Wingnut of the Week: Demented Debbie Schlussel
The leftysphere has always known ‘CostCo Coulter’ was crazy (h/t SadlyNo). Her demented screechings over Tinkerbelle’s new costume were an instant classic:
Either Disney is trying to appease “modest” Muslims or they’ve gone the way of the rest of Hollywood and are trying to make their feminine characters more masculine.Either way, the new and unimproved uniform and image of Tinker Bell leaves a lot to be desired from the formerly cute and feminine minidress clad nymph. The new image is butch and silly. […]
Oh, and now, there’s this stupid-looking visor/hat contraption, which I predict will, someday in the future, morph into a hijab.
Even so, I didn’t know that Schlussel was quite this crazy.
Imagine, if you will, that you’re a normal person and then one day a quasi-famous mentally ill blogger becomes fixated on you the way Gollum was fixated on the Ring. Even though she hasn’t been setting the world on fire lately, she has been on TV, on the Howard Stern show and she’s written for the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, & The Washington Times. Most people in the know realize she’s off her rocker, but how many people are in the know? How many fans does she have who don’t realize what she’s really like?
So this person, this quasi-famous mentally ill blogger, starts claiming you support death threats against her. She tells people you’re an anti-Semite. She calls your job and tries to get you fired. [..]
Since she was a lawyer, you even eventually tried filing a complaint with the Michigan Bar, trying to get them to keep her from obsessively harassing/cyber stalking you; it didn’t work. You hoped, over time, the obsession with you might fade. However, four years have gone by and it’s still going as strong as it was in the beginning.
This, my friends, is not a rhetorical discussion. The victim here is named Emily Zanotti. The quasi-famous mentally ill blogger I’m speaking of is Debbie Schlussel.
Wingnutsphere is lighting up as various people mention their own experiences with Schlussel (which is german for ‘batshit’). Although craziness is widespread on the right, Debbie appears genuinely mentally ill. Ongoing meltdown occurring as various bloggers post about this and immediately receive legal threats and abuse from Schlussel…which they immediately post. Schlussel shows up in the comments to rant, more hilarity ensues.
It’s the circle of life in Wingnutville this week.
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