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by Teh Nutroots | First off, I don't think Fox News caused Jim Adkisson to shoot those Unitarians.
If Fox News didn't exist, I'm sure he'd have found other crazy rhetoric
to justify the yowling demon inside him. I don't agree that Fox
'pushed him over the edge'---based on a certain amount of experience, I
suspect he jumped. Hatred of others is the disease; Fox is just the
symptom.
Continue reading "Far Right Rhetoric & The Tennessee Valley Shooter" »
by Cockney Robin | Somebody hold me.
Mr. William Kristol is at it again (in an op-ed disturbingly entitled 'Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid'). He is striking fear into my guileless British heart by his claim to have been frightened into an attack of moroseness. As the world now knows, nothing is more dangerous then a frightened, morose neocon. Think of Dick Cheney and you'll see what I mean. They're even scarier than the cheery, clueless types (George Bush) who spout neocon policy---getting every other word wrong---as if it's been drilled into them, or the jeering, strutting types like Karl Rove.
Continue reading "Cockney Robin is Afraid of Bill Kristol" »
Teh Nutroots| Well, this is no surprise. Here's Think Progress:
'On MSNBC’s Hardball last night, host Chris Matthews asked former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan if he saw “FOX television as a tool” to get the White House’s “message out” while he was in the Bush administration. “Certainly there were commentators and other, pundits at FOX News, that were useful to the White House,” replied McClellan, adding that they were given “talking points.”'
So...Fox = sock puppet for the Administration?
Mr. J.Q. Public [So Right It's Wrong] |
As the only right-winger posting at this blog, you can imagine that I
suffer a great deal of intimidation. I am almost afraid to write this,
as I am afraid that Damozel will accuse me once more of being a
'concern troll' and delete my post forthwith. Yet the subject is one
that is of deep concern to me and, I believe, to most Republican men.
I was very disappointed by this piece, 'White Men Can't Dance', penned by libertarian Megan McArdle in her blog ( 'Assymetrical 'Asymmetrical Information'). She remarks that 'for the last three seasons, the show So You Think You Can Dance has tended to be very, very white by the time it gets down to brass tacks,' as if this were a bad thing.
For centuries, white men---and, I believe, white Republicans especially--- who try to dance have been discriminated against, to such an extent that 'white men can't dance' has now become, to all intents and purposes, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Continue reading "Can White Men Dance? Oh, Yes, Ms. McArdle. YES WE CAN" »
by The Puppet Mistress | I think she has. Yes, I think she has.
Look at this: MoDo's account of Obama's meeting with Sarkozy, entitled Stalking, Sniffing, Swooning. Read all the way through it if you can. You may first wish to take an anti-emetic. It's more than a moderate dose of Dowd.
Sarkozy---excuse me, 'Sarko'---has a crush on Obama?
Continue reading "Has Maureen Dowd Got a Big Swoony Crush on Obama?" »
by Teh Nutroots | Via Sadly No: See Frum get very pissed off indeed
with Stephen Colbert for twisting facts to further his own [comedic]
purposes and to manipulate people's emotions. Huh. Here's David Rose, quoting Frum a couple of years ago.
"I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything."
by John Q. Public [So Right It's Wrong] |
I am afraid that this post will offend my co-bloggers, all of
whom are lefties. Well, so be it. This is another issue I feel
strongly about: the superior power of Republican 'tough love' to
repair our damaged society.
My lefty cobloggers have been roughing up John McCain all day about his campaign ad proving that Obama is indifferent to wounded troops and who---unlike John McCain, I'm sure---doesn't show up for committees. I must beg to differ: I liked it. I thought it was hard-hitting, aggressive, and manly, like a sucker punch.
Democrats seem to think a campaign should be about issues. What they fail to grasp is that issues are boring. Look at Al Gore and John Kerry. Why do they think almost half the country preferred Bush?
The reason is that he had a message and he sold it: 'I'm the decider. If you elect me, you won't have to listen to a lot of boring talk that scares you about things that make you uncomfortable, like global warming, the falling dollar, companies moving overseas and outsourcing all their American jobs, the daily violence in Iraq, the expense of health care and the lack of health care insurance. or the so-called 'housing bubble.'
Continue reading "McCain: Bringin' The Tough Love to African-Americans and the Campaign" »
by Teh Nutroots | I don't know which is more pathetic: McCain's pathetic, hamfisted attacks to take down Obama with lame little smears or the pathetic eagerness of formerly McCain-hating right-wing bloggers to dig up any information that might appear discreditable to him. Right wingers in America really have come round to thinking that the end justifies the means. In fact, they don't care anymore about what's true----what matters to them is what they can sell. And after trying to rationalize Bush Inc. all these years, they no longer know the difference between a suspicion, a belief and a fact.
On top of all that, Wingnuts are in general a trusting and credulous species when it comes to any information, no matter how suspect or incomplete, that they think will prove their points.
Continue reading "Sad Bastards: The Right Wing Smear Campaign Against Obama" »
by The Puppet Mistress | Jonathan Chait has an interesting article at The New Republic on the way in which Democrats, by preempting traditional Republican issues, helped push them into campaigning on character (e.g., trust, honesty, and the rest).
[E]very four years, we have a Democratic candidate campaigning on health care, the minimum wage, education, Medicare, or Social Security, and a Republican candidate campaigning on themes like Trust, Courage, and so forth. President Bush in 2004 was explicit about his elevation of character over issues: "Even when we don't agree," he would say, "at least you know what I believe and where I stand."
Continue reading "Flip-Flopping Candidates: A Reality Check" »
by Cockney Robin | Damozel at BN-Pol already covered the Berlin speech,
but a quick review shows that right-wing bloggers are
under-represented. With the help of the indispensable Memeorandum, I
thought I'd spend a little time gauging the reaction on the right ---
always a fascinating excursion for a simple Brit. [The views expressed
here are mine only etc.]
Fox News via the Newshoggers: dark-skinned Europeans (Muslims??) support Obama, which is a big red flag
Ann Althouse: Thousands of Germans cheering for an American candidate might be construed by some less sophisticated person to be a big red flag.
Continue reading "Put Out More (Big Red) Flags: Right Wingers Cope with Obama's Berlin Speech" »
by Teh Nutroots | We're all good people here, yeah? Progressives who want a better deal for everyone, less war, and more support for those in need?
Let's jump over the fence and see what's doin' on the other side.
The following are my notes on the posts, paraphrased to catch what I believe is the essence of each posting. I have provided links so that you can read the originals for yourself.
Did you kinow that Obama and no doubt soon-to-be-British PM David Cameron were caught talking when they thought the mikes were off? It's true. Damn, was it boring.
Continue reading "Bloggenfreude: Right Wingers Comment on an INCIDENT" »
by teh nutroots | This post at This is by Us (by ntrwriter)
sets out some pretty trenchant responses to the dumb-ass fake
"questions" and concern troll comments of certain very stupid
conservatives. (I found it through stumbleupon.) Entitled, "Who Told
You These Things?", it begins:
On a crisp September afternoon I sat on bench near a local park. A man, close to my age, sat near me and took in the sights of the cool day. We happened into conversation about life, family, and politics. I made the mistake of allowing a stray comment from my lips regarding the war in Iraq. The man turned to me with a sharp look in his eyes.
"Why don't you support the troops? Why do you hate our military? Why can't you just support the President's decisions?"
At that moment, something inside me snapped. My body began to shake and my vision blurred. I had heard these questions before, several times, doing my best to forget the ignorance from which they came. I turned the other cheek when people asked me "Why do you hate America?" or "If it's so bad here, why don't you move somewhere else?" I let them question my patriotism, call me a traitor, because every one is entitled to their opinion. I allowed myself to be marginalized and called a left-wing wacko, though I knew the truth. In the greatest democracy the world has ever known, I let them tell me that if I hadn't killed for my country, then I had no right to speak. But not anymore. (More)
Posted by Cockney Robin | After all, he's still the president.
I found these at a blog called Forwarded to My Inbox.
I am hoping the person who posted them won't mind my quoting them. I
never get anything good in my inbox, especially from friends who are
fond of forwarding me things.
by Teh Nutroots | Are these guys kidding? Man, I love Conservapedia. For one thing, it gives them a place other than Wikipedia to propagandize. For another, it's endlessly entertaining.
Although, as this post hints, its representation that it's "an encyclopedia you can trust" is a bit misleading in that it's an incomplete sentence. It should be "An encyclopedia you can trust to confirm all your pre-packaged misconceptions, fallacies, and fundamental lapses in fairness and candor."
But people who want news and information pre-filtered to "Just the news conservatives need to know" deserve Fox News and Conservapedia.
Come on. Do you want those kids playing in the Big Kids' field or trying to swim in the deep end? Be thankful for anything that keeps them on their own turf. If it weren't for those "sources," they'd find other ways to feed their preconceptions. Awesome.
by Blue Stockings | Why do people keep voting Republican? Check this comic strip out.
