break out the plastic!

despite being disinvited from speaking at the Democratic National Convention by the HRC (the "Hedging Rightwing-Cowed") of all people, margaret cho is embarking on a special tour dubbed "state of emergency," slated to hit key battleground states in the months before the election. the tour kicks off at the apollo theater in new york city. oh, and you can get her latest DVD early, if you donate to one of several non-profit organizations. i chose the servicemembers legal defense network, because dammit, gay people can shoot guns just as well as straight people.

an aside: when people like ann coulter and rush limbaugh run rampant spewing their nonsense under the guise of "political commentary," and the right, for the most part, shrugs and says "so what?" and meanwhile, the left gets so scared by right wing name-calling that they distance themselves from comedians like whoopi goldberg and margaret cho, it makes me embarrassed to be a liberal.

here are a couple of quotes from ann coulter:

"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." (january 2002)

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." (september 2001)

"God says, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'" (june 2001)

and a couple from rush limbaugh:

"Why should Blacks be heard? They're 12% of the population. Who the hell cares."

"If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people--I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do--let the stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."

lovely. and exactly what did whoopi do?

she made a few jokes about bush's last name and dick cheney's first name. oh horrors! compared to the vile claptrap noted above, whoopi's jokes are just silly in comparison. i think the only thing she can be accused of is being unoriginal. sorry, whoopi, i made the same joke in 2000. :)

liberals should quit being chickenshit. politics is ugly; at least someone is making people laugh about it.