Ms. Kathryn Jean Lopez On Dinner

Ugh. Courtesy of TNR, we are led to seriously disturbed religio-fascist & professional virgin K. Jean Lopez, of what is often fondly referred to as "America's Shittiest Website™," & her latest effort to disconnect herself & all the other sad Catholic spinsters in her fan-base from anything resembling reality.

She starts w/ "Laughter, Good or Bad?" & The Mayor of 9/11 appearing on SNL. 

We needed to laugh. Heaven knows, Giuliani must have needed it as much as anyone.

We'll bet. Between locating NYC's Emergency Operations Center at Ground Zero, & not funding proper communications equipment for the police & firefighters (There's blood on your hands, Rudy, & it won't wash off!) he probably did need a laugh.  The trivial aside, K-Lo starts toward denial.

We are at war. We are in a war not of our choosing. And the responsibility to protect and defend America weighed heavily on our elected leaders each day. 

Pardon us, Ms. Lopez, that little war in Iraq is completely & absolutely of our (if "our" means Dick Cheney's) choosing.

It was unpresidential when Bush did that (remember looking for weapons of mass destruction at the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner?)

Mocking your own justification for a war that resulted in the murders of hundreds of thousands is exactly the same as saying your children are "grounded" for taking Air Force One on a joyride.

Somehow Dick Cheney, who continues to stand athwart unseriousness yelling “Stop,” is the enemy. Somehow Rush Limbaugh, conservative stalwart, the embodiment of capitalist success, a man who has struggled with adversity with an inspiring humility, is someone we’re to disdain so much as to laugh at the prospect of his kidneys’ failing.

The TNR writer noted "inspiring humility," as we did on first reading it. That is funny. Funny because it's not true.

More good Catholic writing:

Somehow we are supposed to be pining for one of the nastiest men on television to do something that everyone laughing at the joke presumably considers torture to Sean Hannity, who, agree with him or not, is the happiest of warriors compared with Keith Olbermann.

That is incomprehensible. More so in context, as the last two blockquotes compose one paragraph in Lopez World. Who's "one of the nastiest men on television?" It can't be Limbaugh, his tee vee show didn't last too long. She may mean Olbermann, who suddenly appears from nowhere at the end of the paragraph. And Hannity being "the happiest of warriors" compared to K. O.? In other words, everything Hannity says is bullshit, & he knows it. He's "happy" because he has a big scam going. Not a "warrior" of any kind. If Olbermann isn't a "happy warrior," it may be because he's not running a Hannity-style scam, but is actually concerned about the America that Ms. Lopez imagines to be better than dirty, un-happy hippies.

But that dinner Saturday night —in the jokes the president of the United States of America was willing to make and to laugh at — was beneath America.

Yeah, sure. Run the residents off, grab people from another continent to be chattel slaves, & so on. Didn't stop us for 30 seconds. Nothing is beneath this shithole of ignoramuses & hypocrites. Nothing.

Bonus: Dana Milbank of the WaPo & his readers make fun of "Rush Limbaugh, conservative stalwart, the embodiment of capitalist success, a man who has struggled with adversity with an inspiring humility."