Email Author Roy Edroso

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 15, 2008

  "Blogosphere Guide"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Runnin' Scared

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2010 Stories by Roy Edroso

• The 10 Best Rightblogger Rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, And More!

  published Dec 27, 2010

  What a horrible year it's been. There's been something to annoy everyone, and everyone took full advantage: The health care bill, the Tea Party, the BP spill, the Ground Zero Mosque, the Glenn Beck an... More >>

• Rightbloggers on DADT: A Slow March Toward Tolerance, With Side Trips to Insanity

  published Dec 20, 2010

  This weekend the Senate repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the 17-year-old policy that allowed gays to serve in the U.S. military only if they could conceal their sexual orientation. The bill awaits Ob... More >>

• The 2010 Rightblogger War on Christmas Special -- Featuring Abortion Gift Certificates!

  published Dec 13, 2010

  Merry War on Christmas! This conflict has been dragging on for years, which is not entirely a bad thing, as it has produced a thriving War on Christmas industry, which our economy desperately needs. ... More >>

• Rightbloggers Say They'll Change The Constitution to Fix Problems You Never Knew You Had

  published Dec 06, 2010

  Two years ago, conservatives were on the ropes. But the GOP victories in last month's elections have them dreaming big again. They're back to talking about destroying the Democrats once and for all. E... More >>

• Rightbloggers on WikiLeaks: Kill Julian Assange, But Not Till We Use His Stuff Against Obama

  published Nov 28, 2010

  This weekend we got another fat load of WikiLeaks, based on purloined diplomatic cables to and from the U.S. State Department. As happened when Julian Assange's muckraking endeavor leaked U.S. militar... More >>

• Rightbloggers: TSA, Don't Touch Our Junk -- Profile Arabs Instead!

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Since the Republicans -- with the help of those Revolutionary-War reenactors in the Tea Party -- scored big in the 2010 elections, they've been bringing up the U.S. Constitution a lot. Incoming House ... More >>

• After the Shellacking, the Return of the "Arrogant Obama" Meme

  published Nov 14, 2010

  Hey sheeples: Barack Obama thinks he's better than you. Obama gets a lot of this from conservatives, and has since before he was elected. He's been called "arrogant" by thousands of them, including K... More >>

• Obama's "$200 Million A Day" India Trip Exposed! Then Debunked! But... Questions Remain!

  published Nov 08, 2010

  As you may have heard, President Obama has made a trip to India, and it's costing taxpayers a bazillion dollars because he brought the entire Seventh Fleet and thousands of campaign contributors. Oop... More >>

• Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

  published Nov 01, 2010

  On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stev... More >>

• Rightbloggers, Delighted to Find Black Guy Scared of Muslims, Defend Juan Williams

  published Oct 25, 2010

  Celebrity journalist Juan Williams had a good week, on balance. First, he was fired by National Public Radio for remarks he made on Fox -- his other major employer -- about his fear of Muslims on airp... More >>

• Ace In The Hole: Rightbloggers Say Chile Mine Rescue Means Obama Sucks, Capitalism Rules

  published Oct 18, 2010

  Last week we talked about the Tennessee fire department that let a man's house burn to the ground because he hadn't paid protection money, and the rightbloggers who thought this was a laudable example... More >>

• Libertarian Fire Department Lets House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay $75; Rightbloggers Applaud Free Market, Suffering

  published Oct 11, 2010

  People often say that the Republican Party has become much more conservative than it used to be. But they don't talk much about how conservatism itself has become more... hmm, how to put this politely... More >>

• Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race

  published Oct 04, 2010

  You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many o... More >>

• Stephen Colbert Gets Truthy with Congress; Rightbloggers Scream Like Stuck Eagles (And So Do MSM Reporters)

  published Sep 27, 2010

  Long, bitter experience -- and long, bitter comments at this blog -- have taught us that if there's anything conservatives hate more than Big Gummint and homosexuals, it's someone making fun of them. ... More >>

• Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O'Donnell's Masturbation, Satanism Remarks

  published Sep 20, 2010

  When Christine O'Donnell beat Mike Castle last week to become the GOP nominee in the Delaware Senatorial race, a clown car pulled up and several bizarre O'Donnell quotes came piling out. The most famo... More >>

• If 9/11 Can't Bring Us Together, Rightbloggers Figure, Let It Tear Us Apart

  published Sep 13, 2010

  On the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, some rightbloggers (including, we must admit, some of whom we never expected it) were actually somber, reflective, even moving. But most of them ... More >>

• On Labor Day, Rightbloggers Denounce Labor Day, Unions, Minimum Wage, Etc.

  published Sep 06, 2010

  Happy Labor Day! You're probably thinking about picnics or sales, rather than about Joe Hill, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, strikes, solidarity, and such like. That's okay. Enjoy your day o... More >>

• Glenn Beck and Martin Luther King -- Together at Last at the Restoring Honor Rally!

  published Aug 30, 2010

  Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday was part religious revival, part group therapy session. "Pray on your knees," Beck roared like a TV evangelist, and he warned that the country was "at... More >>

• It's Obama's Fault People Think He's a Muslim, Say the Guys Who Keep Telling People He's a Muslim

  published Aug 23, 2010

  In journalism, the depths of August are often called "silly season," because many newsmakers are on vacation, forcing bored reporters to fill up space with goofy stories (e.g.). For rightbloggers, o... More >>

• Ground Zero Mosque Story Confirms It: Conservatives Are The Honky Party

  published Aug 16, 2010

  Last week we considered whether conservatives and their host body, the GOP, were attacking non-white Americans so much that they now constituted America's Honky Party. We did not then spend much time... More >>

• Prop 8, Michelle Obama, Ground Zero Mosque: Are Conservatives Basically The Honky Partyr

  published Aug 09, 2010

  Last week Judge Vaughn Walker's decision setting aside Prop 8 in California unleashed plenty of grumbling from rightbloggers. As it involves gay people, this was to be expected. There was also rightb... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Stick It to the Man With Groovy Rightwing Revolution

  published Aug 02, 2010

  Psst, brother! Are you down with the revolutionr No, we don't mean the revolution of the Sixties -- though some of the star players in this one do dress like Paul Revere and the Raiders (and most of... More >>

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  Rightbloggers on Shirley Sherrod: "You Fucked up -- You Trusted Us!"

  published Jul 26, 2010

  You may have heard something about former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod last week. She's the civil-rights veteran who got forced out of her job after rightwing provocateur Andrew Breitbart released ... More >>

• Rightbloggers Go Alex Jones, Denounce Bipartisan "Ruling Class," Propose Groovy Revolution -- to Elect Republicans

  published Jul 19, 2010

  Recently the top Google Trend item -- with "volcanic" traffic -- was "Obama Deception Censored." The phrase relates to filmmaker and Infowars proprietor Alex Jones' claim that his movie Obama Deceptio... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Look Back in Anger at the Anti-American World Cup

  published Jul 12, 2010

  "It's hard work, politicizing your whole life," read the subhed of Matt Labash's article in the rightwing Weekly Standard. At last, we thought when we saw this, they're going to own up to it! We can s... More >>