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Nomination of Republican Hagel Gives Rightbloggers a Chance to Reach Out Ha Ha No Not Really

Obama has nominated Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. Hagel is a former Republican Senator, so you would expect Republicans to appreciate the gesture. Or you would if you lived in the earlier, simpler time before rightbloggers. In our current era, alas, nothing proposed by the Kenyan Pretender ... More >>

The 12 Months of Crazy: Rightbloggers' Greatest Hits of 2012

It's been a hell of a year for conservatives, so naturally it's been a flaming, bloody hell of a year for our subjects the rightbloggers. If this is the sort of thing that gladdens your heart, then sit by the fire and let us brighten your holiday season by reviewing, month by month, the rightblogg ... More >>

Drop in Birth Rates, Rise of Single Voters Set Rightbloggers to Raving

The day-to-day business of rightblogging -- harrying Susan Rice, cheering on congressional Republicans, and so forth -- is not very satisfying to us, nor (apparently, from their tedious writing on those subjects) to them. So we were happy for them and for ourselves when some recent reports showed t ... More >>

Rightbloggers Bash "Bully" Biden for Speaking Roughly to Poor Paul Ryan

The week before last, Obama phoned in his first debate performance against Romney, and rightbloggers were ecstatic that the challenger had "schooled" and "humiliated" the President. "If last night's debate was a boxing match," one of the brethren gloated, "a referee would have had to stop the fight. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Declare Democratic Convention a Failure -- Which May Be Why It Succeeded

A week after the party of Kang had their national convention, the party of Kodoshad theirs in Charlotte, NC. It was a lively affair, with a floor fight strong-armed by party bosses, and big speeches by Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sandra Fluke, and some guy running a crap economy who nonetheless no ... More >>

When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights

In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>

Rightbloggers Ride Rush Limbaugh's Slut Wagon Into a Ditch

Remember the Clarence Thomas hearings, and how David Brock (then a right- rather than a left-wing operative -- yes that's how long ago it was!) called Anita Hill "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty"? Remember how decent people were outraged by this appalling breach of decorum? Boy, those we ... More >>

Rightbloggers Prepare to Swallow Their Santorum and Root for Romney

Since the recent Iowa one-two finish by Romney and Santorum, there've been a couple more debates and a lot of palaver about the GOP Presidential race. But let us level with you: Despite all our jokes about The Next President of the United States of The Week/Month, it's become painfully obvious tha ... More >>

Newt Gingrich is a Ridiculous Candidate for President -- Which Explains His Rise

Last week, when we told you Newt Gingrich was the GOP's flavor of the month, you could have been forgiven for being skeptical. That Newt Gingrich? The former Speaker of the House who pissed off most of the country by shutting down the government? Who was fined by Congress for ethics violations? Who ... More >>

David Mamet Stopped Being a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' Back in 2008

​In 2008, when President Barack Obama was just a surging senator, the famed (and rich!) writer David Mamet penned a political essay for the Village Voice that was titled "David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal.'" It was hugely successful -- basically the biggest story in this we ... More >>

Dude Who Streaked for Obama Wins $1M For Doing So

Via Gawker.​The next time you're deciding whether or not it's worth it to streak at a rally the President of the United States of America is at -- thus exponentially increasing the liklihood of you both going to jail and getting your ass kicked by secret service agents -- ask yourself: Is this ... More >>

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

"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 stop writing this accursed column -- and, freed of their delusions, conservatives can begin to live ... More >>

Martha Coakley-Scott Brown Race May Turn on Shoving Incident

Here's video that shows Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack being muscled by a Democratic staffer as he tries to ask questions of Senatorial candidate Martha Coakley, who faces a special election next week in Massachusetts. The staffer, Michael Meehan, admits he was "a little too aggressive" w ... More >>

A Studies in Crap War on Christmas Special: '30s Kids Crave Toys, Neglect Jesus, Attempt Minstrelsy

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls Date: December, 1932 The Cover Promises: Exa ... More >>

Armey to March for 3rd-Party Candidate in NY-23 as Conservatives "Send a National Message"

​National conservatives continue to push hard for the defeat of Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava in New York's 23rd Congressional District. Despite the frantic efforts of the local GOP and Scozzafava's endorsement by Newt Gingrich, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman (pictured) has r ... More >>

More right-wing agita in NY-23

​The national Republican battle over the race to replace Secretary of the Army Bill Owen in the House ratcheted up this week, with conservative icon (and former House ideological purity enforcer) Newt Gingrich injecting himself on behalf of Republican social moderate Dede Scozzafava. Scozzaf ... More >>

Obama Presents Medals of Freedom; Rightbloggers Predictably Enraged

​ Yesterday afternoon President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on 16 notables including Billie Jean King, Chita Rivera, Stephen Hawking, Sidney Poitier, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Edward Kennedy, the late Jack Kemp (whose widow accep ... More >>

Rightbloggers Enraged by Medals to Evil President of Ireland, Homosexual, Breast Cancer Fighter, Etc.

President Obama's list of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners came out yesterday, and rightbloggers have had some time to snarl over it. There is plenty there to exercise them. The list includes Harvey Milk (a homosexual!), Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (an injun!), Rev. Joseph Lowery (a civil-rig ... More >>

Weekly Standard Sold to Blogger-Paper Chain

Clarity Media Group specializes in hiring a bunch of bloggers as "examiners" (if "hiring" is the right word, considering what they pay) to staff its low-cost Examiner papers, and is run by a Jesus freak. Now we learn Clarity has bought William Kristol's rightwing opinion spigot, The Weekly Standard, ... More >>

Bloomberg Push-Polls Weiner, No One Gives a Damn

Mayor Bloomberg's campaign is going great so far. The other day his minions apparently did a comically egregious push-poll against Anthony Weiner (i.e., pretending to take a phone survey but devoting the session to asking "whether the person's views of Mr. Weiner would be altered if he or she knew ... More >>

Rightbloggers Angry Iowa is Making Them Get Gay-Married

Gay people are supposed to know about show tunes, so they'll understand when we say: There's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you. The Iowa Supreme Court has unanimously said a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. New York and California have not done so much for the cause of mar ... More >>

Stimulus Passes in House; GOP Pleased With Unanimous Defeat

The version of the stimulus bill earlier approved by negotiators from both houses of Congress has passed in the House. As with the original bill, no Republican Congressmen voted in favor, which is apparently alright with Obama because he's sick of them anyway. Many conservatives are outraged. "T ... More >>

That's Our Hillary! Pols, Rightbloggers React to New Secretary of State

Airplane! Director David Zucker Talks About the Left and His New Movie An American Carol

The right stuff

Where's Johnny? Ignoring McCain, Rightbloggers Obsess on Obama

George Bush: Master Spy

Unilateral president exposed in his ignorance of Constitution he's sworn to protect

U.S. Torture: Who'll Break First?

Rice, Bush, McCain all say no compromise

Morning Report 11/10/05
Heavyweight v. Lightweight

Democrats, Rejoice: Right Says Wrong on Harriet Miers

Conservative disappointment at Bush’s Supreme Court pick

The GOP's Fright Wing

DeLay and Frist light the torches for a crusade against 'activist' judges

Condi's Growing Fan Club

European tour '05: A jumping-off point for a White House run in '08?

Veep as Vamp

Bush surrogates sissify John Edwards. But will it backfire? Plus: What did Whoopi say?

NY Mirror

A franc discussion: Putting a rocky relationship to the test

Nation

Rocking the Bishops

The Spirit Moves at the Catholic Conference

Who's an Anti-Semite?

Hating Not Just Israel, but Jews

Nation

The Media Muzzled

Vietnam and Afghanistan Show why Limiting Press Access to War is Unpatriotic

The Age of 'Reason'

The Clinton Jones

Why We Can't Let the Big Creep Go

Nation

Conservatives in Drag

Fox News Wears Veil of Neutrality

Left Behind

The Radical Right Got Wired Fast. When Will Progressives Catch Up?

Right-Wing Kingpin Gets Canned

The ‘Post’ Won’t Miss Podhoretz

The Son Also Rises

Newsday's Dumbest Editorial

The 'Honor' of Working at the White House Requires Total Loyalty

Libel Bible

Rule of Jaw

Tobacco Row

The New American Majority

Women and minorities swung the election to the Democrats. Can the Republicans now claim them?