Before we get to ambulatory bile duct Michelle Malkin’s wingnut jihad against Erik Loomis based upon a willful misunderstanding of “words“, here is the Ole Perfesser joining in on the wilding:
ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Rhode Island prof demands NRA chief’s “head on a stick” — Then declares himself a Twitter martyr because people quoted what he said.
Here, once again, is the Ole Perfesser his own bad self on how to deal with The Browns:
On the other hand, it’s also true that if democracy can’t work in Iraq, then we should probably adopt a “more rubble, less trouble” approach to other countries in the region that threaten us.
This begs the question: What is the difference between Loomis’ non-advocacy of death and Glenn Reynolds genocidal wet dream?
The difference, of course, is that Glenn Reynolds can speak freely because he is a tenured professor and Loomis is not, which means that Loomis can’t fight back without severely impacting his future in academia. It is for that reason, out of all of the mean comments posted on the internet about the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre after yet another wholesale gun slaughter in America, that Michelle Malkin picked on Loomis. You see, Michelle Malkin likes the victims of her twitchy rage-gasms to be helpless; that’s why she picked on the family of a couple of kids who were severely injured in car crash. It’s why she published the phone numbers of students at UC Sanata Cruz so that her low-information flying monkeys (at least the ones who had already figured out the sweet mystery of life that is opposable thumbs) could call them with death threats. It’s bullying, once removed.
When you’re a bully, or when you’re socially maladjusted and go through your life sneering at other people because they aren’t like you or because you have a chip on your shoulder because you’ve been second rate at everything you have ever attempted in life like Michelle Malkin, you sic the mob after the weak (such as when Malkin called for interning the ‘other’). Fear makes our predatory instinct take over compelling you to seek out the defenseless because you believe that, by obliterating someone’s humanity or by destroying their lives and the lives of their loved ones, you have pulled the whole world just a bit lower and closer to your own level. This predatory instinct is one many reasons why Adam Lanza chose a room full of six and seven year-olds to slaughter because: what could be easier and more satisfying?
Which obviously leads us to ask one last question: What is the difference between Adam Lanza and Michelle Malkin?
Lipstick.
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The threads over there following her sicking the flying monkeys were absolutely epic. Dropped the average IQ down into the single digits. Then Li’l Annie Althouse sent her winebox rejects. The boys at LGM are going to be weeks cleaning up the flying monkey shit and whinebox puke over there.
If anybody is interested in giving Erik a little love (and he does some great blogging on labor history and environmental issues) check this out.
Hmmmm…. I am an actual graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
They shall be hearing from me tomorrow.
I find it amazing that the likes of Reynolds and Althouse can daily embarrass the institutions that employ them and yet suffer no consequences, and enjoy continued secure employment.
Tenure, dear boy, overcomes even insurmountable idiocy.
Yes, please sign on at the Crooked Timber site, especially if you have an academic connection but even if (like me) you do not. Why, even Glenn Greenwald did, and he clearly can’t stand Loomis.
Me hate you long time
I did, twice. First under my nym (at 15) and later under my full name.
Signed. I’m not an academic but I gather it’s not a requirement. It’s very nice to see the people who do have impressive credentials comment over there in support of Dr. Loomis.
I signed; even whipped out the rarely displayed Piled higher & Deeper for this worrisome occasion. Used my real name though; the ‘meepmeep’ nym didn’t seem quite right under the circumstances (too much gravitas, maybe? Yeah, that’s probably it.)
Jeez, the Rage Imp must really be bitter over that unfortunate encounter with gravity. She needs to move on.
What’s the difference between Lanza and Malkin? I hate to say it, but Malkin employes more malice and intent. I think Lanza was mentally disturbed. Malkin doesn’t have that excuse.
Because we should never forget, I would add that Howard Kurz once did a highly complimentary feature article on The Malkin, in which he gave her lots of chances to denigrate those who opposed her awesome courage and reasonableness in the face of the same liberal detractors who (one must assume) The Kurz blames for his failure to be as famous as The Carlson and other relative unknowns given to commenting on the role of the Mess Media.
The whole point is to intimidate the rest of us. It is of course “nice” for them if they can get Loomis fired, or shut him up, but if they can scare the rest of us and keep us from telling the truth about what is going on out there then they have won.
I think also that just causing liberals to have to step back and defend themselves and put energy into that instead of critizing the right is a victory for them. The problem is that this seems to work. How to stop it?
These people clearly regret not having easy targets any more – Loomis is a perfectly straightforward, honest to Chuy academic and no one for these idiots to fool with. The óle perfessor’, with his discount lawyering degree simply can’t compete.
Already did, along with emailing the various deans and whatnot at the University.
I’m not an academic, and not from RI. What stuns me about this incident is that this is one time the University of Rhode Island could have not only backed up their professor–albeit without the profanity–but also added that they intended to fully prosecute anyone NOT a LEO who brought a gun onto their campus. Given that there is a lot of crime and violence on US college campuses that often goes unreported because they have separate security forces, students and their parents might actually be relieved by such a position.
Did the Ole Perfesser skip class the day “metaphor” was taught?
Ambulatory bile duct libel!
Okay, can we get all their heads on a stick?
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/12/20/16041002-when-sandy-hook-commentary-reaches-rock-bottom
Charlotte Allen calls for “husky 12 year-old boys” to hurl themselves at mass murderers.
Rhetoric using metaphor to express anger and outrage is one way of dealing with horrific events. Calling for children to sacrifice themselves as a remedy for said horrific events is the rhetoric of monsters.
lawguy has a valid point, and not just with this particular issue, or incident. ‘Our side’ has been reacting to divert the criticism of ‘the message’, rather than stressing the message. If the left-lean, liberal media is going to be just that, an extension of the right-wing, conservative media, then, fuck that. The truth needs to be pointed out, reiterated, expanded upon and repeated. If facts have a known liberal bias, then let us be the purveyors of truth. It gets pretty shitty when the assholes whip out the ‘rotten liberal- just as bad (or worse) than what you say we are!’ card, and then sit back and watch us deteriorate into our face-saving meandering, when we should be attacking (there, I said it!) their lack of facts, and their lunacy, their obfuscation. We cannot save our face and our ass, at the same time. I frequent LGM, have for some time, and as an old union guy, enjoy Erik’s labor chronicles. I really don’t wish to see him murdered, career-wise or other, for speaking truth and doing it in the rhetoric of the ‘other side’, with their brutal, selfish and misguided manner. We need to shoot words of truth out, to counter the bullets of bullshit the Malkins,the Reynolds, all the other flesh puppets of falsehoods, and those sick, sad gun-toting murderers, whose bullets kill not just our fellows, but our spirits.
Yo Dr. Bogg:
You’ve been knocking the pitches right outta the park. Really good stuff. Keep swingin’…
Hey, Reynolds just asked to see some “heads roll” at the State Department (H/T Lawyers Guns and Money). Can you believe it? He literally wants to see some civil servants beheaded, then watch their head roll. He should be fired.
OK, you win Comment of the Day.
So what IS her excuse, that she has to earn a living so hubby Jesse can stay home minding the kids and writing her material? You really think someone who
takes pride in being a character assassin has her head on straight?
Heh. Disturbing, if true.
Would it be irresponsible to ask where Professor Reynolds keeps his guillotine, and where he deposits the rotting corpses and skulls of his victims? Quite the contrary – it would be irresponsible NOT to ask!
She’d be an expert on “Unhinged” then?
Heh.
I take the liberty of recompiling this hilarious thread from Lawyersgunsmoney:
“I posted on Facebook, and repeating it here, that I would be interested to see what would happen if at the next general plenary of the NRA, the auditorium was locked, smoke canisters tossed in, and a single firecracker lit. The experiment would be to see if, at long last, they get it.
But of course, that’s completely hypothetical and should in no way be construed as endorsing such actions on anyone’s part.”
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Scott S:
Most likely result: One guy left alive, declares himself Greatest American Ever, shoots genitals off while sticking gun in his waistband, declares himself Greatest Victim Ever, whines about Obama
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actor212 says:
It would eliminate a significant sector of the Tea Party.
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Major Kong says:
Could we throw in a large sack of live squirrels just to make it interesting?
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Snarki says:
I was about to say “why do you hate squirrels so much?”, but then realized that you would be presenting them with a room chock full ‘o’nuts.
Carry on.
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Major Kong says:
“There’s something climbin’ up mah leg!!!”
Blam!
Blam!
Ow!
Unlike gunnuts, most folks critical of Wayne LaPierre and the wingnut takeover of the NRA by ex-con and former Border Guard Harlon Carter allow their deepest darkest fantasy to remain private entertainment of poetic justice and not theater to be acted out. There is a distance to the fantasy. Not as much “My Rambo Adventure at the NRA Board Meeting” as “Disgruntled NRA Employee Goes NRA on Board of Directors”.
BTW, can we stop calling these shootings “going postal” and start calling them “going NRA”?
As a classic rock ‘n roll kinda guy it’s uncomfortable for me to admit that one of my favorite tunes of the modern era is the one named Mean, sung by Taylor Swift at the Grammys. Her performance in that venue was top shelf and I have found myself rewinding Tivo many times listening over and over to it. I realized just this week that the lyrics to Mean are perfectly suited to describe Michelle Malkin. I’m holding myself back to send a 140 character Twitter verse telling her that, but don’t want to deal with all the trolls. Would anyone else want to help me?
I stand with Eric Loomis.
But I don’t want NRA chair Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick. No, that’s too easy. I want something more karmically symmetrical, something with a little of that old Hollywood magic: I want him hoist on his own petard by a big-ass fire in his basement shooting range and munitions dump. I want his brains chewed out of his cranium by the zombie child dead on Apocalypse Day. I want him to shoot off his own nuts with a Bushmaster while jerking off to mandingo porn. I want him to eat a big bag of salted dicks and choke.
See, so much better.
Where was Lapierre when his neighborhood friends and classmates were fighting and dying in Vietnam? Born in 1948, Lapierre like his good buddy Ted Nugent have never spent a day in uniform!
Why does the NRA have to spend over a million bucks a year to protect LaPierre? I thought guns were the answer to everyone’s problems!
What lawguy said. +2
chilling effect and diversionary tactic.
We really need to buy our own Big Media outlets…only way I can think of to stop the Poutrage Echo Chamber–build our own.
I spewed.
Maybe Gangsta, I understand guns are a big playa
Yes, chilling, and how to counteract it? The corp-owned rightwing media has crazies like Glenn Beck saying pretty much seditious shit, and there are others doing similar. I don’t know about recently, but Beck called for armed insurrection, there’s been calls to assassinate the POTUS, and so on. What happens? Probably not much.
Sure, Beck got pushed off his slot on TV, but he’s still out there spewing his hatred & bile and getting paid pots of money for it.
So Loomis says something that *many* of us think – but strictly metaphorically (seriously) – and his *job’s* on the line? Outrageous. Really bad.
That jackboot you’re feeling is real, and yes, it’s on YOUR neck, too, not just on Loomis’ neck. Take note.