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I Didn’t Rape Tommy Christopher

Posted on | February 14, 2011 | 38 Comments

You wouldn’t know that, given the way he has obsessively hounded me over a single blog post I wrote in December when Julian Assange was arrested. Recognizing that my attempts to clarify were a violation of the First Law of Holes, I posted my mea culpa, dropped the subject and moved on, but Tommy remains fixated. He even brought his Mediaite camera into the smoking area at CPAC to do an “ambush” interview:

[3:15] “I believe in ‘Thou shalt not’ . . . Wait a minute: I don’t believe in heavy petting before marriage, so how the hell can I be accused of being pro-rape? . . . I was angry at Jill Filpovic for taking the occasion of the accusations against Julian Assange to lecture us, as if we needed to be lectured, about ‘no means no’ and ‘stop means stop.’”

Among the personalities in this video, you’ll notice my filmmaker buddy Ladd Ehlinger Jr., as well as Angel Fleming of Fleming and Hayes, whose colleague Shane Hayes walks into the video toward the end.

I’m reposting this video as evidence that Tommy Christopher is weirdly obsessed with me. Consider the vast and absurd disproportion: I’m a freelance journalist and blogger, whereas Tommy is political editor and White House correspondent for Mediaite. This means that Tommy is being paid a full-time salary to pursue his bizarre Javert-like vendetta against a “popular conservative blogger,” as he describes me.

Frankly, I think it’s the “popular” part that bugs him most, but at any rate, there’s no way on earth I could be viewed as an appropriate subject for the kind of scrutiny involved in this video, or in Tommy’s previous blogging about me. It is not false modesty to say that covering the “Stacy McCain beat” is below Tommy’s pay-grade.

Notice also how Tommy pompously declares at Mediaite, “As you can see from this clip, McCain still holds many opinions that I find objectionable” — which is rather transparently his main point: The unimpeachable righteousness of Tommy Christopher.

Such preening moral narcissism, the pharasaical desire to strut one’s superior virtue like a peacock flaunting his tail, is the inescapable essence of liberalism. But you don’t need me to tell you that, when Thomas Sowell has written an entire book about it: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.

One might describe the liberal’s typical pose as, “I have noble sentiments and virtuous opinions — admire me!” This is why they constantly accuse others of harboring malign motives (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.) and why nothing so outrages a liberal as when you deny them the admiration they so desperately crave.

If you’ve ever gotten into an argument with a liberal, you recognize this holier-than-thou game for what it is. One minute you’re arguing about a specific incident (in this case, the charges against Julian Assange) and then next thing you know, the liberal starts lecturing you as if you were a third-grader, demanding that you accede to whatever point he’s pushing. He throws out a hypothetical case or employs some inapt analogy that he thinks will prove him right, and if you call him on that, he’ll take the argument off in some other direction. This is when you realize that the supposed subject of the argument is merely a pretext, and that the real point he’s trying to prove is actually quite simple: “I’m better than you.”

Certainly, no liberal should ever imagine that he’s going to win an argument by trying to make my inferiority the point of contention.

OK, fine: Let us stipulate that you are in some sense a better person than one particular skinny redneck. Exactly what have you proven by that kind of argument, except that you think you can build yourself up by tearing other people down? At the end of the day, the facts of the case are not changed by your mere opinion, and you’re still an obnoxious domineering know-it-all who can’t stand to see other people happy.

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  • dr kill

    You would be even more popular if you could talk some sense into your new son-in-law.

  • Anonymous

    I believe the disdain shown by the recent troll attacks the less than kind reference to your “objectionable” opinions is an escalating trend and I believe I’ve discovered one possible cause of this phenomenon. The left side has no appreciation of the “spiritual” side of conservatism. Begging the moderators indulgence regarding the length of this comment.

    Epiphany of An Average Conservative (I know, sounds painful doesn’t it).

    It was in the dark days of winter 2009 that it happened. Obama had only been in office a couple months, yet I already had a sense of impending doom. But why, things couldn’t have gone hopelessly astray in less than the magic 100 days could it? I’d always had faith in our system, yet soon after the election one could tell things were getting worse. I’ve always been mostly apolitical but I knew I had to do something, ah but what, I thought I was already adequately prepared. Yet there was something missing a small piece of the puzzle, a stray bit of data, something….else.

    I was sitting in my chair as usual watching TV comforted; indeed secure knowing that my semi auto assault weapon was handy in the custom made gun rack mounted on the right side of my recliner. I’d found a full auto weapon in the same caliber on the internet. You know you need a special permit for that, free country my ass!

    I had micro waved dinner as the house was empty aside from me the wife and kids having gone to her mother’s house for a few days. This was very convenient as it had given me an opportunity to finish prepositioning 30 round magazines, taped together in pairs next to almost every window. I’m not sure why I felt I needed to do that, I told myself it was that coyote I saw in the yard last summer. Rationalizing? Maybe but as I said I was looking for something. Just couldn’t put my finger on it.

    I had only started watching FNC after the inauguration, don’t know why just felt as if they were as uneasy as I was.
    So there I sat watching Hannity, sometimes during the commercials I’d hit the mute button and whistle Dixie while drawing pictures of Mohammed on used sausage wrappers. Did you know they where collectables? At any road just as the “Great American Panel” was about to start there was *a sudden blinding light while at the same moment I heard a very loud and yet somehow distant voice, almost as if amplified, the voice said “I’ll show you Conservative”. Then suddenly I felt a sharp pain in the right side of my neck and as I slumped in my chair ….darkness.

    Such vivid dreams! I dreamed that I’d awoken handcuffed in and to a chair but could see nothing, whether from lack of light or being blindfolded I can’t determine. In my dream I detected a soft voice behind me, at first I couldn’t tell what was being said but the voice seemed to come closer and in the same soft tone that sounded kind of gravely, spooky even, but definitely in a slight Eastern European accent. It was an older man’s voice, and I heard him say “one can never tell with thiopental”. In my dream I must have made a sound because suddenly someone who I’d not heard before yelled at me. HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN O’REILLY? DO YOU WORK FOR BECK OR HANNITY he shouted. I don’t know what if anything I said, apparently it was the wrong answer because whack…..and my dream ended.

    I awoke in my chair the next day, the clock over the TV read 2:00 PM which is uncharacteristic for me, I never sleep that late. The TV was turned off, I didn’t remember doing that. As I started to stand I realized I had a tremendous headache and when I grabbed my head I found a painful lump on the left side that hurt to touch (I know stop touching it!). After I plopped back into the chair I sat there assessing how I felt not emotionally but physically. If you’ve ever fallen more than a few feet or run into something on your bike you know the drill. As I sat there I became aware of a sore spot on the right side of my neck as I touched it I felt a small bump a large mosquito bite perhaps. I recall wondering how I got bite at that time of year. I also felt somewhat hung-over, since I don’t drink this was particularly odd.

    I got up again and grabbed aspirin and some water from the kitchen, sat back down looking for the remote and saw one end of it under the table, how it get down there! (Pet peeve; leaving the remote where it can get in the cushions or knocked down to the floor) The TV came alive and as I scrolled thru the channels I realized Sunday’s programming was on Saturday, odd and I was very hungry.
    As I got something to eat I pondered how I’d lost a day and then the odd occurrences of Friday night came flooding back. What had happened and how did an entire day just disappear! Then I remembered the voice after the bright light. I remembered hearing “I’ll show you conservative” and it all became clear. What I’d been looking for that one bit of data was found. I had literally been shown the light and now knew myself as I had never before and it was so easy, so simple yet so intellectually invigorating. I was and had been for some time a conservative.
    Several days later I received notice that my application for a the full auto permit citing a 30 year old DWI, I’ve passed FBI background checks easily (quick) for work to get a badge granting access to a large airport’s runways (post 9/11) no less, free country my ass. By Adobe Walls

    *The fact that “a sudden blinding light” was caused by an ATF flash grenade in no way diminishes the spirituality or detracts from the pseudo-religious nature of this experience.

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    Is Tommy Christopher a numbnuts or is that an affliction that effects all Liberals?

  • Tommy Christopher

    I Didn’t Rape Tommy Christopher

    *sigh* If only..

  • http://twitter.com/biggator5 BigGator5

    I Didn’t Rape Tommy Christopher

    Who would want to?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615281575 Bill Hedrick

    The whole issue of “I am superior to you” is a bit puerile to start with. Also I have known great men, and the common trait of the best of them has been their humility. Truly great men do not need to prove their superiority, they don’t believe in it. They are humble before their Lord, and readily acknowledge when their failures are pointed out. That being said, they do not submit to fools.

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  • wordygirl

    “Such preening moral narcissism, the pharisaical desire to strut one’s superior virtue like a peacock flaunting his tail, is the inescapable essence of liberalism.”

    I’m totally saving this quote. Brilliant.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Brilliant parody, Adobe. You got the gg down good.

    Folks: this is really Adobe.

  • Pablo

    That Tommy draws a paycheck never ceases to amaze me.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Awarded the THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY at:
    The Camp Of The Saints

  • Joe

    You need Barrett Brown watching your back.

    Plus you guys can bum cigarettes off each other if one of you run out.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Anytime you try to use reason or logic with these people, they try to make you out to be a wimp, otherwise they seem to think you would be as nasty and combative as they are. Therefore, they are right and you are wrong. Why? Because they have righteous anger on their side, while all you have are wimpy little reasoned rebuttals. You must realize you are on the wrong side, otherwise you would be more forceful, more adamant. Therefore, you must be trying to hide your real motives. You must be a racist, homophobe, sexist, bigot, etc. And of course, deep down you despise the poor, in addition to minorities, and you are ignorant Bible thumpers. And don’t forget cowards. That’s why you cling to your guns.

  • Anonymous

    For the record I’ve never despised the poor nearly as much as I despised being poor.

  • Joe

    Adobe, that is scary how well you can channel it. Becareful, channelling teh stupid is like being cross-eyed too long. It might stick.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    You know what I mean though, right? That’s just the way a lot of these people think, and that’s why I don’t care for this idea of going out of your way to play nice and reasonable with them. It’s like going into a war with one hand tied behind your back. I believe in fighting with fire and let the chips fall where they may. That way, when something happens, like the idiot Congressman that resigned, you don’t look like you got egg on your face, you just go on and say, okay yeah, you were saying, faggot? By the way, I got this turdwagon that trolls my blog every so often, he’s a leftist pagan and he’s always giving me grief, calling me, among other things, a homophobe. So once I;m like “you faggot” and he comes back on me with, guess what? “You cocksucker”. I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

  • GoinggoinG

    Yeah, that’s a good one, Adobe. We are video and tape recorders that love to replay our favorites but when we aren’t doing that, commercials and channel surfing goes on all day and night. You know what’s even funnier than that is when you learn to look in your own head without thinking that you are deliberately making those words and pictures. Then, the sights and sounds show that the stuff taped by the mind is being made into new versions of them with hilarious technicolor movies with dolby surround sound. That’s the place where people go mad because there’s no illusion of making those things yourself like there is with the inner talk and the usual daydreams and such. We are sane…our minds are recorders that creatively recreate what we record, and that’s just the way it is. Now, if we were television, should we tune in, tune out, or turn off? Or, are we always in the process of doing all three?

    “I like to watch TV” –Chance the Gardener, Being There

  • GoinggoinG

    Yeah, that’s a good one, Adobe. We are video and tape recorders that love to replay our favorites but when we aren’t doing that, commercials and channel surfing goes on all day and night. You know what’s even funnier than that is when you learn to look in your own head without thinking that you are deliberately making those words and pictures. Then, the sights and sounds show that the stuff taped by the mind is being made into new versions of them with hilarious technicolor movies with dolby surround sound. That’s the place where people go mad because there’s no illusion of making those things yourself like there is with the inner talk and the usual daydreams and such. We are sane…our minds are recorders that creatively recreate what we record, and that’s just the way it is. Now, if we were television, should we tune in, tune out, or turn off? Or, are we always in the process of doing all three?

    “I like to watch TV” –Chance the Gardener, Being There

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Tommy Christopher?

    Yeah, buddy, that’s his own hair.

  • goinggoing

    Adobe had an epiphany the other day. He was confused, then flattered, then illuminated. Then me and him and Bob all ate sandwiches and drank beer. I had the crow sandwich, my usual :-)

    Oh, and I was buying! Bob made the sandwiches. Adobe didn’t actually eat cause he is on a beer-and-epiphany diet right now.

  • goinggoing

    I have always cared about people who say they are in pain and who get molested in return.

  • GoinggoinG

    I remember reading that Catholics have now added abusing the environment to the list of confessable sins.

    Apparently they felt the Southern Baptists were getting the jump on them. Of course, being Catholics they didn’t limit their causes to the environment only. Among others the obscenely wealthy have a lot to answer for, too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705855851 Joy McCann

    I’ll watch the vid, Stacy. But you did, in fact, say–regarding date rape–”you bought the ticket, Sweetheart; enjoy the ride.” It was one of your assholistic moments, and Tommy is right to regard it as outside the bounds of acceptable discourse.

  • Anonymous

    It was one of your assholistic moments, and Tommy is right to regard it as outside the bounds of acceptable discourse.

    And nothing in the world is more important than one’s punctilious regard for the “bounds of acceptable discourse” when discussing the sexual proclivities of Swedish socialist women who invite Julian Assange to spend the night with them.

    Pay attention, kids — this question will be on your final exam!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705855851 Joy McCann

    Come on, Stacy: you wanted attention, and you got it.

    You finally apologized on-camera for saying something vile. And so everyone walks away happy.

    Why complain now?

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  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    You didn’t really apologize, did you? Damn, I guess I need to watch that video. What did you apologize for, for saying it to begin with or for the “crime” of offending someone. If you think you’re wrong, that’s one thing, anybody can be wrong from time to time, and it would be appropriate. (For the record, I don’t think you were wrong, for the simple fact I think these women were full of shit). But if you’re apologizing for causing offense, you’d better be careful with that, because you might be apologizing several times a day. Hell, half of everything I write or say would be an apology.

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  • Anonymous

    Why do I have the impression that Manic Progressivism won’t be appreciating our spiritual side?

  • Anonymous

    Your name is deceitful in that you insist on coming back before going just as plague returned once or twice a century. Pity you can’t confine the coming and going of your hunting’s to the more epic time frames of your truly epic delusions.
    P.S. congratulations on finding in Service work again.

  • Anonymous

    The story doesn’t require “channeling” trolls in general or any particular species of mildew. I was trying to write a parody of the Manic Progressive caricature that the loony left see whenever they look at us. Have no fear, I absorbed the lesson that Robert Downy Jr. articulated in the movie Tropic Thunder.

  • GoingGoing

    @Adobe

    Why do I have the impression that Manic Progressivism won’t be appreciating our spiritual side?

    Our Lady of Spiritual Conservatism!

    Was that the church where we got to pick our own titles? I think I am known as Father Going Guns in that church, I’m not sure. I know that I am ordained, though, in at least five or so churches, not including my own now defunct church, Our Lady of Liberalism.

    BTW, being both a “friend of Randy_Rager” aka, alcoholic and bi-polar (only a bipolar II, I’m told, vs. Bi-polar I, not sure exactly what the difference is, but I think BP I is worse), I suppose I should be an expert of sorts but I’m not.

    All I know is that I can’t drink Grey Goose safely and socially. Disease or not, it doesn’t matter. No more Grey Goose vodka breakfasts for me.

    As for the bi-polarity, I was on a very nice roll for a long while (manic high–Oh what fun….at least for ME, if not for anybody else I ran into and “did” my routines for) until my new med brought me back to everyday depressing reality.

    Nowadays my dog is getting up at 6 and wants me to walk with her for a 1/2 hr. to get some exercise.

    Need more coffee…..sorry for the ramble…..don’t know what my intention is here……..

    Progressivism is a bitch and then you die, I guess, haha.

  • goinggoing

    Its fun to watch Robert Downey Jr.’s mock black character’s pidgin Chinese as translated on the screen when he was trying to put one over on the head honcho of a young Laotian war lord/heroin king pin, in the totally hilarious movie, Tropic Thunder.

    The movie is Absolutely Totally Unsurpassably Hilarious.

    Or let me just put it to you this way,

    Venereal Friend of Garrulosity says you see movie name of Tropic Thunder and you will send back many many embarrassingly weird complimentary comments.

    Get thee to a theater of movies or a blockbuster of dvds nearest of you and it check out.

    From me take it, Joe Grasshopper, regrets will not by you be had.

    Totally.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, tis unfair to get our hopes up, besides no one drops dead just to prove a point.

  • http://yourdissertation.com/ YourDissertation.com

    Great parody!! A little bit fun, a little bit ironical. Just great, well done guyzz

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    You gentlemen reminded me of a scene in Dirty Harry…

    Gonzales: There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you “Dirty Harry”?
    De Georgio: Ah that’s one thing about our Harry, doesn’t play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.
    Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?
    De Georgio: Ask him.
    Harry Callahan: Especially Spics.

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