More rope in Aisle 6 for Mr. Erickson, please

The GHEMRotRSTF fails another self-awareness test. Or maybe his pop-up ad server has been taken over by Obots?

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Click here to learn from an actual Deacon (Emeritus) how a job, drugs, and hobbies are all God!

(h/t: M. Bouffant)

More leaks from with the Palin camp mean more dish!

Apparently, someone sent The Daily Caller a bunch of Twitter Direct Messages that were originally sent by Rebecca Mansour, one of Sarah Palin's top aides.

The biggest buzz is Mansour's dissing of Bristol, but I like this nugget:

Red State Editor-in-Chief and CNN contributor Erick Erickson is “a total douchebag,” wrote Palin speechwriter and domestic policy adviser Rebecca Mansour in a May 22, 2010, message. “Greasy dumb ass with a talent for self-promotion. He threw himself in at the Gov’s SC rally. Self-promotion.”

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RedState RedFace

Intoned the GHEMRotRSTF and CNN employee one week ago today:

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Hat tip to Roy Edroso, whose latest wingnut wrap-up is all about the Republican candidates and ex-candidates, and what our favorite rightbloggers have to say about them. Intro here, full column here.

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Going Galt Wasilla

From the Annals of Hard-Workin' RealAmericans™:

The GHEMRotRSTF quits a government position he rarely showed up for anyway, for a more lucrative career in wingnut media.

"Strange New Respect"

Did you know that was a Phrase? I did not know that was a Phrase.

As in, wingnuts have a Strange New Respect for Wan Williams.

Roy Edroso rounds up their furiously pounded tribalistic keyboard hysteria reactions. Intro here, full column here.

Basically, it's LIBRULS ARE TEH REEL RASISTS times LIBRULS ARE INTOLARENT to the power of CENSORSHIP!!!1!, with no hesitation at seasoning with fat fist using ALL REALAMERICANS™ KNOW ITS ONLY COMMON SENSE TO BE AFRAID OF MUSLIN'S, but, hey, click those clickies if you want to give them a chance at nuance. (Or yourself a chance to laugh at the stuff where it hurts too much to cry.)

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[Added] This bit at the end, from the important CNN employee and GHEMRotRSTF, deserves requoting. In the sense of Documenting The Atrocities, I mean.

It is how the left can embrace tolerance for both gays and muslims though many of the latter would gladly see all of the former put the death.

(orig. source, and yeah, it gets worse)

Nope. Not at all bigoted, or inclined to violence, against anyone who is not straight, white, Christian, and stupid, is our son of Erick, or any other of these teabagging Republicans.

That hope to be your new rulers. To save your America from people just like you. Is what I mean to say.

GOP's "Pledge to Ruin America" Insufficiently Wingnutty For Some Wingnuts

And Christina Bellantoni of TPM has a top five list!

In related news, the GHEMRotRSTF has not put up a blog post all day. It is suspected that he has fainted from the excitement of being mentioned on the same page as disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

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More Wingnut Hate Noted For The Record

Sarah Palin, Sen. David "Diapers" Vitter (R-La.), Erick Erickson, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, etc., gathered up in one place by your Lauri Apple.

[Added] More teabagger hate (via), but hurrah! For a change, this time it's about hating on the Messikins!

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The GHEMRotRSTF is yelling on the Twitter again!

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Matt Duss, Think Progress:

CNN Contributor Erickson Compares Building of Mosque To ‘Human Sacrifice’

Reacting angrily to President Obama’s statement yesterday in support of the Cordoba House community center in lower Manhattan on the basis of religious freedom, blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson compared supporting the rights of Muslims to establish mosques in America to supporting “human sacrifice” by the Church of Satan. Erickson went on to suggest that the president’s interpretation of American religious freedom could also extend to support for “jihad”.

As the Guardian’s Michael Tomasky notes, the president’s support for the Cordoba House “is going to be demagogued to death in the next few days. The important part is going forward. Hang tough. Stand by the position. Don’t trim sails or add asterisks after Mitch McConnell or Dick Cheney or whomever says whatever hideous thing they’re going to say.”

By supporting the rights of an unpopular religious minority, President Obama is firmly within the bounds of America’s best traditions and values. The same can’t be said of those cultivating fear of Muslims for political gain.

(x-posted | pic. source: sorry, I forget. Sadly, No!, maybe? [Added: or perhaps First Draft])

The Least Surprising Sentence of the last Eighty-Seven Months, at Least

If you read no further, know this: RedState supports the Anti-Defamation League in its opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.”

Okay! No need to read any further!

P.S. Go DIAF, wingnut. And take all your anti-American allies with you. In my country, we have a constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion, and it doesn't just apply to those who worship Republican Jesus.

(h/t: Riley Waggaman)

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P.P.S. Shoutout to Mike Bloomberg. I don't agree with him on everything, but on this? That's how a real America's Mayor acts.

Yeah, but let's just say you HAD to pick

And plunging hot pokers into your eyes won't work, either. Have you forgotten about audiobooks?

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Did Obama Surrender to Everybody, Or Did He Sign a Suicide Pact?

If you heard what those of us in the reality-based community would call "the welcome news," you probably thought, "Hmmm, okay. Another good, if incremental, step by President Obama in reducing the global threat from nuclear weapons."

If you belong to a different community, however, you promptly wet the bed.

Important CNN Pundit The GHEMRotRSTF ("Erick Erickson") headlines his post, "Obama’s Dangerous Game Continues," begins by linking back to four (4!) of his earlier posts howling about how the Seekrit Muslin-in-Chief is determined to surrender to everyone, goes on to ask, "How many Americans are going to die because of the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of our national security?," continues with "capitulation and waving a white flag for our enemies," "to the left of Jimmy Carter," "It is one thing to have a wimp in office. It is another thing to admit it.," and then turns into a sputterfest of repetition:

This policy is the coming home of the sixties radical left agenda of pacification in the face of our enemies and capitulation of a strong America. Bill Ayers is a happy man today. His man in the White House is doing for him what he never could himself.

How many Americans will get killed because of this administration’s incompetence or intentional capitulation of our national security?

Not content with that, he posts again.

One more thought about Obama’s new nuclear policy

Doesn’t this new nuke policy, which puts Obama even to the left of Carter, …

Yeah, I told you he likes to repeat himself.

... just mean every regime out there is going to be rushing out to weaponize small pox?

After all, if they can take out a million of us with a bug or chemical instead of investing all the time, talent, and treasure into a nuclear weapons infrastructure *AND* they won’t in turn get nuked if they just use small pox, why the hell not?

This is truly a debt relief program for third world rogue nations.

And of course we must briefly check in on Don Surber, who for reasons passing understanding is paid by a major newspaper to write what he does. Here, he features a picture of Obama bowing to the Japanese emperor and his wife (remember that fauxtrage fest from a few months ago?), and then headlines, "Surrenderer-in-chief." It gets stupider from there, and though the lede does not involve Bill Ayers, it does involve Jeremiah Wright.

Elsewhere in Wingnuttia …

Dan Riehl:

ObaMcGovern: Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Chemical And Biological Weapons

You're freaking kidding me, right? This, while Putin is in Venezuela making nice with Hugo Chavez? This is our response?

Screw Carter, it's George McGovern time, now. We can't get this weakling out of the WH fast enough.

Jammie Wearing Fool:

Wonderful: Obama Plans to Limit Our National Defense Capability

It really seems as if this regime intends to leave America as weak and defenseless as possible. I've really got to question the motivation here.

The highly appropriately named Scared Monkeys:

Welcome to Obamanation …

What will Obama create a new incentive program for Nukes as he did with cash for clunkers, because that worked so well. Because US national security is so over-rated. As we all know peace through weakness works wonders. Or is it peace through nuance.

What exactly is President Hussein Obama’s motivation here? How dangerous is this President for America? This President is now bordering, actually he has now gone over the line, on doing things intentionally that would weaken and harm the United States.

Obama now wants to revamp American nuclear strategy to substantially limit the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons. Are you serious? So much for National Security and protecting and defending the US Constitution. In the dangerous times we live in, what type of message does it send to the World that the US is weak and looks for appeasement?

And though it borders on nut-picking, there are, believe it or not, still quite a few people who take Pamela Geller seriously, so be advised that they're now thinking this:

NOBAMA'S "NUCLEAR POSTURE POSER REVIEW": NO NUKES, EVEN IN SELF DEFENSE OR IF HIT WITH CHEMICAL/BIO WEAPONS ... G-D HELP US

Obama says to our enemies, bring it on, we won't fight ya -- leaving us bare naked vulnerable like a virgin slipped a Rohypnol on her first date with a Chicagoland gangsta.

Obama is removing nuclear defense at a time when Iran's devout mullahcracy is building their nuclear arsenal with the global objective of a universal caliphate.

He is leaving America flailing in the hostile wind. Was there ever a more frightful time in American history? Seriously? -- Yes, there were very dangerous periods (Civil War, WW1, WW2), but always the steward of this great nation was a great American, a patriot, a freedom lover, an American. This low life despises this country and the whole idea of the first moral nation in human history.

His cover in this subversive new suicide pact is "making the world a nuclear free zone." Who does this asshat think he's kidding? What despot will ever be disarmed of their power? What evil dictator has ever surrendered that which made him strong? This punk is going to destroy us.

The hustler in the White House is setting us up. This isn't a new strategy, this is surrender. And the New York Times lap dog reporting is pure Walter Duranty.

These are just a few of the wingnuts prominent enough to be noticed by Memeorandum. Thers reminded me that I should have checked there first, and he has selected some more examples for your reading pleasure(?).

This is what we're up against. You know it won't be any different on Fox News or AM radio. In that light, this from Spencer Ackerman's post "It Sure Was A Great Idea To Stay Out Drinking The Night Before The Nuclear Posture Review Was Released," is a highly useful reminder:

Besides, if you read my Friday piece previewing the Nuclear Posture Review, you know all the important provisions. Even the explicit abandonment of a nuclear reprisal for a non-nuclear attack that’s getting all the attention this morning flows effortlessly from a central shift in strategy I reported Friday: recognizing that the nuclear threat against the U.S. is from proliferation, not merely a nuclear-armed enemy. And once you accept that the danger comes from nuclear weapons themselves, as Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association told me, “That would implicitly eliminate from the roles and missions [any] potential use of nuclear weapons to fight a conflict that begins as conventional or to counter chemical or biological forces.”

Now, you might say to yourself: That’s cutting edge thinking for, I guess, 1993. And you’d be right! But this is nuclear-weapons policy. It’s a frigate shipwrecked on a barrier reef made of oil, tar, superglue and sugarless gum from the sidewalk. You have to wage rhetorical battle for years to move it a centimeter. Cable pundits and opposition leaders freak out about anything nuclear, as if recognizing that we’re not ever going to use these weapons unless we’re hit with them first actually erodes our deterrent. I submit the more important deterrent aspect of what the NPR will say comes from its embrace of bolstering conventional forces — what Adm. Mullen has taken to calling “conventional global-strike capability.” That stuff? Oh, we’ll use that.

(Much of the above x-posted, in slightly different form, starting here.)

Trike Force 2!

The new recruiting poster, created by Tintin:

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(h/t: Twin)

Another Reason Not To Donate To NPR

Tim F.:

NPR now hits up Erick Erickson as a go-to opinion guy for Republican thinking.

And to confirm, here is a screen shot from the NPR search results. Click it to big it.

Of course, if you know anything about the GHEMRotRSTF, you'd have to say the possibility cannot be ruled out that this is a plot by the LIEbrul media to make the teabaggers look even worse. (And that I am secretly giving them $1000 to finance the purchase of Cheez Doodles, to keep the Fat Kid happy in the green room.)

One for the collection

Yeah, it's a little eccentricity I have: collecting pictures of the GHEMRotRSTF.

This one is by Tintin of Teh Sadlys. (Funny post, too, but that's probably not telling you anything you wouldn't have guessed.)

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[Added] See also.

rePubOLITICO Watch

Just retyping GOP press releases is apparently no longer enough.

Erick Erickson Is Wetting His Pants Again

I realize that this is not unexpected news.

Wow. The most powerful nation on the face of the Earth ever in history is going to be conducting a criminal trial. You'd think someone who claimed to be proud to be an American would take pride in this. Not the GHEMRotRSTF, though.

(h/t: Adam Serwer)

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(previously in wingnut incontinence)

The New Paranoid Style in American Politics

Oh, hey! Looky here! The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler must be fixin' to give some seeeekrit new marching orders to the RedState Trike Force!

Have I finally been outed? Or … perhaps … arrived?

Or, I don't know … maybe he just didn't like MY tweets? Or the picture?

And about that "them:" Does the Twitter not think Erick Erickson is a man?

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Move over, Mark Halperin!

The GHEMRotRSTF intones:

The race has now been called for Democrat Bill Owens.

This is a huge win for conservatives.

I am not making this up.

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P.S. Doug Hoffman has his first glass of whine.

[Added] Vote count details.

[Added2] An interesting earlier note.

[Added3] Can't wait to hear the Son of Erick comment on the news from California.

The Fat Kid Tries Another Tired Shtick

When not advocating violence to achieve his political goals, or lining his pockets by selling products to people even dumber and more deranged than he is, The GHEMRotRSTF sometimes likes to put on his intellectualizin' cap.

And when he does, he sees that Obama = Hitler.

And how does he know this? Jonah Goldberg told him so!

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The Fat Kid And His "Metaphors" Of Physical Violence. Again.

Here's what the Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of the RedState Trike Force told some Republican rag (via, via):

“Grass-roots activists need to start infiltrating the party,” said Erickson. “The only way to start getting [the establishment] back is to start pounding them with every fist we have.”

Guess he finished shooting all the dishwasher detergent Nazis.

[Added] I guess I can imagine where he draws some of his inspiration. (via)