By Hanlon, on March 24th, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Eeeeeeveryone’s been sending me this link, so here ya go. Long story short, if you want a detailed list of pretty much everything the right has been doing for the past few years, it’s here. Let me get you started.
You can’t spend more than 40 years hating, cutting and trying to kill Medicare, and then pretend to be the defenders of Medicare
You can’t praise the Congressional Budget Office when it’s analysis produces numbers that fit your political agenda, then claim it’s unreliable when it comes up with numbers that don’t.
You can’t vote for X under a Republican president, then vote against X under a Democratic president. Either you support X or you don’t. And it makes it worse when you change your position merely for the sake obstructionism.
You can’t call a reconcilliation out of bounds when you used it repeatedly.
You can’t spend tax-payer money on ads against spending tax-payer money.
You can’t condemn individual health insurance mandates in a Dem bill, when the madates were your idea.
You can’t demand everyone listen to the generals when they say what fits your agenda, and then ignore them when they don’t.
You can’t whine that it’s unfair when people accuse you of exploiting racism for political gain, when your party’s former leader admits you’ve been doing it for decades.
Go. Read. Now.
By Hanlon, on February 3rd, 2010 at 07:59 AM
Godless Liberal Homo is like my favorite blog title ever.
Oh and it’s a pretty rockin’ site, too.
By Hanlon, on July 24th, 2009 at 11:13 PM
This post is still Google’s #1 result for “glenn beck retarded” (without the quotes).
I’m strangely proud of this.
By Hanlon, on June 15th, 2009 at 07:56 PM
In case, like me, you’ve been focused on Iran for the past few days, hop on over to AmericaBlog and check out the potential mini-war betwixt Obama and the gay community. Looks pretty ugly.
By Hanlon, on March 28th, 2009 at 04:07 PM
Glenn Greenwald, talking about Sen. Jim Webb’s position on prison reform.
Webb’s actions here underscore a broader point. Our political class has trained so many citizens not only to tolerate, but to endorse, cowardly behavior on the part of their political leaders. When politicians take bad positions, ones that are opposed by large numbers of their supporters, it is not only the politicians, but also huge numbers of their supporters, who step forward to offer excuses and justifications: well, they have to take that position because it’s too politically risky not to; they have no choice and it’s the smart thing to do. That’s the excuse one heard for years as Democrats meekly acquiesced to or actively supported virtually every extremist Bush policy from the attack on Iraq to torture and warrantless eavesdropping; it’s the excuse which even progressives offer for why their political leaders won’t advocate for marriage equality or defense spending cuts; and it’s the same excuse one hears now to justify virtually every Obama “disappointment.”
By Hanlon, on March 17th, 2009 at 02:26 PM
So, after a few years of operation, I’ve finally broken 100 subscribers! Thanks to everyone for joining me on this project of mine, and if you’re not signed up for the RSS feed the links are on the right. Also for you LJ folks you can find the LiveJournal mirror here.
In celebration, here’s a list of some search terms that have gotten people to my site, and yes these are all real and recent:
- douchebag definition
- tucker carlson jackass
- fuck john galt
- obama monkey man
- giving in to terrorist demands
- family racism
- glenn back is insane
- big boy good moves (what?)
- rush limbaugh and little boys
- bristol is crap
- o’reilly white supremacist
Just for a sampling. I’m glad to know that I’m keeping things nice and high-minded.
By Hanlon, on March 13th, 2009 at 10:31 PM
In the interest of getting the liberal blogosphere a little better united, I’mma start reaching out more. Today I found two neat sites and added ‘em to the old blogroll.
First up is First Door on the Left. I like this guy’s writing style, but I’ll be honest, what really caught my eye was Friday Night Cartoons. What can I say? I like cartoons.
Next is Where’s Eric Cantor? Way back in the day one of my links on here was a fantastic site called Brad’s Brain. Now, unless I’m mistaken, his new project is following one Eric Cantor as he parades around acting the fool. Well done.
I really need to put some work into doing more than just surfing the “major” blogs.
By Hanlon, on December 19th, 2008 at 01:07 PM
 Being a blogger is considerably more difficult than it seems at first blush, particularly whenever the site picks up and gets some visibility. To keep the site going with any kind of success, you have to write as often as possible, which means finding an endless stream of things to give a damn about.
So the best way to do that is to find a lot of stuff to get really, really pissed off at. For the most part, Bush’s administration has provided a pretty excellent source of things to get me fired up. The campaign was even easier. It seemed like every half hour or so we’d have a horrifying statement from Sarah Palin or some boneheaded ad from the RNC. Easy pie.
Now though, I’m feeling a little empty. Oh sure, we’ve got it being confirmed (as though we didn’t realize) that Gonzo et al misled the country concerning Iraq, there’s a story about the United States not signing an article that calls for global decriminalization of homosexuality, and look, that auto bailout finally went through. On the surface, I should be shooting steam out of my ears.
Things feel different though. Part of it’s the holiday season and I’m having a hard time getting wrapped up in politics when I’m putting up my Christmas tree and hanging lights outside. But beyond that, with the incoming Obama presidency and the likelihood of even a greater Democratic majority in Congress, there’s this pervasive feeling that, no matter how much of a kitchen sink approach to screwing things up Bush takes in his last few weeks, things will be on the road to recovery soon.
Don’t feel hopeful? Gates is calling for the closing of Guantanamo Bay. That guy who threw shoes at Bush is having wealthy families offer him their daughters in marriage. Even the fact htat Obama is finalizing his cabinet picks is encouragement that things will be smooth in January.
Patton Oswalt, one of my favorite comedians, once said that happiness was the foil of comedy. He said that it’s hard to be funny when everything is going well, because he’d just gotten into a relationship and realized lines like “You know what helps when you’ve had a bad day? Snugglin’!” doesn’t bring out a lot of laughs. Politics is the same way. When the “bad” stories don’t seem to matter, and there’s an abundance of good stuff on the horizon, it’s hard to get motivated to write.
You might ask why, specifically, that is. Writers all have delusions of grandeur, and like to think that what we’re doing will change the world. When the wind’s blowing against you, it’s not hard to work up the strength to fight it. When it’s at your back, the temptation is to just relax and let it take you where you want to go. You might get hit with a pebble now and again or stumble on a log, but overall there’s just too much optimism floating around to get fired up and rant.
…not that I won’t find something.
By Hanlon, on September 2nd, 2008 at 01:23 PM
 From the moment I saw that sentence in the Reuters article that Palin was blaming “liberal bloggers” for spreading the whole covering-up-for-pregnant-daughter thing, I knew it was going to give me headaches. I figured it would give Bill O’Reilly a new reason to bitch about DailyKos being like the KKK and some other right-wing nutjobs would follow suit.
What’s surprising me, though, is that even my fellow lefties in the media are starting to follow suit. I was listening to Sirius this morning and caught Alex Bennett, a guy who criticizes Democrats for not being liberal enough, practically burning the blogs in effigy for their awful part in spreading the rumor.
Let’s get a few things out of the way, first. I’m a blog-hound. I read the normal news and watch the cable stations, but I also love getting the opinions of liberal writers. Not just small-time folks like me, but the big ones such as those in my link list. And I can say, categorically, that none of those writers spread the story. Okay? You got it? John Aravosis didn’t touch it, nor did Greenwald, Huffington, John Amato, Atrios, Josh Marshall, the good people of Think Progress, none of ‘em.
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From the moment I saw that sentence in the Reuters article that Palin was blaming “liberal bloggers” for spreading the whole covering-up-for-pregnant-daughter thing, I knew it was going to give me headaches. I figured it would give Bill O’Reilly a new reason to bitch about DailyKos being like the KKK and some other right-wing nutjobs would follow suit.
What’s surprising me, though, is that even my fellow lefties in the media are starting to follow suit. I was listening to Sirius this morning and caught Alex Bennett, a guy who criticizes Democrats for not being liberal enough, practically burning the blogs in effigy for their awful part in spreading the rumor.
Let’s get a few things out of the way, first. I’m a blog-hound. I read the normal news and watch the cable stations, but I also love getting the opinions of liberal writers. Not just small-time folks like me, but the big ones such as those in my link list. And I can say, categorically, that none of those writers spread the story. Okay? You got it? John Aravosis didn’t touch it, nor did Greenwald, Huffington, John Amato, Atrios, Josh Marshall, the good people of Think Progress, none of ‘em.
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By Hanlon, on August 14th, 2008 at 05:15 PM
 I normally have a policy not to give a crap what Michelle Malkin has to say, much for the same reason I ignore Ann Coulter: at some point someone becomes so stupid you just can’t let their stupidity bother you.
This time, though, Malkin did something so monumentally dumb that it serves as a reminder of What Not To Do as a blogger, pundit, commentator, and journalist. Recently Arkansas Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney was shot and killed, which is a terrible tragedy. Malkin, however, found a way to focus the attention on herself.
Her evidence is, get this, a single email which she produces, complete with full name and email address, in which someone says: “You should be in jail. Your hate turns people to murder.” Based on one dumb email, Malkin turns the murder of another man into a big ol’ post about herself. For the moment I’m going to ignore “posts full name and email address of person who says her posts result in murder.” I doubt it even occurred to her.
Folks, if bloggers took every single stupid email and turned it into a post like that, there’d be no time to make other posts. I’ve been blamed for all kinds of things in the abstract, and my audience isn’t even close to Malkin’s (sadly). Try and imagine the kinds of emails Markos and the guys at Crooks and Liars get.
Notice that the email doesn’t really blame Malkin specifically. It says “the hate you and folks like Hannity spew,” meaning the emailer was just blaming all right-wing hate speech, not Malkin herself. It’s not like it said “because you did X, a man was shot.” And believe me folks, if I had a nickel for every time I got something like “liberals like you are getting our men and women killed in Iraq”, I’d have enough to keep this site running from now until doomsday.
So here’s the lesson: if you get an email or message of some kind that says “people like you made this bad thing happen”, and your first thought is “I’m to blame for this event? I must tell the world!”, then you’ve drifted into Crazy Town. Come back, please.
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