Also, Palin Has Magical Powers Or Something
After seeing Markos' description of the NRO pundits yesterday, I don't even dare look at the conservative pundit "wisdom" today. And why bother? I'm sure we could make up stuff that sounds close...
View Articlewhat is being said "over there"
It has been a great week for the Obama team. Sadly this has co-incided with the most serious economic crisis in 3 generations. It is a real credit to this community that we have not rejoiced in this...
View ArticleNRO to Middle Class - "You're Doing Great. Now Stop Whining and Vote McCain"
There's nothig quite so confusing as competing chants of "Throw the Bums Out and "Four More Years" coming from the same crowd. Conservatives have gotten a view of the consequences of conservative...
View ArticleAlert: here come the neocons linking Iran & 9/11
The drumbeat from the neocons is starting to get louder, and now it's Iran who had something to do with 9/11.Right now this is from Israel Today which is also being reported in "CrossAction News",...
View Articleright wing blog morale check
Last week I posted a diary commenting on the state of morale over on the otherside of the blogosphere. While not generating a lot of comments those that did requested I update them from time to time.
View ArticleRight Wing blog Morale Check
Thanks to all of those who have commented on my past diaries on this subject. My purpose here is to provide a brief assessment of the state of morale on the dark side of the blogosphere. Many, and...
View ArticleNRO's Latest Rape Kit Howler
Jim Geraghty over at NRO selectively cuts and pastes from Alaska legislative history on HB 270, the 2000 bill that prohibited victims of sexual assaults or their insurance companies from being billed...
View ArticleConservative Columnist - "Drop Out Sarah!"
Kathleen Parker at National Review Online states what many other conservatives have been hinting at - DROP OUT OF THE RACE, SARAH!Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She...
View Article"Central Ohioans Against Terrorism" Gets the Facts and the Law Wrong
Cross-posted from Asian Americans for Obama:A blog called "Central Ohioans Against Terrorism" (COAT) is apparently working itself into a frenzy over information we posted here about voter registration...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Corner (Prologue)
I've always been right-leaning, for the most part. Truth be told, I seem to fall closest in line with libertarianism (I know what you're thinking... and no... I'm not going to go on a 1200 word...
View ArticleMy Letter to Stanley Kurtz / NRO / "Wright 101"
Below is my response to a piece by Stanley Kurtz for the National Review Online entitled "Wright 101".
View ArticleNRO: Obama's Mom Would Have Chosen to Abort....
Wanna see just what sort of sewer scum writes for the NRO? When I first ran across this piece of garbage, I was dumbfounded. If you think you've seen or heard everything try this little item on for...
View ArticleNRO's Ed Whelan backtracks: I never said Obama's mother should have aborted
him...Into fine pretzels do these conservative writers sometime twist themselves.By trying to argue that Obama should be grateful for having the opportunity to run as president of the United States he...
View ArticleDuran Duran is a fake voter - oops- except he's real!
Geraghty at the National Review reports that the New Mexico Republican party who claim that "28 out of 92 votes cast in the NM Democratic Primary appear fake". They cite a voter named Duran...
View ArticleYou can't spell "wrong" without "NRO"
Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online is like a friggin' genius or something...
View ArticleRich Lowry Crucifies McCain
Well, the death throes are officially here. Rich Lowry blisters McCain in this recent piece. This is the same guy that may go blind as a result of his crush on Sarah Palin. Palin 2012 has officially...
View ArticleReading the National Review makes me so happy
I just finished a NRO article on "Obama and the Supreme Court" and I am so inspired - ever since Obama's numbers have improved, I read the National Review to remind myself what a great president he has...
View ArticleNRO: We want the "legend"
One of the great lines in the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence is: When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Perhaps, nothing reveals the difference between right and left in this country...
View ArticleNRO "Top 25 Conservative Movies"- Hilarious Failure
Are you the sort of person whose movie viewing habits are determined solely by arbitrarily-placed partisan values? If so, your day has come! The writers of National Review Online have taken it upon...
View ArticleNRO: "the best GOP spokesman right now appears to be"....
Larry Kudlow over at NRO has discovered the key to a GOP comeback. He knows who can lead Republicans back to power. Indeed, just as the GOP's fortunes seem to sink further every day, Mr. Kudlow has...
View ArticleJonah's Spankful Fantasy - Cheney-Gramm 2008
Jonah commits the crime of punditry and once again proves the old adage that while dumb is only skin deep and correctable, stupid goes straight to the bone.
View ArticleNRO on Madoff: Give Him a Break
Oh please, 2012 candidates and Republicans of all stripes, take up this cause! Listen to Eli Lehrer of your favorite right-wing website, the National Review Online!Yes, Mr. Lehrer is taking the side...
View ArticleNRO's Andy McCarthy Cries, Lies About Obama's ASG Pitch
In one of the most exciting moments of last night's MLB All-Star Game, President Obama threw out the 1st pitch, the first President to do so at an ASG since Gerald Ford. It was a great moment for...
View ArticleTaking a Punch from the Right Wing
Washington I’ve often told this story. It’s about a big, rookie mistake I made as a green organizer of 20 years old trying to figure out how to be head organizer of Massachusetts Welfare Rights...
View ArticleConservatives: 'Teabagger is our N-Word'
In a piece in latest issue of The National Review, columnist Jay Nordlinger argues that the use of the word 'teabagger' is equal to the use of the N-word.Yes, you read that right. Teabagger = the...
View ArticleNational Review Online's Advice: Release the detainees...and kill them!
Well, it seems that the National Review's online counterpart is now in on the right wing cluster**** about the failed underwear bomber attack. Gingrich called ending civilian criminal charges on...
View ArticleThe Public Menace of Private Planes
In the privileged world of private aviation, there are no pat-downs or porno scanners. In fact, there is hardly any security at all. Jeffrey Goldberg reveals his experience in The Atlantic:I do not...
View ArticleSupreme Court Points to Area 51 Secrets: Stealth Drones
Curiously, the Supreme Court's opinion re the A-12 closely matched the release of Anne Jacobson's book, Area 51.It's interesting to use Jacobson's book to read between the lines in the Supreme Court...
View ArticleNot Wikileaks: Planned Massive Disclosure of Incriminating Law Enforcement,...
LulzSec announced plans to disclose interesting national security, intelligence, and law enforcement sensitive information.It remains unclear how the information will complement information available...
View ArticleProsser is the Victim of (wait for it) George Soros!
Yes, once more, if a Republican acts badly, rest assured come conservative website will find a way to blame that perennial bogeyman of the right --George Soros. Now first along comes Christan...
View ArticleHilarious music video on Romney: Phony
A writer over at NRO's Corner posted a music video about Willard Romney, saying thatThis remix, “Phony,” sums up Mitt Romney’s problem
View ArticleDerbyshire out at National Review -- Dang!
Well, National Review has canned John "Call Ahead to Make Sure There's not Too Many Black People There" Derbyshire. His crime? Being too overt a racist, according to Rich Lowry:His latest provocation,...
View ArticleThe racist Derbyshire, is done at NRO
Just a simple posting from Rich Lowry.H/T to John Cole @ Balloon Juice.
View ArticleO'Sullivan and "Behind the Shed" Justice
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not,...
View ArticleConservative meltdown @ NRO over Michelle Obama's powerful brilliance
Everything about Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention is so obviously superior to the travesty that was the Republican National Convention that the only possible conservative...
View ArticleRecipe for Thanksgiving Tranquility
To the very long list of reasons we have to give thanks that the election of 2012 has mercifully concluded we can add the holiday that’s coming up, which has become famous for throwing together...
View ArticleI Don't Understand the Right
The other day I put up a paragraph from a blog post by Bill Maher up as my facebook status:"We all read what Trump said about Obama's election, as well as Ted Nugent and Victoria Jackson. I'm just...
View ArticleWaPo: NSA Docs Reveal How “U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive...
Do you remember the national "terror about cyber-terrorism" that was elicited as a result of the publication of this story on February 19th? “NYT Lead: 'Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking...
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National Review and Andrew Stiles Go After Wendy Davis With Dirty...
Notice anything wrong about these images recently found at ElectWendyDavis.com? Well, you have the National Review Online and their man Andrew Stiles to thank for this smear as the Republican War on...
View ArticleMeanwhile, new NRO article shows that reality and GOP still not mixing well
In an article just published - with the timeline 5:25 est 10/7/13 - the National Review demonstrates that the GOP is still dwelling in fantasy-land.Here are a few excerpts to take your breath...
View ArticleClimate Science Libel Suit against NRO and AEI Moves Glacially
Rich Lowry, the National Review Online and the American Enterprise Institute maliciously libeled hero climate scientist, Dr. Michael Mann, among other ways, by trying to tie Dr. Mann's climate science...
View ArticleDr. Michael Mann Stands Up Again for Climate Science; NRO Heads Explode
Dr. Mann had an OpEd in the New York Times this week that began like this:THE overwhelming consensus among climate scientists is that human-caused climate change is happening. Yet a fringe minority of...
View ArticleNational Review Online contributor: Women are 'being taught to believe they...
More right-wing insanity:After a week of victim-blaming and dismissing campus sexual assault statistics, the National Review Online has doubled down on dismissing sexual violence on college campuses....
View ArticleGeorge Will: Republicans are socialist like Bernie Sanders is socialist
Having made a cottage industry out of attacking Barack Obama as a "socialist," National Review Online has suddenly come to the conclusion that the term socialist itself has no meaning whatsoever.And we...
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National Review: Ben Carson is more 'authentically African-American' than...
You would think that the National Review, the magazine famous for presenting the "serious conservative" defense of segregation and which has had to ditch several writers in recent years after their...
View ArticleBuffoon attacks clown
The resident frat boy of the rightwing blogosphere, Jonah Goldberg, is disturbed, because the sublime beauty, seriousness, and perfection that is modern conservatism is being unfairly sullied by the...
View ArticleThe Trumpian fascist rot spreads
There appear to be two major types of response among Republicans and conservatives to the fascist assault on journalist Ben Jacobs by the now newly-elected Republican congressman Greg Gianforte in...
View ArticleRightwing White Evangelicals, Trump & Race
Pity poor David French. According to his own explicit standards white American Evangelical Christians would be betraying none other than Jesus Christ by throwing their support behind Donald J. Trump....
View ArticleGeorge Will: Cake Jesus Had No Right to Refuse, but Those Nasty Gays Should...
I thought I was done writing about the Cake Jesus case, a/k/a Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, but with oral arguments coming up in a couple of days I was checking the...
View ArticleNational Review weighs in on Parkland survivors: 'We shouldn't let young...
Campaign ActionThe National Review has now weighed into the conservative argument over whether the teenage survivors of the nation's latest school shooting should shut up and just how much they should...
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