Dean's World

Check it out. If you go to this Netscape/CNN election news page, and right-click on the picture of George and Laura Bush to save the image, you find out that the file is named "ass****" only without the asterisks. (Via Jacqueline Passey.)

It's still that way as of 2:35 a.m. Eastern anyway. There's a screen shot on the left. Click for an enlarged image.

Then we have this roundup of furious reactions from the hard left. I especially liked the commenter on the always-vile Daily Kos who actually encouraged people to lie about voter fraud. ("We have to make him 'Bush the only American President who was never elected'whether it's true or not.") Then there was the commenter over at "Eschaton," another of the prominent left-wing web sites, who said, "I am joining Al Qaeda. Will coordinate suicide bombings in all red states starting tomorrow. Any volunteers?" (I don't link hate-sites like Eschaton or Kos, but click the image at right if you want to see it.)

So much for "reaching out" and "bridging the divide." Oh well. Iowa Hawk has some thoughts to comfort the Kos/Eschaton crowd. And Jim Treacher has a poem about the death of freedom that should give comfort.

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Kevin D:

WTF!?

11.4.2004 2:58am

Margi (www):

2:00 a.m. PST I dropped in and did the same thing you did. The .jpg is still named thusly.

Call me naive, but I actually remember when, on Career Day, someone came in and spoke to us 6th graders about the exciting world of journalism wherein the reporter answered the questions "Who/What/When/Where/Why/How" and left the audience to draw a conclusion.

So much for that, huh?

Gah, I feel old.

11.4.2004 5:20am

M. Scott Eiland (mail):

Lord Pork-Pork has been rather quiet since his quest for video footage to make another Riefenstahlesque epic came up dry on Tuesday. Perhaps we could ship him some wafer-thin mints to cheer him up. ]:-)

11.4.2004 5:38am

Ted Armstrong (mail):

Don't underestimate what the whackos can come up with. I would be unsurprised to hear Democrats in 12 months talk about the "stolen election" of 2004 due to massive voter fraud. There are people that believe all the Jews in the WTC were warned to not go to work that day. Some people believe the Israelis planned the whole 9/11 thing.

11.4.2004 6:09am

bb (www):

It's been quietly renamed. Now it's "georgelaura135.jpg"

11.4.2004 6:43am

sherard (mail):

The funniest part of all the "revolutionary" talk is that the left is so unfailingly SOFT. Pick up guns ? Join Al Queda ? Go on strike and risk your income and ability to buy a double latte at Starbucks ? Please!! Don't make me laugh. The Red States in this country's response to the "arming" of the left ? BRING.IT.

What a joke.

11.4.2004 6:57am

Hey, Dean.
How about we hold the pessimism for a few days?

They're upset that they lost, after all the info they had expecting a win.

Let's give 'em a break for a few days - let them cool off.

I'm talking about the CNN filename people, not the "let's kill people" people. The folks that hang out at Kos seem to be the fringe (if they weren't, it would be President-elect Kerry today). Focusing on the fringe is what got the Democrats in trouble this election.

Let's not do that ourselves, OK?

There are some Democrats out there who are re-evaluating their strategy (I saw the Senate minority whip on TV doing exactly that yeserday). Why not focus on the potential good from those folks, instead of the certain bad from the lunatics?

11.4.2004 6:58am

Beth Donovan (mail) (www):

It's been renamed again - now it is "untitled"

11.4.2004 7:31am

Mike (mail):

Back in June, 2003, New Zealand's TV3 ran a graphic during the news that said "George W. Bush Professional Fascist." Perhaps one of these days the arrested adolescents in the professional media will grow up. I'm not holding my breath, though.

11.4.2004 8:07am

Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):

I'm done with the Left. I've been saying for some time that the Left (secularism, egalitarianism, progressivism, relativism) is fundamentally impotent, entropic, a spent force. The Left has been on the decline since the end of the 1940s. It could weaken, but it could never rule. This election showed me how right I was, more so than I had realized. The Left is finished, certainly in America. At this point, attacking the Left, fisking barking moonbats, is like wrestling with a snail. I'm through with that. It's over.

The Left can make all the movies they want, it's the Right that makes the laws now. Therefore, from now on, I will aim all my big guns at my enemies on the Right.

11.4.2004 3:44pm

Sam Muldia (mail) (www):

I don't think there's anything wrong with secularism (unless it's forced) , progressivism (unless it's transnational), or relativism (unless it's moral).

I'd characterize the Left with other, more fitting words (with no caveats involved). Elitist, subjectivist, and socialist.

The elitism part is especially apparent right now, as these champions of democracy are now decrying democracy because the demos didn't agree with them.

The most rampant display of subjectivism currently is the characterization of their opponents as jackbooted nazis (they seem to sincerely believe this). I can't think of a better example of mass hysteria brought on by turning emotion into a fact that cancels out all objective, perceived facts.

And the socialist part, IMHO, is doomed because it clashes with the elitism. That might fly here in Europe, but as Tuesday showed, America is still full of people who don't like the idea of living at the good graces of their nuanced betters.

Whereas here we abolished the death penalty even though 80% of the population supported it. I still haven't personally decided whether I'm for it or against it (leaning towards 'for'), but if you're going to change society so dramatically, you'd better have popular support or you're slipping back towards mandatory beard territory.

11.5.2004 3:29am

And before Democrats start deriding me over this:

That might fly here in Europe, but as Tuesday showed, America is still full of people who don't like the idea of living at the good graces of their nuanced betters.

This is not an attack against John Kerry or the democrats. This is an attack against elitism, and even though Democrats are guilty of that to a degree, the main culprit is the MSM.

You see, a candidate as unpopular and universally derided by all the Big Media, the intellectuals, the pop stars and actors would have a snowball's chance in hell over on this continent. It is engrained in European society that these people are better, smarter, and more informed than us, and that's the way things ought to be. They talk to us not to convince us but to guide us. They know what's best.

I am enthralled that this isn't the case in the US. I know that you can charge that the other side merely listens to the supreme authority of their church/synagogue/mosque, but that's specious. Sure, if the other side was unhindered by anything, things would turn into a theocracy. And if you were in charge, it'd turn into the Soviet Union.

The thing that the majority of the American Right seems to get is that even though they think they're right, the checks and balances and the opposition are good. Wheras the majority of the Left seems to have decided that their Truth will lead to utopia, so let's have Gay Marriage Now! End Prayer In School! Strike 'God' From Pledge! Ban All Firearms!

Seriously, if instead you acted sanely and respected your opponents, there wouldn't be such a backlash. Teaching creationism in public schools wouldn't have political weight if you didn't yell and scream about 'One nation under God'.

11.5.2004 3:49am