Tuesday’s Asshat of the Day

Without a doubt, today’s recipient deserves it for many, many things he’s said.  But Bill Colley of WGMD, the self-proclaimed “Talk of Delmarva,” has totally lost it.  He’s lost all claims to being a voice for even those who call themselves conservative in our state.  He has exposed himself as the jingoist and demagogue that he is.

During Monday’s show, Colley, or Curly as I like to call him, since he reminds me of one of the Three Stooges (and he’s as fat as his namesake), lost it.  I mean he totally lost it.  Curly was droning on about the “Ground Zero Mosque.”  He related that a friend of his sent him an email about St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed when the second tower collapsed on 9/11.  Curly’s friend went on and on about how the Park 51 Cultural Center (renamed from the Cordoba Center) “was fast-tracked for approval, yet nothing is being done to rebuild St. Nicholas.”  Well, if Curly or his “friend” would have bothered to do any research, they would have come across this – http://www.goarch.org/special/september11/stnicholaschurch/stnicholas, which is the official site of the Greek Orthodox Church in America and explains what is going on with St. Nicholas.  Curly ranted about how the government was not doing enough to help this church but was instead bending over backwards to help Muslims.  Hmmm, let’s see – a private, charitable, Islamic organization, that has Christians and Jews on its board of directors, raises money to build a community center in lower Manhattan, but Curly wants the government to pay to rebuild a church.  FAIL!

He also suggested, but didn’t outright advocate, that whoever works on the building should sabotage it by “spilling pigs blood on the door post” or by doing less than good workmanship.  “Oh, don’t be surprised if something happens to that building,” wink, wink.

But Curly wasn’t done.  He goes on about how those of us who support the building of Park 51 “don’t like our country and thought we had this (9/11 attacks) coming to us.”  His next caller compares the building of Park 51 to putting a Wal-Mart at Ground Zero (huh?) and Curly goes off on a rant about how Disney wanted to build a theme park near Manassas in 1992 and how it was opposed “because of the sensitivity issue,” and compared that proposal to the Disney cartoon Pocahontas, calling it a movie.  Curly – which part of cartoon don’t you understand?  The cartoon was not promoted as being factual.  But then again, Curly doesn’t deal in facts.

Here’s where it gets good, for this is when Curly lost any shred of decency he had left.  A caller named Collins was next on the line.  Now mind you, Curly’s M.O. is to ask the caller’s name and where they’re from.  When Collins gave his name, Curly lets out with a “oh, this ought to be good.”  Collins starts by saying that, using Curly’s “logic,” Catholic churches shouldn’t be built anywhere near kids because of pedophile priests and what they’ve done to kids. Curly, of course, rejects that.  Collins then asks him why he hates the First Amendment, stating that Islam is a “recognized” religion.  This sets Curly off.  Screaming at the top of his lungs, Curly shouts “Why don’t you just shut up pal!” before hanging up the phone.  “Why is it that I have to put up with you pimply-faced pukes day in and day out, you self-loathing liberals?  Why do you run down the flag and our traditions?  Go over to taxpayer supported communist radio NPR if you don’t like what I have to say. You and your kind are going to ruin this country and get the rest of us killed.”  He then went into some nonsensical rant about how Mayans used to sacrifice men and how that was once a “recognized religion,” I guess before the Europeans came over and brought everyone the love, joy and peace of the mother church – at the end of a gun muzzle.

Yes, Curly, those of us who are progressives, yea liberals, are planning and hoping that our country gets destroyed.  You rant about how we hate our country and trample on our traditions.  Which traditions are those, fat boy?  Did you ever wear the uniform?  I doubt it.  I did and I volunteered to do it!  Shaun Fink had it right (no pun intended) when he told you that the endless name calling by both sides, but especially on the right, showed a lack of leadership for the conservative movement in Delaware.  And by telling you this truth, you “fire” him.

If you don’t believe any of this, go to the WGMD website and you can listen to Curly’s entire show from yesterday.  Pay attention to the 4:00 PM hour.

My friend, Collins, wrote this on Curly’s blog page at WGMD and I use it with his permission:

“Bill, we are not at war with Islam. You go on about our liberties, but want to deny these liberties to anyone who does not think like you, agree with you and walk in lock step behind your banner of 2nd Amendment gun rights and child molesting catholic religious beliefs. You claim to be a patriot, but your words betray you. You only want to support the rights that you like & only in regards to people that are like you. Your xenophobic view will tear our country apart faster than anything that the Muslim extremist (sic) could ever do. Your hate filled diatribes are the fuel that lead to church burnings and killing of people out of fear. Your inability to have an intelligent and honest discussion with someone of differing views only high-lights the weakness of your argument & character.  You try to defend catholicism, but hide from the evil they allowed to exist & fostered. You ignore the deaths that the catholic church (sic) caused & even celebrated.

Please let us know when you are willing to have an honest & reasoned discussion.”

Alas, dear Collins, that day will never come, because an asshat like Curly has been drinking too much of the poisoned kool-aid that was first concocted by Father Coughlin in the 1930’s, then perfected by Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s, and finally reformulated by Beck-Palin-Limbaugh-O’Liely in the last few years.  And don’t misinterpret this, Billy Boy – even with your vile, ugly, hate, you don’t compare with the aforementioned fanatics.  You’re a mediocre version, stuck at a small radio station, in a county you’re so desperately trying to flee for greener pastures, and a bigger pay check.

Curly Joe Colley, you’re our asshat of the day!