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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:33 PM
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Wow ... I channeled into my inner hatemonger this evening.
Edited on Thu Nov-18-04 11:33 PM by Flammable Materials
It began when I did that thing I shouldn't do but do anyway because of the same genes that force me to rubberneck at car accidents:

I switched on Sean Hannity. He had on Ann Coulter and a liberal I don't readily recall, but it really didn't matter since Hannity allowed Coulter to repeatedly step all over his responses. That evil c*ntbag really hit a spot in my psyche tonight, and out popped this visceral-yet-lucid dark personality. For the rest of the 35 minute commute home, I just let this hilariously foul aspect of myself rant and vent, and I wish I had had a tape recorder handy, because it was freaking brilliance. The kind of thing I wish I could release as easily in a stand-up routine or at an open mic. It was like I had put on Jim Carrey's "Mask".

Anyone else have an experience like this? It was a much needed diversion from the depression I've been feeling for the past 2.5 weeks.
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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:36 PM
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1. LOL yeah that sounds like me sometimes
Don't worry, you're not the only one. I've said the F word many more times than I usually do since the elections. I've also become intolerant to intolerant people. The old "I agree to disagree" just doesn't seem to work with me anymore.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:37 PM
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2. I've been known to listen to Hannity when...
I'm already pissed and driving. I just scream at the radio until I feel all better.
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recovering democrat Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:48 PM
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3. Me, too.
Definitely, I have lost all tolerance for the intolerant also, but instead of turning them off, it is more fun to SCREAM at them. Especially Sean Hannity. I wonder if he has any idea how many people he causes to rant like this.

I don't call in to his show but I do periodically go to his website -an amazing commercialization of himself and his pals. He has really WEIRD links too. I am especially carefuly to pay attention to whoever his advertisers are so I can be sure not to accidentally spend money at any of them. Kinda miss Ruth Chris' Steakhouse though. When I get especially fed up, I send him e-mails.
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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 12:00 AM
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4. I think I've decided that my calling ...
... is to peel off the scabs and leave the sores bare and stinging. There's a lot of deep-seated resentment that a lot of liberals are feeling right now, but are afraid to give it voice and let it be heard.

I think I'm finally to the point right now where I just don't care. Fuck 'em. Let them see the hate that hate made. Make them squirm in their shoes. And if I can get in front of a microphone on open-mic night in Nashville or Bowling Green and vent like I vented today ... and manage to make it back to my car without getting killed ... I might have just discovered my calling.
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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 12:09 AM
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5. Listening to Hannity and Coulter and Savage, though ...
Edited on Fri Nov-19-04 12:09 AM by Flammable Materials
... reminds me a lot of the movie "Talk Radio", Barry Champlain (and his real-life counterpart, Alan Berg).

I really wonder when one of these guys is going to wind up a statistic.
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