The shifting sands of Reich Wing rhetoric are Comedic Gold, Jerry! Comedic Gold!!!

Is it not ironic that one of the chief purveyors of the moving goalposts is called ‘Little Green Footballs’? Maybe we should start a blog called ‘Little Pink Goalposts’.

Maybe we should start a blog called ‘Little Pink Goalposts’.

Wouldn’t it be kind of a hassle changing the URL all the time?

Speaking of strange bedfellows, the keynoter at the April 20-21 annual conference of the Oklahoma Sustainability Network–which, as its name suggests, “connect[s] and educate[s] the people of Oklahoma concerning the many aspects of sustainability [and] is a catalyst and a resource for the improvement of Oklahoma’s economy, ecology, and equity,” and is thus one of the small number of active, progressive organizations here in the Sooner State–is….wait for it….

Victor Davis Hanson!

Surprisingly, VDH will not be telling assembled Oklahoma environmentalists how Thucydides proves that we need to invade Iran sustainably, but instead will “speak about redirecting farming away from corporate agriculture back to its traditional role in society.” Who knew?

(Still I fears that this will somehow involve hoplites and/or Xenophon’s Oeconomicus.)

Ah, the logical fallacy of it allm

God is love, and love is blind, so God is blind.

In 1939, the Poles detested and feared the Nazi regime, and the Soviets detested and feared the Nazi regime, so that must make it hard to tell the Polish aristos and the Bolshies apart.

Right wing lunatics hate Israel because it is made up of Jews. I condemn Israel because is is a horrible vestige of colonialism and a brutal apartheid state.

But don’t explain this to Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, two obvious anti-semites who won’t rest until every Jew on the planet is tossed down a coal mine shaft.

Meanwhile, Daniel Pipes, that horror from the pit, was being protested because he calls for universities that allow pro-palestinian rallies to lose their federal funding (among other abominations). Hmmm … Sounds like something a left-wing dictator would pull — you can’t tell Daniel Pipes from Hugo Chavez anymore ….

Very nice post, except it’s already been well established Dan Riehl has no idea that the concept of shame exists.

Uh, Gavin?

“The other team does it worse” and “they started it” and suchlike should seem awfully familiar— does “Clinton did it, too” ring any bells?

All I’m saying is that “Neener neener, so’s your mom” is not a very persuasive way to respond to accusations of bigotry, and you’re much better off sticking with “um, yeah, that’s coming from an insane fringe element. We don’t have or want anything to do with them.”

Unless, of course, you don’t want anyone to think you might be an effete cocktail-party neoliberal useful-idiot yuppie doormat Centrist.

Uh, grampaw?

I think Gavin was less implying that “they started it”, and more suggesting that they’re projecting their own bigotry onto the left, in any way they can muster. Kind of a different thing.

Just sayin’.

The Enemy Of My Friend Is…Uh, How’s That Supposed To Go?

In this case, maybe it goes like this (apologies to the Grateful Dead):

I hate all Muslims, but that’s just fine
A friend of the Malkin is a friend of mine
If I call the left anti-Semite, I just might get some links tonight

There you go making fun of fat people again. Why don’t you just photoshop a giant Bac-Os bottle into Daffyd’s hands? I bet that’s what your allies over at Stormfront would do.

Centrism (noun): A fallacious, self-congratulatory political posture adopted by those who, while generally supportive of right-wing policies, seek to avoid the moral consequences of the cruelty and oppression those policies entail. (See also: “passive-aggression”, “cockassitude”)

All wingnut pundits, as far as we know, are under two basic forces, that of KoolAid and that of the internal pressure formed by their own cognitive dissonance. KoolAid acts as an energy source that creates tremendous heat and pressure inside a wingnut’s head, which begins the process that produces the massive amounts of published bullshit that earn the pundit a comfortable living.

For wingnuts near the ego level of Pamela Oshrey, the KoolAid force is great enough to squeeze the center and make it hot enough for the wingnut to start gibbering incoherently. This renewal of energy causes the wingnut’s brain to swell massively and shed some of the outer layers into space.

After the wingnut finishes swallowing every talking point that it can, career pressure again takes over and starts squeezing the tiny neurons tighter and tighter until the repulsive forces of the cognitive dissonance balance the force of KoolAid and the pundit comes to rest by abandoning Pajamas Media in order to again accept Blogads. This pundit’s page hits will eventually cool down and it will drift through space as a cold, burned out cinder.

For wingnuts such as David Frum with a perceived public stature greater than two and a half times that of Dan Riehl, their fate is even more exotic. The force of cognitive dissonance is great enough to produce aneurysms in the center of the brain. Criminal indictments of senior White House officials are the heaviest internal conflict that such wingnuts can bear, since the total abdication of law-n-order requires more energy to fuse together than they can release by blogging, so the ego collapses. For super massive egos, this collapse is so violent that it causes a huge, catastrophic explosion known as a supernova.

“…how very excellent for us that Solomon blogs…”
– Atlas Shrugs

Heh. Indeed.

Ewww.. on the subject of ab Hugh, I just looked at his wikipedia entry. The following sentence is soooo disturbing, but I think may answer a lot of questions:

His most noted story, “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk”, was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. It concerns sentient animals and inter-species sex.

[shudder]

I run into this all the time. I support Palestinian independence and I am quite critical of (Likudnik) Israel policy towards the Palestinians. So, of course, in two out of three debates/discussions I am labeled an anti semite. It’s not logical, its not rational, it makes no sense, hell, its a random construct, every bit as valid as “if you criticize Israeli policy, you must be anti farmer”. Sure, it’s utterly irrational, but to be critical is no more a manifestation of racial hatred than it is a manifestation of farmer hatred….

mikey

His most noted story, “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk�, was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. It concerns sentient animals and inter-species sex.

No way. Our manly man Dafydd is obviously a furry. The Star Trek novels, the furry fandom, the wingnuttery– Oh, it’s just too awful!

You can disagree with the policies of a government without hating the people of that country. This shouldn’t be strange to a wingnut seeing as their grand plan for the Middle East is destroy the “bad” governments and replace them with democracies. Although strangely they seem to loath the people living under those repressive regimes which is kinda incompatible with the whole democratic empowerment motif. But then, I don’t understand much you see.

It’s about time that the U.S. right get to work explaining to all those Israeli Jews who detest their own government’s obsessively right wing policies that they are dangerous anti-semites.

to kind of continue mikey’s thought, it’s more a projection of the racism by the accuser, to not be able to separate the racial aspects of a situation and the straightforward political/legal/moral aspects.

I guess it’s not surprising that the wingnuts, ever eager to bring everybody into the mud, are unable to distinguish between criticisms where race is conicidental versus race-based discrimination. It’s pretty much like the Pie Queen screaming misogyny every time someone disagrees with her or calls her a name. If you’re on the losing side of an argument, pound the table.

No way. Our manly man Dafydd is obviously a furry

I think you may be on to something there, JK. Perhaps the giant celery Gavin photoshopped into his picture was more appropriate than we could have imagined. Maybe next time he should add some acorns or a salt lick, or something.

You can disagree with the policies of a government without hating the people of that country.

Only if the President has a (D) next to his name.

Dan Riehl, whistling to an Anne Murray song…

bwhahaha. how do you come up with these?

I’d rather not link to Stormfront and give them traffic, but I found a couple of interesting quotes from these two threads I ran into.

This is for the teh left = nazis crowd.

I’ve linked to screenshots. If you want to read the threads you can get the urls from the pics.

Michelle Malkin: We Will Not Submit.

“Michelle Malkin is a great critic of Islam and conservative issues. She isn’t White though, if anyone doesn’t know.”

“Malkin may be a jew-marrying, slope, but she talks alot like a WN. Let her spew and get a few power-points in. Maybe some neo-cons and republicruds will wake up and take heed to some of her more intelligent ideas like….get rid of these muslim scum before they kill more Americans!”

“Some fine blogs about Islam”

“Don’t forget littlegreenfootballs!! A bit more general tho..”

“Thanks!

However, something strange happened: I clicked the link you posted and found myself to be on a site which is completely written in Hebrew… “

Disagree with US foreign policy? You hate America. Oppose unprovoked war? You hate the troops. Demand the traditional separation of church and state? You hate Jesus. Criticize the Likud Party’s far-right craziness? You hate Teh Jews. Its the same pattern over and over.

Umm, but I really DO hate jesus. Fucker…

mikey

Dafydd Ab Hugh fucks stuffed animals. There, I said it.

Dafydd Ab Hugh fucks stuffed animals. There, I said it.

Oh Gawd, oh Gawd, oh Gawd. I did a quick Google search to find a link for a smartassed addition to this thought, and found this. Ummm… scroll down to the “Plushophilia and Sexuality” part.

I need to go wash my eyes out. I can’t believe there’s a furry wikipedia.

I can’t believe there’s a furry wikipedia.

Squickipedia?

Surprisingly, VDH will […] “speak about redirecting farming away from corporate agriculture back to its traditional role in society.â€?

America needs more helots.

This was the best sadlyno posting in a very long time.

Indeed, I can now say without fear of successful contradiction:

Roy Edroso, the bar has been raised!

Holy shit. They have links to plushophile Entertainment

Dafydd ab Hugh masturbates to Hentai while eating Bac-Os: “The Left is weak and would perforce sell all dignity for the comfort of the moment.�

Oh, sure, Bac-Os. You could have assumed he’d be eating a wheat thin or a rice cake or perhaps even nibbling some raw spinach, but nooooooo.

Bigot.

Somebody with Photoshop skillz should make the “furry” version of Daffyd’s iconic sandwich/celery picture.

Our manly man Dafydd is obviously a furry

Joo know, “furries” ees what gatos call their cojones.

Es verdad.

During the 1970s all the scientists were saying we were headed for a new Ice Age.

Choke on that, beaaatchezzzz

[tosses back mullet, in Thor-like and Billy Ray Cyrus fashion, peels out of convenience store with a smoke show]

We didn’t start the fire …

But we did fart on it and it made a big green and purple flame …

But, but, but Monica Lewinsky was a threat to National Security!

No?

It worked before ….

Bye I’m leaving now …

Sorry I just realized something, is Monica jewish?

I was just trying to make the point that the insanity that has been “tried and true” for too long finally isn’t working anymore for them.
I anticipate more “Golden Oldies” on the way, to “keep the feeling alive”.

Hey JK47 and others; don’t conflate furries with conservatives. While I may not have specific statistics to point to, you can trust me that on the whole, the fandom is something like at least 50% gay and 90% liberal (I mean, you’d pretty much have to be). While wingnut furs do exist, they are a malodourous and maligned minority.

Deviant freaks as they (we) may be, it is a disservice to lump them in with wingnuts like Daffyd.

Now back to the snark at hand.

Hey JK47 and others; don’t conflate furries with conservatives. While I may not have specific statistics to point to, you can trust me that on the whole, the fandom is something like at least 50% gay and 90% liberal (I mean, you’d pretty much have to be). While wingnut furs do exist, they are a malodourous and maligned minority.

Deviant freaks as they (we) may be, it is a disservice to lump them in with wingnuts like Daffyd.

I want to be clear that I have nothing against furries– You guys go ahead and let your freak flags fly. I have great love and respect for all types of weirdoes and deviants. And it makes perfect sense that most furries would be liberal– that doesn’t surprise me at all. Furries seem like gentle nerds for the most part.

There is something hilarious, however, about a genocidal wingnut in an XXXL “Reagan Revolution” T-shirt who is renowned for a story called “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk,” a story which according to Wikipedia “concerns sentient animals and inter-species sex.” It’s kind of hard to pass as a legit neocon tough guy when everybody knows you get turned on by the idea of copulating with Mighty Mouse.

“concerns sentient animals and inter-species sex.�
I have nothing against sentient animals. They would make a nice change from animals who think they are sentient, just because they have opposable thumbs.

Wow, M.Sphinx. Did teh Nazis just nail Malkin as a “useful idiot” for their kind? Wow. I wonder how she’d react to that (aside from deafening silence, that is).

It’s kind of hard to pass as a legit neocon tough guy when everybody knows you get turned on by the idea of copulating with Mighty Mouse.

Actually, having read the gaspingly bad story in question, it’s a dog. For what it’s worth, Daffy also called it “semi-autobiographical”…

Glad you like the site! Funnily enough, WikiFur is actually one of the bigger separate wikis. Sure, we’re not quite up to the level of Wookieepedia or Memory Alpha, but we hold our own. 😉

As for the topic, I’m sure conservatives can be furry as long as they’re monogamous and heterosexual as well. You might think that would be hard given that 80% of furry fans are male, but (as previously noted) half of those are gay, so it balances out . . .

Mikey, just one thing — labor and likkud are often set up like some kind of good cop bad cop routine, but they’re really no different when it comes to treatment of the Palestinians. Frinstance — remember bad old Netanyahu and nice liberal Barak? Fact is, behind the rhetoric is the fact that Israel built more settlements under Barak than under Netanyahu. Both parties have a “gentleman’s agreement” that no governing coalition will ever include an Israeli Arab party.

I think the blogosphere need declare a moratorium on ragging on LGF. It’s like picking on the retarded, I mean, differently abled.

Yup MCH, they did. There’s some disagreement over whether Malkin should be an ‘honorary member’ as it were, but she must jhave some truly fucked up views for bona fide Neo Nazis are willing to overlook her ethnicity and that of her husband.

*that bona fide Neo Nazis

Where’s that preview button?

re: those Stormfront screengrabs; Why aren’t the little emoticon faces Caucasian? Maybe they should all have little Hitler ‘staches too.