Category Archives: wingnutosphere

What’s Wrong With Wingnuts, In A Nutshell

They double down on the absolutism and purge their party in the process. Demanding purity, they lobby for a retrograde agenda. Weigel points to three planks in Maine’s new GOP platform: – Return to the principles of Austrian Economics, and … Continue reading

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Teabaggers Failing

The wingnutosphere is restless; right-wing netizens seem to be in a mood for choking games with Michael Steele’s cash flow: Earlier today, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin published one of what has become a series of posts about previous donors to … Continue reading

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Kristol Quoted

An exercise in surrealism via ThinkProgress: WALLACE: Bill, you certainly are an expert in this area. The two leading candidates seem to be the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the original prime minister [Ayad] Allawi. From the U.S. point … Continue reading

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Teh Stupid™ Must Be Destroyed

I am dealing with wingnuts of left AND right persuasion all over my newest YouTube offer. My favorite so far: Wingnut: Why didnt the building come down in seconds like WTC buildings at 9/11. uummm thats weird. I guess the … Continue reading

Posted in Teabag Terror, Teabaggers, Teh Crazy™, Teh Stupid™, Wingnut Mailbag, Wingnuts Are Smart, wingnutosphere, words | 25 Comments

Joseph Stack Was Unregistered

Social media is already full of wingnuttery on the subject of Joseph Stack. Not just Facebook Fan pages, of course, but YouTube videos proclaiming him a hero — or declaring a government psyop in progress. I missed most of the … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: “And Yet It Melts”

Among random crap on Twitter, I found a gem: the so-called “American Voice” website contains anti-intellectual hate speech. The problem, according to “Mr. Silence Dogood Houston, Texas” (once again invoking the rule that wingnuts lack an irony gene), The more … Continue reading

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Scammy Smell Smites Silly Sophist

I’ve been forecasting this meltdown since last April. From Alan Colmes’s Liberaland, we learn that tea party panjandrum Erick Erickson will not attend the astroturfers convention in Nashville because it “smells scammy:” I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to … Continue reading

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When Nontroversy Dies

The Weekly Standard claimed the White House was threatening to close a Nebraska Air Force base to twist Sen. Ben Nelson’s arm on health care reform. Twenty GOP Senators howled for an investigation. The problem: Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) … Continue reading

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Contracts and ACORN

So the wingnutosphere has its panties all twisted over the news that the Department of Justice has ruled the Obama administration must continue to pay ACORN for services rendered under contract. To be clear, this is the DoJ answering a … Continue reading

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Worst Blogger

Birther apologist and Heritage Foundation hack Thomas Lifson looks at this photograph and sees exactly what he wants to see: Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, … Continue reading

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Embracing Teh Wacky™

Teh Wacky™ (n): mainstream figures adopting fringe ideas in pursuit of press attention, esp. while waging culture war. Since when do robbers target their victims for kidnapping, transport them to the middle of nowhere, and beat them to death? On … Continue reading

Posted in Culture Wars, Kulturkampf, Matthew Shepard, Republican tinfoil hattery, Teh Wacky™, The Teabag Terror, Virginia Foxx, wingnutosphere | 2 Comments