Slog - Comments on Today in Right-Wingedness http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness My least favorite conservative blog is Atlas Shrugs. The blogger is a batshit crazy, Muslim-hating Ayn Rand fan. So of course, because I hate myself, I read the goddamned thing every day. She's been pushing this bullshit Obama's-not-an-American-citizen narrative since Obama won the nomination. Today she's making her readers e-mail a judge who's hearing some phony-ass case about Obama's citizenship. And she also links to Andrew Martin's blog post, which says "Barack Obama is not Barack Obama," but is rather the son of someone named Frank Marshall Davis. The post continually refers to "negroes," so you know it's impartial and... Copyright 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0800 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:57:31 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by the man who couldn't blog Weirdly, Card self-identifies as a Democrat.

]]> the man who couldn't blog http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182158 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:12:50 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I don't usually wave goodbye to shits as they swirl down the toilet bowl, but in the case of the right wing, I'm making an exception. Buh-bye, kooks! I hope I don't see you again on the beach by the sewer outlet!

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182162 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:22:02 -0800 Comment by LT Nixon No amount of nuttiness this election cycle can hold up to Larry Sinclair, I love that guy.

]]> LT Nixon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182164 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:23:12 -0800 Comment by Greg If this were coming out of eight years of impotent rage at the current Democratic administration, I'd be a little more inclined to pity. Actually, no I wouldn't; these people are crazy bastards who hate their fellow Americans.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182169 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:24:45 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1023083twitter1.html

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182173 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:27:34 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 ive always enjoyed sadlyno.com 's coverage of crazy-old pam

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182178 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182178 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:33:49 -0800 Comment by Enigma What gets me is that this guy Martin thinks he's so important that Obama even knows he's in Hawaii. I'm sure someone in the Dem party is following the batshit crazy people on the right. But I don't think it's on Obama's Top 5.

]]> Enigma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182179 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182179 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:37:09 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi The way Martin describes it, it sounds like Obama has been in a plane circling Hawaii for three days.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182183 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:42:12 -0800 Comment by max solomon obama is about to be president of the planet. if he wants to go see his dying grandma on thursday & friday 2 weeks before the election, even if its' just to make sure his head's screwed on straight (and that's probably it, frankly), then eat shit, "objectivists". he knows the value of self-care.

obama is WAY more howard roark than mccain any day of the fucking century.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182185 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182185 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:42:53 -0800 Comment by Max Bell 9: http://www.ariwatch.com/

This guy's an 'objectivist' like Greenspan is an objectivist. Fuck the right-wing secondhanders.

*Spits*

]]> Max Bell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182194 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182194 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:51:25 -0800 Comment by Yardlie my thoughts exactly. while i don't have much love for Rand, i imagine she is spinning in her grave.

I thought this was cleared up by the fact that Obama's mother was raised in the US, so he could have been born on f'ing Mars and still be a US citizen, right?

]]> Yardlie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182195 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:52:04 -0800 Comment by Enigma @11
While his mother being American would make him default a US citizen, He has to be born in America to be president.

]]> Enigma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182222 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:23:08 -0800 Comment by scary tyler moore she faked it, bailo, faked it faked it faked it. any sloggers care to find out the real story? i distrust any suspect description that starts out with 'black man 6'4"'.

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182225 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:26:10 -0800 Comment by COMTE Poor Martin must be having conniption-fits today, given his fellow Objectivist Alan Greenspan just publicly admitted some of the fundamental precepts of his economic world-view have failed spectacularly in the current crisis.

Regardless, I've given up on these idiots; all their whinging about the "liberal media" - while Hannity, Novak, Weiner, Limbaugh, Malkin et al, some of the most popular pundits around (or so their press releases keep touting) echo these wails of victimization.

Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all, Paul.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182226 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:27:16 -0800 Comment by whatwhat @12: He'd still be a "natural-born citizen" which is the constitutional requirement.

In any case, there's a valid birth certificate and a contemporous announcement of birth in a local newspaper. They'd have better luck proving Bush crashed the planes into the twin towers himself.

]]> whatwhat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182257 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182257 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:30:10 -0800 Comment by Seajay "And her commenters have more to say: 'Did Hitler have as much help from the news media of his day as Obama is getting from our corrupt MSM??'"

Well, I don't think Mr Obama has been TIME'S "Man/Person Of The Year" yet.

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182275 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf She scratched her own face with a paperclip, carefully traced out the letter in the mirror (it's reversed, and the marks are doubled in places). Didn't even break the fucking skin. Not what a Negro Giant With A Huge Knife would do. The only mystery is, did she punch herself in the face, or did her boyfriend do it? Theories, John Bailo?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182276 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182276 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:54:18 -0800 Comment by 4f...sake "she was robbed of $60 by a 6' 4" black man who weighed about 200 pounds. Todd claimed that WHEN her assailant NOTICED the McCain sticker on her vehicle, he punched her in the head and carved the letter on her right cheek" (caps added)
yeah, after robbing someone you take the time to check out their bumper stickers y'know just in case their political views are different from yours.
yes @ 17

]]> 4f...sake http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182282 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182282 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:06:27 -0800 Comment by Womyn2me I have tried to stay off the right wing blogs because those people are scary... yet they are the ones who are going to flip the fuck out when Obama wins and start riots... and they are the ones with the guns who are willing to shoot them to "save America"

]]> Womyn2me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182300 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182300 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:50:59 -0800 Comment by Seajay Am I the only one here that thinks anal warts are cool?

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182308 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182308 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:08:47 -0800 Comment by Ren @11- The story is so clearly made up.

1) A white woman who is terrified of blacks ends up on the "wrong side" of Philly while looking for an ATM? Yeah right.

2) A 6'4 black man weighing 200lbs takes time from robbing her to carve a PERFECT capital letter "B" onto her(non-struggling?)face? Yeah right.

Her story is ridiculous and sad.

]]> Ren http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182313 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182313 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:21:39 -0800 Comment by Ren Oop! I meant @5 (not @11!). I was responding to the Smoking Gun link 5 posted.

]]> Ren http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182317 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182317 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:25:48 -0800 Comment by tb Martin is a nutcase who is a well-known anti semite hatemonger. He is so bad the Republican party disavowed him.

]]> tb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182319 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:27:30 -0800 Comment by the right is wrong there are actually people who support mccain?
huh?

]]> the right is wrong http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182322 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182322 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:33:27 -0800 Comment by Andy Martin Damnit! I hate this douchebag.

What do you do when some right-wing nutjob trashes your good name?

Besides voting, obviously.

]]> Andy Martin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182325 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:52:05 -0800 Comment by golden eel I'm not a fan of objectivism but any casual reader of Ayn Rand knows that she would have as many problems with the Republicans ties to the Christian right as she would the Democrats collectivist tendencies.

]]> golden eel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182331 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:06:34 -0800 Comment by golden eel I'm not a fan of objectivism but any casual reader of Ayn Rand knows that she would have as many problems with the Republicans ties to the Christian right as she would the Democrats' collectivist tendencies.

]]> golden eel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182332 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182332 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:08:16 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @17,

I knew that shit was a lie when I first read it.

She described her attacker as wearing an undershirt, no jacket, at 9 pm in Pennsylvania at the end of October. Yeah right.

@21,

And he was armed with a knife, but he gently scratched her face and didn't draw any blood? What a crock of shit.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182344 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182344 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:07:19 -0800 Comment by Seajay @20 ... I'd like to ask an admin to see how many emails are registered under my screen name, and when they were registered, and axe any but the first one. The last time I checked, there was still such a thing as slander.

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182351 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182351 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:28:16 -0800 Comment by Jill every time i think about Orson Scott Card's political/religious affiliations, I feel a little dirty for liking Ender's Game so much.

]]> Jill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182366 2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:56:39 -0800 Comment by Greg Seajay, just call sock puppetry on #20... it should get deleted in relatively short order.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182377 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182377 2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:13:37 -0800 Comment by Andrew I actually love his books and was disappointed to read this in the SLOG. Being anti-gay seems so contrary to the themes of his books, especially Ender's Game (if he can find compassion for and humanity in other species, you would think that it would not be such a stretch for him to do the same for his real gay brothers and sisters). Then I went and read this article by him, http://mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/orson_scott_card/?id=3234, and while it is not exactly the best,it does not make him out to be as anti-gay as this post seems to say that he is.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182511 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182511 2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:44:02 -0800 Comment by Seajay @29
I still think anal warts are cool though.

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182522 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182522 2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:50:37 -0800 Comment by Seajay @33: Suit yourself. We're entitled to wonder why you seem afraid to do it under your own name, though. The image of a deep, dark closet comes to mind ...

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/today_in_rightwingedness#c1182627 2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:57:31 -0800