Over there.

Over there.

Send the word, send the word over there -
That the cranks are coming,
The wanks are coming,
The blogs rum-tumming
Ev'rywhere.
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Over on this post at Gilliard’s the thread has evolved into a lively smackdown of one of his local trolls on the subject of the AP story of Sunnis being burned alive that was sourced to one “Captain Jamil Hussein”

The troll-in-residence sums up the entire Rightwing obsession with this story thusly:

To make matters worse, Captain Jamil Hussein was a key named source in more than 60 AP stories on at least 25 supposed violent incidents over eight months.

Until this controversy is resolved, every one of those AP reports is tainted.

And to “resolve” this “controversy”, Michele Malkin is packing her vibrator, witchbag and emergency Kool Aid rations and is going to Iraq to ferret out the “truth”.

Which somewhere between fiddling while Rome burns and jerking off into a basoon that's playing "Time Is On My Side" while the Titanic goes down.

The back-and-forth at Gilly’s is mostly about sourcing and the degree of taintage that the truth or falsity of the “Jamil Hussein” story imputes to AP.

What this manufactured outrage is not about, of course, is the reality of what is going on in Iraq.

What is really going on in Iraq – facts that no one disputes – is…

…murdered civilians showing up in the streets every day, being stacked like cordwood in the morgues.

...squads of armed sectarians ruling the streets.

…our pet Prime Minister all but submitting his resignation because his government is a joke and his country is ungovernable.

…our soldiers being shoveled down the meatgrinder for nothing more than George Bush’s lies and George Bush’s ego.

This is about the Dribbling Third who cannot cope with the idea that their Dear Leader lied them into this mess and then fucked it all to hell-and-gone. That these CHUDs who sneered at the "elite" and then loudly/proudly elected and then re-elected a dry drunk halftard, have now been shown unequivocally to have been one of the greatest generations of dupes and losers in American history.

Everything they "knew" with such passionate certainty has turned out to be a lie.

Everyone they put their absolute, cultist faith in has turned out to be a liar or a fool or insane.

Oh and soooo much worse, the Dirty Hippies were right all along.

For thirty years they screamed that the Dirty Hippies were destroying democracy, and for thirty years they have clawed and slimed and lied and cheated their way to Glorious One Party Christian Conservative Rule.

And now, for six years, the Dribbling Third -- the “STFU, we won!" Conservatives -- have had a blank check to operationalize their dearest masturbatory dreams. Absolute license to run nekkid through the Treasury, appoint Creationists and Oil Industry hacks to sensitive positions to their heart’s content, and bomb the shit out of anyone who looked at ‘em cross-eyed.

And they have succeeded in fucking up everything they have touched.

Everything.

Every. Single. Fucking. Thing.

However for the spear carriers of the “Party of Personal Responsibility”, taking actual, personal responsibility is always for other people, so atoning for being such monumentally incompetent citizens and stewards ain’t on their agenda.

Like failed millennial cultists, all they have to hold themselves together is their love of shit blowing up and their bizarre, dogmatic calculus of exactly when and where they will ultimately be proven right. And when the appointed hour comes and goes and they are shown to be wrong -- again -- they just can't give it up.

They’ve gone all in -- body, wallet and soul -- with their deranged ideology, so when Reality just beats them stupid like Ali dismembering Ernie Terrell (And every time it lands a haymaker, Realty bellows "What's my name, fool? What's my name?"), they do not leave the ring. They just spiral deeper into their dark world of superstition, conspiracies and decimal points.

And that is what this is all about.

The Iraq Project is doomed and all alternatives are horrible: even the people near the top of the government -- people with actual access to realtime data that doesn’t have a fucking thing to do with “Captain Jamil Hussein” -- have reached that conclusion.

What this is about is wingnuts looking down on a national conflagration whose origins are already well-established -- and for which they are in no small measure responsible -- and finding one specific garage-fire that may or may not have been set by a specific group of arsonists, screaming "J'Accuse!”, and pouring all their desperate, obsessive need to ignore the miles of flame all around them into making the specifics of that particular burning sofa a cause célèbre.

If the AP has been clowning with information from Iraq, we need to know it. Period. And investigations need to be held. And I would loudly cheer on such an effort...after we have a full and thoroughgoing account of the crimes, lies and war profiteering of the Bush Administration.

As soon as we hold to merciless account those who blew 9/11, who lied us into Iraq and blew that too, who let New Orleans die, who have tried to convert their lethal failures into quick cash for their cronies and political hay for themselves...after all of that then let's definitely find out if AP got some of the details of its reporting of George Bush's Iraqi debacle wrong.

But that is not what this is about.

This is about constructing yet another Liberal Conspiracy Myth – “The dirty, hippy Media” conspiracy -- for why George Bush and his band of righteous Freepubclians really lost Iraq.

It is about the Dribbling Third manufacturing one more fascist bedtime story to comfort them and hold the trolls together as they are torched back into the political sewers from whence they came.