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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2011 Stories by Roy Edroso

• Rightbloggers Not Really Enjoying This New York Gay Marriage Thing

  published Jun 27, 2011

  Gay marriage has been passed in the New York state legislature, and Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature will make the Empire State the sixth state to allow same-sex couples to wed. You can imagine ho... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Herald the Rise of Our Next President, Michele Bachmann. (Or Some Guy Who Isn't Running.)

  published Jun 20, 2011

  In the future, everyone will be a serious Republican Presidential candidate for 15 minutes. We're close to that now. Last Monday several GOP contenders for the big job debated in New Hampshire, and M... More >>

• Weinergaterdämmerung: Rightbloggers Shoot Their Load on Weiner, Wife, Women, and New Yorkers

  published Jun 13, 2011

  We see Anthony Weiner's penis, in this "if it seeds, it leads" media era, remains big news. The New York Representative's lewd but (so far as has been revealed) legal tweets have many pols calling for... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Ejaculate Over the Women of Weinergate

  published Jun 05, 2011

  Here is what everyone knows about Weinergate: A picture of bulging underwear, which Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner won't deny is his, exists, and a link to it appeared in his Twitter stream. W... More >>

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  Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan Scaring Votersr Rightblogger Solution: Paul Ryan for President!

  published May 30, 2011

  Last Tuesday a Democrat came from behind to win a special election in New York's overwhelmingly Republican 26th Congressional District. Kathy Hochul's surge coincided with heavy, issue-specific campai... More >>

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  Mitch Daniels Out of 2012 Race; Herman Cain is the Next President of the United States

  published May 23, 2011

  Despite the speculation of Fox News ("he has a proven record of managing the kinds of fiscal problems that beset our nation"), the Washington Post ("a Daniels candidacy probably would be taken as a si... More >>

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  Huckabee Out, Gingrich, Paul In, Which Rightbloggers Declare Good News for Herman Cain

  published May 16, 2011

  There was some action in the GOP 2012 Presidential race last week, with Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul declaring themselves in and Mike Huckabee declaring himself out. Rightbloggers sifted the results, a... More >>

• Rightbloggers Explain How Killing Osama Was Bad for Obama, America

  published May 08, 2011

  Last Sunday, right after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, we did a quick scan of rightblogger responses to the event. The brethren basically felt Obama had nothing to do with i... More >>

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  Rightbloggers on the Death of Osama Bin Laden: Eh, No Big Whoop. Thanks, President Bush!

  published May 02, 2011

  Osama Bin Laden is dead. We heard this last night from President Barack Obama. He was not wearing a flight suit, nor did he appear on the deck of an aircraft carrier in front of a banner saying MISSIO... More >>

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  Battle of Birtherism: Rightbloggers Divide on Whether Obama is Foreign-Born or Merely Un-American

  published Apr 25, 2011

  Despite fresh pushback from some top conservatives, the longstanding rightblogger obsession with Barack Obama's birth certificate has not abated. Even as prominent rightwing columnists and politicia... More >>

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  Rightbloggers on Atlas Shrugged: It's the Feel-Good, Piece-of-Crap Movie of the Year!

  published Apr 18, 2011

  When best-selling books like The DaVinci Code or the Twilight series become movies, their fans take to the internet to share their excitement. They argue over the film's fidelity to their favorite cha... More >>

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  On Shutdown Budget Deal, Rightbloggers Agree: Planned Parenthood is Evil

  published Apr 11, 2011

  Last week's threatened shutdown of the federal government over the budget was averted, at least temporarily, by a compromise plan. The compromise throws the big-spending Democrats into reverse, a... More >>

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  The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay?

  published April 6, 2011

  If a Lonely Comics nerd from, say, 1961 were suddenly whisked by Rip Hunter, Time Master to the present day, he'd think comics had taken over... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Enjoy The Birther-rific Quasi-Candidacy of Donald Trump

  published Apr 03, 2011

  In case you missed it, Donald Trump is sort of running for President. He's shown his seriousness about this by speaking at the CPAC political convention, and by taking a job at Fox News. That Trump m... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Counter Eco-Nazis' "Earth Hour" by Patriotically Wasting Electricity

  published Mar 27, 2011

  This weekend, an unknown number of people worldwide participated in the fifth annual "Earth Hour" sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. They turned off electricity to "take a stand against climate cha... More >>

• Rightbloggers on Libya Action: For It Before They Were Against It

  published Mar 21, 2011

  Well, President Obama has functionally invaded his first country as part of a joint military implementation with the UK and France of a no-fly zone over Libya. Did you expect rightbloggers, who had be... More >>

• Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

  published Mar 14, 2011

  Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing th... More >>

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  Rightbloggers Taste the Tiger Blood, Link Charlie Sheen to Unions, Obama, and Gay Marriage

  published Mar 07, 2011

  Last week it seemed no one could get enough of Charlie Sheen. Though he'd previously made the papers with his drug problems, domestic violence incidents, and hit TV series, Sheen attained internet mem... More >>

• Rightbloggers Compare Large National Protests (Union) Unfavorably with Large National Protests (Koch Brothers) [Updated]

  published Feb 28, 2011

  Last weekend rallies were held in all 50 states in support of the teachers' union in Wisconsin. And at the Wisconsin state capitol, at least 70,000 people came out on Saturday to protest Governor Walk... More >>

• Rightbloggers Denounce the Wealthy, Treasonous Schoolteachers of Wisconsin

  published Feb 21, 2011

  The effort by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Republican-led state legislature to deprive the state's teachers of collective bargaining rights was catnip to rightbloggers last week. This is b... More >>

• Rightbloggers Welcome Gay, Muslim Diversity at CPAC -- But Not Too Much

  published Feb 14, 2011

  The 2011 Conservative Political Action Cnference (CPAC), held last week, was in some respects like the previous year's: For example, everyone loved that the place was full of young people, until the k... More >>

• Rightbloggers Celebrate Reagan's 100th Birthday; Attack His Son, Ron Jr.; Cheer His Daughter, Sarah Palin

  published Feb 06, 2011

  You may remember Ronald Reagan, whose centenary was celebrated last weekend, as former Secretary of State James Baker does -- as the man who "taught us how to love"; or, as Arizona GOP Congressman Ben... More >>

• Rightbloggers Credit Bush for Egypt Uprising -- Then Blame Obama for Egypt Uprising

  published Jan 30, 2011

  Hordes of citizens stand up to their nation's hated leader. But observers worry that when the revolution finally comes, religious fundamentalists hostile to democracy will seize power. We're not talk... More >>

• Obama Hosts Chinese Leader (Or, Translated Into Rightblogger: Obama Sells Out America to Communists, Pianist)

  published Jan 24, 2011

  "Red China" had been effectively closed to U.S. trade for years when President Nixon began softening things up in the 70s. Subsequent Presidents from both parties have followed Nixon's lead, and now, ... More >>

• In Tucson Shooting Fallout, Rightbloggers Find a New Public Enemy #1: Paul Krugman

  published Jan 17, 2011

  If you've quit paying attention to the Tucson shooting case, first of all, congratulations. Here is what you've missed: The nearly-assassinated Democratic Congresswoman is getting better, and the publ... More >>