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They Have a Word for It
Unqualified Offerings — In the course of considering Peak Wingnut Theory, John Cole discovers Erick Erickson of Red State staying classy by booming a National Enquirer story about the possibility that, as Erickson puts it, "Barack Obama had an underage, gay affair with a pedophile." That’s a pretty interesting way to describe what may have happened between the two. Obama met Frank Marshall Davis when Obama was ten years old. When people discuss (possible) sexual contact between ten-year-old boys who are not their political enemies and grown men, they usually refer to the ...

You don’t have to be a pedophile to be a Republican … but it sure helps!
The Poor Man Institute — ... Very nice: In the course of considering Peak Wingnut Theory, John Cole discovers Erick Erickson of Red State staying classy by booming a National Enquirer story about the possibility that, as Erickson puts it, “Barack Obama had an underage, gay affair with a pedophile.” That’s a pretty interesting way to describe what may have happened between the two. Obama met Frank Marshall Davis when Obama was ten years old. When people discuss (possible) sexual contact between ten-year-old boys who are not their ...

One of Us
Whiskey Fire — ... Bob are these assholes. That would be Red State's Erick Ericksen, Jules Crittenden, and Dan Riehl. All of these are popular right wing bloggers. Here is Dan Riehl being "funny": No wonder he says "Pakit-stan" in that funny way of his! heh! Here is Jim Henley explaining as calmly as possible the moral hideousness of the wingnut response: In the course of considering Peak Wingnut Theory, John Cole discovers Erick Erickson of Red State staying classy by booming a National Enquirer story about the ...

Dirty Little Minds. Very Little.
The Mahablog — ... Like You Either reprises The Best of Wingnut Hysteria on this issue. My personal favorite is from Riehl World View: No wonder he says “Pakit-stan” in that funny way of his! heh! You mean, like Pakistan is supposed to be pronounced? Wow, Obama must be, you know, a little queer. Real men mispronounce foreign words. Heh. See also Thers at Whiskey Fire, the Poor Man, John Cole at Balloon Juice, Jim Henley at Unqualified Offerings, and The Peking Duck.

Peak Wingnut Theory
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Henley on the NAMBLA wing of the Republican Party. Cf. also here and here. IIRC it was a calumny done to Erick Erickson that caused the development of the farcical Online Integritude project. I'm sure somehow thinking that a 10 year-old could have an "affair" with an adult could also be redefined as representing serious integrity by the relevant wingers. Erickson has written plenty of howlingly dumb things before, but this might be a low that can never be surpassed.

I Hate the World
Shakesville — ... Not according to the first rightwingers out of the gate, natch. (I won't provide the direct link to this bit of swill, but you can find it via John Cole, if you are so inclined.) ...

Peak Wingnut
Interesting Times — John Cole proposes and then quickly withdraws the theory that we have achieved Peak Wingnut, which I take to mean that point in which wingnut bloviation about Democrats is no longer taken seriously by virtue of the fact that it is wingnuttery. He proposed it first because he saw, via memeorandum, the spread through the wingnuttosphere of new attempts to smear Obama that came and went with the rapidity of a humingbirds wingbeat. He withdrew it when he saw some new story about Obama being involved in gay pedophilia rearing its ugly head. I think he was to quick to withdraw it. ...

Looks Like a Frum Kinda' Week
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda — ... Blogger John Cole was a believer in Peak Wingnut, but I never have been.  One reason is that I know the scope and depth of the Wingnut ...

The Conservative Cash Cocoon
Firedoglake — ... Last week John Cole conjectured that we may have reached "Peak Wingnut," a moment when the utter failure of self-identified "conservatives" by every rational objective metric might mean the end of its political efficacy. It was a logical theory, as far as it goes. After all, movement conservatism had its day, and what did it produce? A massively botched war, a ruined economy, and (probably) humiliating electoral defeat: you'd think a record this contemptible would lead to a bit of discrediting, or (egads) perhaps a reassessment of basic assumptions and ...

Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging
Jon Swift — ... that delightful sarcasm he uses when not smearing people. You might think that the fact that Obama was palling around with pedophiles when he was nine years old, which is the exact same time that William Ayers was blowing up the Pentagon, would be an important story, but once again the mainstream media ignored it. Conservative blogger Don Surber also demurred, writing, “Some bloggers are calling this an October surprise. I call it stupidity” and predictably liberal bloggers proceeded to shoot the messengers. “When people discuss (possible) ...

Colbert on Beck: "Insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain"
Open Left - Front Page — ... We still haven't hit peak wingnut, and one can hope Beck's ratings are just curious onlookers to his trains-full-of-puppies-colliding level disaster of a show, but it seems there is ever more audience for angry white men shouting foolishness on TV.  No recession on the Crazy Exchange.

The Chilling Rise of Right-Wing Hate in America
Library Grape — ... to John’s famous Peak Wingnut post I pointed out that political irrelevance will hardly stifle rightwing victimology but feed it like CO2, manure and sunlight. I tend to call the relevant phenomenon ‘toxic victim syndrome’, or TVS. The feeling that one is a powerless victim has a corrosive psychological effect. It exempts self-appointed victims from normal moral standards. It justifies (in one’s own mind) an endless list of behaviors that an ordinary person would never consider. ...

Supreme Court: By Fighting Lost Battle, GOP Sets Stage for Future Wars
Firedoglake — ... No matter how craptastic their myriad sins may be -- stealing from public coffers, ethical lapses out the wazoo, being a race-baiting bigot, whatever -- they continue on your teevee and in print. Why? ...

Powerline Raises The Bar...
INSTAPUTZ — ... Is this peak wingnut? I mean, I've heard criticisms that Obama is, oh, ineffectual on Iran, but this is the first I've heard of him being a crypto-Muslim double agent for the Supreme Leader... ...

We Have Achieved Peak Wingnut.
Delaware Liberal — ... Balloon Juice coined the term . And today we have achieved Peak Wingnut. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama has finally and totally driven all conservatives completely insane. I ...