Today's Daily Schadenfreude: this dude who sent me an e-mail

I love getting angry, pointless e-mail from angry, pointless wingnuts. It keeps me in fighting shape.

However tempted I am to share the writer's real name, though, I instead will choose to shield his identity out of pity. No one this ignorant needs to be outed. Besides, you might just find him on a different website someday.

No, strike that. He wouldn't be with a hot chick.

Anyway, here's the e-mail I received today from someone upset with me about my Daily Schadenfreude award to Robert Linger of Tampa's FOX 13 News:

You are obviously just another paranoid angry liberal where the FOX brand is concerned. WTVT FOX 13, while owned by Newscorp, has nothing to with the business of the FOX News Channel. They are separate entities entirely. Of course a liberal elitist like you conveniently paints everything FOX with one brush. The one and only reason Mr. Linger should earn your award is because he is in a high profile position, has a family and he blindly ignored each in his quest for instant gratification. Unfortunate for him it has most likely earned him a lifetime of humiliation. I think its time to give yourself a Daily Schadenfreude.

A question for my correspondent: How many times did I state, insinuate, indicate, or suggest in that earlier post that FOX 13 is part of or connected to Fox News? ZERO? Yeah, that's what I thought, moron. Look, I'll be the first one to laugh at myself when I make a mistake -- and I make plenty of them, I assure you. But today, the only derision I'm enjoying is aimed squarely at you, a classic deluded right-wing windbag.

Wingnuts, sadly, tend to come up significantly short in the area of reading comprehension, as I've learned over my time as a DFH blogger. At the risk of redundantly stating the obvious, for my addle-brained correspondent, I never said FOX 13 was part of FOX News Channel (FNC). I did, however, point out accurately that it is a FOX station, and as you helpfully pointed out yourself, it, like the FOX Network and its subsidiaries, is owned by Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp.

Sure, I know as well as you do that FNC is a propaganda factory for the right wing in America, and its use of "News" in its name is misleading at best. But the real power behind the right-wing noise machine that is FOX is, of course, Murdoch himself and the sycophantic, mouth-breathing minions who worship him and his twisted world view. Everything Murdoch touches, from FNC to his individual stations in markets around the country, ultimately is intended to spew venom, hate, and right-wing talking points, usually directed (like my correspondent's e-mail) at so-called "liberal elitists." (As Jon Stewart once asked, "Doesn't 'elite' mean 'good?' " Besides, few people are more elite than, say, Huggy Bear or nearly any member of the Bush crime syndicate. I always laugh at the "elitist" tag ...)

So if you actually were capable of reading, dear correspondent, you'd understand that my criticism isn't of FNC alone ... it's of the entire FOX broadcasting cartel. Hell, if it weren't for sports, I don't think I'd ever watch anything FOX-related, just because I hate the idea of helping to feed advertising dollars into the gaping maw of the lying scum who own, operate, and populate FOX properties. At any rate, Mr. Linger is a FOX (read: Newscorp) employee, and therefore it's entirely appropriate to point and laugh at his (and FOX's) misfortune.

Speaking of pointing and laughing, thanks for allowing us to point and laugh at you, Mr. Correspondent ... because for your lame attempts at literary criticism and your stereotypical Republican lack of reading comprehension, today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!

Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Judith Regan

Judith Regan, the editor who was going to give the world the story of how O.J. Simpson killed his wife and her friend - if he did so (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) - was fired today by HarperCollins. Pleasantly tying into the schadenfreude format is the fact that HarperCollins is a subsidiary of the News Corporation, which is owned by ... Rupert Murdoch.

HarperCollins announced the dismissal, “effective immediately,” in a two-sentence news release that was issued at about 7 p.m. Eastern time. The announcement was made by Jane Friedman, president and chief executive of HarperCollins, who has long had a strained relationship with Ms. Regan.

The Simpson book was to give an account of how he might have murdered his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald L. Goldman.

The statement said that the Regan publishing program and staff will continue as part of the HarperCollins General Books Group, but it is unknown whether that group will remain in Los Angeles, where Ms. Regan moved it from New York earlier this year.

It is also unclear whether Ms. Regan has been dismissed only from HarperCollins, or terminated entirely from the News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s giant media company. Over the years, Ms. Regan has gained a growing amount of sway within the company because of her ability to generate profits from books and other ventures.

Some of those other ventures include beating up the father of her now-grown son (allegedly); publishing Juiced, the controversial memoir of 'roid-superstar Jose Canseco; publishing books by noted wild-eyed lunatic Sean Hannity; having an affair with erstwhile (and married) Homeland Security chief Bernard Kerik (allegedly); and hosting a talk show on Fox News.

So, another wingnut gets her just desserts, and we receive the news with glee. Sounds like schadenfreude all around!

Congratulations to the newly-unemployed Judith Regan. This Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!

(Props to Karin for the nomination.)