Posted 2:47 PM by Scoobie Davis

Bad Karma?
I knew I would catch some flack for suggesting yesterday that the late Barbara Olson inhabits hell. On the one hand, it is bad form to speak ill of the dead. It’s bad karma and not very sporting because the dead can’t defend themselves. I don’t think she is in hell (I believe in reincarnation, so I don’t have any idea of her current location).

On the other hand, fair is fair. One of the principles of this web site is that I show more civility to people on the right than they do to people on the left. Unfortunately, that isn’t a difficult feat. Olson and her hubby Ted--in their heyday—were an embodiment of the politics of personal destruction. Ted and Babs would attack the dead with nary a thought to the pain they caused others. To compound their cruelty, they attacked were dead people who had no dog in the fight. The dead people they attacked were collateral damage in their depraved crusade against the Clintons. Ted and Barbara were neck-deep in the Arkansas Project--which can best be described as a massive dirty tricks campaign in which Scaife-paid Arkansans would report juicy details to Scaife-paid “journalists.” The late Vince Foster’s reputation was a major casualty in this Scaife-funded cesspool. In a story for the American Spectator, David Brock “reported” that Foster and Hillary Clinton were fondling each other (which even National Review’s Byron York admitted was a smear). Ted confided to Brock that he knew the talk about Foster being murdered was not true but he felt that circulating this canard might shake loose another scandal. Let’s also not forget Barbara’s description of Bill Clinton’s deceased mother as “a barfly who gets used by men.”

I’m certain that if Olson were still alive, she would be writing another piece of reckless hackwork for the Regnery publishing mill. For my friends on the left, let me just say that I will try to be more karma-oriented. For my friends on the right, when I get one percent as mean as Barbara and Ted, then you can e-mail me and bitch.