Obviously not a Republican; I still have shame....

[osodecanela]

I have great difficulty even turning on Fox News. It’s never more than a minute or two before I want to hurl something right thru the TV screen. I know it’s important to actually be aware of the alleged news coverage those on the right are hearing, but the anger it provokes in me isn’t healthy either for my psyche or my blood pressure. Likewise, the right wing radio hosts like Michael Savage or the greasily bombastic Rush Limbaugh.

Can. Not. Listen. Calmly.

Limbaugh announced this morning he has advanced lung cancer. Under my breath, I murmured, “good”. A second later, a wave of shame for my response swept over me. I could feel my cheeks burning. I’m ashamed schadenfreude was my immediate response. No one should take pleasure in news of what’s often a terminal diagnosis.

Right?

Comments

[brian_bogue]

I agree with you in general, yet in some ways I feel it is just to feel that way, or at lest is karma. Remember that this was a man who mocked people dying of AIDS, who added to the level of fear and prejudice that people with AIDS experienced and spread falsehoods about gays in general and who encouraged people who were bigots and fearmongers by giving them a platform to reach more people. So no it was not the most positive response on your part but it is perfectly understandable

[zipperbear]

In the grand scheme of things, when evil people die, the world is a better place, and when good people die, the world is a worse place. Even if you buy into the right-wing ideas (that sexual freedom is bad, that poor people deserve to stay poor, that non-white people should stay in their homelands or on reservations, etc.), you can still believe that hate-mongering to promote those ideas is evil or uncivil.

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." (But, of course, justice and proper behavior are matters of personal conscience.)

[dr_tectonic]

Enh. In the abstract, suffering and death are bad, and no-one deserves either. But in the specific, it's a very good thing for someone who has contributed to much suffering and death to no longer be capable of inflicting more, and it is not shameful to be pleased at the news that such will soon be the case.

Would it be better for that to happen without suffering and death on the part of the perpetrator as well? Yes, of course. But that small added badness does not outweigh the imminent much larger reduction in badness.

[mrdreamjeans]

He has no problem with destroying other people's lives. The world will be a better place without him in it.