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This has been a fairly ho-hum week in wingnuttery. Nothing very wonderful, just the same old, same old. Ann Althouse is seeing things again, this time jammies inexplicably splattered with racial slurs. But such hallucinations from the Miss Havisham of Madison are by now old hat, and only Kevin Drum finds them startling.
The Corner has of course been festooned with the blackest of crepe, so the NRO monkeys have been unusually subdued, hooting and chittering in an uncharacteristically mournful fashion. The bananas lie on the floor, half peeled and uneaten; the poo has been flung only despondently. (Though Ahab did catch Michael Ledeen being bitchy, probably just to have something juicy to distract K-Lo with as he groomed her fur, carefully removing the ticks, and eating them.) Jonah Goldberg, especially, reads like a Magilla bereft of his Peebles. His attempt to explain exactly why Edmund Burke wasn't really a fascist seems halfhearted and pitiable. It's almost as if he knows that he has an endless future before him of having to answer questions exactly like this, because the flatulent thesis of his nitwit book invites them. ("Was Ben Franklin a fascist, Jonah? By your definition, looks like it! What about Lincoln? Joe DiMaggio? Gandhi? Flava-Flav? Barbie dolls, are they fascist? Toasters? Pop Tarts? Huh? What about Pop Tarts? Count Chocula? Lug wrenches -- just like Hitler! Hmmm?")
Which is not to say there haven't been some fine minor moments of right blog lunacy. If you missed the episode where some poor GOP dope from Tennessee took a joke about Barack HUSSEIN!!!11!!ONE! Obama having ties to Kaddahfi seriously, made a mess all over his lap, belatedly realized he looked stupid, and then tried to erase the evidence by flushing the post -- well, that was fun.
And we won't soon forget the name Goeglien, nor his wacky friends. I myself enjoyed Roy's anatomy of a "conservative" film review, and The Editors' discussion of why the Right Blogosphere is so adamant about voting reform. And Echidne did a fine job explaining why Joel Stein is so freaking funny, the sexist twerp.
On a final note, I agree with everyone that Tim Russert was full of crap when he demanded that Obama not accept and also reject Louis Farrakhan. What I really want to know is if Obama, and Hillary, would denounce the video below, because dammit, they should, as should all right-thinking folk. John McCain probably beats off to it, the disgusting old pervert.
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Crap! hey Thers
Thers!
Zed?
Evening. Be sure to watch the whole video, right through to the end.
Heh! 8-P
However, Bonne Soir, Ma Cheri!
ohmystars…
Pop tarts are so fucking fascist!
totally accidental - i figured for sure others would get the zed/non-zed before my comment posted
Pumpkin Head had better call out McCain for calling the Catholic Church a Whore! Otherwise I want the Bishops to excomnicate him. Or at least treat him the way the treated Democrat Presidential Candidates who support the right to choose!
Yeah right. Not like you have insider connections or anything. Totally accidental. As in no one could have predicted…
How ya doin’ Suz?
Heh, I wouldn’t blame McCan’t, there’s some USDA Prime beef in that ad…! ;-)
Honestly, if you email Jonah about that, he’d probably answer, in at least 13,450 words, all of them dumb.
Thers- I need to confirm- iS tHat reaLlY a genuine Burger King commercial? Or are you forking with me?
pinkie swear, gordon!
doing ok - getting ready for the meetup tomorrow and having fun playing in the utubes finding stuff for here and my place.
how’s the northern bit of the east coast?
I tells ya… Hmmm…! *g*
Hey, I just realized. “Goeglien” is only two consonants removed from “Joe Klien.”
Coincidence? I think not.
FRITZ…late
I’m trying to Digg this post, but Digg keeps trying to get me to join Digg again, when I’m already a member of Digg. What’s up with that?
When he could have said “they’re covered in white sugar, so they must be good”, right?
forking digg was doing that last weekend too. i resolved it by having them send me the password link and was finally able to get it to work. i hope the fix that “feature” soon.
Oh yes. And that really is Hootie singing it.
It is one of the most ghastly things ever filmed by mortals.
Hillary stop the negative adds on Obama Puhleeze.
Covered in about 14″ of slush that is now freezing into an impenetrable mass. Grrr.
Doesn’t look like this post got a lot of traffic, does it? Was it disappeared that quickly? Heh.
Hee hee. That’s why his book was 400 pages long, so he could say things without saying them at enormous length. He’s a clever boy!
He’s a Master of Disguise.
I saw something today that I put in the category of Wingnut Crap. Matlin was on Russert’s show along with Dee Dee Myers and some journalist whose name I can easily be happy forgetting. She said that in the general election, no one will care about what has happened in Iraq, but they will care only about the “future” in Iraq and who can “deal with Iran” on Day 1. She reasoned further that in polls Iraq had been relegated lately to 3rd behind (I suppose) the economy/jobs and healthcare. Polls are snapshots at best, but it sounds pretty cavalier to dismiss the current fiasco in Iraq with a prim, arrogant sweep of the hand.
I thought that was a metaphor for Republican arrogance towards Iraq, and I didn’t think it would make anyone with skin in the game very happy.
I also saw this clip, and while the Nicholson clips were okay, I didn’t see what it had to do with making a political point at all, but Jeraly seems to:
Jack Nicholson Makes a Video
Thers, if ya think Jonah is a gasbag, check this Rightard out…
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/i.....geId=56494
Good grief!
And, to think, only last night I drove through Burger King and got a special meal- “double whopper with cheese, ff and a coke”- something I have not done in at least six years.
See, the deal was I was listening to a book on tape in the car “R is for Ricochet” by Sue Grafton, and there was this episode where Kinsey and her parolee charge were having a craving for a “Big Mac”. No McDonald’s nearby, but I drove into Burger King…
Corporate America is quite insidious. ;)
Dr. Lyle’s a few years late on that, I’m thinking. Could have made a bucket on that kind of crap a few years ago.
Wingnuttery…corporate oligarchy still has our government taken over.
Congress threw the constituion in the trash can.
Government is spying on us.
The world economy is tanking. Thanks Bushco for the commimg recession now that you have emptied the federal coffers for the next four years and food is becoming dear…is that wing nut enough for the week…cover that all with torture prisons all over the world. Retched Bastards.
So in the dead-tree version, it’s a steak and a baked potato?
I don’t know if I’ve read that one.
I get my alphabet all mixed up, but I’ve read a lot of them, and, I think Kinsey stops in a McDonalds for a Big Mac in all of the novels.
And, it’s a good thing that it’s quiet time in this house and I’m moving slowly towards the B Room, or I’d have to run down the hill and get me a…
cheeseburger.
(1) is just another example of “but this is good news for Republicans!” (repeated ad nauseum after every scandal of the last 5 years).
(2) at this point, Clinton loyalists are using the Sun-Times (Bob Novack’s home paper), or WingNutDaily or theCityGuide or any other source they can find. Don’t hold it against them. They’ll come around.
Thers! Always make me laugh. Thank you so much.
You can find this ‘theory’ floated on tons of thug blogs day in and day out–it’s pretty typical of the stuff on WorldnetDaily. It’s the mantra of Rt. Wing Radio, the emails that Rove and Gillespie send out, full of sound and fury signifying an arrogant self view that their way must be the right way or else people who disagree must have a ‘mental disorder.’
I think that in ‘09, a special tax bill ought to be passed that taxes everyone involved in the Iraq WMD story extra. A lot extra.
???? I was not making this up. What are you saying? (Or, the phrase I like so much from faculty meetings, adapted for present purposes, “what newt was trying to say…” So, what are you trying to say?
I saw that, but haven’t been able to work up the energy to deal with it. It’s the same schtick as that “Dr. Sanity” person, who is one of the silliest of all the Wingnut All-Stars, but who is also so incredibly dull you can’t eve make fun of her.
Actually, if he’d have concentrated on the neocons… I’d have agreed with this premise; “Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder…”
I guess he would have to include pretty much everyone in Scandanavia as being irrational.
We have our own system, paying for the government to run programs, and then they don’t deliver. That’s rational, for sure.
“On Being Certain; Believing You Are Right Even When You Are Not”
By Robert A. Burton
” Whether you’re sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that feeling of knowing derives not from rational thought, he argues, but from the brain’s primitive limbic system; the gut feeling is more likely to emerge from careful electric stimulation than from careful consideration “
Discover magazine March 2008 pg 72
Now then just what does he mean by “careful electric stimulation”?
Still it sounds like an interesting read especially if he explains why such beliefs are created.
This is most disturbing to us CA libs as Ronnie closed our asylums after turning the patients out…then he went Alshiemers. With the diagnosis and no hospital we’ll have to find a subprime house to cohouse ourselves. Tnat Pis
finally got the digg to work.. you are properly dugg now thers
Yes, we’re psychotic. We think Ayn Rand belongs in the 9th circle of Hell where she already is. And St Pete doesn’t look anything like Scalia.
We believe that business and government should be regulated answer to the people Conservatives think that Business and their government should have no regulation/checks and balences.
Careful electric stimulation is what happens at Abu Garaib.
I wondered what that tingly sensation was…
Well, Count Chocula is a fascist. He was a Republic congressman from Indiana. QED.
demi- well, it’s a more dangerous proposition if one is in the car, listening to the tape, and it’s dinner time… and yeah, there are a lot of repeats in those books. Always the jogging stuff. Tying her house key to her shoe before she goes jogging. Etc. I prefer Ross McDonald’s up coast place to Sue Grafton’s. But, right now I can’t remember- Did he use Santa Theresa also? I kinda think so..
Now you’re channeling Tweets.
But Scandanavians are irrational! They don’t speak English (at least, not without an accent). QED (courtesy Huck Finn).
SNL spoiler- opens with a take off on last week’s debate in OH. The mockery is as insufferable as the debate was.
Ha! I’d forgotten him.
But I still like intelligent women and they do not frighten me!
ack - no spoilers for us in another time zone please
Yes, I’m nearly sure he used Santa Theresa. It’s been awhile, but that sure rings an acnied 60’s Chevy bell.
Dunno about Ross McDonald.
The Grafton books don’t pretend to be anthing more than they are, I think.
Pretty simple, but sometimes that’s exactly what I need, ya know?
exactly what i thought - after doing an all over shudder as it went from my subconscious to my conscious.
please—anything but that!
and Suzanne, I’ll leave out any of the blow by blow so that you can enjoy/or not, on your own.
I’m stuck on the Stephanie Plum novels at the moment. Janet Evonovich is on a roll.
Hi Thers: thanks for the post. I have one question. I read the link to the piece on “voting reform” and I noticed that there was a picture of a man and his cat, both wearing tinfoil hats. I don’t follow this innntoobsphere politcs very much and am confused.
Is that the good liberal guy or the dumb conservative guy and his cat wearing the hat? If it is the liberal guy, are we supposed to supply tinfoil hats for our pets now?
I have some goldfish and an antfarm, and am not sure what to do. Could you please advise.
But if the picture was making fun of a the conservative guy, then never mind.
thanks,
Confused in California
Anyone want to know if Hill is or is not on SNL? Would that be a spoiler?
thanks, RevDeb.
I’m rereading Jane Austen. No cheeseburgers, but some damn fine snark, really.
SNL opening with a mock debate. Senator Clinton is in it. For someone who wasn’t talking to the press until after Iowa, she has become quite the TV star. I guess somehow she believes this will help when she says “Live from NY yada yada…”
I did see a comment in NYT today that made me smile. Clinton’s Media man and major advisor from Glover Park Group Howard Wolfson said in a media conference call Friday afternoon that
That’s a lot of questions. Wolfson can hold a press conference anytime he likes, and does, and Dee Dee said he should be speaking for his candidate more. I don’t know what is stopping him from asking the staggering load of questions.
I always thought that picture of the Iraqi in the black hood hooked up to wires arms spread was a Christ reference but it may have been a mind control experiment.
saying she was on the show would not be a spoiler at all
Lula leaves me just crying with laughter. I love those books and have read every one.
I love Stephanie Plum novels.
Most of all I love K.C. Constantine novels. That’s a pseudonym; they’re written by some guy in Pennsylvania.
Hey, it could be Billmon. You never know!
Reading about Lulu while on a morphine drip was a real experience, twain. Love grandma too.
Hee hee. I believe that is an imaginative representation of Captain Ed, a wingnut. Also, The Editors like to post cat pictures.
I hope you are serious, and not pulling our legs.
I love Jane Austen. Read and reread. Never could make it through Mansfield Park, however.
Hi Thers…
This Edmund Burke…my my…the Irish turncoat…, and not this Edmund Burke… or even this one...
RevDeb,…you’re cracking me up.
Great post, Thers!
I loved the PBS Jane Austen series last month. Wonderful snark!
Hey ya’ll I’ve posted Pelosi’s impending sell out on FISA, on DU and need some support in kicking it upstairs, it’s steadily rising, but, needs a little boost…
http://www.democraticundergrou.....15;3205678
what gives?
No joke. I wrote a book on Austen, actually — came out last fall. In real life I’m an English perfesser.
Uh, thank, I guess. Sounds like an interesting book. I am sure that it was throughly peer reviwed. Looks like the kind of publisher that would do that. The book might be on to something:
“In his penetrating analysis, Dr. Rossiter reveals modern liberalism’s assaults on:
–The freedom of adults to make good lives for themselves by cooperating with others
–The ability of families to raise children to be self-reliant and mutual
–The morals, rights and laws that protect our freedoms”
I’m going to read the book, because I want to know “Is our children mutual?”
not any more. Her and Tina Fey both in the brown suit from the debate the other night. Maybe she missed NY or something (homesick? but where exactly is home? IL? AR? NY? hard to tell)
Gordon M- okay, if two dim memory bells ring at once it must be correct. ;)
Just had occasion to reread (page not tape) a Ross McDonald novel. imo detective fiction is seriously underrated as a genre. Course, I am biased.
OK! I need details, sez the librarian…
Not much, just hangin’.
A conference call? So we don’t know if Wolfson was wearing his lucky sweater (or anything else for that matter)?
gasp - hopefully, the pups will not hold your past and where you came from against you Thers
The best one was the 10 year old Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
Phew! Thanks, what a relief. Even though I am liberal, and infantilely reject “mutual” I do feel a paternalistic responsibility to my ant farm, and would want to provide them with the tools they need to survive. But, not good with detail work and… well, never mind. It isn’t a problem now, I guess.
Where do you perfess?
I’m with Loo Hoo, tuttle.
Hi Loo Hoo!
Oh RevDeb,
Yes, own and love that! But I did love them all.
actually, which Edmund Burke is Jonah boy referring to? I have–and will–not read the book…
The number of questions that we do know about Clinton adviser Mark Penn and his clients never mind his bad advice to Hilary is quite interesting too.
Especially when the MSM does not make a big deal about it.
Its always attack Obama more, not try to appeal to the 70%ers who want out of Iraq now and a French type healthcare plan that overall costs the country less money than our present plan.
Which costs more money per person but unlike other countries plan’s covers everybody.
McCain thinks that cost is seperate from tax. Government the private sector cost is cost lowering cost even at the price of profit is efficent.
Hee hee.
The first one, though I wouldn’t call him a turncoat. He was right on Catholic Emancipation, for instance. It would have been interesting to see what he would have thought of the Union, but he died 3 years too early.
omigod! in real life I’m a science perfesser, but could have gone the Eng. Lit. route.
Linkey please? Please? For your book?
And, have you ever read the Stephanie Barron “Jane Austen” detective novels?
you know what I’m talking about… you can’t get out of this one…
Email me. I am a modest fellow…
It was all regurgitated in a letter to the editor in my local rag… I promptly submitted an e-mail response online and a letter to the editor, shredding his ‘logic’ point by point, it hasn’t been published yet…! ;-)
Hi back atcha!
See my profile here. Community college, upstate NY. I chose a CC because I like teaching and the academic job market annoyed me. But I still like writing about lit.
Seems to me I once sat down and compared California detective fiction and concluded that Hammett was tops.
List of human beings with the same names...
Fortunately, I don’t have that to worry about. I’m the only f*cking Biodun Iginla on the planet!
Lots of CA detective fiction seems to be set down in LA - only a few seem to set their novels in SF.
That’s the one that was just on PBS. My favorite adaptation too.
There’s been a full-length film or miniseries of an Austen book every year since 1968 — fun facts to know & tell! I want to see a really good Persuasion, myself, which is probably the most underrated novel in literary history.
They mostly all have to drive up into the hills to a lakeside cabin at some point, though.
So Thers, people pay you money to teach them?
Scarecrow is another JA lover. We were e-mailing back and forth during most of them. His most frequent comment, “there is no kissing in Jane Austin!” I guess he wasn’t as enthusiastic as you about the others. I didn’t see them all but I think I agree with him.
RE:
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Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts
Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder”