I’m a bit busy today, me buckos. But let me refer you to a squabble you don’t want to miss (just in case you’re not an Eschaton reader).
It seems that the National Review Online’s Donald “The Bedwetter” Luskin is threatening to sue and ferret out the identity of Eschaton’s Atrios. Why? Well, Atrios said that “Shakes” Luskin was stalking Paul Krugman. Why? Well, there was this column, entitled “We Stalked, He Balked,” written by none other than Donald “Nunbeater” Luskin.
In any case, it’s a stirring saga, and the best place to begin is probably with the letter that Atrios received yesterday from Luskin’s lawyer.
Enjoy. I’ve been finding it a tremendously good read, and one that raises some interesting questions: Luskin’s lawyer is demanding that Atrios remove the Comments from the relevant Luskin items, as they contain libelous statements. Yikes!
Can this be done? Am I responsible for what you, my dear readers, type here at Fanatical Apathy? Will I be tossed in the slammer for providing a safe haven for your vile canards? The idea fills me with dread.
And curiosity.
So here’s what I’d like you to do. In the comments below, please defame somebody. I don’t care whom. Cast a wide net. Just make sure that your statements are sufficiently slanderous and irresponsible. Calling Bush a deceitful cronyist or Donald Rumsfeld a high-handed warmonger or Paul Wolfowitz a tutu-wearing hamster fetishist cannibal with 124 painful body piercings doesn’t cut it - I want you to make stuff up. Unproven stuff. That way, we’ll be able to test the boundaries of our freedoms.





43 comments
aaron
October 30, 2003 at 7:15 pm
1Remember that old lady from the Wendy’s commercials? Oh, she knew where the beef was.
Hunter
October 30, 2003 at 7:42 pm
2Dunno. Personally, I feel our time is best spent defaming Luskin. I only have a few hours a day set aside for defaming people, and I like to make sure it counts. Besides, I have a special grudge against Luskin — I know him personally, and can vouch for the fact that he is not a nice man.
Luskin lives across the alley from me — we live close enough together that I can see in his window at night (Oh, joy.) His all-nighters with a robed figure I will only identify as A. Scalia can get quite loud. (I can’t stand it when they both start urinating out the side window onto Tucker Carlson’s property. “Ten points for me, I win!”, Luskin invariably screams at the end, after which A.S. raises his robe and shouts “I’m Batman!”. Not really sure how that got started, but they’ve been doing it for months now.)
Right now he’s renting out his guest room to Saddam Hussein. Thankfully, Saddam is at least quieter than the others (seems like a nice boy, keeps to himself a lot) but seeing the three of them tounge-kissing is not a pleasant thing to witness when you’re standing over your barbeque trying to make sure the burgers don’t burn, let me tell you. (I don’t have a problem with gay people in general, but when one of the guys has a full mustache, it just isn’t a pretty sight.)
Speaking of full mustaches, Luskin seems to have a thing going on with Ann Coulter, too. In truth, he’s a pretty snappy crossdresser — I often see him and Ann wearing matching outfits (and carrying identical tire irons) when they go out for a night of stalking Susan Sarandon. And Saddam says he’s a great kisser, but I think Saddam’s really got his eye on that Wolfowitz fellow down the street. (I don’t know much about that, though, and I wasn’t raised to spread gossip.)
Of course, I must admit I’m biased — I just don’t care how great a kisser Luskin is, or how many times he pees playfully on Tucker’s marigolds from his second-story window. I’ve hated Luskin ever since he killed my parents, and hauled them into his roughly-hewn backyard den to drink their still-warm blood. Primarily, what ticked me off is that he used one of those curly-wiggly-sippy-straws to do it, and that is _so_ 1970s. I mean, c’mon.
brooke
October 30, 2003 at 7:43 pm
3Bob Novak likes to rub lubed-up salamanders all over his naked body.
Bob
October 30, 2003 at 7:47 pm
4George W. Bush is fully qualified to be our president and commander-in-chief.
Sorry, but it’s the biggest lie I could come up with on short notice.
t.a.
October 30, 2003 at 8:10 pm
5“if everyone jumped off the bridge, would you do it?” “if adam felber told you to do something potentially illegal, would you do it?”
bill o’reilly is scum-sucking, lying, self-gratifying-once-an-hour-reading-ann-coulter-online, anti-american, sheep-molesting, coke-snorting (the drink, not the drug; he has severe lip problems), plagiarizing, white-slave-trading maggot who is really not even good enough for fox news.
god, that felt good. when do we jump off the next bridge?
scott
October 30, 2003 at 9:04 pm
6Tom DeLay runs a pedophile ring in his local Sunday School.
Sean Hannity has to kill randow drifters to get an erection.
Bill O’Reilly is an accomplished auto-fellating contortionist.
Karl Rove is a genetically modified manpig who escaped from the Isle of Dr Moreau.
Dick Cheney is just a mean old bastard.
Rumsfeld is a re-animated mummy who has to bathe in the blood of National Guardsmen without medical benefits to sustain himself.
MeanTim
October 30, 2003 at 9:40 pm
7George Bush likes the packers…
Can’t get any more libelous than that
Mike
October 31, 2003 at 12:49 am
8Here’s one that’s been proven to work:
Scientology is a total fraud of a religion designed solely to achieve tax-exempt status while bilking gullible fools out of thousands of dollars.
Plus, L. Ron Hubbard was known to give blow jobs to leprechauns.
julia
October 31, 2003 at 5:13 am
9and it’s Murphy and Godwin neck and neck at the post…
No, too easy.
Luskin’s mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries.
The postman smelled of hamster.
Farberwear
October 31, 2003 at 7:42 am
10John Ashcroft has butt sex with anonymous bloggers in public restrooms. He enjoys a good reacharound while fantasizing about corpse-raping Strom Thurmond.
Ann Coulter has a real penis that she shows to her neighbor’s children in between fellatio sessions with Phyllis Schlaffly. Also, Phyllis Schlaffly is a man.
Lynne Cheney once performed a back alley abortion on Laura Bush, after having drugged her. Her reason, “To keep more stupid out of this world”. George Bush proclaimed Lynne to be the winner of the Pulitzer Peace Prize without realizing that the award didn’t exist, and that if it did, he wouldn’t be able to declare the winner. Upon hearing of this lack of power, he drank a Bill O’Reilly semen sample with a vodka chaser before inserting a special webcam into his anus.
Little Known Fact: Cokie Roberts has all three of her nipples pierced with rusty nails. Also: Really a man.
Rick Santorum: Secretly loves the term named after him by Dan Savage. Also, loves to eat all of the santorum he can get his hands on. And babies.
Paul Wolfowitz: Impregnated by Colin Powell last month while over-indulging at private “I love Al Quaida” party. Overheard saying that he loves the French because of their “tasty frogs”. Bathes nude in John Ashcroft’s office for “payola”.
Charlton Heston and Ted Nugent have matching prince alberts with a special interlocking ring for when they are “together”.
tim
October 31, 2003 at 8:03 am
11Ev Williams, founder of Blogger, is really an evil mastermind (look at his name: Ev (W)il-liams, I mean, how obvious can you get?) who is trying to make us all insane.
spiralsands
October 31, 2003 at 8:37 am
12Justice Clarence Thomas has his nipples pierced. He jumped off the parade float during pridefest at Disney’s Gay Days in Orlando, ran into the tattoo/piercing shop and did it really quick. He was gonna get that Prince Albert thing too but his nipples were smarting so bad that tears were running down his face and smearing his makeup and making his false eyelash glue come loose. His voice was wavering when he said, “Maybe next time…”
Theophylact
October 31, 2003 at 10:29 am
13Condoleeza Rice is passing for black.
john mason
October 31, 2003 at 11:24 am
14George Will sucks shit out of dead men’s assholes.
ttam117
October 31, 2003 at 11:25 am
15Justice Rhenquist calls his, you know, “The Gavel” and he slams that baby down, a lot.
Chicory
October 31, 2003 at 11:48 am
16It is bad enough that that unctuous offal loving stoat of a reactionary hack Luskin brands Krugman as a liar (that’s not libelous though), he then gets the blood sucking, amoral demon spawn Upton to intimidate and threaten those who don’t agree with him and have the audacity to say so in public. What has happened to free speech and voicing ones opinion? Are we now to be held to a higher standard than Luskin, O’Reilly, Coulter and their ilk? Just a reminder, lush Luskin, Fox lost their suit against Franken.
jason
October 31, 2003 at 2:04 pm
17Reliable sources tell me that Don Luskin paid a stable boy $100 to disappear for a half-hour so that Luskin could perform oral sex on a horse! Afterwards Luskin told the guy it was the best sex he’s had since that passionate, moonlit night with Santorum’s dog…
Elayne Riggs
October 31, 2003 at 2:09 pm
18Always great to see progressive blogs taking the high road as usual.
Luskin couldn’t buy this kind of publicity.
Oh, and Elayne Riggs has no sense of humor, and once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Antoine
October 31, 2003 at 2:47 pm
19I have a leaked memo from the White House reminding everyone to sign up for the Al-Quaeda Charity Walkathon signed by George W himself!
tess
October 31, 2003 at 3:10 pm
20damn, i can’t compete, but here goes:
george w. once admitted to me that he “accidentally” set off a bottle rocket in his pants and it blew off his testicles before it got lodged up his lower intestinal tract. now he has silicone testicles and has to get testosterone injections regularly. georgie admitted that he kinda liked the feeling despite the pain and has ann coulter regularly peg him while singing off-key hymns and smoking crack. then she forces him to lick of the santorum.
that might explain why he hangs around other testicularly challenged men like donald rumsfeld, dick cheney, john ashcroft, and condoleeza rice, though donald’s only missing one and keeps the other in a jar to remind him that he’s still a man.
upyernoz
October 31, 2003 at 3:25 pm
21um, crap, i was going to do a real good one, but everyone else’s is so over the top, i just can’t compete, but here goes.
i heard from a reliable source that dick cheney is a doody-head.
Cheryl
October 31, 2003 at 4:17 pm
22Shoot Mike, you beat me! So how about this? We all know Scientology is a brainwashing cult, but did you know that the reason we went to war with Iraq is that Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the neocons as well as Luskin are upper echelon Scientologists, (OT XVIII)who, under the direction of David Miscavige, head honcho in Scientology, have been channeling L. Ron Hubbard and have discovered that Zenu, Darth Vader to the poor Scienos, is buried somewhere in Babylon. Since Saddam rightly wouldn’t allow Scientologist archeologists (as if there were such a thing) to come dig up and haul away whatever they wanted, they took over the country and could call their excavations “legitimate science” instead of idiotic cult stuff. Just wait, soon archeology departments from online universities will start sending teams to “give back to the Iraqi’s their legacy as the cradle of civilization” or some such pandering bull shit.
Rick Schmitz
October 31, 2003 at 4:17 pm
23I bite off the heads of cute little bunnies!
There! Now I can sue you for libel!
sherlock
October 31, 2003 at 6:04 pm
24arnold schwarzenneger’s muscles are actually implanted horse meat.
and his accent is not austrian.. he just has a mild form of retardation
Bob
October 31, 2003 at 8:22 pm
25Elayne, unless his lawyer is working for free, Luskin *did* buy this publicity. Maybe next week he’ll buy himself a dope-slap.
John Isbell
October 31, 2003 at 11:17 pm
26Phew. OK, I know this bunny out the back that likes to make out with turtles.
michael (in DC)
November 1, 2003 at 12:09 am
27Just so you all know, the official “Luskin is a Stalker” day is Tuesday…so declared by Neal Pollack, who apparently is the arbiter of these things…
That said, I think Hunter wins so far…Over the top seems played out so let me go for Random:
Regis Philbin had a love child with Linda Bird Johnson in 1978…he grew up to be none other than…Justin Timberlake!
tune in next week…
m
Gen. JC Christian, Patriot
November 1, 2003 at 12:17 am
28Luskin has a purdy mouth
stranger
November 1, 2003 at 2:11 am
29John Ashcroft is a disciple of The Church of John Wayne Gacy, and has the bodies of little boys buried all over Missouri and Washington, DC.
And that whole Crisco thing? Anal lube.
agrajag
November 1, 2003 at 3:46 am
30You know, I heard Jerry Falwell fucked his own mom!
In an outhouse, no less!
They both went and tried that Campari Liqueur, and it up and brung the devil in ‘em!
Don Luskin
November 1, 2003 at 10:09 am
31Dammit, you are all right about me! Every last thing said here is the God’s honest truth! I’m only glad that you didn’t hear about the runaway children I keep locked up in my basement and rape and flagellate nightly.
gardenbearMN
November 1, 2003 at 12:29 pm
32There’s a time and place for anger & now may be a good time to be really angry, but reading through all these comments makes me feel more like crying than laughing that it’s come down to this. Not that the conservative assholes don’t have it coming, but because I think it’s ultimately ineffective at the target. I’m looking forward to hearing updates on the results of this exercise in free speech by Adam, given that the point is to provoke a response.
The conservatives that we’re so colorfully slandering are professional assholes. Their predisposition to attack comes as naturally as breathing. Their sense of empowerment and justice was developed while sticking their Christmas puppy’s nose in it’s mistakes (an unconditionally devoted source has sniffed out that O’Reilly still gets a hard on whenever he disciplines his dog). Their assholism is so entrenched that they think everyone else is surely an asshole too, therefore our comments only elicit a grin of recognition and an I-told-you-so. They can’t lose playing their own game. They always win by being the best possible asshole.
On the other hand, when liberals play this game it always winds up sounding like a bad Karoke night. We have to be drunk to get up and do it, and even if we don’t regret it in the morning (there is some really funny vitriol here), we’ll usually wind up reexamining all that anger & trying to find some ray of hope (or dreaming of small, well-placed asteroids). We don’t walk the asshole walk for long, mostly because it’s a shitty place to visit & we don’t want to live there. Assholism is the body snatcher of the conservative invasion.
Cheerfully and persistently subversive ultimately beats asshole, if only for your cardio-vascular and mental health. That’s why I end up at this site so often reading Adam’s angry, funny stuff. I really do hope that something uproarious and remarkable comes of this exercise.
Cheryl
November 1, 2003 at 1:14 pm
33Ok gardenbearMN, I feel duly chastized but before you give the I only punish you because I love you speech, take a chill pill and realize we’re only having a bit of fun. I know I joined in the exercise because laughing releaves the rage I feel on a daily basis. None of us wants to win the biggest asshole contest and thankfully I don’t think we will with people like Ann Coulter as competition. Until the final judging, though, let us make fun of them so that none of us has to go do something drastic like start a free love commune in Northern California or become a Krugman groupie. Unless he wants groupies.
Sara
November 1, 2003 at 4:46 pm
34Everyone told you that Trotsky was killed by that ice axe to the skull, right? Has anyone ever taken a really good look at the back of Scott McClellan’s head?
Don’t let that smile fool you. Focus more on his blatant disregard for the truth.
Dee
November 1, 2003 at 5:59 pm
35Bill O’Reilly was “Clean for Gene.”
aaron
November 1, 2003 at 10:06 pm
36“Garden Bear” has a good point. We liberals really aren’t that good at pointless blatant slander - at least not when compared to conservatives. But really, there’s a lot of things that we’re not all that good at when compared to them.
Rampant avarice? They’ve got us beat on that one, big time.
The outright refusal to understand that there is such a thing as “grey area?” They’re the Yankees, we’re the Tigers.
Taking every possible chance to delegitimize the existance of non-whites, non-heteros, non-christians or non-americans? (or…god forbid…all of the above) Hands down, kids. Hands down.
What about hammering the exact same false statement home time after time, day after day, sentence after sentence, talking suit after talking suit, until it is generally accepted as fact - and doing it in such a way that the general public is completely oblivious to the fact that they’ve been duped? Heh. We can’t hold a damn candle to them.
The virtual intellectual enslavement of one of the world’s most powerful relegions? Trading in the environment for another couple Lexus SUV’s? White Power?!? Ditto, Ditto, and Ditto.
Anal Sex with little boys? “Mega Dittos” on that one too.
But there are certainly a few places where we’ve got them beat. I’d like to think that “humor” is one of them. (It’s tough to be creative when you are incapable of independent thought.) So let’s all applaud Adam for letting us all get this off our collective chest. THANKS, ADAM!
Phishtar
November 1, 2003 at 11:44 pm
37Ann Coulter? Having a torrid affair with Britney Spears. But Britney doesn’t know she eats babies for breakfast. Poor Britney!
Sorry… it’s the best I got.
Landis
November 2, 2003 at 12:01 am
38Um, wow.
I’m pretty much going to have to concur with Aaron, but what the heck…
Adam Felber is a tutu-wearing hamster fetishist cannibal with 124 painful body piercings.
Frankly, I’m glad I don’t have anything better than that.
John Isbell
November 2, 2003 at 12:28 pm
39Republicans voted for George Bush.
Top that!
craig
November 3, 2003 at 12:18 am
40The entire staff of “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” is part of the vast left wing conspiracy.
Judd
November 4, 2003 at 11:30 am
41The Rapture is coming soon!!!! and when that happens I, George Bush, wont have to pretend pandering to the religious majority that couldn’t get me elected. Freakin’ church losers… What good are they if they can’t even get zealous about killing little babies? Once those cry baby Christians are out of the way, I can start my real plans. The plan for world domination, the plan to Kill people that don’t believe in Me. That’s Right, I, George Bush am the ANTI CHRIST.
xian
November 4, 2003 at 6:36 pm
42Don Luskin is a liberal.
Anonymous
November 8, 2003 at 2:03 am
43Andrew Sullivan is a gay. Andrew Sullivan is a Republican. Andrew Sullivan is a Catholic. Andrew Sullivan is seeking a husband. Andrew Sullivan has all the answers.