You've probably already seen the latest Krugman column (and some guy who calls himself Atrios linked to it) about the conservative "sense of humor," which in shorthand can be boiled down to "let's laugh at the kid in the wheelchair and call him a 'cripple' ."
And last week their humor extended to mocking a Guatemalan national whose savings were confiscated by the US Government when he tried to voluntarily return to his country.
But you just know these same people would throw the absolute mother-of-all-hissy-fits if someone so much as dared even question their "right" to mock and degrade anyone less fortunate, much less took any corrective action. Hell, civil rights legislation had hardly made it to the statutes before the "reverse discrimination" whine became their mantra...thus proving that those talking the loudest about 'being tough' are often usually the weakest.
I mean, look at the collective case of the vapors brought on by Move On's Petraeus ad. That's as close to a definitive example of wingnuttery in action. Well, that and Bill Kristol's little Freudian slip about wanting the President to "do something bad for the kids."
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