Update on the Roger Stone Hate Group

Oddly enough, we were "visited" by Roger Stone not too long before the night in question. You can actually SEE Stone's snarky little comment here and judge for yourself whether or not he is, indeed a "prankster."

It was a little before midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 27 that MSNBC correspondent David Shuster hit the “Send” button on a curt e-mail to Republican rabble-rouser Roger Stone.

Days earlier, Mr. Stone and others had filed papers with the I.R.S. to form a “527” organization dedicated to educating “the American Public about what Hillary Clinton really is.” The organization was called “Citizens United Not Timid,” i.e., C.U.N.T.

“Hey Roger Stone,” wrote Mr. Shuster in an e-mail to Mr. Stone’s personal Web site, the Stone Zone. “Why not put your own name on this?”

Mr. Stone was in no mood to take flack from an uptight reporter unable to take a joke. Mr. Stone felt the suggestion that he was hiding behind the site was ludicrous. After all, he had invited reporter Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard to sit in on the organization’s planning meeting.

The next afternoon, he responded. “Hey David Shuster,” Mr. Stone wrote back. “I in essence did when I let the entire planning meeting be on the record for a reporter.”

From there the confrontation fizzled, leaving Mr. Stone, weeks later, wondering what motivated Mr. Shuster to e-mail him about C.U.N.T. in the first place. Was Mr. Shuster working on a story? Or was he acting out of—irony alert!—indignation on behalf of Hillary Clinton?

Let me hazard a guess--Shuster was just as outraged as everyone else was about this brazen and hateful use of the word "cunt" to attack Hillary Clinton. Stone probably wasn't too keen on seeing his name exposed the way it was--after all, he's after attention and money, and in that order. Shuster is a lot bigger fish than a humble little old blog like this. Stone was probably happy to see us talking about him, but a little uncomfortable seeing his meal ticket threatened by the likes of a reporter like Shuster.

Stone has no credibility and no standing with the Republican Party. He's like Anne Coulter--they pretend to be outraged by his schtick, secretly they love what he does, but is anyone going to stand next to him and proclaim him a valued supporter or employee? Hell no. He's radioactive, and consigned to third-rate commenting gigs and the occasional dirty trick parade. Too bad about the hair, Roger. Too bad about all the money you spent on that hair.

I didn't comment on the whole controversy over Shuster and his suggestion that the Clinton campaign was "pimping" Chelsea Clinton. It was a stupid remark, to be sure, and I agree with suspending Shuster. What I find ironic is that worse things come out of the mouths of Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, and pretty much everyone at Fox News and nothing is done about it. John Gibson can joke about Heath Ledger and Brokeback Mountain and nothing happens? Bill O'Reilly can weasel out of his contention that there are no homeless Veterans sleeping under bridges by suggesting that they're sex offenders instead? Choose your example.

Shuster is an excellent journalist. His work on the Valerie Plame case stood out for years as being above equal. I hope he gets back on TV soon and remembers that you can pretty much say anything, so long as you're Chris Matthews.

You're Not Going to Believe This...

[Is it me or is he going for the same look that the keyboard player in Duran Duran has never been able to pull off?]

Republican smear artist Roger Stone jumps the shark and crosses the line:

Stone wants everyone to understand the mission of the organization, simply and elegantly captured in its artwork, which Stone shows us. It features a red inverted triangle at the bottom of which, is a blue triangle with a white star in the middle. At first glance, it kind of looks like the Puerto Rican flag, or Captain America's martini glass. Stone designed it himself, and on second glance, it's meant to whisper, not scream, "special flower."

The text underneath it reads "Citizens United Not Timid, a 527 Organization To Educate The American Public About What Hillary Clinton Really Is." The artwork and text are, it turns out, the entirety of the "education." Stone says the website will feature an attractive model in the organization's T-shirt, which can be yours for a "donation" of $25 or more. And it will also feature a rolling tally of people who agree with the statement that's not quite stated, something like "the population billboard in Times Square that's constantly increasing because some baby is born in Botswana."

In addition to this website being blast-emailed to hundreds of thousands of addresses that Stone and West have accumulated over the years (working off over 170 different email lists of everyone from opinion-makers to political activists to industry associations), Stone is counting on T-shirt sales to further serve as "billboard education." He figures the whole thing will end up taking on a viral nature, thanks to the yuks factor.

"The more people go to the site, the more people buy the T-shirts," Stone explains to the troops. "The more people buy the T-shirts, the more people wear the T-shirts. The more people wear the T-shirts, the more people are educated. Consequently, our mission has been achieved." Though neither the word itself nor even the acronym is ever mentioned, "it's one-word education. That's our mission. No issues. No policy groups. No position papers. This is a simple committee with an unfortunate acronym. Addendums, deletions? Everybody's down?"

And what are we talking about?



Any Republican that does not disown and condemn this horrible attempt at humor is fair game. Fair fucking game.

"The truth is, we sat around for hours trying to come up with words for B.I.T.C.H. and just couldn't do it," admits Stone. "Try it," West encourages, "Start with 'b'--it has to be a noun." I'm stumped. "Bureau, actually," says Stone. "That's as far as we got. Now take it away, Matt."

Now, if you happen to think this doesn't cross a line that I, personally, didn't think they would be stupid enough to cross, I don't know what else to say. Any Republican who employs or is seen with Roger Stone for the rest of this cycle is fair game. I mean, this is gloves on the ice, jersey over the back of the head, roundhouse punch to the nuts time. This is clearly one of the most outrageous and misogynistic things I've ever seen. This is not some fringe member of the right wing--Roger Stone went to work for Richard Nixon at the age of nineteen and he's travelled in big circles within the Right Wing establishment.

His most recent disgrace? Threatening the father of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer:

Roger Stone, a prominent GOP consultant, is accused of having left a ranting voice mail on the answering machine of Spitzer's father, Bernard. Drudging up an old issue over controversial loans the elder Spitzer made to his son, Stone is said to have raged, "You will be subpoenaed to testify before the Senate committee on investigations … and there's not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho, piece-of-shit son can do about it!"

And let's not forget the real reason Roger Stone is so well known:

In 1996, Roger and his wife Nydia purportedly placed an ad in Swing Fever magazine looking for single men and couples to join them in group sex. According to reporting in the National Enquirer and the Star, the copy proclaimed:

C-161,787-DC* INSATIABLE COUPLE
We are hot, athletic and very fit. We are seeking similar couples or exceptional muscular, well hung, single men. She's 40DD-24-36 and bi. She loves to fuck hard and deep. He's 195 lbs., trim, muscular and 8" +. She prefers jocks, miliary men, and body builders. No fat people or smokers need respond. Send photo and phone. No photo, no response! We are interested in DC, VA, MD, NYC, Miami, and LA.

VOICE MAIL 12209

Stone has a deranged idea of what's funny. A lot of very creative people just found their motivation to respond, I suspect.

UPDATE I - Open Secrets dot org:

My, my...

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