Jason says:

The Onion is generally quite funny, but just like Digg, Colbert, etc…, it is also showing just how far left it sits politically by doing the piece that it did. Their actions have either already or now guarantee that my patronage is withdrawn permanently.

As for Dvorak, he himself is a “stick in the hornets net” kinda guy and really, I do not mind that cause he usually comes back to explain himself. What is pissing me off here is that Dvorak is, as far as I can tell, a centrist but yet he lets this blog rip to the left/far left an awful lot. Perhaps it is link baiting, perhaps just a bad choice of bloggers.

Either way, it is getting progressively distasteful.

Dallas says:

Glenn Beck is getting creepier all the time. I’m thinking he’s trying too hard to amuse his fans.

He needs to go back to clown school to see how clowns keep the acts interesting.

Scott Roberts says:

Wishing someone dead because you disagree with them? Yeah, there’s real tolerance there.

Sheesh, what passes for liberal humor nowadays…

Mr. Fusion says:

The quality of this blog has deteriorated over the past little while.

We were asked to pony up some money to help run the place. It appears many people did. In return we get this crap.

While there have been people banned for continuously making inane, long posts completely off subject (generally abusing the blog), we continue to have Alphie post his crap. It is one thing to have someone post some semi literate opinion, it is another to have the deranged crap we get from him.

Do I want to ban Alphie? No, just allow him to return to his editor function and quit trolling for hits.

qb says:

I’ve love the Onion ever since “Holy Sh#& Man Walk on F*@&ing Moon”.

I’m not sure which is funnier, the Onion, or the righteous indignation.

ldenglish says:

I am out of here as well. This blog has become a liberal,atheist biased rag with little news value. Too bad, it started out well before the politicos took over.

Improbus says:

Somehow I don’t think the actual population of posting wingnuts will decrease. Pity. Of course we will always have Alfred1. He is like a bad penny that way.

Olo Baggins of Bywater says:

If all the Beck fans leave, the average IQ here increases dramatically.

Improbus says:

@Faxon

Pot meet kettle.

gooddebate says:

BTW, #51, Sorry but you seem to be repeating myth and that must be challenged. Show me where Rush says that. Here’s a head start, first the myth:

“MORE REALITY: Columnist Molly Ivins reported (Arizona Republic 10/17/93) this incident from Limbaugh’s TV show–”Here is a Limbaugh joke: Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?” And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old.”

Then the actual events:

On his TV show in 1992, a few days after the Presidential election, Rush Limbaugh was reviewing In/Out lists (a popular fad at the time):

In today’s New York Daily News right here… it’s the obligatory in-out list. Every time there’s a massive change somewhere, people are in, people are out. I’m now out. It says about me on here, Rush Limbaugh, loud-mouthed conservative and Bush favorite. He’s out.

Rush commented that most of the other things on the days’ list were not funny, but that “one of them in particular” was. Rush quoted from the David Hinckley article

““In: A cute kid in the White House. Out: Cute dog in the White House.”

Could– could we see the cute kid? Let’s take a look at– see who is the cute kid in the White House.

A picture of the “cute dog” (Millie) appeared on the screen instead of the “cute kid” (Chelsea).

Rush immediately said

No, no, no. That’s not the kid.

Then a picture of Chelsea Clinton came on the screen and Rush said

That’s– that’s the kid.

Rush apologized several times and told a story about how he had learned early in his career the importance of not making fun of someone’s appearance. He then apologized again and said

I’m– I hope you will forgive me. I’m fatigued. I’m tired…”"

I could repeat the apologies and blah blah blah, but the bottom line is you’re trying to give the impression that Rush goes around blatantly making distasteful jokes about the helpless and it’s not true. But hey you had to reach back to an incident from over 16 years ago, that’s pretty good.