Teabagging Michelle Malkin
Many protesters expressed a sense that basic American freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are threatened by new Washington policies seen by many as more socialistic than capitalistic. The proposed taxpayer bailout of homeowners who may have inflated their earnings in order to secure mortgages is one example, says Jeff Crawford, a protester from Dacula, Ga.
“The first year after the Mayflower arrived, the colonists tried a communal method of storing and sharing food and it failed miserably,” says Mr. Crawford. “Why are things any different now?”
Eighteenth-century symbolism was rife at the Atlanta event as speakers drew comparisons with the Boston patriots who dumped the King’s tea in Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation, an act that began the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
via Michelle Malkin » A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started.
I have to say, I’m really enjoying this whole teabag thing. It’s really inspiring some excellent daydreaming. For one thing, it’s brought together the words teabag and Michelle Malkin for me in a very powerful, thrilling sort of way. Not that I haven’t ever put those two concepts together before, but this is the first time it’s happened while in the process of reading her actual columns.
Previously Michelle Malkin’s writing was on the edge of unreadable; she’s sort of like Ann Coulter, only without that tiny fraction of P.T. Barnum/Mick Jagger-esque self-promotional flair that makes Coulter at least vaguely interesting. When you read Ann Coulter, you know you’re reading someone who would fuck a hippopotamus if she thought it would boost her Q rating. That’s a rare quality and it commands one’s attention.
Michelle Malkin doesn’t have that. She’s just a mean little dunce who’s wedged herself into a nicely paying career as a GOP spokesclown, and she’s going to ride that gig for as long as it keeps gas in her minivan.
And that’s fine, good for her. But that doesn’t make her readable. However, this move of hers to spearhead the teabag movement really adds an element to her writing that wasn’t there before. Now when I read her stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose. See for yourself; just put your thinking cap on and read this:
What and who exactly are President Obama’s homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You.
[Note: I originally tried to redo that passage and phonetically sound out how the new, improved version might sound, but on the page it came out too offensive even for me. If anyone can figure out a way to do it more tastefully, I'd love to see it.]
Anyway this teabag thing has really gotten out of control. It’s amazing, literally amazing to me, that it wasn’t until Obama pushed through a package containing a massive public works package and significant homeowner aid that conservatives took to the streets. In other words, it wasn’t until taxes turned into construction jobs and mortgage relief that working and middle-class Americans decided to protest. I didn’t see anyone on the street when we forked over billions of dollars to help JP Morgan Chase buy Bear Stearns. And I didn’t see anyone on the street when Hank Paulson forked over $45 more billion to help Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, a company run at the time by one of the world’s biggest assholes, John Thain. Moreover I didn’t see any street protests when the government agreed to soak up hundreds of billions in “troubled assets” from Citigroup, a company that just months later would lend out a jet furnished with pillows upholstered with Hermes scarves to former chief Sandy Weill so that he could vacation in Mexico over Christmas.
Look, I’m a taxpayer too. And I’m no less pissed off than any of these people about the taxes I have to pay. Just today I was reading hedge-fund manager David Einhorn’s book, Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, about his battles with a company called Allied Capital. Einhorn was shorting Allied because he found accounting irregularities in Allied’s books after analyzing the firm. Among other things, he found that an Allied subsidiary called BLX was irresponsibly handling tens of millions in Small Business Association loans, shoving this SBA money out to unworthy recipients and costing the taxpayer an enormous amount of money. When Einhorn went to the SBA, they basically blew him off. “We see this all the time; what’s so special about those?” was the SBA official’s response when Einhorn presented him with evidence of loan fraud. Einhorn pointed out that one of the reasons companies like BLX got away with bilking the government was because the enforcement agencies were so understaffed: he routinely found that agencies like the SEC and the OIG could not or would not investigate fraud against the taxpayer because they had no staff to pursue the investigations.
That attitude, that complete and total I-don’t-give-a-fuck attitude about taxpayer money, that’s endemic to almost every branch of the government. We saw in the last five years how contractors in Iraq nakedly robbed money from the you and me, running phantom convoys across the desert (some companies called that transporting “sailboat fuel”), systematically risking human life and gouging the taxpayer more or less right out in the open. There was over $100 billion in sole-source, non-competitive contracts in Iraq in 2006; a House Committee identified just 50 contracts totalling more than $21 billion that require “scrutiny,” but not much has been recovered so far. Why did they get away with it? Because there is basically no serious enforcement mechanism, in the military or anywhere else, for preserving taxpayer money given to contractors. In Iraq, the military auditor, SIGIR, had about seventy men in the entire military theater at the time I was there. We just bailed out AIG to the tune of more than $160 billion; its primary auditor, the Office of Thrift Supervision, had exactly one insurance expert on its staff while AIG was falling apart. There were staff cuts at the SEC several times in the last ten years; in fact there was a crucial cut of the SEC budget in an $821 billion Omnibus spending bill at the tail end of 2003 (just in time for the housing bubble) that was packed with plenty of pork and, again, inspired no protests from Joe Sixpack.
Meanwhile the federal government has systematically expanded a whole ecosystem of contractor-handout programs, most of them with names the public has never heard of. How many people out there are aware of all the millions in grants given to fortune 500 companies over the years through the Advanced Technology Program (ATP), which basically subsidizes the R&D departments of already rich firms while allowing those same companies to keep the benefits of those innovations? How about the nearly $5 billion in loan guarantees given to Boeing over the years through the Ex-Im Bank? How about the Foreign Military Financing Program, which gives millions of dollars to dozens of foreign countries every year so that they can buy American-made weapons?
Or how about the four or five billion dollars we spent annually for the last decade or so on Federal Housing Authority subsidies? Well, actually, the teabaggers probably would get riled up about those programs, which subsidize mortgage loans to low-income homeowners. The one constant in teabagger outrage is that the whatever wasteful government program they’re freaking out about has to benefit some poor slob, or else they usually don’t give a shit. What they forget, of course, is that FHA loans ultimately benefit the banks a lot more than the poor slobs — a homeowner defaulting on his FHA loan loses his house, but the bank that irresponsibly issued the loan (without fear, knowing they are backed up by the government) is still fully compensated, with you picking up the tab.
So yeah, government waste sucks, it’s rampant at every level, and taxes are a vicious racket, and everyone should be pissed off . What’s hilarious about the teabaggers, though, is how they never squawk about waste until the spending actually has a chance of benefiting them. You will never hear of a teabagger crying about OPIC giving $50 million in free insurance to some mining company so that they can dig for silver in rural Bolivia. You won’t hear of a teabagger protesting the $2.5 billion in Ex-Im loans we gave to GE through the early part of this decade, even as GE was moving nearly a hundred thousand jobs overseas over the course of ten years. And Michelle Malkin’s readers didn’t seem to mind giving IBM millions in Ex-IM and ATP loans at the same time it was giving its former CEO, Lou Gerstner, $260 million in stock options.
In other words teabaggers don’t mind paying taxes to fund the salaries of Bolivian miners, Lou Gerstner’s stock options, deliveries of “sailboat fuel,” the Hermes scarves on Sandy Weill’s jet pillows, or even the export of their own goddamn jobs. But they do hate it when someone tries to re-asphalt their roads, or help bail their slob neighbor out of foreclosure. And God forbid someone propose a health care program, or increased financial aid for college. Hell, that’s like offering to share your turkey with the other Pilgrims! That’s not what America is all about! America is every Pilgrim for himself, dammit! Raise your own motherfucking turkey!
Oh, and there’s one other thing. I heard today from Steve Wamhoff of Citizens for Tax Justice. He had an interesting tidbit to offer on the teabagging movement. According to his research, 39% of respondents with incomes below $30,000 told the Gallup agency that they felt that federal income tax levels were “too high.” Which is interesting, because only 32% of respondents in that income category will pay any federal income taxes at all on their 2008 income. You can draw your own conclusions.
The really irritating thing about these morons is that, guaranteed, not one of them has ever taken a serious look at the federal budget. Not one has ever bothered to read an actual detailed study of what their taxes pay for. All they do is listen to one-liners doled out by tawdry Murdoch-hired mouthpieces like Michelle Malkin and then repeat them as if they’re their own opinions five seconds later. That’s what passes for political thought in this country. Teabag on, you fools.
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As mama use to say
“Raise your own motherfucking turkey!”
That phrase I hope will soon replace:
“Fuck You Jack I got mine” in what can only be called political genrification. Now only the rich can afford to be rich and the very rich get to pity them.
We can assume that none of the stimulus package will go to contractors in the US transporting sailboat fuel to the pothole-fixing road crews.
Matt, Lou Gertsner needs to be Lou Gerstner.
Keep up the good work.
I’m pretty sure malkin drives a civic but everything else in this post is rock solid.
As a non-American (Dutchman), I am seriously baffled by all the clips I see and articles I read on this…’movement’. The people protesting it are the ones who are getting tax cuts under Obama’s plan if I’m not mistaken.
Yet there they are, holding up signs of Obama with a Hitler moustache drawn on his face, tirelessly shouting “fascism, fascism”. When that one CNN repoter, Susanne something, asked him why he felt Obama was a fascist, his only response was “CAUSE HE IS!”.
Also, Fox News’ masturbatory coverage of this event would be unthinkable for any news station here (not that we have that many 24 hour news stations, but we have various stations who provide the traditional 6/7/8 ‘o clock news, and other news affiliated programs). Following American news is a strange, almost masochistic sensation for me. Everytime I see something like this, I am baffled and pissed off at the same time until an hour later…
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Weren’t the pilgrims sustained for their first year in Plymouth by stealing ten bushels of native corn seed the local indians had stored? Seems like a communal method of storing and sharing, as used by the local Pamet indians, actually kept the pilgrims alive that first year.
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The teabaggers are the natural heirs to the Reagan Democrats and those who choose to vote against their own self-interest. Glen Beck and the Fox News echo chamber are just now reaching their wingnut stride. The stupid that came following the GOP evacuation of DC since the election makes the last eight years look like a junior UN meeting. Chin up! We do have at least three more years of the whittled down rump of the GOP wailing and gnashing their collective teeth.
Matt I think what we’re seeing here is more of what you talked about in your last book. The problem is that when this economic disaster broke the cable news channels skipped the part of their job that includes actually educating people as to what was going on. Instead they jumped right to punditry, which is great and all except that none of these pundits can agree on any of the basic facts of reality. This is how you get such a ridiculous group of righties showing up to protest everything from Obama’s secret plan to overturn the 2nd amendment to his plan to convert Americorps into some kind of militant Obama Youth training program. It’s people with no sense of direction moving to the fringe.
They’re scared of their tax dollars going towards programs that actually improve their life because then they won’t have as much to complain about. Feeling constantly threatened and aggrieved (and by extension, heroic) is exhilarating.
Also, they’d rather be miserable and sick and driving on bumpety-ass, falling-apart roads, then have to admit that a black socialist muslim president actually succeeded in improving their quality of life and securing a better future for their children — on some level they know the cognitive dissonance would make their heads explode like pasty white pinatas.
So let me see if I understand your position. Because the “teabaggers” didn’t protest previous government waste means they lack credibility to protest this government waste, is that right? By that logic the people who protested the Iraq war have no credibility unless they also protested Kosovo and Afghanistan. Or is it possible that what is being protested is so outrageous that it finally spurred people into action?
oh, how i do wish your posts parsed properly in Google Reader! currently, they appear as one solid block of text.
talk to your tech guy, maybe? it would be much appreciated…
@agitator:
i agree that charges of hypocrisy are not logically-valid counter-arguments (closer to ad-hominem, actually), and wish folks would not be so comforted when their own side levels them.
(i say this as someone who finds the teabaggers to be a bunch of nutmunchers.)
I have to reply here both to you and to agitator.
First of all, that comparison to war protests is nuts. Waste is waste, but no two wars are alike. The Iraq war was leagues more irrational and wasteful than those other two conflicts. There was at least a logical initial argument for going into Afghanistan, and no argument at all for going into Iraq. One can be against one and for another without being a hypocrite. So you can’t possibly say that it’s hypocritical to be against the Iraq war if you didn’t also protest every other war that preceded it. That’s just ludicrous and a false comparison.
As for hypocrisy not being a valid criticism, how is that, exactly? If you don’t worry about waste for eight years under George Bush and you suddenly worry about it now, what that means is that the compelling issue for you is not the waste itself but something else — in this case, the fact that the budget in question is coming from the Obama administration. If this had been George Bush passing this budget, would we be hearing this bullshit? If the answer is no, then how can any of what the teabaggers have to say be meaningful? On the other hand, people like Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders have been perfectly consistent year after year, albeit in different ways, about the misuse of taxpayer money. It really is possible to be in politics and not be full of shit. And it really helps, when you’re protesting and trying to convince people of what you have to say, to not be full of shit. But the teabaggers are very pointedly full of shit.
Lastly, the reason the teabaggers deserve all the abuse they’re getting is that the stimulus package might actually be the least wasteful of the stuff rammed through congress recently. At the very least, if it’s waste, it’s waste that is going to neighborhoods and roads and highways, instead of to Deutsche Bank accounts and KBR profits. The people who run this country have screwed up so badly that they now actually have to give ordinary people jobs and money in order to keep the economy from grinding to a halt — and it’s THIS that the rabble decides to protest? By calling it “fascism”? It’s preposterous and deserves as much abuse as the rest of us can muster.
In response to another comment. See in context »i didn’t mean to suggest that charges of hypocrisy are always irrelevant. and i don’t think the essence of your (Matt’s) post hinged on that. but i witness too many of my friends who are otherwise nimble thinkers relying too much on crying “hypocrite!” as the end of a political argument. and, LOGICALLY SPEAKING, it is not.
that said, what the right-wing media have or have not said on these issues under Bush IS terribly relevant because of their ability to rouse the rabble. but the rabble are different from the media-types. they might be ignorant, but their reps have also been in the majority and thus they have not been motivated to think in terms of protest until the election. if Fox News had decided to oppose Bush on spending, who knows – there may have been mass teabagging well before yesterday.
understanding that possibility requires going beyond shouts of “hypocrite!”, at least when directed at the protesting individuals.
the teabagger media, on the other hand, are indeed completely full of shit and should be called out on it.
In response to another comment. See in context »I just pictured you reciting that comment with balls in your mouth. And you’re right, suddenly you’re funny and entertaining!
In response to another comment. See in context »Hi – new to the blog – LOVE Matt’s insights but have another perspective question.
In response to another comment. See in context »I am personally of the belief that many of these “teabaggers” represent the soft underbelly of our country, the bigot/racist.
I agree with Janine Garafolo who last night on KO stated that this is all about race and White power. From the clips I viewed on the “teabaggers” (Love saying THAT word in public), it appeared the average level of individual participant was about a -5.
I view this as simply racists in America coming back into vogue.
Maybe I’m wrong, but these individuals have no purpose, no goal and no objective. They appear to only hate Obama because he is a black man.
Unfortunately in this country, racism is one of our shames.
Just my humble opinion.
Considering who backed this “protest” , I’m guessing their greatest fear is not the taxes which they get around any way, but the idea that govt. may start to regulate again.
Look at it from their view. They struggled long and hard to find the listless, dumb, lazy, ideologues to install into key govt positions ( see burrowing) to insure that one efficient regulator was one too many (see 55 Billion in unpaid payroll taxes by firms that still have Govt contracts) .
Imagine the fear they must feel with a President that may be able to have those people transferred to Palin’s home state and replace them with the people that were forced out in the last eight years.
Baaaaaad for Business. Must get unemployed ditto heads out on the streets. I’m hopeful, that Obama’s new appointees will do a seek and transfer of all the people who think that anything business does is A-Ok with them.
Then again, I’m hopeful I may win the lottery
agitator, funny, I thought the point of Taibbi’s post was that these people don’t actually understand what they are protesting. Other than Faux News rhetoric 98% don’t actually know what the point is other than to denounce Obama. It’s always funny when watching people protest tax increases when 90% will actually see their taxes decrease. It’s always fun to see the brain washed spew hatred.
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In all honesty I haven’t had this much fun watching a Republican backed pep rally since that senile old hag got up and told McCain she was afraid of Obama for being a Muslim. Just accept it for what it is…a circus act nothing more. I think Fox estimated there were hundreds of thousands of people across the country at these things. I maybe pulling stats out of my ass but I’m willing to bet it was more like tens of thousands. There are more white supremecists then teabaggers and both have about the same amount of credibility with the American public. This too (along with Glen Beck) shall pass.
The fact that FOX News talking-heads like Malkin are huge supporters of this movement is a very big clue as to what these teabag parties are about. Ratings and an intellectual void. This intellectual void should be treated like a plague.
They protest wasteful spending, but the Iraq war is okay. They protest the “war on the middle-class” but don’t take into account that the current administration is doing the best job for the working poor and middle class than the previous administration.
I saw a sign that said “Sorry Obama WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION!” And that was really a great indicator as to who these people are – they’re just people who get easily riled up by anything they see on TV. They’re the people that watch “24″ like it’s a documentary. Kind of like O’Reilly but without a fetish for falafel. (FOX News talking-heads like O’Reilly were defending torture because “Jack Bauer” did it.)
On one hand I find this teabagging nonsense funny. The other hand is used to smack myself in the forehead until I bleed profusely from my nose and black out.
Mr. Taibbi: Your willful substitution of “tea party participants/protesters” with “teabaggers” is loathsome, ugly, lowbrow, uncalled for, and just plain mean. Ad hominem, thy name is Taibbi.
You couldn’t address her ideas, so you attacked her personally. You disgust me.
I’m a big fan of your writing Matt, especially your focus on where the real corruption is centered in DC. But if your goal is to actually educate people as to where they ought to focus their attention, it seems really counterproductive to mock them and call them fools.
“It’s long been noticed that people with aphasia, who lose the power of articulate speech, can often retain the ability to swear. This suggests swearing involves the right hemisphere more than the left. So if you have an injury to the brain from a stroke that impairs your ability to speak, it’s probably in your left hemisphere. But your right hemisphere is probably going strong and it will therefore retain the ability to swear.” Steven Pinker
Using foul language and sexual references seems to be a sign of low intelligence and the inability to express yourself in an articulate, classy manner. You are simple-minded and cannot be taken seriously.
Scumbag piece of shit.
Fuck you Taibbi.
“If anyone can figure out a way to do it more tastefully, I’d love to see it.”
Matt if we wanted tasteful we’d be reading elsewhere, let it rip dude!
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Wow. This piece is amateurish, small-minded and incoherent. You better be thanking Michelle for giving you more hits to this crap than it deserved.
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So I suppose the point of your piece is to explain why you don’t understand or agree with the Tea Party movement. OK, fine. So then what exactly was the point of the vulgar sexual reference early on in the article? Was that merely a device to get people to keep reading? Further, was it supposed to be funny? No, seriously: was it supposed to be funny?
Michelle Malkin spouting those goofy right-wing platitudes of hers with a set of balls in her mouth is funny. You’re just going to have to accept that. There’s nothing either of us can do about it.
In response to another comment. See in context »Wow, this is the THIRD time I’ve pictured you gargling on a nutsack writing your post, and man if you ain’t right! It’s funny EVERY TIME!
In response to another comment. See in context »Michelle Malkin is repulsive, even without someone’s balls in her mouth and yes it was funny. Then again so was the Anne Coulter reference.
In response to another comment. See in context »I don’t have to accept anything, pal. I suppose maybe it’s funny if you’re in … say, 8th grade?
In response to another comment. See in context »I agree, it’s not funny.
The idea of sticking my balls into the open sore under Malkin’s nose is the stuff of nightmares and Clive Barker verbage vomit.
You just know that if you stuck your balls into that hole they would come out covered in flesh eating mold and writhing with maggots like everything else her chin gash excretes.
Screw these Tea-baggering fucktard godsucking lip sinkers, fuck all of them, wrap them all in flags and pack them off to Iraq as human sandbags where they can serve a useful purpose.
In response to another comment. See in context »Wow Matt. What a mature writer you are. Teabagging! Now THAT is funny!
I felt like I was reading an underground rag from junior high school.
You are awesome. Did your momma teach you how to write about women like that?
Matt, why are you so angry?
Tough crowd, geez peeps, lighten up a bit. We all know what the teabaggers are about a hybrid of racists and the usual anti-government wacko crowd. A perfect storm of ignorance and hate, why pretend otherwise?
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Just another thought. Matt, I just finished The Great Derangement and while these protests seem to be attracting more people than Hagee’s doomsday congregation, or the Truther movement, it seems to me that this is another example of what you described in that book. Disenfranchised voters moving to ridiculous fringe movements, as a result of being immensely disappointed in politics in general.
Hey Matt! I just discovered it works for this guy too! I just pictured this imbecile giving his little speech while tongue-tapping testicles and DAMN if he wasn’t funny, too!
Apparently, you can insert ANYONE, regardless of who they are or what they believe, into a vulgar epithet and it’ll be funny! Wow! Political discourse will never be the same, as evidently just by virtue of having a potty mouth and a junior high imagination, you can paint ANYONE as an idiot!
You, sir, have revolutionized debate in our country for all time. Congratulations!
In response to another comment. See in context »No, no, you’ve got it backwards. Malkin is ALREADY an unbearable idiot.
Balls-in-mouth just makes it bearable.
In response to another comment. See in context »Oh, one more thing. The most hilarious thing of this whole movement, by far, is the fact that they are now getting pissed off at people mocking their use of the ‘verb’ teabagging.
It’s not like teabagging meant anything else besides dropping sack on someone’s face, at least not until these people started their little get-togethers. The fact that they were oblivious to the meaning of the word is hardly the fault of people mocking them.
So glad I finally found your blog, Matt! First saw you on Bill Maher during the Primary Season, and subscribed to Rolling Stone just to read your writing.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that Malkin (“Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage”) is comparing you to Anderson Cooper; I know I was offended.
Fantastic take on the Tea Tantrum, by the way.
/fangirl
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You’re right, Matt! I just pictured you reciting your “article” with some old grandpa’s gray-haired balls in your mouth, and INSTANTLY you became funny!
Who knew that all it took was a vulgar visualizations to transform witless commentary into entertainment! I commend you for your discovery; perhaps now I should review your past 3rd grade ramblings, and they will take on new relevance – although to be honest I’m not sure even your ball-sucking technique can save them.
Winger,
I can’t picture anything in your mouth that would make your word writing seem like it originated from a fully formed primate.
If you’re not doing anything, I need something to hold my air cleaner on.
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wa-ooh-zak-ziden-oooohmama- ugh, this just isn’t working using my own balls
Since property records are public, and easily researched from any computer, I have thought about getting Santelli’s, just to see where his own mortgage fits on the scale of “losers” he has ridiculed.
Since Santelli is the fellow whose rant inspired this most-recent manifestation of wingnut lunacy, perhaps that data point should be put into the public record.
Matt, I await your instructions, whether public or private.
Wow, Matt. Very deep. Way to try and outdo all the other liberal bloggers on the vulgarity scale. Michelle Malkin and a ton of other conservative bloggers have gotten a TON of mileage out of your tripe. But you know what’s really ironic? That someone like you – a prep-school educated, private college-attending and CLEARLY overindulged young liberal – shares a similar type of background with so many of the elitist conservatives that you attempt to mock in this piece and in so many of your other “columns.” I’ll bet Daddy is so proud of you, and of this particular brand of “journalism” that you peddle – of course, he’s likely the one who pulled the strings to help you land the “jobs” that you have. Or at least the ones that you’ve been able to keep…
Matt,
Great piece with many salient points, but only after you end the juvenile tirade against Malkin in the beginning.
I have zero respect for her, but just because you want to punch someone in the face doesn’t mean you actually should punch someone in the face.
Concentrate on making great points but leave the ball jokes to private emails between you and your friends. You don’t need them to win this argument.
Honestly, I wouldn’t want Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Tea Bag in the same sentence… while the still have teeth, at least…
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Matt, I had never heard of you before so I took a look at your profile. Was that supposed to be shocking? Or funny? Because it’s neither…it’s just dumb. About your Michelle Malkin article: You’re a real creep, and I hope it all catches up to you some day. God I’m so sick of assholes.
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