Republicans are bastards

More good evidence that Republicans can't handle criticism or dissension:

A "friend" of mine, let's call him Pepe, who works at a local political paper in Denver, was blackballed today by Republicans in the state legislature. The reason? He allegedly muttered the word "bastards" on his way out of a press conference held by the House Minority Leader.

Now, Pepe has no recollection of the incident, and says that to the best of his knowledge, he never said anything of the kind. Pepe is a man who works at a non-partisan paper. He's written fairly extensively about Republicans in Colorado. He's on a first name basis with a number of prominent Republican candidates. He's had interviews with Republicans, he has friends who are Republicans. I've read what he's written, and nowhere in any of the annals of his writings is there a SINGLE WORD that is biased or unfair to the right wing. NOTHING.

And yet Pepe's reputation was tarnished by several Republican staffers (who were all no doubt in cahoots) who called his editor to complain. Pepe, in turn, was forced to pit his word against theirs. He told his editor straight up that he had no memory of any such instance. He even offered to call the bastards and apologize. But the editor, to his credit, decided that the matter was closed.

Still, the pain of accusation lingers. And Pepe is of no further use to his paper where the state Republicans are concerned.

This, my comrades, is an outrage. Even had he said such a thing, who would be so childish as to go behind a man's back and complain to his superior without so much as an attempt to clear the matter up directly, and provide Pepe a chance to explain himself? Who would be so immature as to just wash the man out, without question or reference to his past or character? Who would simply defame a professional journalist so heinously? Who would even think that a man that mutters the word "bastards" to himself is even right in the head?

I'll tell you who. Republicans.

Bastards.