Falwell fails to respond. Phelps, though, with true Christian compassion and humility, pronounces his certainty that Falwell has gone to Satan’s bosom.
However, Treacher has an excellent post up about the Opie & Anthony kerfuffle, which now has resulted in their being suspended by XM for 30 days–not so much, apparently, for what was said on their program, as for their attempt to explain themselves, rather than prostrating themselves at the feet of their moral and intellectual superiors, such as “The Reverend” Al Sharpton.
So, what do you say we elect Bloomberg, because we can’t take care of ourselves without that kind of oversight? “If you won’t taunt and/Denigrate us,/We will never give you/A cause to hate us./Hurry Nanny,/Many thanks, sincerely,/Jane and Michael Banks.”
Jim sends this Glenn Beck segment.
Let’s extend campus speech codes to the entire country, why not? Oh, it’s more than just mild. You’re soaking in it now.
While I’m away again, everybody go to Ace and Wuzzadem. Some of you might even return!
O&A should never have issued that apology in the first place: they really should have taken their own advice.
I “suspended” (cancelled) my XM subscription and you should too.
Charlie has a point.
One nice thing about witchhunts is that eventually they’re over. They get so extreme and so over-the-top that people finally get sick of them and the pendulum swings the other way.
So maybe these witchhunters need to be careful about overplaying their hand—they might end up with much more of what they hate and no political capital to fight it with.
TW: provided55 that they have any shame
I don’t feel like waiting around for this one to die a natural death.