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So Much Crazy In One Place
Balloon Juice —
Jonathon Swift gathers up all the crazy and documents the election-year nonsense from the right-wing blogs.
And this is just too damned cute for words:
Great Moments in Election year blogging
Martini Revolution —
Conservative Blogger Jon Swift ties all the best of Right Blogostan in a neat little bundle.
Remainders: Heavy traffic
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Biden TV.
The McCain campaign dips into West Virginia.
The AFL-CIO is dropping pro-Obama mailers in WV.
Jim Pinkerton says McCain's mistake was not linking Obama to Lucifer. No, really.
Ruffini explains how fake Obama donors get through: Lax security.
Obama says his ill grandmother is getting lots of well-wishing cards and emails from strangers.
Gallup finds Jewish support for Obama up at 75%.
Conservative bloggers haven't had their best cycle.
Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, and ...
Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Daily Kos —
Jon Swift has a hilarious post entitled Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging: No matter what happens in this year’s election, the conservative blogosphere deserves to win a collective Pulitzer Prize for its election-year coverage. While the mainstream media has given Americans a very distorted picture of Barack Obama, portraying him as a thoughtful, intelligent, unflappable, decent family man who has the temperament and judgment to be President, the conservative blogosphere has been the only place where you can get the real story. Hampered by ...
Michelle Obama didn't actually call her husband's opponents evil racists
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet —
... on that one, didn't I? Sorry, guys. I would've gotten around to correcting this sooner, but I've been so totally outraged that the Palin family isn't running around in potato sacks. (Thanks for the reminder go out to the inaptly named Jon Swift .) Posted by Jim Treacher at October 23, 2008 05:16 PM
The best piece on the election so far
Sadly, No! —
... It’s been a while since I’ve linked to Jon Swift. So now I’m going to link to Jon Swift. Please read the whole thing. I still have tears in my eyes. ...
Greetings from the Mouth of Hell
N/A —
... I confess sardonic satanic humor can put a smile on my face. I almost want to say the Ultimate Bad Guy is not that bad a guy, that he is the kind of guy I would have a beer with, but look what happened last time when voters thought like that. All the world has gone to hell. ...
Covering Themselves In Glory
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Jon Swift takes a brilliant and very detailed look at the performance of the Republican blogosphere in this election. Since I don't read all the true kooks out there, I was unaware of most of it. But you won't forget it. Here's the must-read post. It all leads up to this: ...
Bottomless Credibility Pit
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... (hey, if you don't spend most of your resources defending against ludicrously frivolous lawsuits filed by people who are to 9/11 what you are to Obama, their claims must be true!), claim that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's biography, and to unthinkingly endorse ...
Obamanoia Roundup
Hit & Run —
A treasure trove for students of partisan gullibility and political paranoia. [Via Balloon Juice.]
GOP blogger post-mortem
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Jon Swift takes us on a tour of the best-of-the-worst of the Republican blogosphere, and their reporting on the campaign. I laughed out loud repeatedly. Please read it. ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
Watchdog Blog: As U.S. Senator, John McCain helped hide evidence and close the books on Vietnam MIAs, but the mainstream press has refused to touch the story.
Pharyngula: We knew she was dumb as a rock, but this is appalling...
Jon Swift: Great Moments In Election Year Blogging
Southern Beale: Guess who was the highest paid member of the McCain campaign for the first half of October? BTW, is $900 too much for a spray-on tan? (h/t Barney C.)
pandagon: Attention Hollywood ...
The Bayeux Tapestry
d r i f t g l a s s —
of wingtard takedowns now available here at Jon Swift's bungalow (h/t Mike Finnigan at C&L;) So full of awesome you'll have to have the waiter wrap some up for take-home. ...
Going There: Politics and Friends
The Moderate Voice —
... So much for that. Friends or not, these men didn’t blink on their way to disparaging my decision, hurling every proverbial stone within their reach — most of which were of similar ilk to the tossed stones that Jon Swift recently and brilliantly excoriated. ...
The Amazing Mr Swift
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
Jon Swift is a genius. Not the old dead-tree satirist (well, him too) but the new-media e-Swift, the deftest hand with a poison keypad I've ever read.
Just go read his latest on the many paranoid ramblings of the Right. Here's a teaser: What would an election be without a sex scandal?...Once again the conservative blogosphere’s most respected blogger Ace of Spades led the way. “Having now spoken to someone tracking the story, I can say: 1) It's not just a silly little rumor. 2) It will break ...
An Army of Pulitzers
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
So many choices...
Habits Of Paranoid Minds
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Wading for a few minutes through the sewage of these Web sites reminds me uncannily of the time I’ve spent having political discussions in certain living rooms and coffee shops in Baghdad. The mental atmosphere is exactly the same—the wild fantasies presented as obvious truth, the patterns seen by those few with the courage and wisdom to see, the amused pity for anyone weak-minded enough to be skeptical, the logic that turns counter-evidence into evidence and every random piece of information into a worldwide conspiracy. Above all, the seething resentment, the mix of arrogance ...
How will the Democrats win a supermajority in the Senate?
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
... too addicted to the pork barrel, too fast and loose with ethics. Stevens' conviction in federal court today is the exclamation pointon an era in Republican politics in general and Alaska politics in particular that needs to end (and which Gov. Sarah Palin has been battling to clean up). Republicans need to clean our own house. Washington cannot too soon see the end of Stevens and Young.
It takes big brass balls to post this on a republican site in this time of collective partisan hysteria. Bravo to the Directors of RedState.com! ...
Random: Bark Worse Than Her Bite
Swampland —
... <p><strong>•</strong> "By the way, before Cashill hit on his theory, I noted some eerie similarities between Dreams of My Father and the Horatio Hornblower novels of C.S. Forester, which also contain nautical references and are written on a high school level, but I gave up my investigation when I realized that Forrester died in 1966 and probably could not have written Obama's book." [Jon Swift]</p> ...
CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES - A Messianic Election Special !
Dr. Sanity —
... Marriage = 1 man + 1 comic book? Spiderman told me to vote! 9. Must be a real doozy of a video...too bad we can't make up our own minds. Remember, one may smile, smile and still be a villain. 10. Witch doctors for change! Children for change! Journalists for change! 11. Next time you need a cop, call a hippie. First there was Joe the Plumer, now we have Tito the Builder! 12. Whoops! Great moments in election year blogging? Not ready for prime time--but they were both on SNL ...
A Peek at My Weblog Awards Ballot.
Blue Gal —
... group blogs get lumped in some categories with single shingles. It's hard to do this everyday by yourself. Best Individual Blogger: Driftglass. There is nothing more to say. He's the best writer in the blogosphere, period. If you need to read more about how much I admire Driftglass, you can read this. And this. And this. Best Humor Blog: Jon Swift. If only for his community building end of the year post, but wait, there's more: this post is one for the ages. Best Liberal Blog: I'm voting for myself, but this year ...
