"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Cho Cools Corsi

When it comes to cutting through the hysteronics of the radical right with movement, Margaret Cho is like a laser:

Also the apology Corsi made is questionable, as I can't imagine that he would be really sorry for what he said, because he is so flip and arrogant about it. The casual nature of his hatred is evidence of his absolute devotion to this kind of non-thinking. He is not sorry for what he said, rather, he is sad that people are calling him on it, because in order to appear as one of the dutiful Americans of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, he must not be what he is, a ruthlessly immoral, adolescent, irresponsible, cowardly and unfunny bigot.

The backstory: Jerry Corsi wrote a book full of allegations about John Kerry's service in Vietnam and was being bathed in the warm loving glow of the Republican Noise Machine until it was revealed that he liked to write really awful things on the internet. Freerepublic.com is truly a spirit-crushing site to visit, and Corsii was a particularly ugly participant.

This is an example of why the net is ultimately going to be unfriendly to right-wing movement politics; transparency and memory are two things their movement has never had to contend with before. They've relied on small-circulation paper newsletters and talk radio, but once there's an institutional memory of what was said, and anyone can access it and bring statements to light, relying on prejudice to motivate people becomes a loosing political strategy in a society which has a consensus against prejudice.

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