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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 01:25 PM Feb 2015

Here are the top five most popular posts on RightWingWatch.org this week.


Here are the top five most popular posts on RightWingWatch.org this week.
http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=_5pVQebJdkJ2c_NFH43gfQ


Linda Harvey: Katy Perry's 'Firework' Promotes Satanism, Super Bowl Halftime Show Pushed 'Homosexual Agenda'

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=ghvfdWqJkIx2l4xmbGXqWg



Star Parker: Obama's Prayer Breakfast Speech Was 'Verbal Rape'

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=CMy_7Gt2tAAdRzDky3LoYA



Pamela Geller to Obama: 'Excuse Me, Mr. President, But We Speak American Here'

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=twtOEmtTEDCtHsxoqRd9Nw



Coulter: College Loans Are Subsidy For Teaching Kids to Hate Republicans and White People

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=pzY2BzRaJzaxc01Nsstfhg


Glenn Beck: The Measles Outbreak Is a 'Hoax' Meant to Convince People to 'Obey the Government'

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=Y6hh84Joc6eXUeZn_ON5DQ

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Here are the top five most popular posts on RightWingWatch.org this week. (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP
Sometimes when I see all this crap in one place, it leads me to despair. Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #1
Millions of people believe that stupidity. onecaliberal Feb 2015 #4
and because they are a minority guillaumeb Feb 2015 #8
Unfortunatley this is not the case Cosmocat Feb 2015 #13
Sigh Dollface Feb 2015 #2
You know why Republicans don't like Obama? Because he enunciates. Initech Feb 2015 #3
Actually, I'm afraid that might be accurate. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #37
Reagan made stupid respectable. GeorgeGist Feb 2015 #5
Perfect! Putting that one on a sticky note on my desktop. mountain grammy Feb 2015 #7
yeah, taking that one to use later. TeamPooka Feb 2015 #14
This is IT! ^^^^^ calimary Feb 2015 #22
This sums it up. hifiguy Feb 2015 #29
Amazing. He nailed it. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #36
if Reagan made stupid respectable.... " * " brought it to Mt. Olympus status..... a kennedy Feb 2015 #39
the headlines alone are making me ill, and it is too early to start drinking. niyad Feb 2015 #6
Between this kind of stuff and what's going on at my job lately MH1 Feb 2015 #11
seriously. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2015 #16
Picture Lover's Lane. The hill over the town with a young couple looking at the city lights below... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #26
The Right-wing idiocracy... gregcrawford Feb 2015 #9
The Grump... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #33
very insightful. Thumbs up n/t jaysunb Feb 2015 #35
Inbred stupidity has been firmly established. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #38
It boggles the mind. KauaiK Feb 2015 #10
Evidently I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue Fumesucker Feb 2015 #12
As one particularly loathsome... Bigmack Feb 2015 #15
Stupid votes when they are told to and for whom they are told to. Jeff Murdoch Feb 2015 #20
A lot of it has to do with redistricting, BlueMTexpat Feb 2015 #21
Sorry, just noticed that my first link BlueMTexpat Feb 2015 #23
Fundy religion + 24/7 corporate propaganda hifiguy Feb 2015 #31
Thanks for the preview of my facebook feed hootinholler Feb 2015 #17
"The gays are buying up all of Alabama's batteries." mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2015 #18
And when you add it all up: DeSwiss Feb 2015 #19
lol treestar Feb 2015 #24
...or "pajamas." Iggo Feb 2015 #28
or "liberty" demwing Feb 2015 #34
Oh man! What am I doing on DU? Those are my kind of people! C Moon Feb 2015 #25
While I was reading that stuff, my eyebrows tried to travel over the top and to the back of my head. Iggo Feb 2015 #27
Charlie Pierce is proved more correct every day hifiguy Feb 2015 #30
The listeners believe this crap and thinks we are going to hell in a hand basket. Thinkingabout Feb 2015 #32

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. Sometimes when I see all this crap in one place, it leads me to despair.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 01:37 PM
Feb 2015

Sometimes My Favorite Wingnut sends me links to right-wing pieces & I sometimes look--for about the same reason that people gawk at accidents, so I see all the other headlines, and I end up thinking, "If people believe THIS, it's fuckin' all over."

Then I remember that most people actually don't buy into this shit. Most people are compassionate and of good will, do in fact believe in climate change, know about the growing inequality, etc. The wingnuts really are a minority.

onecaliberal

(32,882 posts)
4. Millions of people believe that stupidity.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 01:50 PM
Feb 2015

Corporate America wants to keep it that way. These people are stupid enough to vote for continuing to screw themselves financially to benefit the 80 people that own more wealth than 3 billion of us.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
8. and because they are a minority
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 02:49 PM
Feb 2015

they have to shout all the louder to be heard.

Witness the desperate cries for attention from Sarah Palin,
the pathetic attempts to excuse war crimes from Dick Cheney,
and on and on.

The only thing that helps them is Faux News with their 24/7 hate speech

Cosmocat

(14,567 posts)
13. Unfortunatley this is not the case
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 03:08 PM
Feb 2015

I am in a service club, probably a handful of 40+ members are democrats, or at least not republican/"conservative."

GOOD people, people who have done so much for the community, volunteer their time and give their money. Ethical, decent. Great friends.

And, they absolutely lap republican bullshit up like popcorn.

I don't get it, and I have stopped trying.

I have my share of non "conservative" friends, but honestly, more people than not where I live are "conservative" or buy more of the republican nonsense than not.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
29. This sums it up.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:57 PM
Feb 2015

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.
-- Frank Zappa, in 1981

a kennedy

(29,694 posts)
39. if Reagan made stupid respectable.... " * " brought it to Mt. Olympus status.....
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 09:37 AM
Feb 2015

and I really don't know what face to put here....either this one..... or this one..... It's just sad all the way around.

niyad

(113,510 posts)
6. the headlines alone are making me ill, and it is too early to start drinking.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 02:22 PM
Feb 2015

how in the world do these cretins function with all this hatred, and ignorance and venomous bile spewing forth

MH1

(17,600 posts)
11. Between this kind of stuff and what's going on at my job lately
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 03:03 PM
Feb 2015

I'm beginning to think it's NEVER too early to start drinking.



BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
16. seriously.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 03:29 PM
Feb 2015

Ugh...too early to crawl back in bed, too.

OK, I must pull myself away from the innerwebz and generate some positive energy.

❤Happy Valentine's, niyad

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
26. Picture Lover's Lane. The hill over the town with a young couple looking at the city lights below...
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:31 PM
Feb 2015

The boy says to the girl, "We should go steady. We both hate the same things."

That's how.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
9. The Right-wing idiocracy...
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 02:54 PM
Feb 2015

... is a seething furnace of malice. There is a mutant strain of the species that is congenitally incapable of discerning the truth, let alone telling it. Those that spew such verbal vomit crave attention and dominion over the lives of others. Those that wallow in it are desperate for some drama in their dreary, double-wide lives, and embrace outrageous positions out of inbred stupidity and a perverse desire to stand out from the herd. Since they lack the intelligence to distinguish themselves by their accomplishments, they draw attention to themselves with... this.

Beck and his malignant ilk prey on the ignorance and inchoate resentment of the lowest common denominators of the social equation for their own self-aggrandizement and enrichment. No decent people will ever mourn their passing.

So sayeth The Grump.

KauaiK

(544 posts)
10. It boggles the mind.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 02:59 PM
Feb 2015

The ignorance is breathtaking. wow Thank You to whomever waded thru this muck to be able to post this all in one place.

 

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)
15. As one particularly loathsome...
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 03:27 PM
Feb 2015

... RWNJ poster on my local newspaper discussion boards pointed out to me after I ripped him a new one on how stupid many of their politicians are....
"If we're so stupid, how come we are in control of both Houses of Congress?"

He has a point. How did control of both Houses pass to the truly mentally deficient?

I know I'm old and cynical, but .... WTF is happening? Has this country taken leave of its collective senses?

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
21. A lot of it has to do with redistricting,
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:13 PM
Feb 2015

aka "gerrymandering." http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/07/1159631/americans-voted-for-a-democratic-house-gerrymandering-the-supreme-court-gave-them-speaker-boehner/

Another major reasion is that each state - no matter how many people it has in its population - has two Senators. In fact, Dem Senators got WAY more votes than GOP Senators did. http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/03/democratic-senators-got-more-votes-than-republicans/

Don't give up completely on all your neighbors and friends or American voters in general.

Our system was deliberately rigged against real democracy from the get-go. It has been made worse since 1980 by GOP legislatures and governors who had control of the redistricting process. One cannot just pay attention to national elections.

Now Citizens United and decisions like it created full-blown oligarchy.

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
23. Sorry, just noticed that my first link
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:15 PM
Feb 2015

was from 2012. But the same principles, if not the same numbers, also apply to 2014.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
31. Fundy religion + 24/7 corporate propaganda
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 05:02 PM
Feb 2015

+ brutally dumbed down educational system = Epic Stupid. Simple equation.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,567 posts)
18. "The gays are buying up all of Alabama's batteries."
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 03:40 PM
Feb 2015

I do have to admit that I got a nice price on some NiMH AA cells at Radio Shack last week, so maybe there is some truth to that.

WATCH: AL Pastor Rails Against 'Comedic' Gay Marriages, Claims You'll Be Able to Marry Roaches in 2016

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
19. And when you add it all up:
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 03:40 PM
Feb 2015
[font color=white]>>[/font]Linda Harvey
[font color=white]>>[/font]Star Parker
[font color=white]>>[/font]Pamela Geller
[font color=white]>>[/font]Ann Coulter
+[font color=white]>[/font]Glenn Beck[font color=white]>>[/font]
[font color=white]>>>>>[/font]0


treestar

(82,383 posts)
24. lol
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:17 PM
Feb 2015

Ms. Geller seems unaware that the American language often absorbs foreign words. I wonder if she objects to the world "taco."

Iggo

(47,563 posts)
27. While I was reading that stuff, my eyebrows tried to travel over the top and to the back of my head.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 04:46 PM
Feb 2015

I think it gave me a new wrinkle.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
30. Charlie Pierce is proved more correct every day
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 05:00 PM
Feb 2015

Pierces Axioms of Idiot America

1. Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units.

2. Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough.

3. Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it.

iMO this simple set of rules explains very nearly everything wrong with the sad mess called the USA. We are, collectively dumb as a box of rocks, partly by choice, partly by manipulation.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
32. The listeners believe this crap and thinks we are going to hell in a hand basket.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 05:29 PM
Feb 2015

No wonder we hear so much negatively from RWers, they don't know any better.

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