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YOU READ THAT RIGHT, DEAR READER: This is the 50th posting of Your Correspondent into this his new blog, The Exaggerator--committed to not being quite the worst blog online, but trying hard to create a healing time and space beyond reality for you.
@ least it's attracting some traffic, thanks to BlogMad; however, I'd welcome your greater support. Especially so by recommending this to your online friends as are into blog reading.
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ARE THESE THE REMARKS OF A SANE MAN, OR ARE THEY DANGEROUS FUEL FOR INCITING the mentally-disturbed towards Notorious or Infamous Crimes? (WAARSKUWING: The following video contains disturbing content which Mrs. Grundy would disapprove of:)
These are the actual, vitriol-laden comments of right-wing talkback radio host Michael "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" Savage, who, of late, hath taken some sense of hubris in whipping up among the Great Unwashed as make up the lion's share of his listening audience a "patriotic" brand of Islamophobia.
BraveNewFilms wants to call your attention to same, the better so you can take Mr. Savage (t/n Michael Weiner) to task for such vitriol, never mind his "free speech" defence to same. Especially before some class of a mental case goes into unprovoked episodes of Islamophobic hate and Extreme Ultraviolence, in time playing the John Hinckley card as a defence. (Hinckley, know, made an unsuccessful attempt to assainate then-President Reagan in 1981, claiming he wanted to impress actress Jodie Foster to the point of her winning his affections; Hinckley pleaded insanity to avoid a possible death penalty, and is now under psychiatric care.)
Likewise with those as advertise on the programme; already, Office Depot and Union Bank of California have recognised the errors of their ways, and the others as need to be taken to task (politely, please) include:
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare (as in Advil, Centrum and Robitussin)
Stamps.com
GEICO Insurance
TurboTax
Chattem, Inc. (as in Gold Bond, Icy-Hot and Garlique)
ITT Technical College
(Please visit NoSavage.org for contact links and freecall numbers for the aforementioned.)
And under such circumstances of mayhem, what defence would Michael Savage have?
What would be his legal liability for such provocations?
Is he seeking to play the "martyr to free speech" card just to draw out the emotions of judge and jury, only to have them see through the lie?
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GETTING BACK TO THE JOHN HINCKLEY CARD FOR A MOMENT, Your Correspondent recalls where counsellors assigned his case @ Eau Claire County (WI) Day Treatment in 1981 invoked Mr. Hinckley's defence to try and stifle acquaintenance I was developing @ the time with the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, claiming that I might try a similar stunt.
In any case, the John Hinckley card is nothing new: In 1908, Harry Thaw shot dead architect Stanford White @ the Roof Garden of the old Madison Square Garden in New York City, eventually pleading momentary insanity (and avoiding Auld Sparky) when the jury accepted Thaw's defence that he so acted to defend the honour of his fiancee (and later wife), actress Evelyn Nesbitt, after reports in the yellow press of the time that Miss Nesbitt was tricked into posing nude for the statue of Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, as was a prominent landmark @ old Madison Square Garden (which Miss Nesbitt denied to her dying day)--reinforced by stories of lurid sex games among "the Four Hundred" vis-a-vis emerging Broadway actresses.
Do a Google on "Harry Thaw" AND "Evelyn Nesbitt" (in the form just illustrated) to find out more.
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YOU CAN STOP LOOKING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, now that his death in Iceland @ 64 years of age has been announced. (No cause of death was immediately given.)
Which (Ripley, take note) is exactly the same number of squares in the chessboard grid ... as was the title of the official chess magazine back in the salad days of the Evil Empire otherwise known as the Soviet Union.
Which also brings something of a sense of historic irony: It was in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavic that Fischer won the World Chess Championship in that 1972 nail-biter as pitted him against Soviet champion Boris Spassky, winning for Fischer considerable acclaim and adulation in the Cold War's depths.
Twenty years on, his repute would turn sour when it emerged that he violated international sanctions against The Former Yugoslavia by agreeing to a rematch against Spassky, prompting charges being filed by the United States against Fischer for Violating International Sanctions and his being on the run, eventually broadcasting anti-Semitic and otherwise hatemongering screeds on a shortwave station in the Philippines from time to time. (One particularly noisome specimen was one in which Fischer endorsed the Unfortunate Events of 9/11, even suggesting that the United States be "wiped out" and referred to Jews as "thieving, lying bastards" in the same breadth.)
By 2004, Fischer would become his own worst farce when Japanese customs and immigration officers arrested him @ Tokyo Narita airport for attempted unlawful entry on a revoked United States passport and the aforementioned sanctions violations, eventually remaining in Japanese custody for nine months before taking Icelandic citizenship.
You can stop looking for Bobby Fischer now.
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IN THE INTEREST OF (HOPEFULLY) ACCELERATING DOWNLOAD TIMES FOR YOU, READER, and avoid one of the traps which probably doomed my previous blog, you will note where the links in the online shopping section for Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk (qq.v. on the left-hand side of the page) have been changed.
As in having the widgets (which tend to slow page downloads, even on cable-modem connexions) replaced by more conventional rotating banners which, hopefully, should mean a faster download.
Please let me know what you think of this change, either through the "contact me" link or in the comments section, as you prefer.
