Unfunny Twits
by digby
It’s been obvious for decades that there is a painfully puerile streak in the right wing. All you have to do is listen to the creepy, juvenile insults of Rush Limbaugh on any given day (like today) to get the picture. Ann Coulter and Dana Loesch are simple clowns. The twitter wars are rife with headache inducing “I know you are but what am I” exchanges.
But Monica Crowley never struck me as a member of the braindead junior high insult club until today:
Fox News’ Monica Crowley reacted to news that Sandra Fluke is engaged by tweeting “To a man?” on Thursday.
Fluke, a Georgetown law student, stepped into the national spotlight when Rush Limbaugh attacked her as a “slut” and a “prostitute” for advocating employer-covered contraception. On Thursday, it was announced that Fluke is engaged to her long-time boyfriend.
It’s just such an incredibly lame Limbaugh-esque insult. Fluke, after all, was called a “slut” for days on Limbaugh’s show for allegedly demanding her birth control be paid for.(“She can hardly walk, she’s been having so much sex!”) Now she’s a lesbian?
Crowley, naturally, replied by saying that “the left” doesn’t have a sense of humor. But on some level she must realize that she’s sunk so low that she’s just another right winger vomiting up an insult that doesn’t make sense, even by their own low standards.
Try to keep up, conservatives: lesbians who are also “sluts” don’t need birth control to prevent pregnancy. They might need it for health reasons, but any promiscuous behavior will not be affected by their access to contraception. So, if you’re going to insult someone as a slut for advocating for birth control, calling them a lesbian a month later just makes you look stupider than you already look. Which I wouldn’t have thought possible, since needing affordable birth control doesn’t make you a slut in the first place — and even if Fluke were a lesbian, who gives a damn? Peeling back the layers of idiocy in these insults could take days.
Twitter is a weird medium for certain people. There’s something about it that just connects directly to their ids, and they can’t help but let their real selves show. They seem to think they’re just hanging out with their pals and they talk the way they usually do. It’s very revealing. Of course Monica Crowley did work for Richard Nixon, so she learned at the Master’s feet.
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