NEW VILLAGE VOICE COLUMN UP...

...about rightbloggers' baleful initial entries on the Olympic Games in Rio. I think they'll relax a bit now that Americans are bagging medals, but the past several days have been a real sputterfest for the brethren. On the other hand, they did the same thing last Olympics, so who knows.

Here's the cream of the outtake insanity, from Gay Patriot:

BTW: Sexual abuse of minors … when it happened thirty years ago in the Catholic Church it was an abomination that the church must forever be hated and ridiculed for. When public school teachers do it, it’s swept under the rug because Teacher’s Unions are part of the Democrat Coalition. When Mohammedan refugees do it, the state and the media play it down.

(You will not be surprised to learn that Gay Patriot supplies no links to evidence that liberals cover up for Muslim and schoolteacher rapists.)

How about when Olympic coaches do it and the organization covers up for them? Is it still a bad thing? Are Olympic coaches part of the coalition of the left?

I like to think this is a serious question on Gay Patriot's part -- that they consulted their charts and couldn't find Olympic Coaches under either the "Libtard" or "Patriot" columns, so they genuinely don't know whether they should be normal-outraged or aha-libtards-outraged. On the one hand, athletics are butch, hence rightwing; on the other hand, rhythmic gymnastics. Maybe they'll do a little research and call up Béla Károlyi to ask what he thinks about trans people in bathrooms.