Example: Tony Snow's cancer announcement and the croaking toads over at Wonkette. Though there are apparently a few decent folks in the comments the rest just make you blanch.
A selection...
Dear Tony,
I hate you.
-God
Or...
I'm impressed by all the sympathy for a guy who sells out our nation 24/7. You people are stronger than I am.
Or...
Under the heading of 'What goes around comes around', the cancer in Tony Snow is removing the cancer of Tony Snow from the national scene.
Or...
OMG, could there be a god?
Or..
Cancer sucks and this is terrible for Tony Snow, but all I could think of was this:
"You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault."
Or...
I sincerely regret that Tony Snow has cancer.Ah, the joys of laughing at your opponents cancer, but you see if the "Right" doesn't get it it's their own fault...
The thing that surprises me is that the cancer can survive in there.
The Right's inability to understand snark -- that it is entirely separate from sympthy for the plight of a cancer-stricken man and his family -- is why Malkin and Drudge and all the rest will never "get it."
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