Has anyone noticed that the right-wing blogosphere seems to have gotten a little weird lately? I mean, they’ve always been an atrocious lot of paranoids and bigots, but lately they’ve been going off on tangents that are totally unrelated to the upcoming elections. Their hallucinatory obsession with the #twittergulag is only one piece of evidence that Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for the nomination has made them lose interest in conventional politics. Their main focus of late has been on demonizing a couple of liberal activists that, because they are not actually very consequential, I had never heard of before. I don’t say that to insult the victims of this right-wing smear campaign; I’m just pointing out that the nutters’ energies don’t seem to be calibrated very well. Destroying ACORN made sense. Destroying a couple of dudes named Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser will accomplish nothing. And, amusingly, the only one who has so far wound up in jail is the main wingnut leading the charge against them.
I think the real problem is that no one in the wingnut blogosphere actually has anything good to say about Romney and they’ve already maxed out on the anti-Obama stuff. What’s left to do or talk about? They are picking over scraps at this point. Dan Rather was a long time ago.
This judge is out of his mind. But he’s also hilarious. He basically told the dude that in a just world he’d get his ass kicked. That’s true. However, I don’t think the law is on the judge’s side.
“People honestly read this stuff?” FTW.
the whole thing about the Irish being counterpunchers and the plaintiff rightly clocking the defendant was hilarious. And then the stuff about wanting to date an Italian girl, etc.
Destroying a couple of dudes named Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser will accomplish nothing.
Who is Kimberlin? Why the hate for him? Does anyone even know about him besides the Breitbart nutjobs? Why are they going after Rauhauser? I’ve at least heard of him. But have no clue what he’s done to draw their ire.
Kimberlin has been, shall we say, an interesting figure around here since the mid 70s. Those wingnut bozos have no idea who or what they’re screwing with. I’d sooner poke a rattler with a short stick.
All these people suing and countersuing each other — they come off like a bunch of pissed-off crazy snakes in a bag. No wonder the judge treated them with a certain amount of contempt. That includes Kimberlin — he comes off as kind of a rattler himself. I would not want to get on that guys wrong side.
True dat!
Juxapose this with Dowd’s piece. The attacks are on different people, Dowd’s tries to be more of a state sponsored attack, but they both demonstrate a brain dead follow-the-emotion argument.
As my 92 year old friend likes to say, “Use it or Lose it” and it’s been so long since the Right has had a fact to backup any position their brains have atrophied so now all that’s left is instant gratification.
It’s demonization-as-crack — they need more and more Antichrists, reportedly doing more and more evil things, just to get their fix.
Somewhere, someone is saying something vaguely leftist while owning granite counter tops!!
Well, here I am commenting on this radical communist blog; and I did plant some arugula seeds in the garden, too.
COME AND GET ME, BREITBART GANG!!!
watch out, the next thing you know they will have spliced together footage of you trying to sell your niece into white slavery.
Unfortunately, since my nieces are all either in high school or college, they are already well on the way to white slavery status in this country.
“My nieces are in high school or college; they are ready for white slavery.” -MikeInOhio, attempting to sell his nieces to a renowned pimp.
See how easy it is! You are now in an elite class. You have earned your Serious Investigative Journamalism Decoder Ring. Welcome aboard…..
Your membership card with Sir Andrew’s signature and official seal is in the mail.