VIDEO: Countdown's Worst Person In the World, June 26, 2009

By GottaLaff

It's worth the price of admission for Worser:

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Nobody rattles off a good rant like Keith. I bet he has lungs like an Olympic swimmer.

VIDEO-- Conservatives want to torture AIG: "Boiling in oil", "exemplary hanging"

By GottaLaff



Here come those family value conservatives again. Don'tcha just love their torture-y language? Aren't they just the bestest role models ever? Imagine if a Democrat had spoken these words:

While conservatives have joined in the mass discontent with AIG, some are taking their anger a bit too far. Yesterday on a local Iowa radio show, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) suggested that AIG executives consider committing suicide [TPC posts here and here]. And last night on Fox News, far right pundit Charles Krauthammer and his milder counterpart Mort Kondracke argued that some should be put to death:

KRAUTHAMMER: I’m all in favor of keeping this heaping opprobrium. I would deny them the bonuses if possible. I would be for an exemplary hanging or two. Have it in Times Square, invite Madame DuFarge. You borrow a guillotine from the French and we could have a party. If that’s what it takes to maintain popular support, let’s do it. But it’s not going to change anything economically. […]

KONDRACKE: I was going to recommend boiling in oil in Times Square, but look, because these are the people who invented these crazy credit default swaps that are leading to the whole disaster.

Rushpublics have this bizarre obsession with resolving every crisis with violence, torture, and bullying. The thing they haven't figured out yet: They sink lower and lower into the vast abyss of public opinion as a result.