by Teh Nutroots & Damozel | Roy Edroso has a post up at The Village Voice about the division of opinion on the right about the end of the world as they know it:
When the end came, rightbloggers were at first torn as to its meaning.
One quick take was that Obama had no mandate because the conservative cause was so repulsive to voters that he really should have won by much more.(Runnin' Scared)
Hey, we remember that one. Yeah, that was good! And it was just last week. It seems a long time ago now, but we still always laugh when we hear it.
Some contented themselves with the cheering thought that Obama would destroy America, and then everyone would find out that they'd been "duped," in Dave Price's words, "into electing the least experienced, most radical, and most ethically compromised Presidential candidate I can remember."
But others decided Obama's victory was neither an accident nor an anomaly, but an indictment of America itself.
"Americans have chosen socialism," said Protein Wisdom. (Runnin' Scared)
We love the right wing approach to political discourse.
- Get bug-eyed with incoherent rage.
- Take a couple of straws left over from latest straw man you've been kicking around. Yell that you have some straws, and that you will be manufacturing lethal bricks out of them any day now.
- Toss straws at target. When straw drift harmlessly to earth, scream, shout, bawl that you have lots more straw in a box somewhere and that for each straw, there will be an impending brick.
- Hurl names instead of straws, in manner of end-justifies-the-means totalitarian thugs, in hope of stirring up lynch mob sentiment against target. "Socialism! Fascists! Dupes! Terrorists!" No hyperbole is too stupid.
- Pick up fallen straw; stick in hair. Wave arms. Gibber. Rave. Drivel. Go batshit crazy with panicky fury as target wanders bemusedly off.
Read Edroso's summary here.
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