Now can we expect the screeching birthers and other right-wing doodyheads to demand the heads of the Bush regimistas?

Are the Bush regimistas going to catch hell for this now? Just once, could we have one of the RWNM delusionals stand up and say, "I am so full of doody, I make myself puke"?

by Ken

Conservatism was always a pretty scummy political philosophy, proceeding as it did from the assumption -- presumably based on looking in the mirror -- that humans are vile, worthless scum who need to be treated as they are toxic waste, from which the race was divided into S/M teams: the small class who treat the much larger class of savage beasts as their personal slaves. (I don't say that people are all saints. But I do say that unless you build your society around a communal striving for decency, you're going to wind up with, well, a doody-headed society very much like the one Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are working so hard to build.

But at least once upon a time conservatism was a poliical philosophy. Now, after decades of mass self-winnowing, under the thumb of the megacorporate predators and their craven, corrupt tools, the Crap Church fathers, feeding the steady roar of the corrupting and stupidifying Right-Wing Noise Machine, Modern Movement Conservatism seems much closer to a form of mental illness.

Today's case study, courtesy of our WaPo pal Al "In the Loop" Kamen, concerns yet another of the mass psychotic delusions, in the tradition of the Birther Psychosis, that the doodyheads have been sloshing around in their communal cesspools. Since I try very hard not to keep up on these episodes, which require one to lower one's opinion of one's fellow man ever closer to the view of the old political conservatives, I am periodically stunned by the level of stupidity to which the doodyheads are prepared to sink. Okay, Al, lay it on us:

The blogosphere is abuzz over conservatives' charges that a logo being used by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency looks very much like a fusion of the Muslim crescent moon and star and the Obama campaign logo. Some folks even detected a similarity to the Iranian Space Agency logo.

Of course that journalist's journalist Matt Drudge hyped the "story." The infamous Frank Gaffney, who has toiled so long and hard to prove that imbecility and insanity are no bars to a career in the defense industries, screeched out the standard right-wing bullshit about the future of America depending on our missile defense. (And never mind that it never has worked, and in the view of sane scientists never can work. After all, when all those zillions of dollars are being poured into right-wing industrialists coffers, and all they have to do is produce an occasional piece of technological crap that isn't expected to do anything, we've got what the right-wing corporatists consider Happy Days -- very different from the kind that forward-looking people-centric Democrats have sung were here again since the days of the first FDR presidential campaign in 1932.

I'm surprised to find our Al admitting that he "thought the conservatives had the better of the argument." Oh, Al, Al, Al! Just look at who you're dealing with here.

Luckily, Al hasn't withdrawn his membership in the reality-based community. And he's able to report:

Turns out, however, the "new" logo is not so new. "This was a logo that was developed three years ago for our recruiting materials and our public Web site," MDA spokesman Rick Lehner told our colleague Ed O'Keefe. "It did not replace our official MDA logo, and of course it has no ties to any political campaign. It was done one year before the 2008 elections. So the whole thing is pretty ridiculous." Lehner said the insignia was chosen because it was "cheaper, because it's three colors as opposed to the five colors on the official logo."

What a minute. Did he say one year before the election? During the George W. Bush administration? Can we get some subpoenas out on this?

Now, of course, all the doodyhead seekers of Doodyhead Truth can be expected, not just to retract and apologize to the people they've been calumnizing, but will of course launch a compensatory belated campaign of hate and character assassination. It should be starting up, um, any minute now.


SPEAKING OF THE DOODYHEAD RIGHT

Again, since I can't bear to keep up with the churning lies and delusions topping the RWNM charts, I have to have my attention directed, and it was just directed to a report Wednesday from our friends at Progressive Nation titled "Conservative Mouthpieces' Newest Crusade -- Condemn Glenn Beck." Whoa! Who knew?

Apparently our Glenn has been making some of the solons of the Doodyhead Right, including Master Rush himself, for turning his attention to the failures of his ideological supposed soulmates. So where he was recently being chided by older-line RWNM types for being, you know, a bit over the top cuckoowise, now he's under fire for questioning the conservative credentials of his brethren -- breeding distrust of (gasp) the Republican Party and possibly even encourging third-party challenges.

I love the way the Progressive Nation poster sums it up:

So, let me get this straight. Prominent conservative voices don’t mind Beck’s deranged conspiracy theories, his humiliating ignorance, and his hatred for those who don’t think as he does. But these conservative voices mind a great deal if Beck notes that Republicans have an embarrassing record when it comes to deficit reduction, the national debt, government spending, and increasing increase the size and scope of the federal government’s powers -- an observation that happens to be true.

What an odd movement.

The only thing is, why would anyone expect truth ever to enter into the calculations of the Doodyhead Right? Truth is what they're fighting against.

I don't suppose there's any hope that the RWNM will slow down, let alone halt, its delusional campaigns to drive decent people out of public life. But wouldn't it be nice if every now and then they accepted responsibiliity for one of the kajillions of bare-faced lies? Just once, I want to hear Gaffney or Drudge or Rush one of those humanoids stand up and say, "Christ almighty, I am so full of doody, I make myself puke."

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Still No Apology From McCain... Drudge?

Another not well thought out McCain campaign gimmick

So this is all that's left of the McCain campaign and the McCain legacy-- the blood libel against black men concerning the defilement of caucasian womanhood. Did someone in the McCain campaign put her up to this or did typical Republican trash nutcase Ashley Todd think this racist stunt up herself?



Matt Grimm of Red Smear brings up a good point:

SOMETIMES WHEN WE CALL YOU 'RACIST' IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE

"If Barak [sic] loses his supporters will riot in the streets and kill many including white Obama supporters. If he wins we will see the turn of racism (what we tern reverse racism) and all races but black races will be treated as scum of the earth by the new socialist black majority. not only that we will see a collapse of the free market enterprise and the socialization of our Nation completed in the first 24 months of his presidency."

So sayeth some guy named Chet who posted this today over at Newbusters, the right-wing paranoiac site dedicated to proving that right-leaning mainstream media are left-leaning mainstream media. The post, as you can see, is in reference to the Ashley Todd story, the young Texan volunteer for the McCain campaign who claimed a big scary black man attacked her in Pittsburgh, mugged her, noticed the McCain sticker on her car, then went further to take a knife out and cut a B (for "Barack" according to several higher-up McCain campaign officials) on her cheek to teach her a lesson about being a pinched little white Republican. He happened to carve the B backward, as if in a mirror. The only problem was he didn't do any of that stuff because he didn't exist; she made it all up, which she has now admitted.

Of course, she admitted it after fear-fueled psychotics like Sean Hannity and the Fox News gang had raised holy hell out of it and after Sarah Palin and John McCain milked it for all it was worth publicity-wise. Sure, it turns out, the McCain campaign took the story and ran with it like a football, 
actively pimping it to its Republican mouthpiece media before most local news sources and cops even had a sense of what happened.
 
According to TPM, "John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established -- and even told reporters outright that the 'B' carved into the victim's cheek stood for 'Barack,' according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions."

The Republican PR assets at Fox and on talk radio dutifully leveraged Ashley's fake story exactly as she and they had intended, as the spark that allowed them to rage about the fire they genuinely see coming, an America taken over by savage, amorphously different infidels. And this time there is no Little Colonel and his intrepid Klansmen to ride to the rescue, as they had in Birth of a Nation. Well, there are, and plenty of self-rationalizing little '38'-ers, it's just that most of us-- you know, the non-twelve percenters-- don't fucking like Klansmen and are getting ever more sick of self-righteous Michele Bachmanesque reactionary base they represent.



As appalling as anything about the whole incident is the fact that JOHN McCAIN, the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, phoned Ashley Todd to console her. What I would like to know of the McCain campaign is this: how many other mugging victims has the candidate taken time out of his busy schedule to place a personal call to? Three-to-seven? 50-75? Is there, like, a police-band radio on the StraightTalk Express by which they track muggings in major metros around the country?

Or did John McCain phone the girl whom he heard was the victim of some Rastus gettin' uppity? We fuckwell know that's why Hannity and Fox, et al., the mouthpieces of the lily-white fucking elite and their lily-white bible-thumping footsoldiers, jumped on the story, even though it never happened, because one Rastus gettin' uppity, whether as a presidential candidate or on a Pittsburgh street, portends a nationwide epidemic of "certain types" forgetting their place, enabled by those of us non-real-Americans here in the scary un-American cities where we sip scary non-American beverages, burn flags like tiki torches, teach our children science and compete to see who can be least American. 

Courtesy of Driftglass

Even some of the douchebags over at Newsbusters have admitted they fucked up, but, like Chet above, they're still qualifying their state of heightened wariness. It's justified, they say, because it could be true, and soon. That is, the wholesale fiction they just swallowed like a glory-hole load, spun by a racist Texan crazywoman they so desperately wanted to be their Ivory Girl martyr, just faithfully approximates the white-knuckled fearscape they tread every day of their sad fucking lives.