RIGHT-WING MAGGOTS IN REVIEW

*Last updated June 15, 2006.

Jack Abramoff*  John Ashcroft  Glenn Beck  John Bolton  Michael Brown  George W. Bush  Dick Cheney*  Hillary Rodham Clinton  Congressional Republicans  Ann Coulter*  Tom DeLay*  Bill Frist  Mike Gallagher  Jeff Gannon  Philip Giordano  Alberto Gonzales  Sean Hannity  Scooter Libby  Joseph Lieberman*  Rush Limbaugh (Updated June 29, 2006)  Michelle Malkin  Scott McClellan*  Zell Miller  Bob Novak  Bill O'Reilly  Fred Phelps*  Colin Powell  Ralph Reed  Condoleezza Rice  Pat Robertson  Karl Rove*  John G. Rowland  Donald Rumsfeld  Joe Scarborough  Arnold Schwarzenegger  Laura Schlessinger*  James Sensenbrenner  The Stephenson Bashers  John Stossel  Strom Thurmond  Armstrong Williams

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JACK ABRAMOFF: This guy has been a right-wing maggot from Day One. His successful campaign for chairman of the College Republican National Committee was managed by Grover Norquist and aided by Ralph Reed. Abramoff later went to Hollywood, where he produced the anti-communist adventure film, Red Scorpion. When his movie work failed to set the world on fire, Abramoff joined Citizens for America, a pro-Reagan group that helped Oliver North build support for the Nicaraguan contras. On August 11, 2005, Abramoff and his partner, Adam Kidan, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on fraud charges arising from a 2000 deal to buy SunCruz Casinos. Abramoff also came under grand-jury investigation for his roles in illegal transactions in Guam and Mayalsia, for his involvement with the Tyco company, and for a particularly sleazy action that involved screwing Native Americans in Texas out of their money. It's no surprise that one of Abramoff’s closest friends in Washington was Tom DeLay.

On January 3, 2006, Abramoff pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, clearing the way for him to cooperate in a massive government investigation of influence peddling involving members of Congress. On March 29, 2006, he was sentenced to five years, ten months in prison.  OK, so that's one sleazy, corrupt lobbyist down, and about 37,000 to go.

JOHN ASHCROFT: Bush’s first attorney general, the fanatically religious Ashcroft got seven deferments during the Vietnam era. In 2000, he ran for the Senate, only to lose to an opponent who had died. As attorney general, Ashcroft held daily Bible meetings, anointed himself with Crisco, wrote and performed the hilariously bad song "Let The Eagle Soar," and spent $8,000 of taxpayer money to cover the bare breasts of the statue in the DOJ’s lobby. Since he left the Justice Department, Ashcroft has started his own lobbying firm, the Ashcroft Group, which pulled in $269,000 in client fees during its first three months of operation. Among those clients: Israeli Aircraft Industries, which is competing with the American-owned Boeing firm to sell a billion-dollar airborne radar system to South Korea; and the software company Oracle, which the DOJ sued to block an acquisition by Oracle when Ashcroft was attorney general! But hey, a little conflict of interest ain't about to stop a maggot from lining his pockets.

GLENN BECK: According to the website for Talk Radio KLIF, "Glenn Beck talks about the day's events with passion, humor and sarcasm." Which presumably includes Beck's description of Hurricane Katrina survivors as "scumbags," and his admission that he "hates 9/11 families."  As a reward for his on-air behavior, CNN gave Beck his own TV show in January 2006. Goddamn that liberal media!!!

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JOHN BOLTON: He was called a "treaty-killer" and a "guided missile," known as the "undersecretary for chads" and the "anti-diplomat." He called concerns over how many nuclear weapons North Korea possesses "quibbling." And former senator Jesse Helms thinks of him as, "the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at the gates of Armageddon." Daryll Kimball of the Arms Control Association said, "Bolton has confused...name-calling...with having an effective non-proliferation strategy." And John Bolton himself once said, “The UN Secretariat in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 of those stories today, it wouldn’t make any difference.” It sure is comforting to know that Bolton is now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations!

MICHAEL BROWN: The one-time director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "Brownie" so fucked up the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, that he ended up resigning his post. But that didn't stop FEMA from hiring him back as an independent consultant.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Where to begin with this guy? From getting into Yale through its "legacy" program, to his leap-frogging over hundreds of others to join the Texas Air Guard, thus avoiding Vietnam—and then going AWOL from even that cushy job—to his unearned lieutenant’s commission, to his various failed businesses, to the presidency of the United States, George W. Bush has had everything handed to him on a silver platter. No wonder he’s so goddamned arrogant.

DICK CHENEY: The real President of the United States had "other priorities" that kept him from serving in Vietnam, but has no problem now with sending U.S. troops off to die in Iraq. He also has no problem with continuing to receive a six-figure salary from his old company, Halliburton, while handing out lucrative no-bid government contracts to that same firm. For good measure, Cheney also told Patrick Leahy on the floor of the Senate to fuck off. And he still finds the time to shoot his hunting partners in the face! Dick Cheney before he dicks you.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: At one time, I had a lot of respect for Mrs. Clinton. Unfortunately, since she was elected to the Senate, Hillary has gone over to the Dark Side. In addition to her longtime support of the death penalty, Mrs. Clinton has adopted a wishy-washy position on Iraq, to the consternation of most Democrats, who want U.S. troops out of there now. For good measure, Mrs. Clinton also co-sponsored an anti-flag-burning law. Well, fuck you, Hillary!

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS: They impeached Bill Clinton because he lied in a deposition about getting his weenie polished. But they haven’t impeached George W. Bush for lying both to Congress and to the American people to get us into an illegal, unnecessary war that has killed 2,500 of our soldiers. Not to mention that Boy George acknowledges he ordered the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens. Oh, but why would the Congressional Republicans impeach him for that? After all, Bush is their guy!

ANN COULTER: "I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment," this succubus from hell proclaimed in October 2005. She also advocates the killing of people with whom she disagrees politically, and stated that her only problem with Timothy McVeigh was that he didn’t blow up the New York Times building. Coulter has further attempted to clear the tarnished reputation of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the mastermind of the red-baiting witch hunts of the 1950s. And an impending 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court apparently wasn’t enough for this bulimic skank. In a January 27, 2006 speech at Philander Smith College, Coulter (ahem) joked, “We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee.” Can you imagine the right-wing shit-storm if Michael Moore had said something similar about Clarence "Uncle" Thomas?

On June 6, 2006, Coulter's fifth book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, slithered onto the shelves. In it, she made astonishingly mean-spirited comments about 9/11 widows, including, “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”

On the same day Godless came out, investigative journalist Greg Palast came out with a book of his own, Armed Madhouse, which methodically exposed the lies, hypocrisy and corruption of the Bush White House. But was Palast invited on "The Today Show" or on Jay Leno, as Coulter was? Yeah, right.

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TOM DeLAY: After 20 years of treating the government like his own private ATM, this human dung heap finally came under indictment in 2005. Naturally, DeLay blamed it on his political opponents and insisted that everything he did was legal. Of course, that didn't explain why DeLay stepped down as House Whip in September 2005, why he decided in April 2006 that he would not run for re-election, or why he finally got the hell out of Washington for good in June 2006--but not, of course, without giving a blustering, self-righteous farewell speech. Hope you look good in vertical stripes, Hammer!

BILL FRIST: From Wikipedia: “[Frist] is frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, however, his potential involvement with securities fraud at his father's company may make his candidacy problematic.” Oh, I don’t know. After eight years of Bush and Cheney, Frist would make an ideal Republican candidate. And his cruelty to animals while in medical school earns him serious brownie points with the nutcase right; not to mention his expert diagnosis of Terri Schiavo, which Frist made while watching a videotape of the brain-dead Floridian.

MIKE GALLAGHER: In the summer of 2005, this talk-radio vermin organized a bus trip to Cindy Sheehan’s Camp Casey for a good ol’ right-wing counter-protest. Among the things that Gallagher’s fans chanted: "We don’t care" (about Sheehan's son Casey dying in Iraq). Incidentally, Gallagher himself has four sons, all of military age. But are any of them in uniform? Yeah, right.

JEFF GANNON: This so-called "reporter" received White House press credentials despite never having attended a real journalism school. An obvious partisan, Gannon asked loaded questions of White House press secretary Scott McClellan, designed to make Bush’s opponents look bad. It was later revealed that Gannon was not only a fake journalist who had changed his name from "Jim Guckert," but that he had posted gay sex ads to the Internet. Gannon later bitched and moaned that the liberals were after him because he was a Christian. Unfortunately, no prominent liberal had the fortitude to ask, "Who would Jesus do?"

PHILIP GIORDANO: The former mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut, Giordano is now serving a lengthy prison term for having sex with ten-year-old girls. Do I even have to tell you that Giordano is a Republican?

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ALBERTO GONZALES: Bush’s second attorney general has distinguished himself by referring to the Geneva Conventions as "quaint" and by telling Bush he had a legal right to order the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens. Funny how constitutional scholars all disagree with him.

SEAN HANNITY: Rush Limbaugh's Mini-Me has no fucking shame. Hannity's idea of journalism is to repeat a lie until it "becomes" the truth. His pimping for Terri Schiavo was particularly loathsome, but not atypical of this baby-faced demon. And check out Hannity's big lie about FISA!

LEWIS "SCOOTER" LIBBY: Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff and the first member of the Bush Junta to come under indictment for his role in the Valerie Plame affair. Sure hope his cell mate enjoys scooter rides!

JOSEPH LIEBERMAN: In the autumn of 2005, the senator from Connecticut went to Iraq and came back gushing about how wonderful things were in that country thanks to Bush’s invasion. But what did you expect from the "Democrat" who gave Bush a kiss on national TV?

UPDATE: After three self-serving terms in the Senate, Holy Joe has a Democratic challenger, Ned Lamont, who is quickly catching up to him in the polls. And how has Lieberman reacted? So far he hasn't, but his adviser sure has, calling Lamont's supporters "weirdos." Things are getting so bad, some of Lieberman's supporters (Yes, he still has a few) are asking him to run as an independent!

Hey Joe, I have a better idea: why don't you just run as the fucking Republican you really are?

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Since 1992, this high-priced whore for the GOP has kept his listeners ignorant with myriad lies about anyone whose politics are even slightly to the left of Mussolini's. He also insisted that drug users should be in prison. But when it was revealed that Limbaugh himself was addicted to Oxycontin, he somehow failed to turn himself in to the authorities. To ratchet up the sleaze factor, Limbaugh sent his maid to buy the pills for him. Pig Boy may have overcome the "big fat" part, but he damned sure remains an idiot.

UPDATE: On June 25, 2006, Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours at Palm Beach International Airport, upon returning from some R&R in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials reportedly found a bottle of Viagra in his bag. But Limbaugh's name wasn't on the prescription; instead, his doctor's name was on it. That could be a second-degree misdemeanor.

So, what, you ask, is the big deal? Well, in the plea bargain reached with prosecutors in May 2006 over his previous drug arrest, Limbaugh was in the clear only if he wasn't arrested for eighteen months after the charges were dropped. Oopsie!

Look at this way, Rush: maybe vertical stripes will make you look thinner!

MICHELLE MALKIN: When the right wants to project its bigotry onto the left, Michelle Malkin is there to help. Malkin, a Filipina, is a syndicated columnist and the author of two books of Neocon lies: In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War On Terror, and Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild. Journalists and bloggers quickly discredited the “evidence” Malkin presented in both screeds, but that doesn’t prevent this latter-day Aunt Jemima from spewing her ignorant, hate-filled invective from coast to coast.

SCOTT McCLELLAN: The White House press secretary, whose defensive, arrogant response to almost every question that reporters asked him often led to those same reporters finally remembering that they have a spine. McClellan has since resigned and was replaced by the Fox News Channel's Tony Snow, who is doing as good a job of saying nothing as his predecessor did. Nice going, Snowjob!

ZELL MILLER: The senator from Georgia insists that he’s a "Democrat for life," but his behavior suggests otherwise. Miller delivered a keynote speech at the 2004 Republican convention in which he berated the Democratic Party in general and John Kerry in particular. He also participated in a banquet and awards ceremony for the so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" to thank them for lying on Bush’s behalf. Miller’s turncoat behavior toward the party that nurtured and guided his career prompted no less than Jimmy Carter to send him a harshly-worded letter in September 2004.

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BOB NOVAK: This so-called "journalist" outed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative, thus putting the lives of her colleagues in the field in grave danger. When a reporter at the 2004 Democratic convention asked why he wasn’t in jail, Novak replied, "Because I’m not an asshole, like you." And in late 2005, Novak "resigned" from CNN to take a job at Fox News. Perfect.

BILL O’REILLY: The Fox News commentator who preached "family values" while sexually harassing a female employee. O’Reilly also  invited terrorists to attack San Francisco and continues to whine about the so-called "war on Christmas." Of course, he never explained how wishing somebody "Happy holidays" infringes on his right to wish somebody a "Merry Christmas." Bill O’Reilly: as worthless a prick as ever walked the earth.

FRED PHELPS: The ostensible reverend of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas—whose congregation is made up entirely of his relatives—Phelps also runs the websites God Hates Fags and God Hates America. For years, the Phelps family has traveled around the country to protest what they call "fag-friendly churches." In 1998, they picketed the funeral of Matthew Sheppard, a gay man brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. When the tsunami struck Asia in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005, Phelps posted "thank you" messages to God on his websites. Now, the Phelps family pickets the funerals of U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq, and they're even protesting in front of VA hospitals with signs reading, "Thank God for maimed soldiers."   Fred Phelps couldn’t be more evil if he tried—which I’ve no doubt he will.

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COLIN POWELL: The lies Powell told to the U.N. to bring us to war in Iraq showed him to be a coward and a liar. He sold out his own U.S. Army Commandant, General Eric Shinseki, and Secretary of the Army, Thomas White, who were both fired because they dared to suggest that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were way off regarding the number of troops needed to do the job in Iraq. Shinseki testified to Congress that at least 350,000 ground troops would be necessary, with "going heavy" as a requirement. Shinseki had the foresight to realize that heavy tanks and heavy armored vehicles, and overwhelmingly superior numbers, were necessary to do the job quickly and correctly, and that the need to put down the insurgency in its infancy required heavy ground forces. Shinseki was fired. When White stood up for Shinseki, he also was fired. Rummy wanted to go light and fast, and we're still seeing the results of that ill-advised approach.

Meanwhile, the one guy who could have put it all to bed was Colin Powell, but when he was met with opposition, he rolled over and became another parrot of the Rumsfeld doctrine--even though his 30+ years of military experience screamed otherwise. Powell turned his back on America, lied to the U.N., and used his hard-earned reputation as a straight shooter to mislead the world. What a maggot.

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RALPH REED: In 1997, Reed left his post as Executive Director of the Christian Coalition and reinvented himself as a corporate lobbyist and campaign hatchet man. One of his first clients was Enron--a deal arranged by Karl Rove when George W. Bush was thinking about running for President in 2000. Rove wasn't ready to put Reed directly on a campaign payroll, but presumably wanted to cultivate good will from Reed toward the coming Bush candidacy. Enron paid Reed's Century Strategies more than $300,000 to generate support for energy deregulation. In the 2000 GOP presidential primary, Reed justified his big Enron fee by helping to smear John McCain during the South Carolina primary. Also in 2000, Reed was paid almost $3.7 million for helping Bush. He also was in charge of Bush's 2004 election campaign in the Southeast, including Florida. Now, Reed is running for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. Bet Zell Miller endorses him!

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: The Peter Principle maintains that if you do your job well enough, you will eventually be promoted to a position that’s beyond your capabilities. Condi Rice is the Bush Junta’s poster child for the Peter Principle. In the first Bush White House, Rice was such an incompetent "expert" on the Soviet Union, she failed to predict its collapse. In the second Bush White House, Rice was so inept as the National Security Adviser, she failed to to impress upon Bush the importance of the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin [sic] Determined to Strike in the U.S." As a reward for her failure, Bush promoted Condi to Secretary of State when Colin Powell resigned. Now there’s talk about Rice running for president in 2008! But that’s the Bush Junta for you: incompetence is richly rewarded.

PAT ROBERTSON: We all remember when this faux Christian and his pal Jerry Falwell blamed the 9/11 attacks on gays, liberals, pagans and the ACLU. In late 2005, Robertson also told the people of Dover, PA—whose school board voted "no" on teaching so-called "intelligent design" in their schools—not to rely on God to help them in a crisis because they had turned their backs on Him. No, Pat, they turned their backs on forcing their religious beliefs on others. Which means they acted like real Christians, unlike your scummy ass. And when Ariel Sharon was hospitalized with a stroke in January 2006, Robertson claimed that God had smoted the Israeli Prime Minister. Robertson quickly apologized for his mean-spirited remark, but he always does that. Asshole.

KARL ROVE: This physically repulsive sociopath may be the most evil man in the United States. He has spent 35+ years gleefully destroying the lives and careers of his political opponents. In 1992, Rove was fired from George Bush Senior’s re-election campaign for leaking a negative story to the press concerning Bush fundraiser Robert Mosbacher. But Georgie Junior has no such problem with Turd Blossom. Thanks to Rove’s bucket o’ sleaze, millions of voters in the 2004 election became convinced that John Kerry—who, unlike Dubya, actually served in Vietnam—would be an incompetent wartime president.

More recently, Rove came under investigation for his part in the Valerie Plame affair. Unfortunately, it was announced on June 14, 2006 that he would not be indicted. And how did Rove celebrate his victory? By publicly impugning Democratic politicians who served in Vietnam--unlike Rove, who got several deferments rather than fight in the war he supported. Hey, once a maggot....
 

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JOHN G. ROWLAND: After nine sleazy, corrupt years in office, the Republican governor of Connecticut (who looks like Porky Pig in a toupee) finally resigned in June 2004 and pled guilty to corruption charges. Previously, Rowland's first wife had divorced him before he was elected governor in 1994 and filed a spousal abuse charge in June 1995, but Rowland was never charged with, or arrested for, domestic violence. There was a request filed under the Freedom of Information Act, but police reports not resulting in arrest are not required to be released. Lucky for John, huh?

DONALD RUMSFELD: One of the few original members of the Bush cabinet who hasn’t jumped ship, the smarmy Secretary of Defense has overseen a war in which the troops lack adequate food, water, weapons, and armor for their Humvees. In December 2005, evidence surfaced that the Pentagon ordered U.S. soldiers in Iraq to sell the war to the American people by giving TV, radio and newspaper interviews while home on leave. The DOD gave even  those GIs a list of talking points. And if that's not enough for you, the Pentagon also ordered soldiers who bought their own body armor to get rid of it or lose their combat benefits. Support our troops!

JOE SCARBOROUGH: He calls his MSBNC show Scarborough Country, which is quite appropriate. After all, the man's views are un-American as hell, so it only makes sense that Scarborough wants his own country, where he doesn't have to worry about such minor inconveniences as the truth. Or the mysterious death of his intern. Or substantiating his claim that Michael Moore is a liar. Or proving his accusations against Howard Dean.

DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER: This bile-spouting shrew spent years on her talk radio show bashing "sexual deviants" and berating callers who shunned "personal responsibility." (Never mind that her professional credentials are in family medicine, not counseling.) Then it was revealed that in the 1970s, Dr. Laura had an affair while still married to her first husband. She also posed for nude pictures, which her ex-lover posted to the Internet. So, did the good doctor handle this embarrassment by taking responsibility for her actions? Don’t be silly! She instead blamed her indiscretion on the so-called "atheism" that she practiced as a young woman.

So, to summarize: Bad, atheistic morality is having sex and posing nude for photographs, while good, religious morality is lying about having sex and posing nude for photographs, blaming your mistakes on everybody and everything but yourself, and making an excellent living by preaching morals and values to which you yourself cannot live up. Dr. Laura, you make me want to renounce my atheism!

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Not only did his parents belong to the Nazi Party in their native Austria, but the young Ahnold was quite open about his admiration of Adolf Hitler. Small wonder he's a Republican. In late 2005, Schwarzenegger, now the "governator" of California, refused to issue a stay of execution for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, despite massive evidence that the man had become a model of redemption during his years behind bars. Schwarzenegger felt that Williams hadn’t shown the proper remorse for the murders of which he was convicted. Never mind that Williams proclaimed his innocence until the night he died. Given that Schwarzenegger’s films often contained body counts to rival the Iraq war, I can’t help but wonder which of those men did more to encourage violence.

JAMES SENSENBRENNER: On Friday, June 10, 2005, Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) unceremoniously shut down a hearing that House Democrats were having on the Patriot Act. It was against the House rules for Sensenbrenner to do that, but who cares about rules? After all, it's Bush's America and the GOP is the majority party! Sensenbrenner's behavior that day was loathsome but hardly out of character. After all, this is the same "man" who wants Congress to have the authority to "police" the behavior of judges. He also negotiated the REAL ID Act in a series of secret backroom deals from which minority party members were barred. Sensenbrenner also led efforts to ram through that controversial act without a single hearing in either chamber of Congress; he literally rewrote amendments, offered by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and others, to make them appear to have been written to help sexual predators evade the law; he was so desperate to obstruct the 9/11 Commission intel legislation that he actually rejected language he himself had submitted; and he encourages that the Patriot Act to be used in cases not related to terrorism! "Drunk with power" barely begins to describe this sack of shit. (NOTE: Portions of this entry came from Think Progress.)

THE STEPHENSON BASHERS: In early 2005, Andy Stephenson, a 43-year-old voting rights advocate in Seattle, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. To get the needed surgery done at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Stephenson had to pay $50,000 upfront. He didn’t have the money, so some of his many Web friends created a Paypal account in Stephenson’s name and set about asking for donations at the various liberal websites. Thousands of people from all over the world made contributions. The $50,000 was raised in record time, and Stephenson got his surgery. But there’s more to the story than that.

Once the Taliban wing of the blogosphere got wind of what was going on, it went into full battle mode. These bottom-feeders did everything they could to sabotage the fund-raising efforts of Stephenson’s friends. The right claimed, without proof, that Stephenson wasn’t really sick and was just looking to put money into his pocket. One son of a bitch set up a website called scamdy.com, whose sole purpose was to make Stephenson and his supporters look like the Devil incarnate. Other hate-mongers made small donations so they could complain to Paypal that Stephenson’s account was fraudulent. Paypal froze the account, thus delaying the man’s desperately needed surgery.

Ultimately, they reinstated the account, but the damage was already done. Until the Paypal freeze, Stephenson’s friends had been able to shield him from all the nastiness happening on-line. But once he learned about it, Stephenson became disheartened. Those who knew him best said that he put up a brave front, but they could tell that Stephenson, a sensitive soul, was deeply hurting inside. Just what the poor man needed while recovering from cancer surgery.

Andy Stephenson died on July 7, 2005. Although there’s no concrete proof, those closest to him are convinced that the invective directed at Stephenson contributed to his demise. In fact, the FBI has opened a file on the matter, and a lawsuit is pending against, among others, the owners of the websites scamdy.com and Conservative "Underground."

Tragically, not all of the bile directed at Stephenson came from the right. A depressingly large amount of the Andy-bashing came from such liberal websites as Democratic Underground.

If you think your on-line behavior can’t have real-world consequences, think again.

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STROM THURMOND: In 1948, the future senator from South Carolina ran for president as a segregationist. At the time, he had a 24-year-old black daughter, whose existence Thurmond kept secret until the day he died. Guess your pecker knows no bigotry, eh, Strom?

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: The talk radio host who accepted $241,000 from Bush’s Education Department to promote the "No Child Left Behind" act. Of course, Williams never mentioned that inconvenient fact to his listeners.

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