Look, I like a good Cheney-drinks-the-blood-of-the-living joke as much as the next person, but it’s also true that sometimes folks go over the line, as appears to have happened at the Huffington Post in reaction to the suicide bombing outside Cheney’s camp in Afghanistan [they appear to have been taken down]:
“To (sic) bad they missed!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Better luck next time!”
“Cheney’s spokeswoman said he was fine. F**k.”
It’s disgusting, right? Almost as bad: the gleefulness with which the right wing is touting this comment thread — as though weirdly happy to have discovered this vein of hate, since they think it justifies their own. And as if the right wing had no nutjobs lurking in its far reaches. Or, you know, in the White House.
UPDATE: Just to be clear: No one has a monopoly on nutjobs, that’s the point. LGF, FDL, here on Swampland — sometimes comments get mean and violent, especially when no one has to take responsibility for them.
