Comments on: Reason 3,236 Why I Don’t Go Off Half-Cocked Like Right Wing Bloggers

By: The Mahablog » April Fools

The Mahablog » April Fools — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:04:42 +0000

[...] . Just how stupid and hateful do you have to be not to be able to understand that? Oliver Willis takes on Captain Ed, wh [...]

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:04:56 +0000

Rheinhard: While I didn’t know you had taken over writing duties for Oliver, I disagree with you re: Podhoretz and PowerLine, and half agree with you about Goldberg.

By: JWG

JWG — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:04:20 +0000

Rheinhard, did any of those criticisms involve the video she was forced to make before her release, or were those critical comments in response to her comments after her release?

Oliver was pointing out the video made while she was still in captivity. I am waiting for any link to a right-wing blogger who used that video as a reason to criticize the woman.

Perhaps OW raises a strawman? I know it’s hard to believe.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:04:43 +0000

Yes, Al Qaeda is reading my blog (or maybe just my RSS feed) and I clearly have emboldened them!

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:04:31 +0000

Jill Carroll: Heroine

And Oliver Willis is laughing his backside off at those righties who could not wait to diss this Heroine. Goldberg deserves it.

By: stick

stick — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:04:32 +0000

Oliver speaks and still can’t condemn or even so much as mention the jihadists who kidnapped a female non-combatant journalist, murdered her bodyguard and threatened her with death. He does call conservative bloggers “gasbaggy” though.
Yep, all those security conscious Americans will be at the polls hours early in November so they can vote “D”, because the democrats know how to best protect our country from republicans with blogspot accounts!

By: Rheinhard

Rheinhard — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:03:58 +0000

Frank: Let's see... John Podhoretz The Brothers Judd Assrocket Doughy Pantload ...oh, and leave us not foget the lovely, lovely friends of Don Imus.

By: stick

stick — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:03:45 +0000

A female reporter is released by in Iraq. She has been kidnapped, held against her will for three months, her bodyguard murdered before her eyes and she is threatened with beheading. Oliver makes his first post about her release condeming not her kidnappers but conservative bloggers.
This gives us on the right yet another example of why deomcrats cannot be trusted with our nation’s security. They can’t even distinguish friend from foe.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:03:17 +0000

Oliver criticizing right-wingers for going off half-cocked (without actually citing examples of his charge)?

That’s rich.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:03:11 +0000

Yes, because if I had blogged… blogged, what exactly I don’t know… I could be like the other gasbaggy GOPBloggers and pretend like me typing on a flipping keyboard would have helped Ms. Carroll.

By: JWG

JWG — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:03:37 +0000

The only criticism I have seen is about her comment, “I was treated well,” which occurred after her release. Most people, other than those at Think Progress, would not consider having your friend killed and having your own life threatened as being “treated well.”

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:03:00 +0000

Excuse me, Oliver, but aren’t you quoting from the Christian Science Monitor? So where are the aforementioned “right wing bloggers.”