{"id":103640,"date":"2018-04-30T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=103640"},"modified":"2018-04-30T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T22:19:20","slug":"christianists-pretending-to-be-offended-by-michelle-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/04\/christianists-pretending-to-be-offended-by-michelle-wolf.html","title":{"rendered":"Christianists Cry Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As far as I can tell from the chatter (and not having seen the whole performance), there was one joke I would actually be offended by at the White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner, because it punched down, and viciously so:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Comedy gold for Democrats\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHCD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#WHCD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MichelleWolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#MichelleWolf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetflixStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#NetflixStar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/heud9ftXze\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/heud9ftXze<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJamesWoods\/status\/990695779428806656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">April 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is truly way the hell out of line and she deserves the opprobrium she is getting for it.<\/p>\n<p>But of course what goes unmentioned in the Right Wing Noise Machine fake outrage is that this joke was not \u201ccomedy gold\u201d for the audience at the dinner, who gasped or were silent at the brutal tastelessness and cruelty of it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Wolf was not, in fact, reflecting what even most people who support abortion are like. Remember, only 20% of Americans come from her \u201cabortion without apology\/abortion should be a sacrament\u201d whack job end of the spectrum. 60% of Americans dislike abortion, are squeamish about it (since it\u2019s the slaughter of children), and would prefer to never think about it again, even while they don\u2019t want it outlawed. The idea of joking about it is appalling to them and that is why the crowd was hushed, not \u201ccheering comedy gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that has not, in any event, been the focus of the right wing hyperventilation about the monologue. No. It has been sobbing from the Right Wing Lie Machine that Wolf was mean to poor, poor professional liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders, one of the most powerful people in the world. In short, the Christianists having the vapors about Wolf \u201ccrossing the line\u201d are using the unborn as human shields for what they <em>actually<\/em> care about: the defense of corrupt liars.<\/p>\n<p>And that defense has been grotesque. Because it boils down to \u201cprolife\u201d liars (including Sanders herself) pretending to care about \u201cdecency\u201d after having spent years defending this vileness:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/lF5li31f8WdKo\" width=\"480\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/trump-disability-mocks-lF5li31f8WdKo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/04\/michelle-wolf-jokes-no-worse-than-trump-attacks-on-opponents\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump also really likes to make fun of people. On the campaign trail, he referred to Marco Rubio as \u201cLittle Marco\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/334359-trump-aide-fires-back-at-low-energy-jeb-bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">Jeb Bush<\/a>\u00a0as \u201clow-energy Jeb.\u201d During a debate, he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/334359-trump-aide-fires-back-at-low-energy-jeb-bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">readily agreed<\/a>\u00a0that he\u2019d compare Rosie O\u2019Donnell to a \u201cfat pig,\u201d \u201cslob,\u201d \u201cdog,\u201d and \u201cdisgusting animal.\u201d He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2015\/09\/10\/trump-fiorina-look-face\/71992454\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">mocked<\/a>\u00a0Carly Fiorina, saying \u201cLook at that face! Would anyone vote for that?\u201d During his presidency, he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mika-brzezinski-donald-trump-twitter-attack-759679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">made fun of<\/a>\u00a0Mika Brzezinski, saying he once saw her \u201cbleeding badly from a face-lift.\u201d The list goes on and on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/01\/28\/upshot\/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">And this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, it comes only a day or two after their defense of this spectacle of Eugenicist disgust from the Dear Leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/Trump-blasted-after-calling-Paralympics-a-little-12870634.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">spoken to an audience of Paralympians last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd I watched\u00a0\u2014 it\u2019s a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/04\/paralympic-games-fires-back-at-trump-for-saying-they-were-a-little-tough-to-watch.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paralympians took offense<\/a>, as they should have.\u00a0 As ever, lying \u201cprolife\u201d Christianists instantly went to bat for the moron, explaining that he just meant it was tough to watch a lot of television.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s reality: What this mocker of a disabled reporter means is \u201cAs President, I have to say something nice about the defectives, but really I can\u2019t stand watching <em>lebensunwertes leben<\/em>, because I am squeamish about them. Also, I have verbal diarrhea and I can\u2019t stop myself from telling you what I really think when I\u2019m forced by my office to pretend to care about these disgusting freaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, from a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Trump%2C+disabled+nephew&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS776US776&amp;oq=Trump%2C+disabled+nephew&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.7313j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">took vengeance on his infant nephew with cerebral palsy in a spat over daddy\u2019s money<\/a>, by cutting off his care.<\/p>\n<p>He is utter scum, and so are his defenders who pretend to care about Michelle Wolf\u2019s decency.<\/p>\n<p>And to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/971948\/no-trump-didnt-mock-paralympic-athletes\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">excuse-makers whinging that his comment was \u201cambiguous\u201d and could just mean that it\u2019s hard to watch a lot of television<\/a>: give me a freaking break. The man is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/364094-trump-watches-at-least-four-hours-of-tv-per-day-report\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">famous for watching hours of television every day<\/a>. And he was addressing an assembly honoring Paralympians. You don\u2019t make \u201cambiguous\u201d statements like this to anybody, much less *this* audience and then complain when they take offence, just as you don\u2019t mock disabled reporters and then complain at disabled people for taking offense.<\/p>\n<p>Paralympians have taken offense. A decent man would apologize. And his supporters would shut the hell up and stop making excuses for him.<\/p>\n<p>But we are talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Yh0jAxOxGE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">eugenicist slime who is Donald Trump<\/a> and his antichrist Christianist supporters, who will defend every vile thing this scum says and does, no matter who it hurts\u2013and who will look us in the eye and demand that some stand up comic be held to a higher standard of decency than the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>A Christianist subculture that has passionately defended this filth, as well as \u201cgrab \u2019em by the pussy\u201d and calling women pigs and dogs, and cheered for this bullying swine every single day has absolutely no credibility when it suddenly pretends to care about Michelle Wolf \u201ccrossing the line\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that is the tragedy of the \u201cprolife\u201d Christianist in a nutshell. Because in selling its soul to Donald Trump, Christianism has rendered itself incapable of being taken seriously about Wolf\u2019s truly disgusting abortion joke. The Noise Machine has shouted \u201cWolf!\u201d so often about so many lies and Panics du Jour that when the Wolf actually showed up and made a truly vile \u201cjoke\u201d nobody was listening to it anymore. Indeed, it was not even listening to itself, and spent most of its energy pretending to care about \u201cinsults\u201d which were perfectly legitimate criticism of a professional liar who spends every day of her career lying in the defense of an even bigger bully and liar.<\/p>\n<p>It is these wicked people, not the unborn, whom the diabolical antichrist cult of Christianism actually care about.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell from the chatter (and not having seen the whole performance), there was one joke I would actually be offended by at the White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner, because it punched down, and viciously so: Comedy gold for Democrats\u2026 #WHCD #MichelleWolf #NetflixStar pic.twitter.com\/heud9ftXze \u2014 James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 29, 2018 This 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