Shot In The Dark: They Get Paid For This: Part IV

September 23, 2004

They Get Paid For This: Part IV

Oliver Willis is back in the seat of honor!

On Monday, in a piece entitled "Bush's Base Speaks Out - (Bush's Base!, mind you!), Willis writes:

Click here to watch a video of adulterer/pervert/professional Christian Jimmy Swaggart share his compassionate conservative views on homosexuality and why George W. Bush is the man for him:

News flash - Jimmy Swaggart is an embarassment!

... I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

Wow. That Swaggart. Just like every Republican, isn't he?

Yes, nothing like the Taliban at all.

That's right.

Swaggart sent forth mobs to stone gays to death. Swaggart executed women who weren't dressed right, and kept girls home from school. Terrorists issued forth from Jimmy Swaggart's fiefdom to immolate innocent people by the thousand.

No difference at all!

Oliver Willis gets paid for this by Media Matters".

Posted by Mitch at September 23, 2004 04:36 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Joe Klein has nothing to do with Media Matters for America. Get your facts right when you smear people, geez.

Posted by: Oliver at September 23, 2004 07:19 AM

Where's the "smear?" I'm quoting *you*. Are your own words a "smear" when you're quoted writing them?

As to fact-checking - your blog is a frenzy of factual faux pas. As I'll be pointing out in the next few days.

Posted by: mitch at September 23, 2004 07:41 AM

Whatchutalkinabout, Willis?

How about responding to the actual issue, here: Your hyperbole discredits you. Its contributed to the ever-lamer nature of your blog, which I also used to enjoy, and now think is just...

...dumb?

Too much kryptonite, Ollie?

Posted by: Alison at September 23, 2004 07:47 AM

Just out of curiosity, is there any evidence to show that Jimmy Swaggert is either a Republican or a Bush supporter? I seem to recall that many on the Left used to love to throw Fred Phelps of “G-d hates f**s” infamy in the faces of Republicans. . . until it turned out he was a Democrat.

Posted by: Thorley Winston at September 23, 2004 08:59 AM

Thorley that's a good question. While I've always assumed Swaggart was GOP, I'm not positive.

Oliver, Mitch brings up an interesting point. You call it a "smear" - but he's just quoting you. Is the quote inaccurate? It seemed word-for-word to me. So where's the smear? Do you not stand by what you said?

That's such a part of Democrat communication these days. "Calling attention to the objective record" is "smearing", if it doesn't make Dems look good. It's dishonest, which was, I think, Mitch's point.

Posted by: JD at September 23, 2004 09:05 AM

Swaggart - Howard Dean???

I'll have to go with Dean in the third round by TKO as I don't think Swaggart has the wind to go 15!!!

Posted by: fingers at September 23, 2004 09:10 AM

Help! I could have been an A-list blogger, but now I'm just a giggly frat boy with a thing for strawmen!

Wiliver Ollis

Posted by: Wiliver Ollis at September 23, 2004 10:21 AM

Oliver Willis calls the hyperbolic redneck Swaggart "the GOP Base", but *Mitch* is the one who's "smearing" and doesn't have his facts straight?

I guess that's a trip inside the "mind" of *every* Kerry supporter!

Posted by: Jeff at September 23, 2004 10:53 AM

Just in case you're keeping score, Swaggart offered a half-assed non-apology for his remarks:

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_09_21.shtml#1095887652

Posted by: Kris at September 23, 2004 10:59 AM