While Kevin Drum's recent contest to find the absolutely wingnuttiest post in all of Wingnuttia was time well spent, I'm still a bit yanked that he passed on every possible contender written by our screeching contingent of Canadian loons. I mean, really, look at Kevin's eventual winner:
A Stroke of Genius?
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
Well, you get the idea. But, really, how is that so different from, say, this:
Best article ever written?
I have been patiently waiting for the Western Standard magazine to post Mark Steyn's latest column online, because I feel it is quite possibly the best op-ed I've ever read.
Or this:
Telling it like it is
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One of the reasons I've always liked Dick Cheney is that he doesn't beat around the bush.
Now, granted, neither of Adam's pieces has the unadulterated, drooling, mindless sycophancy of Hinderaker's post (what does?) but, then again, Adam pulled this off twice. Surely that has to count for something.
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The problem with bad rightwing Canadian writing is that it's all derivative of some American wingnut, so it's drearily non-original.
That's why American progressives rarely get exercised over our wingnuts...they sound just like theirs, only blander. The really fascinating ones (ie, the complete loonies like Evans, Halls of Cacademia etc.) just plain can't write.
By the way, that gushy twaddle from the moronic Hinderaker always reminds me of another bit of treacly nonsense from our own Michael Ignatieff:
“America’s empire is not like empires of times past, built on colonies, conquest and the white man’s burden. We are no longer in the era of the United Fruit Company, when American corporations needed the Marines to secure their investments overseas. The twenty-first century imperium is a new invention in the annals of political science, an empire lite, a global hegemony whose grace notes are free markets, human rights, and democracy.”
...*puke* Notice how he was "we" at the time.
Buckdog has a WORST Canadian rightwing blog poll up.
I guess torydory will have to be a write-in vote.
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