I…

*scratches head*

Now, this is a blogger from the right, correct?

Aaaaand… this is the same right wing blogosphere that gets all its news from the right wing media, correct?

Aaaaand… the right wing media, for years, has reported most of its politics practically verbatim from GOP talking points memos, correct?

…and he’s saying the LEFT has a hive mind?

Jesus, he should read some Daily Howler. The number of times _exactly_ the same talking point pops up from _nowhere_ and appears simultaneously on Fox, Rush, and the rest of the Right Wing Wank, usually with identical buzzwords and catchphrases, to be dutifully echoed by the right wing blogosphere…

As usual, this guy is indulging in totally baseless ad hominem attacks because, frankly, he knows he can’t win with logical argument.

Now all, please join me in a chorus of “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead,” by my honeyboy, the late Warren Zevon:
I was working on a steak the other day
Saw a body at the Rattlesnake Cafe
Dressed in black, tossing back a shot of rye
Talkin’ about things to do in Denver when you die…

You won’t need a cat to find a priest
Maybe you can find a place to stay
Somewhere where they never change the sheets
You’ll just roll around Denver all day

Thirded. I can’t think of one conservative comic other than the unfunny Dennis Miller

Well, there was that time when Ron Silver asked me to pull his finger. Oh how we laughed!

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There, that’s better. Now, I am in no way an intellectual. I do, however, consider myself passably smart. I knew, for example, that attacking Iraq was just plain dumb. I know that, if you want to reduce terrorism, you have to eliminate terrorists faster than you create new terrorists. I know that the earth is warming, and that the warming is anthropogenic. I know that tax cuts basically always increase defecits. No intellectualism here, just basic walk-and-chew-gum-at-the-same time kind of brains.

What I don’t understand however (and maybe I would if I were as smart as Ace, or had an advanced degree in something practical) is how the right can say the left has a “hive mind.” Sheesh. It was Will Rogers who said, “I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” Just look at how times in Congress every Republican votes the same way compared to how many times every Democrat votes the same way. The Democratic party is one giant fractious cat fight.

And still the Right pushes the meme of the hive mind. O’Reilly and Limbaugh trot it out all the time. It’s almost as if there’s a “Noam Chomsky” of the right who is telling them all what to believe, and they dutifully believe it and repeat it as gospel. Ah, but that would be just too ironic.

Perhaps I am trying to overanalyze. There is a single word that dispenses with all of Ace’s arguments: projection.

Those are the two assumptions that prop up their sense of self worth, and they are refuted by examples of smart people who don’t believe in progressivism.

Actually, only the first of these premises would be refuted that counter-example. Although it was clear long before that point that logic isn’t Ace’s strong suit. Or contact with reality.

So if you’re truly masochistic, Paste Wisdom is the place for you!

Bill O’Reilly’s hilarious invitation to the terrorists to attack San Francisco

Ann Coulter’s side-splitting remark that Justice Stephens should be poisoned

anything by Jonah Goldberg

And Straw Man Theatre, more commonly known in syndication as Mallard Fillmore

A leftist conspiracy! Evidence of the hivemind! Resistence is futile!

And I’ll put my Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert/Lewis Black tag team up against any three rightwing comedians they can eventually find. Sometimes I have daydreams about James Lileks and Lewis Black trapped together in an elevator.

How can anyone say this with a straight face? It’s like saying the sky is yellow with mauve stripes. I sure don’t see Pelosi marching in lockstep with Feingold and Conyers. Democrats can’t seem to agree on anything; that’s why they’ve mounted no real opposition whatsoever to the most unpopular president in living memory.

Meanwhile, out of the blue, millions of wingnuts suddenly came to the independent conclusion that illegal immigration was the biggest issue facing the nation at the moment–the same way these hordes independently invent words and phrases that are absolutely identical to what just got dashed off onto Karl Rove’s memo pad. Pure coincidence, I’m sure.

Can’t I just hate Jeff Goldstein because he’s a jerk who makes perverted comments about his dog, threatens to slap people with his penis, and lets his commenters reveal personal information about a fellow blogger because someone dared to disagree with his stupid intentionalism theory? Sometimes a jerk is just a jerk.

Who remembers the glory days of alt.tasteless, circa 1994, home of “Save the Choad!”?

Shteatrfrk knew how to tell a poo story – no joke, that, and the Kaka Sutra defined the churd forever as a fecal dildo.

When Emperor Ming returns in his glory, to declare Martial Law for the coming week, the wire brush of correction will again be applied to the foreskin of your collective ignorance.

And don’t make me whip out the clue bat.

Just a couple of comments that haven’t been beaten into the ground yet::

It’s not merely gay marriage which is being argued against; it’s their value as human beings that is being uncouthly denigrated.

You know what? The arguments against gay marriage largely consist of “Those queers have little or no value as human beings”. Often, gay people are compared to animals in these discussions, as in, “If we let fags marry, what’s next? Man-on-box-turtle?”

So, yes, that’s actually how it is perceived by many gay people, and it’s not like we’ve missed the point or anything. That is the point.

Also, there’s very little more amusing than watching people get outraged at the occasional death threats against LGM commenters. I’m pretty sure they’re a net exporter.

O’Rourke was damn funny back in the day.

Don’t forget unfunny comedian Larry The Cable Guy and unfunny humorist P.J. O’Rourke.