And Liberals have no lock on the ironic asshat award

Lest one think I’m suggesting that the idea of using offensively asinine statements that allege to support one’s point of view while fatally undermining the political principles one claims to support while being cringe-inducingly tacky at the same time was in fact a monopolistic practice on the left side of the spectrum, I bring up a distressingly horrible example of complete lack of self-awareness on the right.

Now you might think my asshat would be the gentleman I tweeted about a few days ago, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein who apparently got himself plastered and decided to go to some woman on the street and, doing Mel Gibson one better, not only shouted “Nigger” at the woman, but delivered a karate chop to her head. No, I’m not talking about him, he might be a drunk racist whackjob, but he is not my asshat in question. The guy plead guilty, so the guy is self-aware enough to realize he has some serious issues.

No, the hat of assness goes in this case to Bay Buchanan who has seen all the fury directed at this poor, misunderstood racist whackjob, and wrote in complete seriousness the following:

What happened next was a modern day lynching by a faceless, angry, ignorant mob who reveled in the collective assault on their victim. They had wounded an adversary and drawn blood — without pausing to ask how so talented a young man could have found himself in such a mess.

I am telling his story because Marcus Epstein deserves to have his good name returned to him.

Dear Ms. Buchanan, Marcus Epstein pleaded guilty to a racially motivated assault. Your long screed defending his actions displays the worst aspects of the victim psychology that the right so loves to make fun of. (I’m an asshole because my mommy didn’t love me. Society’s to blame for me killing that old lady with an ax handle. I have an addiction, that’s why I shouted racial slurs and beat on that woman.) Guess what, no one walks out the door and says to themselves, “I’ve had a perfect life so far, now I’m going to do something so far beyond social norms that it will haunt me the rest of my life.” When someone does something that fucked up, they usually have a fucked up life to go along with it. But, you see, there’s this nasty little thing called personal responsibility that you probably heard of once—

Oh hell, who am I kidding, the woman used the word lynch to defend this guy. This asshat is not just clueless, she’s the anti-clue. If she and a clue were in the same room, the universe would implode.