Pound the brown hall

[ludickid]

Today in the dingbat factory: Brent "Walter Peck" Bozell foams at the mouth over Hollywood's insufficiently grovelling treatment of Christians; David "I Wish My Brother Rush Was Here" Limbaugh pens the world's dumbest column on Iraq and Iran; and Rich "Smirkalot" Lowry pens a 'shut up bitch' column about diversity at the Washington Post. (In

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[picodulce]

sir, we are a very rich country and EVERY hard working American could afford columns and homes near golf courses if they wanted to. it's just that some people value urban living more, and others value eating. and of course, others are dark-skinned, lazy, or city workers. the only people who are elitists live in Newport, RI and Martha's Vineyard. it says so in my book, where the elitists live, eat, work, and play.

[ludickid]

Exactly! Elitists are all liberals. Rich conservatives who live in fancy houses are just hard-working normal Americans.

[picodulce]

if the lazy are making so much off of the Entitlement Society (or however they call it), how come they're not living in homes with columns abutting golf courses?

[ludickid]

I think they spend it all on the crack drugs.

written by tough guys who couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight

[picodulce]

by the way, how is it that the town hall articles are consistently full of shit? it's honestly kind of depressing.

Re: written by tough guys who couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight

[ludickid]

Well, you've hit on two of my favorite characteristics of conservative punditry:

1. The need to constantly self-express as a tough guy, even though you are a fat trust fund dingaling sitting at a keyboard who wouldn't go to war if your life depended on it. (See especially Jonah "War is for Other People" Goldberg.)

2. The tendency to never let facts, logic or reason get in the way of your argument. I mean, these guys aren't just deceptive or self-serving, the way all political writing is; they're pretty much total propagandists. Look at Limbaugh's column above: he purports to talk about how Iraq may contain lessons about Iran, but totally avoids discussing how Iraq has been a total disaster, says nothing at all about Iran, and spends the whole column talking about how Democrats are big phonies. There's more "what?!?" moments in a typical day at Town Hall than any other site on the internet.

[picodulce]

but limbaugh does mention Hitler.

and: David Limbaugh, brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is an expert in law and politics and author of Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party.

i now declare myself an "expert" in law and in policy! also, i am an expert in awesomeness.

the comparisons in some of these articles are ludicrous. and the angry white men tone... guys, come the fuck on. or point me to these entitlement programs that are making me rich and hurting you so very much. really. point them out. because i'd like to have savings and pay off the debt i accrued trying to compete in the job market, thanks.

[ludickid]

As far as I can tell, the blacks who get rich off of race-based entitlement programs are talentless right-wing shills like Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Star Parker and 'The Black Avenger' Ken Hamblin, who get big book and syndication contracts from the Scaife Foundation despite having no ability so that the right-wingers can say "Look, there are black Republicans!".

[pyat]

My wish for 2007 that every conservative columnist from the US who talks about "European appeasement" in the 30s, and compares it to the Middle East, would be also driven to remember the whole "showing up late to every war that mattered thing."

[drownedinink]

What parallel earth or anti-matter universe is Mary Katherine Ham living on? The mainstream media "persecution" of the accused LaCrosse players was pretty damn tepid. And let's not forget that the liberal bastion that is "20/20" did an entire "report" that was devoted to discrediting the stripper and playing up the "they're just victims of reverse racism and classism!" angle.

That's the fascinating thing about the writers at Town Hall and similar franchises. They're so divorced from reality it's like they're caught in an endless loop of self-parody.

[fiberpunk]

Worse than a thousand flaming Hitlers is the fact that the Townhall.com site now uses animated favicons, so my Firefox tabs glitter and rotate like the diamonds in Young Dro's grill.