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“I’m old and I’m not happy. Everything today is improved and I don’t like it. I hate it!”
Although this blog is no longer in the political snark business, I still voraciously read political blogs of all sizes and colors from across the ideological spectrum. I feel it’s important to look at current events from all sides, so I try to make an effort to broaden my horizons by seeing what the right wing has to say about the crucial issues of the day.
Ok, that’s not really true. What I actually do is read all the liberal blogs to whose feeds I subscribe… and then, to get the conservative perspective, I read other liberal blogs that specialize in reading right wing blogs and making fun of them. This allows me to keep some sanity, because if I actually had to read the “Nuke Iran,” “Democrats are Traitors,” “Islamofascists are Hiding in Your Closet,” “Teh Gays Will Subvert Your Children,” “Armageddon is Next Tuesday After Lunch” swill emanating from the 30 Percenters at the bitter, bile-filled end of the Bush-worshiping Right, I would go well and truly insane.
My preferred sites in the “We Read The Wingnuts So You Don’t Have To” genre include TBogg, World O’Crap, Happy Furry Puppy Story Time With Norbizness, and my current favorite, Sadly, No! It is through Sadly, No! that I was introduced to the wonders of perhaps the looniest wingnut website on the entire Internets, Alan Keyes’ Renew America. (If you don’t know or have forgotten who the hell Alan Keyes is, here’s a quick refresher.) The beauty of Renew America, and the quality that makes it The Looniest of the Loony, is that unlike other rightie sites, they don’t pluck the cream of the homeschooled, Bob Jones University-educated, DC Conservative Think Tank crop to write their “Why Hilary Clinton is a LesboCommunoFascist” columns. Nope, as far as I can tell, they just walk up to batshit crazy people who mumble to themselves in the streets, and offer them jobs. It’s a veritable Perfect Storm of Dementia.
Don’t believe me? Check out some of their columnists:
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