(1) Jeanne Kirkpatrick (2) Right Wing Talk Radio Relevance: Born the day Rush Limbaugh mid-wifed Newt Gingrich’s Contract For (On) America, RWTRR lived a healthy and wealthy life duping a great portion of the America public into voting against their own best interests. Right wing talk grew larger and louder over its lifetime, adding names like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, … Read More
ISG Report Analysis
It seems that many rightwingers don’t bother to READ the report, but choose instead criticize it based on the number of times that certain words appear. Apparently, the best report (in their eyes) would have gone something like this: Victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory victory … Read More
Questions, Questions, Questions
Bill Bennett reads the Iraq Study Group Report and feels that the commissioners of the group are "smug, arrogant, insufferable", presumably because they didn’t give a wholehearted endorsement to everything happening in Iraq. In the midst of his rant, the smug, arrogant and insufferable Bill Bennett poses the following question: Who are these commissioners and what is their expertise in … Read More
My Self-Imposed Moratorium On Making Fun Of Nathan Tabor
Regular readers of this blog know that sometimes (in fact, quite often) I take conservative columnists to task. I have three "favorites": Marie Jon’, Kaye Grogan, and Nathan Tabor. I want to talk about the third one — Nathan Tabor, a nationally syndicated columnist, recent author, and proprietor of the site Theconservativevoice.com. Now, for those of you who don’t know … Read More
Prager v. Ellison, Part Two
Shorter Dennis Prager: You know this controversy that came at my suggestion that Rep. Keith Ellison (a Muslim) get sworn in to Congress by using the Bible rather than his holy book, the Kuran? It would all go away if Rep. Ellison simply does what I suggested. Earlier posts: Dennis Prager: Clueless About America UPDATE: World o’Crap provides another shorter … Read More
Lulling Marie Jon’
Marie Jon Apostrophe’s column is a meandering list of recycled right-wing talking points, most of which the right wing has now seen fit to abandon. I won’t analyze the whole thing (you can read it yourself), but Marie Jon Apostrophe clearly is the last remaining person on the planet who thinks that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, and … Read More
Dennis Prager: Clueless About America
A view days ago, I linked to a debate between an noted agnostic and evangelical columnist Dennis Prager on the subject of the existence of God. The debate was civilized and I bent over backwards to give Prager as much credit as I could possibly muster (even though his best argument for the existence of God boiled down to "It’s … Read More
From The Mind Of Barbara Stock
We haven’t checked in with conservative columnnist Barbara Stock in a while, so we decided to. It’s nice to know that she’s still wetting her bloomers over olive-skinned people: On their way back from a three-day meeting in Minneapolis of the North American Imams Federation, six Islamic imams were stunned to find out that suspicious behavior by Muslims on large … Read More
How Stupid Is John Hinderaker?
Unbelievably stupid. Listen as he (once again) tries to claim that the violence in Iraq is not that bad. Let’s start with his conclusion — the last two paragraphs of his post: I wrote in June that based on the data at that time, the murder rate in Iraq outside of Baghdad is about the same as American cities like … Read More
Today’s Groganisms
Our favorite Renew America columnist, Kaye Grogan, has another column out today, and it’s full of her non-sensical metaphors and well, non-sensical everything. Here’s a smattering: Since Nancy Pelosi has promised the American people to head the most ethical congress in America’s history can we expect an invitation to gather around the Jordan River for a good old congressional baptism? … Read More
An Opera About Bill O’Reilly?
Yup. Here’s the scoop from the author of the book and blog "Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly" (gotta love that name, by the way): In the book "Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly", we discussed the possibility of a musical theater production. We even went so far as to throw together some lyrics. Well kids, in the race to … Read More
Conservative Talk Show Hosts And Water Carrying
I’m glad that people like Andrew Sullivan are making the point I made a few days ago: So if I have this straight, Limbaugh knowingly supported people he actually believed were indefensible, who were not conservatives. He is saying loud and clear that he deliberately misled his listeners – because he couldn’t bring himself to back "the left," whatever that … Read More
Yeah, You Do That
You know, I’m a little burnt out by post-election fallout and analysis, but I have to admit, this blurb at The Corner set my toes a-tappin’: It’s time for conservatives to seize the Republican Party back from the moderate/establishment Republicans. It already appears Tuesday’s election results have been lost on the Bush White House. This is our 1976 moment. That’s … Read More
Kaye Grogan On The Election
Let’s dive in, shall we? By now the leftover champagne of victory is stale… But we can still heat up the hors d’ouerves of triumph — they’ll taste okay, I think. …and the winners are actually losers. Down is also up. Contrary to what a mass of liberal ideologues might be smoking in their pipes, while shouting their hurrahs — … Read More
Wait For It
At 12:19 p.m. yesterday, conservative blog Wizbang posted the following: Right now, the Dow is down by about 29 points, one day after the Democrats win back the House and probably the Senate. Later that day, from no less than Fox News: Stocks Rise on Election Results Wall Street rose for a third straight session Wednesday, with the Dow Jones … Read More