A video to get paranoiacs excited

14 comments March 18th, 2010

Mainstream conservatives embarrassed by lunatic fringe?

20 comments February 27th, 2010

 

It says HERE that the conservative establishment is trying to distance itself from the crazier elements on the political right (as pictured above).

An excerpt:

Until recently, organizers and activists mostly seemed content to ignore, or in some cases tolerate, extremists in their ranks, confident they’d be drowned out by the hundreds of thousands of activists who took to congressional town halls and marches around the country to protest big-spending initiatives pushed by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress.

But inflammatory rhetoric such as former congressman Tom Tancredo’s racially tinged speech at this month’s tea party convention, reports of the involvement of right wing militia groups, and the continued propagation of conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama have sometimes cast the movement in an unfavorable light.

Study shows that conservatives are more fearful than liberals

16 comments February 15th, 2010

 

There’s plenty of food for thought in THIS STUFF.

An excerpt:

Researchers have found, for example, that some humans are particularly alert to threats, particularly primed to feel vulnerable and perceive danger. Those people are more likely to be conservatives.

One experiment used electrodes to measure the startle blink reflex, the way we flinch and blink when startled by a possible danger. A flash of noise was unexpectedly broadcast into the research subjects’ earphones, and the response was measured.

The researchers, led by Kevin B. Smith of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, found that those who had a stronger blink reflex at the noise were more likely to take such conservative positions as favoring gun rights, supporting warrantless searches, and opposing foreign aid.

Will this guy be Palin’s running mate in 2012?

27 comments February 11th, 2010

Black helicopters over Nashville

1 comment February 11th, 2010

 

Conservative Canadian Jonathan Kay SAYS the American teabagger movement is “dominated by conspiracist kooks.”

An excerpt:

After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It’s more John Birch than John Adams.

Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits, such as Bill O’Reilly, who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement’s more militant oddballs.

The Cheneys want you to be afraid

11 comments January 31st, 2010

Paranoiacs see Obama plotting with Interpol to sap us of our precious bodily fluids

Add comment January 4th, 2010

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   Conspiratorialists all across the fruited plain — THIS GUY, for example — are soiling themselves out of fear that the foreign-born Muslim terrorist who currently occupies the White House is working in cahoots with Interpol to compromise American sovereignty.

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   A more rational assessment of the situation can be found HERE.

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Paranoiacs still think Obama wants to take away their guns

4 comments November 23rd, 2009

 

No matter how many times the Obama administration disavows any intention to take away people’s firearms, the bedwetters who quake at things that go bump in the night refuse to believe it, as we see HERE.