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Home Front: Politix
Compassionate liberal discusses Tony Snow's illness
2007-03-28
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

I'm nostalgic for the day when you had to scroll down to the Huffington Post comments section to find something so beyond the pale. Today this appears from an actual official H-Post blogger, a California radio host by the name of Charles Karel Bouley:

CNN has decided this week to be the Cancer News Network. Just as it was wrapping up its wall-to-wall coverage of Elizabeth Edwards and the return of her cancer, the ethics of staying in the campaign and then every pundit in the free world weighing in on the issue they have now moved on to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and the return of his cancer.

I admit my bias shows with these stories. I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot? I know, it's terrible. I admit it. I don't wish anyone harm, even Tony Snow. And I do hope he recovers or at least does what he feels is best and surrounds himself with friends and family for his journey. But in the back of my head there's Justin Timberlake's "What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya.."

So how do I explain Elizabeth? See, there's my bias. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. . . .

Later in the article, the author goes on to proclaim his own virtue: he's going to be pricing solar power in the coming week.

Blogger Jim Treacher has a brutally honest reply:


REMEMBER, THE HUFFINGTON POST IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OPINIONS IN THE COMMENTS

Oh wait, that wasn't in the comments! That was in a post by Charles Karel Bouley. (Who?) Now, I don't want him to walk in front of a bus, get dragged underneath it through blocks and blocks of razor blades and broken glass, survive by some miracle, slowly get up and raise his broken, bloody hands to the sky and thank whatever higher power he suddenly believes in, and be set upon by wild dogs. I don't wish anyone harm, even Charles Karel Bouley. But like many this afternoon, I had the thought. My brutal honesty is terrible, I admit it...
Posted by:Mike

#3  "Karel" is the Czech form of "Charles." Guess his parents weren't very imaginative.
Posted by: Fred   2007-03-28 15:08  

#2  TU,

The full name is also a big give-away.

Mutters to self: "Never could stand that Charles Nelson Riley freak. Ruined Hollywood Squares single-handedly."
Posted by: Dreadnought   2007-03-28 12:25  

#1  Always check the bio. If it's more then one paragraph, chances are the blogger's a self important douchebag.
Charles Karel Bouley's is four paragraphs...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-03-28 08:42  

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