Green Eagle

Well, you know that it wouldn't take long for the right, incapable as it is of accepting responsibility for anything, to start trying to lie away their close connection to the likes of  Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian Conservative fundamentalist Christian who murdered a hundred or so people recently. This is a painful post to write, very long and without a lot of the humor that makes it somewhat tolerable to stay aware of the evil that has taken over the American right.   I actually don't expect very many people to make it through this tripe, but I felt a need to get it down on the record.  So, read as much of it as you please- I know it isn't a pleasant task. Long time readers of Wingnut Wrapup will know that I exiled Pam Geller because her ugly, racist ranting was so sickening that there was no humor to be gotten from it.  However, Pammy has closely associated herself with the type of Scandinavian Muslim haters that this guy represents: "Killings in N...

As I promised a couple of days ago, I am now going to attempt to account for a fact mentioned by Shaw Kenawee in a comment here: "Many of us, righties and lefties, have documented the deliberate lies and misrepresentations of right-wing bloggers and pundits, but the facts we present seem not to discourage conservative followers from their allegiance to their liars." Well, for good or ill, here goes my attempt to explain this: After decades of following right wing rhetoric and actions, I have come to the following conclusion:  American conservatism, at least as it has existed in the last half century, is about one thing and one thing only: greed. Cut my taxes.  That's it.  Nothing else underlies Conservatism.  All they care about in the whole world is keeping their government services but having their taxes cut so someone else picks up the tab.  Everything else is just window dressing.  Even racism is nothing to them but a way to justify taking things ...

For my second historical clarification, I would like to talk about something most people have never heard of- the "depression" of 1920. If you do a google search for this, you will find dozens if not hundreds of right wing posts about this phenomenon, all basically agreeing with the following Glenn Beck claim, which led me to deal with this issue: "Glenn then warns of the coming Economic Holocaust. The worst is far from over and warning bells are sounding. Beck returns to the blackboard and writes out numbers fro m the 1920 Depression. Caused by policies of the Wilson Administration, conditions were far worse that year than now, even worse than the first year of the Great Depression. But, it was short lived, thanks to Calvin Coolidge. Taxes were lowered from a top rate of 77% to 25%. Federal spending was slashed in half! By 1923, the economy was booming. The Roaring 20s saw an expanded middle class. Hoover, a Progressive, made the Crash of ‘29 worse with excessive spe...

Here's the right wing global warming scandal of the day: "Top Climate Scientist Admits Man-made Global Warming Is a Farce– * Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing * There has been no global warming since 1995 * Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes Finally, one of the chief scientists at the center of the “Climategate” scandal admitted this weekend that there has been no significant global warming in the last 15 years ." You can read all about it here, here, here, here, and probably at another trillion right wing websites, if you bothered to look. Funny how they all hopped on this story the same day. Green Eagle will stick his neck out here: Anyone want to bet how long it will be before this story turns out to be a total lie? Update: Well, that didn't take long: "... the Daily Mail , has taken another body blow with the paper publishing a false story claiming that Phil Jones had admitted that...