, defensive positions who pecked away at something they called "warblogs." These, ahem, "warbloggers" (must … stop … tittering) thought they were at war and no amount of fear of Blogger’s registration process and/or HTML interface was going to get in their way to fight the good fight. They were G.I. Jonesin’ for some seriously manly cutting ‘n’ pasting as they bravely stormed the frontlines of HyperText Transfer Protocol.
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If you put [John] Hinderaker in a scenario where white supremacists had taken over his perfectly-named hometown of Apple Valley, Minnesota and were setting up IEDs around town and blowing up shit at random, a teary-eyed John would be the first one out of his house waving a white dress shirt and bellowing in desperation, "I’m on your team!" before collapsing on his well-manicured lawn in a puddle of urine. Hewitt, for cripes sake, has to be heavily sedated and diapered before he enters the Empire State Building, which he seems to believe is a bullet-strewn frontline in the war on terror (like Sadr City, but taller!), with its spine-tingling Skyride and elevators stuffed with fanny-packed tourists in ESPN Zone t-shirts.
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. . . [Their] hero Chief Clearing Brush valiantly soldiered on reading The Pet Goat
after finding out that our country was under attack (has a president ever acted more courageously with a pop-up book in his lap?) . . .
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This meathead’s so hell-bent on genocide and destruction that not only does he want to blow up schools (which last time I checked tend to be full of children) and Iran’s thriving Taco Bell franchises, but he also wants us to bomb dead people. Now that right there is a special kind of full-blown crazy you will never, ever see on lefty blogs. . . . They’ve tried valiantly to hide their pervasive anti-Arab bigotry behind large posters of Purple Fingers of Freedom, but now that those are getting dog-eared and trite, it’s full steam ahead into Off the Rails Junction.
Remember, in the immortal words of Digby, warbloggers are people who spent the entirety of September 11th pissing themselves and want to mop up the puddle with the Constitution. They are pitiable, in much the same way Smeagol was, though still dangerous, as Gollum was.
