Mithras, who runs the liberal site Fables of Reconstruction , posted what he terms “A Conservative Blog Taxonomy.” It’s actually a very clever idea. And given that I’m a shameless and inveterate thief when it comes to harvesting ideas to feed this personal demon of a blog, I thought it might be interesting to duplicate the moonbat’s efforts and see what I could come up with in creating a “Moonbat Blog Taxonomy.”
Now taxonomy is generally defined in biology as an “orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships.” This posed something of a problem since there’s no such thing as “natural relationships” when it comes to moonbats. In fact, there’s nothing natural at all about liberals in that you have to make a preternatural effort day in and day out to exhibit that amount of cluelessness regarding the world around you as it actually exists.
Be that as it may, in researching the subject, I arrived at a solution to my dilemma; categorize the sites using as a benchmark how far the blog deviates from the real world and descends into conspiratorial fantasy.
I discovered that the more forcefully the denizens of these sites bragged about being a member of the “Reality Based Community” the farther they actually were from existing on the same plane of the universe as the rest of us. Some maintain a passing familiarity with reality – as if reality were like walking past a beautiful woman and getting a tantalizing whiff of an exotic perfume. Others have had reality slap them upside the head and still deny the evidence of it with their own eyes and ears.
A “Reality Quotient” (RQ) will be assigned each site in order to rank their moonbattiness. A rank of “5” indicates a firm foothold on reality. A rank of “1” indicates a trip back to planet earth is in order.
KEVIN DRUM
Kevin Drum’s blog The Political Animal swings wildly between well written analyses of politics, the economy, and current events and a snivelling, simpering condenscension that grates on the mind like a fingernail run across a blackboard grates on the ears. His famous “A Few Wee Questions” for hawks on the Iraq war became the source of much hilarity on the right as well as conservative blog fodder for weeks. Not above letting his Bush hatred cloud his judgement.
RQ: 4.5
TALKLEFT
I’ve always found Jeralyn Merrit’s Talkleft to be island of reason in a sea of liberal idiocy.
When you think about it, that’s not saying much.
Merrit’s a smart, savvy attorney who knows criminal law but whose political judgement is, shall we say, wanting…As in “wanting one iota of political horsesense.” Like all other lefty bloggers, her posts on the Gannon/Guckert imbroglio got to be like watching an epileptic rolling around on the floor having a fit. Everyone else in the vicinity was wondering what the big deal was.
RQ: 4.1
WONKETTE
I’ve never understood the fascination with Wonkette AKA Anna Marie Cox. Maybe it’s the three names which make her sound mysterious. Maybe it’s the penis jokes which make her sound slutty. It can’t be her personal appearance. She looks like a pushing 40, pre-middle aged, dumpy, lumpy, policy maven.
She believes she can elevate snark to the level of political discourse as she gossips her way through the bedrooms, board rooms, and dining rooms of Washington. What passes for “information” is really just a regurgitation of news clippings and other blog posts with a smattering of innocuous, inane commentary. Not ill informed, just colorless with tepid attempts at humor. No insight. No original thinking. Dull, drab, almost humorless, and totally without redeeming value. In short, a waste of time and bandwidth.
RQ: 4.0
MYDD
The duo of Jerome Armstrong and Chris Bowers at MyDD are perhaps the biggest purveyors of Democratic spin in the blogosphere. A paid consultant for the Dean campaign, Armstrong has a knack for being more wrong about more things political than any other big blogger I’ve seen. His analysis is shallow and trite. His writing is, well, boring. Vomiting up Democratic talking points on everything from the WoT to the Rove-Wilson-Plame affair, I have yet to see an orginal position taken in opposition to anything the Democrats have done.
RQ: 3.6
ESCHATON
Atrios AKA Duncan Black runs the site Eschaton. I’d call Mr. Black a snake in the grass but that would be insulting snakes, grass, and the sun that gives life to both of them. A true leftist lickspittle his “community” is the most vulgar, most obscenely obnoxious group of party hacks around. Black has been known to sic his minions on bloggers who displease him. A real class act.
RQ: 3.1
OLIVER WILLIS
If there was ever a more irrelvant hysteric on the left side of the sphere than Oliver Willis I haven’t discovered him yet. Famous for putting a “countdown” clock at the top of his blog counting the days that Brit Hume hadn’t resigned for , as Oliver put it so rationally: ” Hume intentionally manipulated the words of the 32nd president, Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make it appear as if FDR supported privatization of social security. This is a brazenly false falsehood.” After about a month, Mr. Willis removed the clock from his blog but not before several conservative bloggers razzed him hilariously.
Willis’ conspiracy mongering about everything from the 2004 election to Jeff Gannon reveals a pathological resistence to reality that makes him one of the top 5 cluebats on the left.
RQ: 2.4
AMERICABLOG
Even just typing the name makes me feel unclean. John Aravosis of Americablog is a walking argument for internet regulation (too bad I adamantly oppose it). The nauseating way in which he “outed” Jeff Gannon by publishing nude pictures of the quasi-journalist along with the suggestion that Gannon may have been a gay escort at one time, sickened decent people everywhere. The fact that he was cheered on by other lefty bloggers tells you all you need to know about the hypocrisy that drips from the snarling lips of the radical lefties.
The “conspiracy” pushed by Aravosis had Gannon sleeping with every male in the White House including the President. The fact that even the White House press corps let out a collective yawn at the whole affair proves that not only was there nothing to the story, but that some harmless twit of a conservative writer who wanted to hide his identity was unceremoniously outed by people with no integrity and no honor.
RQ: 1.4
THE HUFFINGTON POST
There are so many loons, goons, and poltroons who write for Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post that you all you have to do to find someone totally disconnected from reality is close your eyes, point, and click. It’s hard to say whether the B-list celebrities or C-list journalists who write for the site are more irrelevant. And Arianna herself presides over these mountebanks like a Queen of Tarts, jostling with the dozen or so posters for the honor of being named “Conservative Cannon Fodder for a Day.” There is no site out side of the Democratic Underground whose writers are more regularly nor more completely fisked.
RQ: 1.1
DAILY KOS
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga AKA Kos, AKA “Screw ‘em” Kos is possibly the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party since George McGovern. His ability to raise money from his legions of conspiracy mongering, paranoid readers makes him absolutely indispensible to the party’s infrastructure. Just recently, he almost singlehandedly took an unkown attorney and Iraqi War vet Paul “Two-faced” Hackett and, by raising nearly a half a million dollars in a fortnight, put him within spitting distance of winning the special election in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District.
What makes Kos such a ball and chain for the Democratic party is that despite his ability to raise money, the fantastical conspiracies given prominence on his site regarding Bush, the war, elections, Gannon/Guckert, Rove (again and again), Cheney, Haliburton, and on and on – give the party a patina of psychosis that leaves conservatives laughing and rational Democrats scratching their heads. His “0 for 16” record when supporting a Democratic candidate also prove he’s a loser. If he couldn’t raise money, he’d be out of business since a political consultant is only as good as his won-loss record. And without the conspiritorial nature of his site, he’d lose half of his considerable readership. They’d simply pack up and go someplace that will feed their constant paranoia that the world is against them.
RQ: 0.4
DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND
I actually have a soft spot in my heart for the inmates at the Democratic Underground. Let’s face it; the internet just wouldn’t be the same without them. It’s become a matter of course for me that whenever I’ve got writer’s block, I visit the DU and, within 5 minutes, find something so outrageous, so far beyond the pale, that my dilemma regarding what to write about disappears in a flash. I wear their disapprobation like a badge of honor.
Perhaps one illustration of their complete disconnect from reality is in order. Following the tsunami tragedy last December, a comment thread at the site started to speculate that, in fact, secret US government tests in the ocean caused the giant waves. The comments got loonier and loonier as the DU’ers speculated that the earth itself was falling apart:
Since we know that the atmosphere has become contaminated by all the atomic testing, space stuff, electronic stuff, earth pollutants, etc., is it logical to wonder if: Perhaps the “bones†of our earth where this earthquake spawned have also been affected?
You just can’t make this stuff up.
For DU’ers, every election is stolen, every setback by Democrats is the result of a plot by Karl Rove, and everything else is Haliburton’s fault. In short, when looking for sanity at the Democratic Underground, it’s best to remember the sign that Dante Alighieri saw at the gates of hell in his poem “The Divine Comedy:
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
RQ: ARE YOU KIDDING?
8:37 am
MOONBAT BLOG TAXONOMY
Your guide to the fever swamps of leftist blogs. But Rick—no Josh Marshall? Seems like a glaring omission to me….
8:41 am
Yawn
12:09 pm
Hey, J.
I hope that Kos and DU get prominent play at the next DNC convention. I especially recommend that Rep Conyers highlight these groups. Middle America would love to hear how the true-blue Dems really think.
Things do happen in the world that are not part of a conspiracy. EVERYTHING on those two sites alleges a conspiracy.
I visit the sites for comic relief. It is soooo funny!
12:40 pm
From the sound of commenters such as ‘J’, you must have poured salty, lime juice on the open, festering sore that is leftoid thinking.
And the assbackwards Dalton of comment #2 probably an’t think of anything pithy or substantial to say in rebuttal.
So, assplows of the left, how does it feel to be on the losing side of history?
12:45 pm
Rick,
Didn’t like what I said? Did I actually challenge your viewpoint? There is only one reason why you would flag me as spam, you are afraid that what I have to say might cast you or your party in a bad light.
1:15 pm
Hey J (is that as in “Jay” or “Joint”)
Reminds me of those famous last words …. Hey Guys Watch This! Once you go to the swamps you NEVER GO BACK!
6:51 pm
You are a freakin genius man.
8:03 pm
Unfortunately there are a number of RINO blogs which on various issues match Willis in shrillness and “courtesy.” What common factor do all these blogs have in common, when you present them with facts that do not fit into their thesis or theories you are instantly informed of your lack of education, breeding, or intelligence. As such these gentlemen will all probably have wonderful careers at the DMV.
8:24 pm
That’s the most obscure comment anyone has ever left on this site?
What. The. Heck. Do. You. Mean?
8:27 pm
Rick, this post is wonderfully done, and quite hilarious. I intend to link to it shortly…I do have one quibble, though – Wonkette is seriously sexy…though I know these things are in the eye of the beholder. Enjoy your weekend!
8:34 pm
An Absolute Must Read
Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House has been an absolutely wonderful recent discovery for me, and I only wish I had known about him from the beginning. Today, he has a post so perfect, so funny, and so dead on right that I refuse to say anything else …
1:52 am
I think this was a brilliant post.
There’s another that is not mainstream but deserves about a 0.5. theleftcoaster.com
5:37 am
MOONBAT BLOG TAXONOMY
Rick Moran at The Right Wing Nut House takes a stroll through the left side of the blogosphere. (Hat tip: Junkyard Blog.)...
5:37 am
MOONBAT BLOG TAXONOMY
Rick Moran at The Right Wing Nut House takes a stroll through the left side of the blogosphere. (Hat tip:Junkyard Blog.)...
6:07 am
Blog Taxonomy
I’ve noticed that there seems to be little pleasant interaction between the right and left sides of the blogosphere. Mostly, one side links to another site and then devotes much disdain and snarky comment to ridiculing the other. Since I’m a conserva…
8:38 am
> give the party a patina of psychosis that leaves conservatives laughing and rational Democrats scratching their heads.
... uh…. “rational Democrats”? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? Sorta like “Clean Energy” or “Michael Moore Thinks…”?
8:42 am
Outstanding, I didnt really get into this site at first, I guess I just caught it during the wrong time, during his defense of his brother after his brothers appearance on Hugh’s show. Not that I disliked his bro’s defense, which I fully expect and would have been disappointed otherwise, but that the topic just didnt interest me.
Well that has all changed, this was a hella funny post, Im putting this guy on my daily visit sites.
Good work man, appreciate it much.
The Not So Stupid Mexican
The True King Carlos
9:00 am
I hope you were wearing a biohazard suit while you did all that surfing!!
9:04 am
Looking you have touched on something on KOS that I think has been overlooked by media and bloggers:
When out of power you can: A. Attempt to regain power, B. Sustain yourself, C. Ride the gravy train.
Because the left decided they could do without working class religious people they slowly drifted until they lost power. At first the loss of 94 wasn’t percieved as a shift so plan A was followed. Since then the party line seems to be that any opposition to gay marriage and aborton make you a bigot. (Apparently the US was nearly totally populated with such bigots before the 90’s and 70’s.)Plan A is not longer feasible for any but Sen Clinton who is the only one over there who seem to have a clue.
Right now the smart move is B. Gov. Dean is following this plan by rallying the troops and raising money. He is good at rallying the true believers and motavating them, the only problem is they are a minotiry of voters. Dean and his ilk can’t build a majority, but they can keep the troops fighting hoping for a mistake by republicans. (thus the Gannon/Gukart and Wilson duds.) This will only work if 1) you avoid mistakes (Air America Scandal, Durbin etc) and 2) The troops don’t exaust themselves like Lee’s Army at Petersburg.
Finally we get to plan C, the gravy train, this is where KOS, Oliver and a fair amount of the Demorcratic Party is now. These people are raising money like television evangelists and act like them. Their followers have an almost religious belief that if only a FEW more dollars can be rasied the Evil BUSH-HITLER can be defeated. They make their living (or retain their seats) on this so even if they don’t believe it themselves it is necessary for Bush to be Hitler and the republicans Nazis. This is why men like Durbin and the Jr Senator (oops senior) from NY are leading on Roberts and why no more that 12 demorcratic votes will go Judge Roberts way. If they stray from the farm the feed stops and right now the majority of the money comes from the Bush=Hitler crowd. If they fail to fight then the monies will go to those who will and the Washington Gravy train ends.
Position C is where the action is. Many people will make a living (or a fortune)selling snake oil to remain a senator (Durbin), to remain stylish (Huff & Puff) or to make their boodle while they can (KOS & Oliver). They will become a cult of belief where the followers wait for deliverence from the Bush-Hitler and the leaders like KOS will laugh to the bank.
9:11 am
MOONBAT BLOG TAXONOMY with RQ(Reality Quotient)
If by chance you missed this link at Michelle Malkin you HAVE to go check out the new Moonbat Blog Reality Quotient Rating System. You might even pickup a few blogging hints for days when you have “Bloggers Block”!
9:42 am
Thanks for including me and for the compliments about my legal abilities. Two things about your statement:
1. It’s “her obsession” not “his obsession”
2. What obsession? I wrote very few posts about Gannon, and only one that was critical. In two, I chastised others who were going after him for sexual and prostitution-related issues. The remainder of the posts just reported news and blogger updates.
But, again, I’m flattered to be inlcuded in your short list.
9:44 am
I like Mithras’ take on Dean’s World.
This is exactly what I was talking about to a friend recently – Far Right Wing Nut crazies who were raised in blue color Democratic homes who watched all the rich Republican kids (like the Ann Coulters, the Bushs, the typical American Country Club Set) on the otherside of the tracks and wanted to be “them” when they grew up.
It’s becming a prevalent, an obvious, but oh so typical sickness.
Yopu all are a dime a dozen – complete nothings deserving to be coined tried cliches.
Can’t you vizualize both Michelle Malkin and LaShawn Barber as little girls – craining their necks to peer through the Country Club fence to watch the “Ann Coulters” of their childhood swimming in the Club pool?
9:47 am
Tacitcus:
Interesting analysis except for one thing: I grew up filthy rich and am rich to this day.
...Kinda knocks the chocks from underneath your theory, huh?
BTW - Ann Coulter grew up in an upper middle class family as well.
9:53 am
Um, Tacitus, you might check out the biographies of these ladies. It’s far more likely that Ann was watching Michelle in the country club pool.
Here in America, we allow yellow people to prosper, just like white folk.
10:00 am
Rick! Rick, Rick, Rick… I loved this! Excellent post, and it shows how gracious you are to give such a high reality quotient to Willis and Kos
Of course, you are totally on the mark concerning the cesspool that is the DU. shudder Are they even human? Sometimes I wonder if they aren’t space aliens invading us…
Keep up the good work, blog-brother!
—R’cat
10:10 am
Mr. Tacitus Not(thinking)
Your simplistic babbling is hilarious…gave me a chuckle….only reinforcing why the left cannot win an election even when they try to run like a Repub aka Paul Hacket. Keep up the petty games buddy. Only more GOP wins to come thanks to you. You are an “example of a snooty look down on everyone” liberal who will never get it. You post without researching your subjects then get if fed back to you. YOU are a sad lot….but keep it up….it serves the country well
10:15 am
Ordering the Asylum
Rightwingnuthouse poaches an idea, perfectly orders the loony left-o-sphere and provides non-stop belly laughs laughs the entire way.
10:27 am
Tacitus—
I did have to had add that in your post it was fun to watch a left attempt to use both race and class to divide. You really need to go to some other countries and see REAL class and racial divisions. Nice try—-I bet you think you are original and free thinking. Too much ….we have seen and heard your type a thousand times before…you are not Ted Kennedy or AL Sharpton are you???
10:51 am
Best humor is based on Truth
Wow, that certainly explains her popularity!
11:12 am
Rightwing Nuthouse Expalins Moonbat Blog Taxonomy
Rightwing Nuthouse writes a response to a similar post from a left wing site. This is an example of how it’s done when actual intelligence is used.Mithras, who runs the liberal site Fables of Reconstruction , posted what he terms…
11:15 am
More racist, fascist, sexist, homophobic screeching from the right’s useless eaters.
What is conservatism: a contest on who can hate the most? Are there prizes for diversity of minorities you hate?
11:19 am
Are there prizes for diversity of minorities you hate?
Why yes there are!
For instance, whoever can come up with the best putdown of Don here – he being a minority of brainless twits who visit this site – gets a mention in the update.
11:19 am
Very entertaining and superior to Mithras’ attempt IMO.
11:21 am
I really like how you took someone else’s idea and then rather than actually providing any substantive criticism you just said, essentially over and over again, I don’t like these bloggers because there liberal.
Very impressive
11:29 am
I guess I hit a large nerve, haha, thanks for your responses, they are just as expected – typical, yet entertaining, sad and hilarious, narrow minded and completely full of crap, LOL!
11:38 am
“Can’t you vizualize both Michelle Malkin and LaShawn Barber as little girls – craining their necks to peer through the Country Club fence to watch the “Ann Coulters†of their childhood swimming in the Club pool?”
Brilliant synopsis Tactis Not! I can visualize it perfectly, especially Michelle.
Just remember, Conservatives are silly but never-the-less, they are neccessary.
11:57 am
Tacticus:
I believe Dante reserved the 5th circle of hell for self-flatterers.
The only nerve you hit was the one sitting at the base of your butt. You hit while kicking yourself there.
11:59 am
Classifying strange life forms
I’ve written and debated in support of Intelligent Design but the Moonbat Blog Taxonomy at Right Wing Nuthouse, seems to offer some biological examples that would argue against any ID. It is very difficult to explain such silliness on the left side o…
1:47 pm
Don, You’ve got it all wrong. We don’t hate (even you). We feel sorry for moonbats (even you). BTW, how do you type with your head so far up your ass?
2:36 pm
Nice job – very funny. But isnt there a single intelligent and serious lefty blog? There must be?
3:46 pm
Although I can admit that Democratic Underground is a primo moonbat cave, it is not a blog.
No one here considers Free Republic to be a blog, right?
3:47 pm
Eleanor Clift & Washington Press Corp Swoon Over Markos Zuniga
Is it just me, or is Eleanor Clift retarded? So let me get this straight: every single candidate that Markos ‘Screw Them’ Zuniga raises money for, including Paul Hackett, has lost, yet Eleanor Clift thinks that Kos is somehow an…
3:53 pm
Holy Sh*t!
I’ve never been to DU before today . . . these people are total whack jobs. Delusional is one thing, but these poor folks are spent . . . requiescat in pace, common sense.
SoS
4:40 pm
I feel like I’m gonna need the goggles and surgical gloves before even mousing over most of those links… for a few, breathing apparatus.
Priceless resource, Rick… simply priceless. Thank you for risking life and limb to prepare it for us.
5:04 pm
I’m amazed at how both sides just yap at each other, both guilty of the same things. None of you get it.
Not everyone on the right is evil.
Not everyone on the left is crazy.
I could say the right is just a bunch of powerful white men. That wouldn’t be true.
I could say the left is just a bunch of starry-eyed losers disconnected from reality. That wouldn’t be true.
Blogs really do nothing more than further divide both sides…and sometimes entertain.
5:12 pm
“Just remember, Conservatives are silly but never-the-less, they are neccessary.”
Yeah, these days you can’t win an election without one!
7:21 pm
Rick-
It’s flattering to inspire your list, but to be honest, it’s not very funny. I mean, there are no jokes, no really cutting remarks, no plays on words, just “they suck, they suck, they suck.” I mean, I at least came up with the Captain Ed thing, that raised a chuckle, didn’t it? And I was happy with “Site gives off a strong scent of roast pork.” Maybe it went over people’s heads, and they thought I was talking about barbeque.
But I did like this: Dull, drab, almost humorless, and totally without redeeming value. In short, a waste of time and bandwidth. I know how you feel.
7:37 pm
So is your name really “Moran”? Like this guy?
I dunno… smells like a set-up to me!
7:50 pm
[...] ly, it was pretty freakin’ funny if you ask me! Then, the conservative blog called “Rightwing Nuthouse did its own “Moonbat Blog Taxonomy” [...]
8:48 pm
Apologies for repeating myself, but
DU = blog ?
The reason I’m looking for an explanation is that this is in a sense your punchline entry. As Mithra points out, there aren’t any jokes here. The rating system is kind of humorous, though. You could have stuck in some irrational numbers (get it?), even.
8:53 pm
Ryan:
Anyone who has “A Massachusetts born and bred, Berkeley-educated liberal coming to you from beautiful blue New England…” on their masthead I steer clear of. Sorta like I’d steer clear of a rabid rottweiler.
9:04 pm
Aw you can’t diss on the Huff Post too much Rightwing Nuthouse…do you read the Greg Gutfeld posts? That guy is funny. He mocks the pretention and the celebrities who post there ruthlessly. Huff Post is worth reading just to read him
9:07 pm
A Little Bit Of Fun
I love it when bloggers tweak friends and enemies in the blogosphere. Over at Rightwing Nuthouse, Rick posted a taxonomy of the left side of the blogosphere. I really encourage you to take a look—its funny, but with…
9:45 pm
Rick. You clicked through. Thanks.
I’m a bit disappointed that you didn’t answer my question, but that’s all up to you.
Actually, the blog (The Liberal Avenger) isn’t mine. I’ve just been tending to it for the last month while the owner has been taking a breaking from avenging. I’ve never attended Berkeley or lived in Mass; honestly, I’ve been living in bright red states for the last decade, or so.
Believe it, or not, we’re pretty sane over there. We won’t bite.
11:53 pm
[...] 53 pm
This is priceless. Here is a few quotes from Right Wing Nuthouse’s MOONBAT BLOG TAXONOMY I actually have a soft spot in my heart for the in [...]
12:51 am
Priceless…some double-chinned bespectacled angry white man from the dull, drab western suburbs calling Wonkette “lumpy and dumpy.” Judging by your photo you could only dream to do so well, sweet-beef.
12:59 am
I suppose this is a minor point which was lost in all the … humor … but DailyKos actually had very little to do with the Paul Hackett/Ohio-02 stuff. Kos was on the road, interviewing subjects for an upcoming book, and made his first Hackett comment on July 25, weeks after blogs like SwingStateProject, Ohio-02 and MyDD had been hyping the race. Kos never even put up a donation jar for Hackett like he did for his 2004 roster (which actually included one winner, Barack Obama, who was de-emphasized after it was clear he would win).
I’m really not sure why conservative bloggers attribute so much power and influence to Kos. It’s like … what a moonbat would do.
1:41 am
‘Round the ‘Sphere: August 6, 2005
Looking for something good to read? Let me help you out…
1:57 am
are it just me?don’t i not understand.everything in their world is the fault of someone so misunderestimated.this moron of a leader that we have been saddled with has said that our policies of the past were wrong,that instead of promoting stability,we will now promote the cause of the free will of the people in the oppressed countries,former allies or not,i would think in a normal world the libs would stand up and cheer for our pres. but i guess i only live in a fantasy world.
3:16 am
Ryan:
DU is not a blog…but God! They’re so much fun to diss!
Jr:
Curious that you’re the only commenter who brought up race. Is this an obsession for you?
And God how I hope that feller Kaine wins in VA…just think of all the great fodder his stupidity will give this and other blogs to feed on.
5:31 am
Rick,
Thank you! I don’t spend any time lurking on left-wing websites, because I never felt I could afford missing some of the more informative, 4.9-5.0 scoring sites out there. So, I much appreciate your willingness to do the dirty work.
It’s clear it supplied you with needed impetus at times. Now it’s supplied the world with a left-wing whack-job website primer. Wonderful! Gotta copy this page! Suh-weet!
2:01 pm
Moonbat Paradise Lost
Turns out some things really are too good to be true…OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadians can put away those extra welcome mats—it seems Americans unhappy about the result of last November’s presidential election have decided to stay at home…
3:17 pm
Sunday Morning coming down
Even as many on the left rush to defend the NCAA decision to ban the scourge of "hostile and offensive" Native-American nicknames and mascots (against the will of the overwhelming majority of Native Americans, mind -- but no matte…
4:38 pm
Taxonomy of Liberal Blogs
Recently, in a popular blog post, Mithras @ Fables of the Reconstruction presented a Conservative Blog Taxonomy. While midly amusing, it generally skipped the “funny because it’s true” angle, preferring instead
9:53 pm
Grumpy old men
Whichever side of the fence you happen to be on, I don’t think either of these fellows is going to…
10:59 pm
Funny you would find DU outrageous. Have you been to Free Republic and read the kind of shit some of those nutters post?
12:32 am
[...] hen- It started here with a “Conservative Blog Taxonomy”. And then continued here with a “Moonbat Blog Taxonomy”. Later, the teacher will [...]
6:43 am
the nauseating way in which he “outed” Jeff Gannon by publishing nude pictures of the quasi-journalist along with the suggestion that Gannon may have been a gay escort at one time, sickened decent people everywhere.
Say, weren’t those nude pictures already “published” by Mr. Guckert/Gannon himself? And wasn’t it Mr. Guckert/Gannon who was advertising himself as a “gay escort,” which kind of makes the truth of it more than a mere “suggestion?”
Just curious, but regarding your reality quotient. Are you referring to this reality?
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” ... “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
6:57 am
Actually, the Conservative Blog Taxonomy was a great piece on the whiny, geeky, vacuous right wing. We posted our own piece on the characteristics that seem to distinguish this fairly sickening crowd. For a look in the mirror, see our post “The Whiny Right Wing” at Truth and Lies: Blog for A Better America
Wahhh
(sound of shrill conservative crying like a baby).
You’re really not helping the country much.
7:23 am
If you’re going to be “a shameless and inveterate thief when it comes to harvesting ideas,” it might help if your knockoff was at least funny or entertaining.
Mithras’s original post was cutting, funny and, best of all, it looked like he’d actually bothered to read the blogs he was hammering. Yours was just . . . lame. At best, it was nothing more than a really long and drawn-out way of saying “I know you are, but what am I?”
8:18 am
Gee, Rick! Some people seem a bit sensitive, eh? Must have come pretty close to the bone with some of your insights.
9:32 am
Uhm, I’m not a “proud dry drunk” (not dry, not drunk at the moment, and not proud of it either way), didn’t grow up in a union household, have said nasty things about Republicans and lots of good things about Democrats, and my views of HIV & AIDS may well be wrong but, as they are shared by fully-credentialed scientists with numerous peer-reviewed publications to their name (including at least one Nobel Laureate), as well as physicians and HIV+ people I have spoken to, calling them “crackpot” only shows the ignorance of the person making the assertion.
I’ll leave the bits about feminism and capitalism where they’re at I suppose.
I was pleased to see “Tacitus Not” also reveal his own seething hatred of black and asian women in his general assault on me. It pretty much confirms what I’ve always suspected about Mithras, Atrios, Kos, and their fans.
10:05 am
Blog Taxonomy
By now, you have probably come across the Conservative Blog Taxonomy entry at Mithras’ blog, Fables of the Reconstruction.
It has been favorably linked to from the left side of the blogosphere, and not so favorably from the right.
Not to be out…
10:07 am
Blog Taxonomy
By now, you have probably come across the Conservative Blog Taxonomy entry at Mithras’ blog, Fables of the Reconstruction. It has been favorably linked to from the left side of the blogosphere, and not so favorably from the right. Perhaps…
11:24 am
[...] THINGS THE “PEACE BELL” SHOULD BE TOLLING FORBANNING INDIAN MASCOTS AND OTHER STUPID IDEASMOONBAT BLOG TAX [...]
3:41 pm
Lefty Blogger Venom
Some guy named Mithras got some blog-play for posting a nasty “Conservative Blogger Taxonomy,” attacking a lot of the bigger conservative bloggers in personal terms. I can’t really cry foul, because, um, I’ve done that on occasion myself. Pretty pi…
11:28 pm
I laughed, I cried--OK, didn't cry, just laughed more
And I quote: "It’s hard to say whether the B-list celebrities or C-list journalists who write for the site are more irrelevant."
UPDATE: You gotta admit that those internment-supporting right-wingers deserv…
2:04 am
Taxonomy
Lefty blogger Mithras clearly doesn’t understand the concept of taxonomy
8:55 pm
The Lefty Blogger Taxonomy
For the who’s who in lefty bloggers, Right Wing Nut House’s Rick Moran brings you Moonbat Blog Taxonomy. A hysterical must-read….
5:34 pm
Blogs and Politics
Great minds think alike. The same week we sent out a request for rational and thoughtful liberal blogs, Rick Moran produces a leftist Moonbat Blog Taxonomy, as does QandO Blog.So our betters have saved us a lot of work. Review their essays to see if ther
8:52 pm
what makes it pleasantly hilarious is that YOU ARE SO F#@%$@ RIGHT! MORE. MORE.
12:57 pm
Blog for Your Brain
All this clicking through our intellectually stimulating corner of the blogosphere you’re doing could just help you to stave off senility. Or, so doth I extrapolate, based on an article by Rob Stein today in The Washington Post.
Since my dea…
12:57 pm
[...] dless corner of the blogosphere that specializes in mental burps and factless titillation (as described recently by Rightwing Nuthouse’s Rick Mora [...]
12:59 pm
[...] dless corner of the blogosphere that specializes in mental burps and factless titillation (as described recently by Rightwing Nuthouse’s Rick Mora [...]
11:17 pm
Nice work
Quoted and linked for tues
thank you
grampapinhead
2:16 pm
[...] y both do an excellent job of proving that neither side holds the patent on hatred… Moonbat Blog Taxonomy Conservative Blog Taxonomy
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8:57 pm
Where are 2005’s best posts?
They’re here. A compilation of the best posts we (and our readers) could find, from 2005.
11:38 pm
Mike said:
“There’s another that is not mainstream but deserves about a 0.5. theleftcoaster.com”
Yeah, those guys are completely nutty. Even better, anyone who disagrees with them is first insulted in the most purile manner, then their IP address is banned for ‘repeating right-wing orthodoxies’. Obviously, differing opinions make their house-of-cards world view become wobbly.
12:19 pm
Aw, Rick, you deleted my post! Just proves my point: Wingnuts can’t handle objective truth. If I’m wrong, put my post back up.
Um…you might want to glance at a few of the comments above. There’s enough “objective truth” from lefties to start a chain store.
I have no clue what you’re talking about as far as “deleting” anything. It may have fallen victim to my spam filter which doesn’t like comments older than 2 weeks.
Ed.
11:41 am
I loved it when you mentioned Kos’ 0 for 16 record when supporting a Democratic candidate also proves he’s a loser. That’s telling ‘em!
So I guess Jim Webb, Jon Testor, John Hall, Sherrod Brown, Jerry McNerny, Chris Carney, Admiral Joe Sestack and a bunch of others all lost. Too bad for them.
Um…check the date on the post.
Ed.