A Cautionary Tale

In an earlier post, The Blog mentioned that his email address, while whoring around in places it knew better than to be, contracted a PTD (Politically Transmitted Disease.) With every passing day, from that point on, his inbox became exponentially infested with more and more pustules of right-wing propaganda.

The first nasty lesion to pop up was TownhallDaily.com, a compilation of "conservative" op-ed columns from, mostly, mainstream newspaper, radio and TV talking heads. Deep thinkers like Bill O'Reilly , Jonah Goldberg, Larry Elder, Ann Coulter and Chuck Norris. (Yes. THAT Chuck Norris!) Along with Townhall Daily came Townhall Spotlight, a daily "paid content" ad for anything from Newt Gingrich campaign ads to ads promoting stock investments in whatever company paid to have their ad placed in the email. (BTW... If you have ever wondered who is buying all of those Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck books, putting them on the best seller's lists, look no further than Townhall, where if you register on their web site, you will receive, "absolutely free" whatever tome came out this month.)

After that came the fringy organizations, all of which include words like "American," "Patriot," or "Family" in their names. All of which exist to warn you that "[Liberals, Democrats, Obama, Hillary Clinton, the U.N. and Hollywood Elites] want to take your [guns, religion, property, wealth, marriage sanctity, freedoms and, weirdly, Social Security and Medicare] away from you.

And then, not 24 hours after The Blog posted those comments, a new, oozing sore appeared in the vicinity of his inbox's genitals. The irony deficient named "The Christian Response." Like Townhall, The Christian Response is a compendium of right-wing bullshit. But, with the "hate factor" cranked up to 11.

Here are a few of "The Christian Response" headlines from the past few days ....

"Just What We Need: A Super U.N. EPA"

"One World Government - Jerome Corsi Lays Out The Agenda"

"Obama Hollows Out Our Military Forces"

And, my favorites....

"Erick Erickson: 'The Perversion Of The Words Of Our Lord Jesus Christ By The Sinner Barack H. Obama'"

and...

"Ellen DeGeneres Appointed AIDS Envoy & Spokes-Lesbian For J.C. Penney"

I swear, I am not making these up!


The moral of this story is, do not venture into right-wing territory without proper protection!