It is astounding sometimes what the right wing punditry spews out. You may recall Ann Coulter, on the day after 9/11, saying that:

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

That followed by the suggestion that we go in to Middle East countries and kill civilians. Not only did she say that, but she still has it up on her web site.

Not to be outdone, Michael Savage is now saying:

…Christianity has been one of the great salvations on planet Earth. It’s what’s necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I’ll get here a little later, I’ll move up to that. It’s the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings. …

Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I’d like to see done to these people, just so you understand that I’m not going to be too intellectual about my analysis here in terms of what I would recommend, what Doc Savage recommends as an antidote to this kind of poison coming out of the Middle East from these non-humans.

Rush Limbaugh has also garnered attention by saying about the prisoner abuse scandal:

This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off? …

Even this latest picture of a dog and a nude Iraqi — you seen that one? A couple of Americans are holding — it looks like German Shepherd, some kind of vicious big dogs, the dogs are barking, bow wow arf arf arf, this big dog — you know and the Iraqi prisoner is cowering there in fear, he’s all nude. And the picture caption “Dog attacks Iraqi.” No, the dog isn’t attacking anyone, the dog’s on a leash. The dog is scaring an Iraqi prisoner. [gasp] “No! We’re scaring them, too? Is that allowed in the Geneva Convention?! We’re scaring then with dogs?” Yes, my friends we are. The dog didn’t attack anybody. The dog’s not attacking anybody. The dog’s on a leash. Both of them are. I’ve seen the pictures. … (35 minutes later, Limbaugh had to correct himself, as the article which Limbaugh referred to also showed the dog having bitten the prisoner.) …

All right, so we’re at war with these people. And they’re in a prison where they’re being softened up for interrogation. And we hear that the most humiliating thing you can do is make one Arab male disrobe in front of another. Sounds to me like it’s pretty thoughtful. Sounds to me in the context of war this is pretty good intimidation — and especially if you put a woman in front of them and then spread those pictures around the Arab world. And we’re sitting here, ‘Oh my God, they’re gonna hate us! Oh no! What are they gonna think of us?’ I think maybe the other perspective needs to be at least considered. Maybe they’re gonna think we are serious. Maybe they’re gonna think we mean it this time. Maybe they’re gonna think we’re not gonna kowtow to them. Maybe the people who ordered this are pretty smart. Maybe the people who executed this pulled off a brilliant maneuver.

Media Matters offers this look at 77 recent comments made by Rush that are offensive and/or outrageous. In fact, they launched a media campaign to highlight some of these comments, but have had some problems–like in Washington D.C. where WMAL refused to air the ads. The president and general manager explained, “Rush Limbaugh is the top-rated show on my station… I’m not going to run something that screws him.” WBAP-AM in Dallas also refused to accept the commercials.

Not to be left out of this high-minded discourse, Coulter is on the air calling Clinton a “scumbag” and “rapist,” Ted Kennedy and Michael Moore “treasonous,” and Nancy Pelosi “stupid.”

Right-wing news rag News Max says that George Soros “hates America,” is delusional, a cult-like self-fashioned messiah, an anti-semite Jew, anti-Christian, out to destroy God, plotting to undermine the U.S. economy, and to spread the evils of “abortion, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, gay marriage, globalization and other radical causes.” And let’s not forget his secret “Project on Death” program.

There is so much more, this is just the start, the result of just a half hour of searching. The sad point is that millions read and hear this and are not disgusted by it, but rather seem to think it is right-minded dialog. That is positively horrifying.