More on the fallout of Dana Loesch's "I'd Drop Trou" Scandal

This evening, we have more news to report on Dana Loesch's "I'd Drop Trou and Do It Too"  comment. Real Time With Bill Maher host and Fauxgressive Bill Maher (of which Loesch was a guest on twice) agrees with Loesch's violent assessment on the US Marines peeing on dead Taliban corpses.

NY Daily News's Aliyah Shahid:

Bill Maher wants to know what all the fuss is about.
The liberal, HBO comedian argued the outrage over video purportedly depicting four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, is being blown out of proportion.
Maher called the incident "distasteful" Friday on his "Real Time" show, but added, "A dead body is just, you know a f------ body that's dead and it just doesn't bother me."
He also went on to say Americans have committed worse offenses, like torture, and said it depended "what the people they were pissing on did."
"If they were real Taliban, if they were people who burned down girls' schools, and, you know, do honor rapes and throw acid in people's faces, I'm not that upset about pissing on them," he said.
Maher's criticism echo CNN contributor and conservative radio hostDana Loesch, who saluted the Marines on her show, even adding that would have been willing to join them.
"Can someone explain to me if there is supposed to be a scandal that someone pees on the corpse of a Taliban fighter -- someone who as part of an organization murdered over 3,000 Americans," she said on her show. "I'd drop trou and do it too. That's me, though…Come on people this is a war." 

From the 01.13.2012 edition of HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher:

Then, biased as hell Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit defender her insensitive remarks about the US Marines Urination Scandal.

The media wants us to cuddle with the terrorists. To reach out and hug the Taliban. To find common ground with the Islamist killer.Not Dana Loesch.
Congratulations Dana!Thank you for your clarity.

No, Mr. Hoft, we should NOT be congratulating Dana Loesch, but condemning her instead.


News Corpse::

Nevertheless, CNN contributor Dana Loesch (who is also a Tea Party leader and the editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart’s BigJournalism) took to the air to exacerbate the offense and defend the soldiers saying…
“Now we have a bunch of progressives that are talking smack about our military because there were marines caught urinating on corpses, Taliban corpses. Can someone explain to me if there’s supposed to be a scandal that someone pees on the corpse of a Taliban fighter? Someone who, as part of an organization, murdered over 3,000 Americans? I’d drop trou and do it too. That’s me though. I want a million cool points for these guys.” 

The subsequent controversy erupting from Loesch’s offensive remarks has generated a secondary controversy centered on the appropriate role of news analysts and the lines drawn for decency and civil discourse. Loesch, in a tacit acknowledgement that her comments crossed the line, sought to defend herself by claiming that she was not condoning the Marines, but ridiculing the media response. But the dishonesty of that excuse is apparent just by re-reading her statement. She explicitly says that she would do the same thing the Marines did and praises them for being “cool.” If that isn’t condoning the behavior, what is?
Loesch’s web site, BigJournalism has gone to work to absolve her sins, not by demonstrating that her comments were appropriate, but by attacking anyone who criticized her. They started with Politico, a news operation started by unabashed conservative journalists, and tagged them as leftists because of their article that merely reported that the controversy exists. John Nolte, editor-in-chief of Breitbart’s BigHollywood, desperately stretched to imply a bias by Politico because the article included this: 

“I’ve reached out to CNN to ask for their response to Loesch’s comments, andwhether or not it will have any impact on her role at CNN.” Nolte’s emphasis.Riehl’s evidence is an article by Media Matters that correctly observes that Loesch’s comments were Too Extreme For Rush Limbaugh. Riehl disputes that assessment mainly by changing the subject. He utterly ignores the fact that Limbaugh, with reference to the Marines, said explicitly that“There’s no defense of this.” But Riehl peels away from that fact to post a rambling quote from Tea Party Republican Allen West that also advocates punishing the Marines and says outright that “The Marines were wrong.” It appears that the fixation is on Riehl’s part to avoid the reality that the behavior of these particular soldiers was indefensible to almost everyone but Loesch. 

As for Loesch, her own defense that she published on BigJournalism was an incoherent jumble of phony patriotism and self-aggrandizement. Her primary argument was that…
“There is a difference in advocating for the Marines to break the law, which I didn’t do, and defending them from overly-dramatic hysteria.”
It is, however, perfectly appropriate to question news analysts who engage in a dialogue that advocates unlawful acts in the conduct of a war. CNN should take the responsible steps to review incidents wherein contributors bring disrepute to their network. But I don’t anticipate that they will. 

The current head of CNN, Ken Jautz, is the hack who gave Glenn Beck his first job on television. He also recently hired Beck associate Will Cain. These two uber-rightists share the air with CNN contributor Erick Erickson, who called former Supreme Court Justice David Souter a “goat-fucking child molester.” And it was under Jautz that CNN partnered with the corrupt AstroTurf PR firm, Tea Party Express, to host a GOP debate.
The hard-right turn that CNN has taken has landed them squarely in third place. And that decline is due in large part to people like Loesch. The American people are not looking for this kind of substanceless, bombastic, hate-speech from their news sources. They can get that from Fox News. And if anyone’s job should be in jeoprady, it is the person at the helm, Ken Jautz.

She's an idiot.

UPDATE: Loesch was disinvited (largely due to her offensive remarks) from an Illinois Policy Institute meeting in O'Fallon, Illinois yesterday. Maybe her comments were too extreme for them, but apparently not for CNN and her home station KFTK.

Petition for CNN to fire Dana Loesch: http://www.change.org/petitions/cnn-fire-dana-loesch

More coverage:
CNN's own colleagues condemn Loesch's vile remarks (DanaBusted)
http://justinspoliticalcorner.tumblr.com/tagged/Dana-Loesch
On Big Journalism, Loesch made a shoddy defense of her offensive statement about the Marines yesterday (DanaBusted)
Loesch's blatant Islamophobia strikes again by cheering on the urination of Taliban corpses (DanaBusted)
Loesch Cheers Soldiers Who Urinated On Corpses, Says She Would "Drop Trou" And Do It Herself (St. Louis Activist Hub)

Dana "The Devil" Loesch compares Secretary Sebelius and Democrats to "terrorists"

A few hours ago, evidence of St. Louis's leading hatemonger, sewer mouth, and CNN contributor Dana Loesch comparing Kathleen Sebelius and Democrats as "terrorists" was leaked, via ThinkProgress.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been pushing a “revelation” that she discovered $105 billion in mandatory spending included in the health reform law. However, the spending she is referring to was openly discussed in congressional hearings and by the congressional budget office on multiple occasions. On Dana Loesch’s Tuesday broadcast of her radio show, Bachmann gave an interview discussing the issue. Responding to Bachmann’s manufactured controversy, Loesch compared negotiating with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other health reform advocates to negotiating with “terrorists.” Bachmann didn’t skip a beat, and continued on with the conversation:

BACHMANN: Kathleen Sebelius has a sixteen billion-dollar slush fund to do with as she will. [...] It’s another reason we have to repeal Obamacare, and another reason we have to defund it. But they decided they were smarter than all of us, and they surreptitiously or deceitfully hid that $105 billion dollars and I say give the money back.

DANA LOESCH: Absolutely. Well I hope that you are successful in negotiating. I feel like we’re negotiating, and I’m just going to say this, I feel like we’re negotiating, sort of, with, it seems like terrorists to do this to our economy, especially right now. Quite honestly it does. That you would be able to–

BACHMANN: And also we’re having a meeting today about an hour and a half from now at 5:30 eastern time with members of Congress because a lot of members didn’t even realize this or didn’t even know about this. And so we’re talking to members and we’re also talking about this concept of demanding that they give the money back before we go any further in these budget negotiations. We’ve acted in good faith, and Obama hasn’t. [...] You’re awesome Dana, thank you.

Of course, her guest, Teahadist looncase Michele Bachmann (R-MN06) supports Loesch's vile rant. And typical of Dana The Devil, her loonytunes antics will get worse as time goes on.


From the 03.08.2011 edition of KFTK's The Dana Show:



She is scheduled to be on tonight's Real Time w/ Bill Maher. She was owned the last time she was on the show.

Dana Loesch on Real Time w/ Bill Maher

From johntully's Daily Kos diary: Last night on Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Teahadist hack Dana Loesch, John Legend, Daily Kos blogger (which I blog on) Markos Moulitsas, Wall Street Journal's Dan Neil, and Al Sharpton were the guests.

I watched the whole thing, and Dana Loesch got her ass slapped silly for being a liar. John Legend, Dan Neil, and Markos Moulitsas all owned this narrow-minded bigoted assclown. She even tried to claim that she is an Independent (like Bill O'Reilly), but she's really a GOP watercarrier.


A few Kossacks thought that Maher went soft on Dana, but she lied on her own.

Video for those who missed the show:

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Overtime:

Ep. 193: October 15, 2010 - Overtime

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St. Louis Activist Hub: Dana Loesch on Bill Maher

Conservatives think she did great, because they don't care at all whether anything she said was true. Liberals like myself think she looked ridiculous. Either way, it certainly was entertaining:

I agree with Adam Shriver on this. Loesch, as usual, had to resort to GOP Talking Points.

Mediaite (which has a Righty bias) had this:

Real Time host Bill Maher, who normally says “teabagger” more frequently than a foreman on a Lipton assembly line, was on his best behavior last night for “Tea Party Person” (and Hottest Conservative New Media Woman) Dana Loesch. Both he and DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas, another aficionado of the term, studiously avoided using the Tea Party-coined-then-rejected appellation throughout most of the show, obviously in deference to Loesch.

Maher did slip up near the end, though, and Tea Partier Loesch let him have it with both bags.

When Maher first introduced Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch as a “Tea Party Person,” the stage was set for some kind of showdown. Both Maher and panelist Markos Moulitsas are full-throated users of the term “teabagger,” so even if both of them managed to control the urge to whip out the mocking term, it seemed likely that Loesch might confront them about it anyway. As it turns out, Maher “let one go” toward the end of the show, and Loesch pounced:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tea-party-person-dana-loesch-throws-teabagger-back-in-bill-mahers-face/

If anything, Kos and Maher should've called her a "Teabagger" just to piss her off more.


Finally, the right-wing idiots over at Mike Anderson's STLMedia.net boards banned me yet again, simply for telling the truth, which was that Dana The Diva got owned.

DanaBusted.com EXCLUSIVE: Loesch named Editor-in-Chief at Big Journalism

St. Louis's Teabagger Hack Dana Loesch is now the Editor-In-Chief for BigJournalism. Loesch is still expected to work for PJTV, in addition to spewing hate on KFTK daily on The Dana Show.
Too bad Dana can't turn the comments off on her blogs over at Breitfart's sites, like she can over at her blogs (Mamalogues and DanaRadio). There was one hatemail piece earlier this week that tore her apart for NOT allowing comments on her blogs, unlike most Conservative blogs.


=== From DanaRadio.com:

That also means some changes here. This site will now be strictly related to issues, programming notes, and news about my daily show. Daily content on issues of the day will be featured on the Big sites.

== From Michael Walsh at BigJournalism.com:

This is my last post as Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism.

A year ago this month, Andrew Breitbart and I, along with the rest of the team at Breitbart.com, began planning this site, designing the logo and the layout, recruiting the writers and generally establishing the tone of a new conservative website devoted to all matters media, including the Mainstream Media, New Media and the blogosphere, and the intersection of politics, culture and the press. We launched on Jan. 6, 2009, and we’ve never looked back.

Dana Loesch, whom you all know from her work not only as a blogger and St. Louis radio personality but also as a force in the Tea Party, will guide you on our collective journey from here on out. Please join with me in wishing her nothing but the best.

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That means Media Matters and other Left-wing blogs (including this one and St. Louis Activist Hub) will be going after Loesch a lot more often now than ever before. Her star is rising in Conservative/Teahadist circles. She will have a ton of clout over at Breitbart's hate chamber.

== Other Loesch-related news:
Dana Loesch is scheduled to be on Real Time With Bill Maher this Friday night on HBO.
Mike Anderson at STLMedia.net, praising Loesch:

HBO's Bill Maher will host KFTK/STL's Dana Loesch next Friday. Here are my recommendations for STL's conservative champion...

1. Understand that Maher hates women. Not just conservative women, Maher hates all women. This is a guy who trolls the Playboy Mansion for whores, by Hefner's invitation, and has just one use for them. Maher is a pig. He's dismissive of most conservative ideas but especially when expressed by a female. And the more attractive they are, the more dismissive he is.

3. Dana must do the Hillary Thing, changing her trope from the "good old girl" to one of moderate sophistication. No use of "y'all," at all. The show will be presented before a live audience in Los Angeles and they will have their semi-intellectual claws out. Left coasties think Heartlanders are nothing but White trash non-thinkers.

Mike Anderson, what kind of Dana-loving person are you?! You and your forum at STLMedia.net is CLEARLY biased as hell towards Republicans. Maher hates women claim is patently false.


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