Quick, my darlings, to the wayback machine! Remember this bit o’ drama last January? We’re already aware that the white-supremacist crowd is already creating a higher level of security concerns surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration. So somehow it probably figures that Sean Hannity’s old pal Hal Turner would be out there leading the parade of nutcases …
Category Archive: rightwing hysteria
May 30 2009
What Hilzoy Said
Hilzoy explores Obama’s recent bit of political aikido, and gets right down to the heart of things: Seriously: Obama is a serious student of the civil rights movement, which in turn drew a lot of inspiration from Gandhi. Both Gandhi and the Civil Rights movement made brilliant use of the following method: you do something …
May 29 2009
Erick Erickson Loses the Last of His Marbles
And I know he’s lost them, because only a mableless man would compare Rush Limbaugh to Jesus. That’s right. Jesus. Christ. Peter, under pressure and fear, denied Christ not just once, but three times. Peter, though, feared death. The strain on Peter was great. The rest of us, though, typically fear the opinions of others. …
May 28 2009
They’re On About Food Again
Some kind soul needs to sit the Cons down with a good psychiatrist. They clearly have serious issues. Remember when they freaked out over mustard (not to mention the arugula and, well, pretty much everything Obama ever ate)? The food fanatics are at it again, this time attacking Judge Sotomayor for – wait for it …
May 27 2009
Sick, Twisted Fucktards
Since the right likes to bash liberals as freedom-hating fascists, since they love to moan about how cruel and mean and what a blight on the national discourse we are, I’d like to know how they explain this: Here is some rightwing loon named Ralph Peters: Pretending to be impartial, the self-segregating personalities drawn to …
May 26 2009
Seriously? This is The Case Against Gay Marriage?
Isaac Chotiner at TNR‘s The Plank tears apart an article arguing against gay marriage that is so egregiously stupid, so delusional, and so incoherent that one would be tempted to believe we’ve been Poe’d. Alas, that is not the case. Sam Schulman appears to believe his own schlock. A sampling: As part of the “kinship …
May 22 2009
Obama Announces The Ultimate Marvel Team-Up
There’s been a lot of pants-pissing Con hysteria over the impending closure of Guantanamo. We liberals have been quick to dismiss their concerns, but we may have been a little over-hasty. A closer reading of history proves there’s good cause for concern: Today, Glenn Greenwald makes a completely incorrect assertion: Take note, Chris Cillizza and …
May 17 2009
Too Many Cons Spoil the Broth
Apparently, poor people are supposed to survive on hardtack and swill: Tonight I read a post by DougJ at balloon-juice, who linked to a post by Matt Yglesias at Thinkprogress complaining about a post by Julie Gunlock on the National Review. (that’s a lot of blogospheric navelgazing, but bear with me). So what does Julie …
May 16 2009
Torture Apologists on Parade: Who’s Afraid of Nancy Pelosi? Edition
I do believe Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has hit a nerve. Newtie’s outraged: The other day, I compared Newt Gingrich to an erupting popcorn maker, spewing incoherent talking points in every direction. Today, he offered a good example of what I was talking about. [snip] “I think she has lied to the House, …
May 12 2009
Hilzoy Cuts to the Heart of CER
You’re going to hear quite a bit of insane frothing blather over “Comparative Effectiveness Research” from Cons. Y’see, they don’t want objective folks making scientific determinations of whether insanely expensive medical treatments, devices and drugs are effective compared to cheaper treatments, etc. That would mean that corporations couldn’t make insane profits, and we can’t have …
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