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Lumpy meatsack James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal sure hopes the “girls” whose boyfriends died while shielding them during the Aurora attack weren’t loser skanks or maybe James just hopes that they don’t turn into total whores in the aftermath.
It’s kinda of hard to tell:
When people on Twitter went, “Dude? Seriously? What the fuck? Really?”, James wrapped himself in the flag and dared people to hate on America :
Yeah. Whaddya got to say now, Commies? Hunh? Hunh? Pussies…
Of course this is the same Taranto who was complaining other day that he would like to own a gun but, y’know, getting one is so hard:
Well, this columnist lives in Bloomberg’s New York, and we would like to own a pistol. But our understanding is that the procedures for acquiring a permit are so onerous that it isn’t worth our while to apply. In more than a decade as mayor, Bloomberg has never sought to relax the city’s gun restrictions, which are among the nation’s most oppressive.
So, not only is Taranto a dick, but he’s also a lazy fucker who would rather die in his musty one room walk-up then get his fat ass off the couch and do something about it.
But mainly, James Taranto is a dick.
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Well, it is worth considering if the slags were going to put out or not after the nice dinner and tickets and all. If they weren’t and the guy died for them, well, it’s time to rethink their whole life, ain’t it? #snort #belch
I prefer to consider James Taranto more a lumpy shit-bag, but that’s just my lower-class crassness shining through. Now that he’s beached himself with his shitty comments, time to call the DOT to come along and blow-up the carcass, bless his heart.
Does the “dick” in question suffer from multiple personality disorder or delusions of grandeur–what with the royal “we” and all?
This is actually a typical play from the republican mouth-pieces: “I’d love to do this (totally hardcore) thing, but outside forces conspire against me (i.e. I have to get my fat ass off this barcalounger and actually, physically, DO something, rather than just shoot my piehole off)”.
Otherwise known as “Pulling a Jonah”.
Oh, help, help, he’s being oppressed somehow, by gun restrictions. My “understanding” is that anyone can drive, take the bus or hitch-hike to Virginia or North Carolina & get any sort of gun they want.
And since oppressor Bloomberg hasn’t yet established gun searches at the borough borders, Dick T. could probably get it into the city w/o much trouble, unless he shot himself in the ass, Mall★Wart-style.
“I hope America is worthy . . .”
James Taranto: Westboro Baptist Church’s newest member.
Another Card-carrying member of G.r.O.S.S – except he’s neither Calvin nor Hobbes – hes just another Merkin-loving asshole.
I support Tarantula owning a pistol on the condition he shoots himself in the foot that’s permanently wedged in his pie hole.
As always, it’s hilarious to actually imagine these right-wing chickenhawks owning weapons because they’d manage to blow their faces off pretty damn quick.
I suspect in many cases, they would need a flame-thrower, merely to penetrate the multiple layers and folds of flab & fat, before being able to find any remnants of their waists or belts, before beginning any search for any previously secreted (not in THAT sense) firearms.
It appears, the actual men who did lay down their lives, actually believed they were worthy.
But of course, feel free to second guess those men, James.
On behalf of the Dicks of the world, let me just categorically state that Taranto is not one of us. We have standards. He is clearly a taint.
Well, he sort of refutes the frequently heard gun nut claim that one armed person in the crowd would prevent or reduce the bloodshed in these mass killings. If Taranto were the armed good guy in the crowd, he would apparently have to weigh the question of whether or not the crowd was worth his taking any risk.
Yes.
You mean like this guy.
Nothing more attractive than a lazy dick.
Yes.
This has been another edition of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.
From DrDick’s link:
Bwave Sir Gun-Nut wunned away!
The images in my head caused by this statement are just gross. Gross, I tell you.
Assuming facts not in evidence. He strikes me as dickless.
Just another coward who’s too lazy to either buy a gun (you know how hard THAT is in Murka?) or find a girlfriend.
Here’s a whole website of unintentional shootings: ohhshoot.blogspot.com
I have no doubt that if Taranto were in that theater he would have grabbed the nearest child and used it as a human shield as he trampled numerous young women to find the exit.
Is that in bad taste, James? Go fuck yourself you sorry excuse for a human being.
If any of these “girlfriends” were pregnant, Taranto would be singing a different tune.
‘Cause, really, women are only important when they’re breeding.
“An off-duty officer saw the incident and confronted Canady, who allegedly ran off.”
Bum-wounded, probably did not allegedly run off very fast….
The really sad thing is that the answer to the second tweet is that, no, it isn’t. Or at least it isn’t when those soldiers have been sent to fight an unnecessary war started for the sole purpose of distracting the poors from all the looting their “betters” are doing. It’s even less worthy when those who point out that the soldiers who are needlessly dying in a needless war started to distract the poor from the looting of their “betters” are dying because they haven’t been adequately equipped with body armour are tarred as being “anti-American” for noting that it’s a particularly crass example of the attitude of the rich and the politicians they own towards the poor, when they send the poor off to a war they’ve planned in advance without adequately equipping them.
Presumably, every girl whose boyfriend died protecting her in that movie theater is more worthy than the country that not only allowed the things outlined above to happen, but actively cheered them on and tried to silence any who pointed out what was really going on. I mean, they’d have to be better than that, because that’s about as low as it’s possible to go.
Any men who were saved in Aurora are, Taranto presumes, worthy by definition.
My gaud.
There really should be a worse word than “dick” to apply to a guy like that.
My guess in reference to his bleating about how he wants a gun but it’s too haaaaard to get one is that it’s not really so hard to get a gun, or even that he’s lazy, it’s that he’s either secretly afraid of them or he has some kind of disqualification that would prevent him from getting one legally.
Wow. Too lazy to even find out the facts, but that doesn’t stop him from coming to his conclusion anyway. That’s your modern conservative.
I’m not sure that the rules are especially onerous. At least, not for possession of something so easily lethal. Of course, in Texas, you can fill out the form online and they’ll just mail you the permit.
TBogg, I have to refute you on this one. James Taranto is clearly a dickless lousy excuse for
excrementa so-called “human being.”Thanks for the ongoing series on how the miserable fucks who somehow with pride call themselves conservatives like to fling their monkey shit out there to show – incredibly enough – how “manly” they are. It’s gone from bad to worse, frankly. This is even more awful than the gun-nut cheeto-breathed keyboard “warriors” who claim that IF ONLY there were gun-nuts packing heat in the Aurora movie theatre, why THEN all would be well. Actually that chapter was eminently *predictable* so those low-lifes get no points whatsoever. Totally unoriginal, tedious and teh stoopit, per usual.
I shudder to see what the next “chapter” in this inevitable saga of low-life depravity brings us. ICK
Seriously. Who is he to judge? Oh wait, he’s a tool with no relationship whatsoever to any of those people. Never mind.
Carry on Mr. Taranto.
Wait. Did you say “James Taranto is a dick.”
Because I’ve heard other people say ‘James Taranto is a dick.’
I’d say “James Taranto is a dick.”
I bet all the people on the Twitter say “James Taranto is a dick.”
Maybe they’d say ” @jamestaranto is a dick. ”
Really a lot of people are saying “James Taranto is a dick.”
iPad giveaways feature “James Taranto is a dick.”
Rhianna probably thinks “James Taranto is a dick.”
The guy giving away FREE GASOLINE! thinks “James Taranto is a dick.”
World Series Tickets giveaway sites think “James Taranto is a dick.”
So it surprised me when you too said “James Taranto is a dick.”
“I hope America is worthy of the sacrifice of the soldiers who die defending it.”
“…but not so worthy that I, myself (who have other priorities), need concern myself with serving and, possibly, dying for it.”
Yes, James, it’s in bad taste. Flaunting your bargain-basement pundit’s criteria of “worthiness” with regard to actual death and suffering: in fact it’s in terrible taste. Ask us if we’re surprised.
The men (and women) in Aurora who shielded their friends, stayed with them, tending their wounds despite the danger to themselves tells me boatloads about their qualities as human beings. The fact that saving someone would not be worth it to Taranto tells me he would have run and left his own mother behind and tells me all I need to know about his quality as a human being.
i hope you’re watching women’s olympic soccer!
what an exhausting game with lots of long balls!
This is what is known as a “Greg Stillson moment.”
The men (and women) in Aurora who shielded their friends…tell me boatloads about their qualities as human beings
also those who helped total strangers.
Hear, hear! On behalf of the many, many dicks I know (not personally, of course!), I thank you for your kind and supportive words.
And there were a lot of them. There was an article in the Denver Post this morning that, due to congestion and confusion the medics and ambulances took much longer to get there than the police. In the meantime complete strangers were helping each other applying pressure to wounds and using belts as tourniquets. More people would be dead if these everyday heroes hadn’t stepped up to help despite the risks to their own safety.
Taranto must realize what a complete mysogynistic loser he is to have made such an offensive comment then feign surprise when people were offended.
What else can we expect from a person (I hesitate to call him a man), who, while old enough to participate in Iraq War #1, and the subsequent WarrenTerra, chose not to. Perhaps the military really didn’t need a high school dropout (sophmore year) who couldn’t get a degree at Cal State, after a few years of attendance.
We have to ask, ‘Would James Taranto be worth taking a bullet for?’ The answer- Fuck no!
Somebody got to his wiki page and called him a knob end.
I guess dick sets off the filters.
Maybe our friend Dan Savage could suggest a better definition?
Does that shithead really use the royal “we?” As a colleague used to say whenever he heard such pompousness “Y’got a mouse in your pocket?”
Tom writes: So, not only is Taranto a dick, but he’s also a lazy fucker who would rather die in his musty one room walk-up then get his fat ass off the couch and do something about it.
He’s even lazier than that, because it turns out he doesn’t even have to leave the room to buy firearms without a background check. Details in this study conducted by the City of New York in 2011. It’s a bit disheartening.
secularhuman writes: Does that shithead really use the royal “we?” As a colleague used to say whenever he heard such pompousness “Y’got a mouse in your pocket?”
Well, he certainly is entitled to the editorial “we” if not the royal variety, but nevertheless it’s a peculiarity of his column for the WSJ website, which Taranto’s wikipedia entry explains thus:
Best of the Web Today is a column published weekday afternoons on WSJ.com by James Taranto. In the column, Taranto refers to “we” and “us” instead of “I” and “me” to acknowledge contributions from his staff and readers. In addition, contributors to a given column are thanked at the end of the piece.”
Don’t get me wrong; he is most assuredly still a dick, but not for this reason perhaps.
Taranto is a dick AND he still looks like Fred Flintstone.
Why would such a comment even occur to someone? And why wouldn’t they not be ashamed of themselves for having revealed it? Finally, I got it. Anything that suggests human motivation other than pure self interest sets off Randiam alarms. Altruism alert! Altruism alert!