It's like King Lear played out in a madhouse with hand puppets.

Bravo, sir. I would only add the ominous rattling of teacups in the background.

#9: The Cheapskate's Guide to Civil Disobedience. In the late days of the campaign emails circulated about a guy who pissed off an Obama-supporting waiter by giving his tip to a bum instead. Haw haw! Rightblogger Dr. Helen discussed undertipping waiters, maids, gardeners, etc. if Obama won as a way for rich people to express their displeasure.

Guaranteeing that a whole class of conservative pundits receive an increased dose of phlegm in their diet every time they go out to dinner. Well done!

#9: The Cheapskate's Guide to Civil Disobedience. In the late days of the campaign emails circulated about a guy who pissed off an Obama-supporting waiter by giving his tip to a bum instead. Haw haw! Rightblogger Dr. Helen discussed undertipping waiters, maids, gardeners, etc. if Obama won as a way for rich people to express their displeasure.

Guaranteeing that a whole class of conservative pundits receive an increased dose of phlegm in their diet every time they go out to dinner. Well done!

Way to start off the new year Roy. Well done.

"I guess I also don't understand why we have to use Hillary Clinton's middle name"

They did? What happened to those who refused... thumbscrews? Wet Willies? I had to Google her middle name, because I never read anyone use it, ever. Including Jules.

I'm anxiously awaiting the release of Michelle Obama's BBC Sessions.

In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a 'W.'

I guess if you trace Batman's genitalia, it kind of does resemble a W-ish looking thing.

Your paper is just a liberal leftwing Marxist piece of trash.... And the NYT is the mouthpiece of the 5th Column. Sorry Village Voice maybe next time you can be as anti-American as the NYT?

Sorry, the worst tippers are black people; rich or poor.

Repubs may hold politics I abhor, but they rarely stiff me.

Hopefully part of the "new era" will be black people leaving 15%.

Shorter GOP

"I have no idea what these words mean, but I will use them."

I see you dredging up that lame graphic at the top of the page again.

Sad stuff. Yet another weak attempt at getting some hits to this shitty website by linking successful blogs.

Have you no shame, sir?

Have you no shame, sir?

You do remember the context for the first time that was uttered, don't you?

Always amusing when the sore-loser trolls come out to play.

An excellent list. Hilarious in its totality.

And Ma4rk? You're a racist. Anecdotal evidence does not equal data.

Maybe voters figured Republicans don't tip anyway.

Which reminds me of an old joke:

A Democrat and a Republican were discussing their strategy.

"I'm forever promoting," said the Democrat. "For example, whenever I take a cab, I give the driver a large tip and say 'Vote Democratic.'"

"My approach is very similar," said the Republican. "Whenever I take a taxi, I don't give the driver any tip at all. And when I leave I say, 'Don't forget to vote Democratic.'"

A fine list. "My source is someone in the blogosphere" made my day. I do think that Megan may be ranked a little high, though.

"My source is someone in the blogosphere" made my day.

Thanks to Roy's regular weekly columns, I'm getting pretty good at this. I knew that one would be Ace before I even hovered my cursor over the link.

It's truly a shame that the alleged right of centre majority of American voters that didn't vote for President-elect Obama can't accept his victory or allow a little fun to be poked at themselves (GOP, JWF et al.). BTW, if America really is a "right of centre" country as the conservative blogosphere world tried to convince us all, then how did the "most liberal Senator" in the history of the US Senate" win Va., NC. and even In (arguably more conservative than the two southern states mentioned previously). I hope only that the rightwingers remember their own criticisms of critics of the Bush Presidency, spare themselves the label of hypocrisy and give the new adminstration a chance to govern.

National Review called Obama's national service plan the "Obama Youth."

I read the article, but it wasn't as sizzling as the other blog that was making the rounds, jumping off the same story. That blog asserted that Obama was going to unleash "brown shirts" like Hitler Youth on us all. My mother (who is in her 80's) is quite sure that Obama will usher in a police state, complete with people being rousted out of their beds in the middle of the night and sent off to "reeducation camps." Fortunately, that little piece of spin never got traction either, but the diehards lap up this crap like it was manna from the gods. Guess that's how we found ourselves in the soup for the last eight years, huh. Lots of mullets lapping up crap.

There must be room for one more about how liberals are blinded by their hate.

I don't agree with your premises or slant, but no matter. At least give credit where credit is due. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs broke the Rachael Ray keffiyeh story. Michelle Malkin wrote about it on May 23, 2008. Geller wrote about it five days before that, on May 18, 2008, before anyone else had the story.

Pamela Geller WAS the first to write about the Rachael Ray keffiyeh. Please do some research before you "report".
It's not a coincidence that "The Village Voice" is a free publication with few takers.

Pamela Geller WAS the first to write about the Rachael Ray keffiyeh

Wingnuts. Always focusing on the essentials, and using caps to prove it. I'll miss you when you're gone.

It's also not a coincidence that the right-wing New York Sun closed shop.

Great List! but sooo many more out there! As a former Republican who jumped ship to vote Obama this election I have to say they shamed the entire party!
They are now like slinkies.....Mostly boring but fun to watch when you push them down the stairs!

Great List! but sooo many more out there! As a former Republican who jumped ship to vote Obama this election I have to say they shamed the entire party!
They are now like slinkies.....Mostly boring but fun to watch when you push them down the stairs!

Ya know, I don't see my comment here.

I do expect to see it soon.

... I'm speaking, of course, about the long one I made a few hours ago debunking your idea that I'm an anti-Obama "rightblogger."

I'm sure you can find it.

Perhaps someone should explain to the whiners above that, although Ms. Geller is #1 in spotting shadowy figures under the bed, Ms. Malkin has a syndicated newspaper column, has published a "book," runs a far from perfect but infinitely more legible website than Pamela's, is a better typist than "Atlas," & is (too) often on network telebision.

A keffiyeh must fall in a populated forest to resound in the blog-o-sphere.

Oh, look. I explained it!

... I reposted my comment, and will do so again if need be.

Wow, talk about the politics of association!

You took that line I wrote totally out of context. Try reading what I'm actually saying.

I'm hardly an anti-Obama "rightblogger" wishing for his "inevitable" defeat.

Here's a piece of mine on the front page of today's Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/how-obamas-adroit-symboli_b_154091.html

... And here is yet another one, getting into, among other things, the goofy idea that Bush is Batman.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/dark-knight-america_b_120237.html

These were all prominently featured on the Huffington Post.

You want to be a little more careful about that whole "guilt by association" thing.

Let's see if the middle part of my comment shows up.

Thanks for wasting my time due to your sloppy reading of what I write.

Pamela Geller WAS the first to write about the Rachael Ray keffiyeh.

Somehow I'm not surprised. Pammy seems to hallucinate quite often, so seeing a paisley scarf as a kaffiyeh is well within her arena. The funny part, of course, was how many other people jumped on the bandwagon and swore they could see the emperor's clothes, too.

I’ve read your post three times now, but beyond Michelle Malkin, I’m still searching for the “conservative bloggers” you promised.

Since you are such an expert on “rightbloggers,” you’ll of course know that I never shill for Mrs. Malkin, but she was absolutely right about Rachael Ray’s keffiyeh.

The linked blog does not support your Fred Thompson entry. The blogger, Jim Geraghty, was talking about the SC debate, in which Thompson was masterful. I still recall him saying that night, “We don’t need change, we need leadership.” Unfortunately, Thompson got going too late. Clearly, Edroso never saw that debate. That wasn't a crime, until he sought to b.s. his way through the story.

Since when is Megan McArdle right-of-center? Jonah Goldberg? Bill Bradley! What is your standard—anyone to the right of Soetoro/Obama/whatever his name is this week is a “rightblogger”?

Right-of-center blogger/journalists variously pursued and broke huge stories. “Obama’s” real name. The diversity meltdown, due to giving uncreditworthy blacks and Hispanics home loans that they never intended to repay. Exposés on the MSM’s work on behalf of “Obama.” Continuing coverage of the Knoxville Horror case. The Winchester Atrocity. The War on Christmas. The campaign to restore the Fairness Doctrine. Coverage of illegal immigrant crime. Exposés on ACORN. The railroading of Jeremiah Munsen. The case of Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle.

Something tells me that Roy Edroso is as ignorant about these stories, and as lazy as his typical reader.

Wait wait wait wait wait. Is Nicky seriously making the claim that Jonah "the white man is the Jew of liberal fascism" Goldberg is not right of center, or is that just exceptionally poor wording?

Also, I confess that I somehow missed the rightblogger story about discovering Obama's secret name. Roy?

Oh wait, reading through the comment through again I see that the top-secret name is probably "Soetoro," which I had heard. Never mind. Boring.

I still don't see the rest of my comment.

Explanation?

Nicholas Stix (sounds a lot like Nicola Six, dunnit?) on the President-elect;

He is his African father's son, and his racial socialist plan is to dispossess and disenfranchise America’s founding people, and turn mankind’s last, best hope into a blood-drenched, Mugabe-style kleptocracy and dictatorship.

You're a loony.

Wow, that "Malcolm X is Obama's dad" link is comedy gold! Pure, unadulterated awesome; I hope it's true. Thank you so much, I hadn't seen that one yet.

How precious! Mock the silly impotent little rightbloggers and they all turn up in the comments to shake their tiny fists and perpetuate their slanderous calumnies as if anyone here gives a half a fuck what they "think" to be true.

"I guess I also don't understand why we have to use Hillary Clinton's middle name, but we're not allowed to use Obama's," said Jules Crittenden.

I wonder if they ever figured out that Rodham is not Hillary's middle name.

I still can't believe Roy voluntarily reads this toxic crap -- even if he does get paid for it. I gotta believe the long-term health effects (sky-high blood pressure, hives, impotence, possible brain aneurysms) are going to be awful.

I still can't believe Roy voluntarily reads this toxic crap -- even if he does get paid for it. I gotta believe the long-term health effects (sky-high blood pressure, hives, impotence, possible brain aneurysms) are going to be awful.

Oh my God did the Malkin keffiyeh jihad happen THIS YEAR? It feels like it was a decade ago.

Ha ha ha! Pro-freedom people are so funny! This just goes to show you how much smarter the Left it. They're always right! (Except of course for believing teh State is our best friend and that socialism will one day work if we just put the right polticians and bureaucrats in charge.)

Ha ha ha! Pro-freedom people are so funny! This just goes to show you how much smarter the Left is. They're always right! (Except of course for believing the State is our best friend and that socialism will one day work if we just put the right polticians and bureaucrats in charge.)

The weird thing about this comment thread is that despite Roy's efforts to spell it out, the right-wingers still haven't the faintest clue why people find them ridiculous. And I mean ridiculous in the dictionary sense of deserving or inviting mockery.

Which gives us reason to hope that 2009 will be another fabulously entertaining year in conservative, if you will, "thought."

I don't know which is funnier - the "ATLAS JUGS broke the keffiyah story, not Malkin" crowd or the ones stamping their little feet going "I'm NOT a rightblogger! NOT! NOT! NOT!"

Nice work, Roy - as usual. They should give you a raise.

I find Bill Bradley's demands for explanations why his "rebuttals" are not posted amusing---does he offer the same immediate space for response in his forums? I doubt it. This man will never be the object of a good-humoured roast. Your rebuttal, Mr. Bradley?

Excellent review of the year's best nonsense. Let me put in an honorable mention for Jeff Jacoby's ludicrous 'dictator' rant at the Boston Globe, his last gasp before the election. The only difference between Jacoby and a McCain operative is evidently in who signs the paycheck.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/10/29/the_dictator_label/

I still don't see the rest of my comment.

Explanation?

Because you're a self-absorbed, annoying, whiner. That's why.

Now you have an explanation.

I still don't see the rest of my comment.

Explanation?

Because you're a self-absorbed, annoying, whiner. That's why.

Now you have an explanation.

"It may break the rat race of constantly ratcheting consumption, which has surrounded most Americans with nice things that don't really make them happy."

I can't argue with that, even considering her later, seemingly contradictory posts.

Robert Spenser (Nick Pixie Stix isn't even worth addressing), you are an ignorant ass for someone who claims to be an expert on Islam and the Middle East (which you are definitely most not).

And Roy has it wrong too (as much as I love his smackdown). As someone who has lived, worked and studied in the Middle East for decades, that was NOT, eleventy billion times, NOT a kuffiyeh wrapped around Rachel Ray's neck; it was a paisley scarf. And so what if it was? Oops, I forgot. Kuffiyehs (worn mostly by terrorist peasants, terrorist villagers and very old terrorist men, by the way) are reason #4872 to bomb the shit out of Arabs with F-16s paid for by our taxes and instantly make you a terrorist sacrificial virgin if you wear one. Gah!!! I wish everybody would get this Ray/kuffiyeh muchado about nothing right once and for all.

Other than that, great post.

Bill Bradley:

Thanks for wasting my time due to your sloppy reading of what I write.

With six posts in less than an hour, you seem to be doing a fine job of wasting your own time.

Look, over there -- a windmill!

The only thing missing from Nicholas's list of debunkediana is Scott Beauchamp. You know, the soldier who wrote about those terrible things in Iraq that were eventually proved -- wait for it -- TRUE.

Posted by: Singularity at December 30, 2008 12:19 PM

I don't know what's worse, Sing, your racism or your stupidity.

Posted by: Singularity at December 30, 2008 12:19 PM

I don't know what's worse, Sing, your racism or your stupidity.

"The only thing missing from Nicholas's list of debunkediana is Scott Beauchamp. You know, the soldier who wrote about those terrible things in Iraq that were eventually proved -- wait for it -- TRUE.

"Posted by: parsec at December 31, 2008 4:45 PM"

Parsec, if you can provide a link to material showing that Beauchamp's hoax was true, I'd be much obliged.

Regarding the right wing's new found love for Hillary, my favorite moment was when Ace's co-blogger, LauraW, tried to make friends with the PUMA "movement":

I would like to welcome the Hillary supporters aboard, umm well, not the conservative ship, but the Defeat Obama ship.

Again, we can bitch at each other later when we're still at liberty to shout our beliefs. And it's gonna feel so good when we do. Rowr.

Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen of the allied-opposition. Please make yourselves at home. This is your couch too.

Just a warning about Ace's pad; the language is raw and the floor is sticky. The men are gentlemen but will customarily ask you to show your tits, just in case you're obliging in that regard. You don't have to.

Now, it would be really awesome if some ally of Jeff Godlstein were to show up and indignantly point out that it was Jeff that made the first overture to the PUMAs that include a warning to watch out for the puddles of cum on the floor of the comment section.

Here you go, Nicholas:

http://tinyurl.com/5gr8bj

What a dark, dreary and idiotic place the Village Voice and its assorted message boards truly are. A veritable safe haven for the misfits and hopeless losers in life. Full of bile, invective and childish insult, the denizens of this pathetic millieu continue to bang their fists against the walls of sanity and cry, moan and wail.

It is a very good thing for them that their Messiah has arrived for now the oceans will recede and the earth will begin to heal.

What a bunch of complete nitwits you are.

Sam, it is nice of you assert that the Village Voice is "[f]ull of bile, invective and childish insult" [sic] and just two sentences later you call everyone nitwits. Bravo.

I know you must be just boiling over with rage that a black man was elected President. And yes, I know all of the racist crap that conservatives say behind closed doors. I've known far too many during my time in Texas.

And by the way, your side is the one with the religo-crazed Taliban people: find someone on the left who actually thinks Obama is the messiah, and I'll find a 1000 on the right who think that he is the antichrist (I'm not talking metaphorically here).

Also, mellifluous prose only gives small cover to a complete lack of content.

...Mrs. Malkin, but she was absolutely right about Rachael Ray’s keffiyeh.

Yes; and thank God she, or Pam Geller, or whoever, broke THAT vital story. Would America have survived the year with Rachel Ray secretly feeding us all thirty-minute Jihadi recipes?

Since when is Megan McArdle right-of-center? Jonah Goldberg?

Um... just where do you think the center is, anyway?

Bla,bla,bla. Waisted your time writing it. Sorry I waisted my time readng it. Go out and get a job.

#9 Dr. helen telling righties to "undertip waiters, maids, gardeners, etc. if Obama won"
just slays me, as if

well, you know,"those people" are most certainly democrats, since republicans are the, *ahem* "upper crust" don't you know...

What a b*tch. I hope she chokes on her crab louie

"Bla,bla,bla. Waisted your time writing it. Sorry I waisted my time readng it. Go out and get a job."

You're WASTING everyone's time. Go soak your head.

"Here you go, Nicholas:

"http://tinyurl.com/5gr8bj

"Posted by: parsec at December 31, 2008 6:26 PM"

Thanks for the link, parsec. I started the story, and will look into the matter, as best I'm able.

"'...Mrs. Malkin, but she was absolutely right about Rachael Ray’s keffiyeh.'"

"Yes; and thank God she, or Pam Geller, or whoever, broke THAT vital story. Would America have survived the year with Rachel Ray secretly feeding us all thirty-minute Jihadi recipes?

Some people considered it vitally important to lie about what she was wearing, so they apparently hoped Ray could give it, and through it, Arab terrorism, positive spin. Otherwise, why have her wear a keffiyah, and then lie in denying that it was one? The joke's on you. But that was a nice try at Plan Bing me.

I guess it's like the Teletubbies character with the purse. Gay activists saw the character as a propaganda victory, but when the late Jerry Falwell criticized it on the same grounds, they lied, and insisted that there was no gay subtext, and that Falwell was insane to infer one.

I wouldn't have understood the whole brouhaha at all, had it not been for: 1. Picking up a copy of the Gay Blade, in which a writer bragged about the character being gay; and 2. My wife pointing out, years later, after we had begun watching it with our son, that the performer doing the voice of the character with a purse, is clearly a man.

What bothered me most about Teletubbies was its cretinism. It is devoid of any mental or emotional stimulation, even for toddlers. And that is why I eventually stopped my son from continuing to watch it, or its even lower-functioning, sister show.

"'Since when is Megan McArdle right-of-center? Jonah Goldberg?'

"Um... just where do you think the center is, anyway?

"Posted by: Steambadger at January 2, 2009 9:00 PM"

I'm thinking, maybe, David Brooks.

I'm thinking you're a serious big-time toolbag if you expect anyone to believe that one.

Because, one can only find loony posts on righty blogs. Uh huh

Thank goodness you have the reality based Kos and HuffPo for examples of correctness, eh?

Can't wait to see who you blame when the Obama FAIL and corruption start rolling in. Actually, the corruption already started and Barry isn't even sworn in yet.

Honey, I can't wait til lefty gets a shitload of Obama. They'll be the ones screaming the loudest about spreading the wealth. Welcome to the poorhouse. ha

hai ... posliti matter if I always clear if the neutral is good for one country does not have to be followed

wow that obama one is just wrong.

i'm gonna make my own site about it