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(Context: Lying Zombies)

Practically anyone who has read political blogs for any amount of time has met the seemingly undead weengnut talking points. Eef joo run afoul of these horrorosos, joo can rarely free jourself from their steenky embrace merely through the use of logic, reasoning, or appeals to one's better nature.

Over a year ago, Azul Grande labeled them ¡las Mentiras de las Zombis! or Zombie Lies! and rightfully so. Multiple debunkings appear to have no effect on these tweested leetle fairy tales.

The only sure tactic appears to be massive applications of ridicule, and even then, the strongest Zombie-Lies are only marginalized.

Some can lay dormant for years, awaiting only the barest opportunity to once more raise their lumpy, toothless skulls, break free of their tombs, and terrorize a feckless, fawning Sociedad de las Frotacionados Profesionales into once more repeating their unholy brain-sucking mantras:

"¡¡¡OOOo0ooOOo00oooaaughhhhhh!!!"

"Aaah-braaamofff gaaave mOo0ney to bOo0th parrrtiesss"

"J0oOeee Willllsuhnn 0oOuted hisssss Oo0wnnn wiiiiiife"

"¡¡Blaahhhrrrghglglglllllllrrrrrrrspp!!"

...and so on, and so forth, eh?

Joo would need an army of Bruce Campbells to even make a dent een the sheer numbers of these infernal just-so-stories.

Regarding the ongoing Spocko Saga, the most noticeably unquiet of the current clutch of mouldering ghastly untruths ees the one most easily overlooked. Wheech ees no suprise, as eet appears weetheen the pixelated hyper-spew of vociferously expressed neuroses wheech appears under the unfortunate title "The Cat Call."

(I weel no provide a link) Here ees the URL:

h t t p ://melaniemorgan.com/TheCatCall.html

Let us glance at a sample of the caterwauling that thees "Cat" does, eh?

During his debate on Reliable Sources, Stark used specious arguments to defend his buddy, an anonymous Star Trek-obsessed blogger, Spocko, who used out-of-context quotes from KSFO radio talent in an effort to turn away advertisers and, thus, squelch the 1st Amendment Rights of the radio personalities.

Thees paragraph sentence eetself ees a dozen different kinds of crazy, but I would like to focus on one leetle part:

"...Spocko, who used out-of-context quotes from KSFO radio talent..."

Here eet ees again, back from the dead. Thees particular chunk of ambulatory stupid has been debunked at least once already. However, like the brainless zombi, thees moronic whine about "context" climbs back out of the grave to stalk the overcrowded tubes of outer-wingnuttia.

Well then, merely for the sake of finding a more accurate target for our ridicule, let us look more closely at the "context" of one of the controversial statements from SNUFFRadio560am's "talent". Thees ees from the "talented" Lee Rodgers:

"Now you start with the Sears DieHard, the battery cables connected to his testicles, and you entertain him with that for a while, and then
you blow his bleeping head off."

¿Of whom ees Rodgers Speaking? ¿A terrorist?

¿A serial killer?

¿Maybe a republican pedophile?

No, no. Rodgers ees speaking about one Kevin Holder.

LINCOLN, Neb. Aug 15, 2006 (AP)— Kevin Holder's rap sheet is 43 pages long, dating back to 1980, and he just got another entry his 226th arrest. Police say they caught him Sunday morning after a brief chase and found burglar tools in his possession.
"He's very well-known to Lincoln police officers," Police Chief Tom Casady said.

Oooooooh... thees sounds like a dangerous hombre, no? I wonder what sort or horrrrible deeds he has been up to?

Holder's convictions include criminal mischief, marijuana possession, violation of protection order, assault, resisting arrest, assault on an officer, possession of cocaine.

What? No charges of "Shot a man just for snoring"?

Many were misdemeanors, but he also has been sentenced to at least three prison terms for felonies, including a four-year stretch starting in 1996.

Now, I am no advogato, yet I am fairly sure that assault on an officer ees a felony, and possession of cocaine can be a felony, depending on how much joo are carrying, and for some reason what form the cocaine ees een, and the color of the possessor's skin. (the story does no specify).

Ciertamente, thees man ees an habitual criminal and drug addict. He obviously needs drug rehab, and probably weel do jail time (the article suggests that thees ees likely).

¿¡But wait, that's all!?

¿¿I mean, really, that's eet??

¿¿Breaking and entering, resisting arrest, punched a cop while on cocaine, and for that Rodgers wants to electrically torture the man's genitals, then "blow his 'bleeping' head off"??

Eet seems as eef Lee Rodgers ees no so much interested een justice, as he ees een dispensing violence to pipples that he doesn't like.

To wheech I can only reiterate the thoughts of mi compañerro Thersites, when he handled thees matter briefly.

(Monday, January 22, 2007)

Now, this may come as news ... but when you say (paraphrasing) "let's look at the context in which he said 'let's hook his dick up to the battery cables,'" you have just lost any claim to the moral high ground. No, seriously. Even Michelle Malkin's guest posters get this simple point.

Thersites ees correct, for, over at Malkin's site, we read thees, from one See-Dubya:

Sheppard thinks this proves something:

It’s a bit different when you find out that Rodgers and Morgan were discussing a felon that had been arrested 236 times, and were thereby using the Sears DieHard image to mock the justice and penal systems for his continued presence on the streets. Wouldn’t you agree?

Um, no. No, I most definitely wouldn't. I don't care if the guy had two thousand felonies, I don't want the state shooting people for property crimes. Battery cables on the testicles and summary executions may be cool within the Mahdi army or Chi-Com dungeons, but not here in America. There's nothing conservative about that sadistic, statist fantasy and as a conservative myself I don't like being associated with it.

When joo are so out-of-bounds that a Malkinite backbencher can see eet, buddy, joo got a beeger problem than lack of adequate context, no?

To sum up, we see een thees seengle example how learning the context of these statements can reveal that the statements themselves are more offensive than previously thought.

Thees ees enough to make one wonder about the contexts of other statements by KSFO personnel. So, I theenk that we shall be looking at the contexts of more of "SNUFF Radio's greatest hits" een the days to come, eh?

so.

[Rip adds another layer of context] -

"Now you start with the Sears DieHard, the battery cables connected to his testicles, and you entertain him with that for a while, and then you blow his bleeping head off."

I wonder if this is the standard for employee conversation at ABC/Disney corporate offices. I've done some white collar time and, at least in the multi-national corporations I worked at, that quote would be grounds for a quick trip to the HR office and an asterisk on your merit review.

Perhaps ABC attorney, Enid Karpeh, could enlighten us. Or perhaps Jack Swanson could provide some clarification. We'll wait...