I hope you're happy salon.

Andy McBatty, Charles Cabbage Pounder and Victor Davisopolous Hanson: the powerful oligopoly that guides planet Wingnuttia to every greater glory.

"McCarthy disagreed, writing back to Lowry, "As between freedom and dictatorship, in principle Obama is fine with dictatorship -- we are seeing less and less freedom in our own country, and I believe Obama (who is dirigiste by nature) values stability over the rambunctiousness of a free society.""

Pure, unadulterated, right wing bullshit.

Wow, never thought I'd see someone making the newt and el RushBo seem reasonable by comparison. I'm surprised he didn't try and work Hitler into that psychotic rant to.

And the distance between conservative media pundits and fringe extremists is now measured in...Microns?

...is a lazy writer.

He's totally lacking in imagination, just repeating the same old dim-witted, pedestrian stuff you'll find in the comments on FreeRepublic and Lucanne.com.

Because of obvious divergences (inequality for women and non-Muslims, hatred of homosexuals) radical Islam and radical Leftism are commonly mistaken to be incompatible. In fact, they have much more in common than not, especially when it comes to suppression of freedom, intrusiveness in all aspects of life, notions of "social justice," and their economic programs ....

Methinks Andy McCarthy is trying to divert attention from the fact that a radical Islamic state looks a heckuvalot more like the neoconservative dream than anything leftwingers ever devised. The major difference is that our neocons profess a preference for Christian fascism, rather than the Islamic flavor. Otherwise, they're hard to tell apart.

Are you that convinced that the official opposition candidate hand picked by the ayatollahs and who was already the President before and who is the guy who started Iran's nuclear weapons program is really going to be the leader of the Iranian Free Democratic People's Republic of Drunk Sex on the Beach-istan?

Because if you do then you are dumber or more innocent than you know.

has always been a tool. I am sure with this little missive he will be hired by the WaPo immediately as their newest editorial/propagandist.

Whenever we think that the American wingnuts have descended to worst possible level of lunacy, one of them proves that there's no limit to wingnut lunacy.

Are you that convinced that the official opposition candidate hand picked by the ayatollahs and who was already the President before and who is the guy who started Iran's nuclear weapons program is really going to be the leader of the Iranian Free Democratic People's Republic of Drunk Sex on the Beach-istan?

Because if you do then you are dumber or more innocent than you know.

Are you sure you know who you're criticizing? Alex Koppelman is talking about what Andy McCarthy wrote in National Review. If you want to flame the source of the nonsense, perhaps you should head over to the National Review and give them an earful.

Damn! What's the statute of limitations on drinking games, because I don't think my liver can handle this anymore.

Obama loves the dictatorships? The Left loves the dictatorships? 'Cause, you know, freedom loving guys like Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes never cozied up to dictatorships when it was politically expedient or strategically useful.

If Obama goes to a restaurant and orders a chicken sandwich, they'll attack him for being anti-beef.

The right wing have their collective heads up their collective asses.

This veers between amusing and terrifying, but it seems that Obama is driving more and more people into brick walls, where they pound their heads in frustration at not being able to get to him. And the more they pound, the wilder the noises, until the noises turn into virtually incoherent screams. This sounds dramatic, I suppose, but no more so than McCarthy's rant. At some level, he can't really believe what he's writing, but since nothing else has worked, well, what the hell...

of this article? AndyMc is a delusional paranoiac. Quoting him in Salon is nuts. HTF do the ramblings of this madman qualify as the anything of the day?

Next time you're struggling for a QOTD, Alex, stop in at your nearest state-run mental institution and pick any resident in the day room. I guarantee you'll find something at least as meaningful─and probably a lot more entertaining.

Quoting McCarthy in Salon gives his drivel a legitimacy─and a platform─it doesn't deserve.

He has to be the second stupidest person on the planet.

And I'm still waiting for first stupidest.

And the more they pound, the wilder the noises, until the noises turn into virtually incoherent screams.

OK, but what exactly do the right-wingers want in the first place?

AFAICT, there isn't a whole lot of difference (from the U.S. point of view) between Moussavi and Ahmadinejad. Moussavi isn't going to suddenly turn Iran into America's best friend. The best we could hope for is that Moussavi might be a bit less annoying than Ahmadinejad, but that's hardly worth starting a confrontation about.

Imagine if you will Iran is some West Africa festering shithole. And one warlord is busy rousting his child warriors to go kill some other 'freedom fighters'. Oh yeah some fucking beauty contest, that. Because whomever manages not to get completely slaughtered has just won a festering shithole and all the rape, theft, murder and pillage that comes with it.

One day the ink will be dried on our current era. It will be shown that we faced unprecedented challenges requiring that sort of ingenuity and adaptation that has made our species so successful. And, thanks to the internet and digital media, we will be able to familiarize ourselves with the wit and wisdom of the tragically wrong.

It would be like reading all the arguments leveraged against Galileo insisting that the world is flat.

The point is, why would one assume that one regime is preferable to another?

I think we agree about that. From the U.S. point of view, Moussavi isn't obviously preferable to Ahmadinejad.

What I'm trying to figure out is why the wingnuts are so hot and bothered to get Obama to DO SOMETHING. Do what, and to what end?