So Hacksaw Megan McDuggan gets an email touting the vile behavior of Tea Party protesters, and Atlas Jr. shrugs. Because the protestors were only mocking a man with parkinson’s disease, and throwing dollars at him contemptuosly, she declares the whole event…an own-goal, self inflicted wound for the people that took umbrage at the treatment of the parkinson’s victim.
…[T]heir behavior doesn’t exactly seem to be out of bounds by the standards of protest and counterprotesters
I guess. I mean, no one was whacked upside the head or anything like that. The remarkable thing is, she came out looking like the compassionate one when compared to Instahack Dan Riehl (via Putz):
A protest like that is no place to go shopping for sympathy and that appears to be precisely what he did. The dude has Parkinsons! He should shake it off and move on. [emphasis putz's]
Almost as funny as Limbaugh aping Michael J. Fox’s tremors. Almost. Meanwhile, Dan Riehl also shows us how Jesus would respond:
Tough. Screw the Alleged Parkinson’s Victim.
Which I’m pretty sure is a quote of from Matthew 14.
March 17, 2010 at 3:28 pm
The man was simply sitting on the ground, with his sign up in front of him. He didn’t say anything to them, even when they taunted him. There is simply no way any of their behavior could have been justified. The fact that these squawking apes’ apologists can’t even manage to criticize their mob-inebriation speaks volumes about the flexibility of their “morality”.
March 17, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Regarding the picture of Jesus bearing his 2×4 cross: he must’ve whacked somebody so hard w/ conservative compassionism the crosspiece fell off?
Go Jesus! Go Jesus! Go Jesus!
March 17, 2010 at 5:07 pm
For the record, the “shake it off” comment was made by Dan Riehl, not Instapundit. Reynolds would have been more coy about his viciousness.
March 18, 2010 at 8:01 am
Thanks. Fixed.
March 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm
G Jesus! Theme Music.
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March 17, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Cuckooland.
March 17, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Isn’t this pretty much equivalent to spitting on veterans returning from Vietnam?
March 18, 2010 at 6:42 am
No, this is the equivalent of mocking a man suffering from Parkinsons.
March 18, 2010 at 9:12 am
More like tweaking the noses of lepers with advanced nasal tubercles.
March 17, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Fucking assholes, every last one of them.
Usually I’d feel a bit guilty about saying something along the lines that I hope Megan McArdle suffers from one of her asthma attacks, but she’s got me thinking that such a thought isn’t really “out of bounds by the standard of protesters and counterprotesters.” (in all seriousness, unlike these assholes, I wouldn’t wish a medical malady on anyone, but the point deserves to be made).
Seriously, she is a terrible human being and I hope she feels a huge amount of shame for defending this behavior. I have to wonder if its only because her fiance is (was?) an employee of Freedom Works, the group that helps organize and finance these assholes that mock the disabled.
Remember Megan, your married lifestyle is being funded in part by the same people that mock the handicapped. If, even for a second, you doubt that you are anything but scum, remember this, those kitchen gadgets bought for you on your wedding day came in part by people who made their money promoting the mocking of the handicapped.
Remember that every time you zest a lime.
March 18, 2010 at 10:21 am
I’m sure Megan would explain to you that only amateurs zest limes, and that for real lime flavor you need imported lime salt flown in from siberia, passed through guam to pick up some needed lime flowers for real lime flavor.
March 18, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I wish they’d all teabag shotguns. It would raise the median IQ of the US by 10 pts.
March 18, 2010 at 6:20 am
Isn’t this pretty much equivalent to spitting on veterans returning from Vietnam?
Except that never happened.
March 18, 2010 at 11:52 am
Actually, noted wingnut blogger Don Sutherland claims that HE spat on returning vets. I could find the link but I’m quite lazy. So, the truth may be that nobody *who isn’t on instapundit’s blogroll* has ever literaly spit on a Vietnam vet.
March 18, 2010 at 1:12 pm
S/b Don Surber
March 18, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Was going to tell Kiefer on you
March 18, 2010 at 7:46 am
Ummm, Google “Kenneth Gladney” and let’s see how thin-skinned they can get when the “victim” is a Rethuglican! Goddamn hypocrites…why, oh, why does this woman continue to have a job where she is allowed to publish her fantasies for the world?
March 18, 2010 at 7:56 am
Can’t believe McArdle’s excuse for this is “They were throwing money!” and not siccing dogs on the guy. As if she wouldn’t think it all that galling if somebody propositioned her by starting to throw dollar bills on the ground at her feet.
March 18, 2010 at 8:56 am
if somebody propositioned her by starting to throw dollar bills on the ground at her feet
But isn’t that the traditional libertarian mating ritual?
March 18, 2010 at 9:21 am
Having spend recent time in a public setting begging for money w/ a sign reading “DISABLED” around my neck, I’ll guess that the callous teabagges tossing dollar w/ contempt probably made the Parkinson’s guy day in a perverse, reverse-pysch manner.
Between tears of gratitude for public generosity (it happens, both tears and generosity) and frustration at public apathy (these happen too), a middle ground where one can enjoy feeling contempt for public largess surely exists and would, as I imagine it now — based on my begging experiences — be healing and liberating.
Of course, knowing this would probably piss off the teabag ladies-and-gentlemen, but then, this is part of the envisioned wondrous remedy.
As for Mrs. Tilton’s hilarious remark: !WIN!
March 18, 2010 at 11:59 am
We can but make the attempt? But but Megs, baby!, isn’t that what you DO?