Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Shooting Republicans, ethical? Discuss

Here at last is the Bill Maher thread that The Power Line and others mentioned last week--the one that wouldn't load because the server was overloaded. I see now that Bill Maher has not done the responsible thing by these messages. (Warning: PJADAA.) The messages that appear here (and on more than twenty subssequent pages) advocate murder and treason. Neither Bill Maher nor anyone else can allege anything in mitigation. I'm not even talking about the one who wanted to have Karen Hughes (a sitting congresswoman) run over by a tractor-traier rig, or the other one who wanted to subject her to a treatment straight out of a BDSM eroticum. I'm talking about the very initiator of this thread, who wanted a bomb to go off under the stage as Bush was delivering his victory speech, with Cheney by his side. And of course, that person didn't think it through at all--because it would leave a Republican in charge no matter what.

And I'll tell you what: if those people think that Colin L. Powell would have made a better President, assuming that the explosion would have done for Speaker Hastert and Senate Dean Ted Stevens, as well as Bush and Cheney, then they ought to disabuse themselves of such a notion. Colin L. Powell might not have gotten it to the day he handed in his resignation, but if somebody blew up the President on his watch, and he succeeded as a result, he would be the worst enemy the Muslims ever had.

Will-yummmmmmm, you've got some 'splainin' to do. You can't leave this kind of stuff up on a web site bearing your name and still expect anyone to believe you when you say that love your country. No one could.