Barking Crazy Rightwingers

If there is one thing that seems constant among far right wingers it's fear and loathing. Here in America you turn on Fox News and you get nothing but rants about how horrible Muslims are, how blacks are criminals and all Latinos are illegals. All you hear is fear and loathing of anything different or foreign.

Seems that European right wingers are no less filled with fear and loathing than our own right wingers. Problem is, when you form an international bloc of barking crazy rightwingers, eventually that fear and loathing will split up the bloc. Which is exactly what has happened with the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Bloc (ITS) in Euopre.

ITS was a rag-tag collection of idiots in the EU Parliament that formed in January, 2007, from barking crazy right wingers primarily from France, Italy, Romania, Belgium and Bulgaria. Among their members is Alessandra Mussolini...yes, the granddaughter of Italy's biggest asshole, Il Duce. I guess having her grandfather shot and hung upside down on meat hook didn't discourage her from following his discredited ideology. The ITS platform seems basically to be a mishmash of anti-Darkie bullshit. They first gained enough seats in Parliament when Romania's entry into the EU brought in a fresh bunch of intolerant assholes, bringing the number of such anti-Darkie assholes to the minimum required to get seats in the EU Parliament.

Good catch from Alternet; it appears that the key to understanding God's hand in the universe rests in every humble jar of peanut butter.

Allow me to introduce my own theory of things. That theory would hold this: reasonable proof that God isn't active in the universe could be deduced from the fact that He doesn't occasionally reach down from the heavens, grab certain people by the neck, shake them, and shout "Hey! You! Shut Up Already! You're making me look bad!"

QED. Happy Easter.

So here's a puzzle: if you're running for the Democratic nomination, why would you put a column from the nation's most insipid right-winger on your web site?

As Hillary did with this piece by David Brooks?

Far be it from me to get in the middle of a liberal purge, but would anybody mind if I pointed out that the calls for Hillary Clinton to apologize for her support of the Iraq war are almost entirely bogus?

Wait a minute. Does Team Hillary see her as the victim of a 'liberal purge'?

And here I was thinking it was a primary. Silly me. Or maybe, just maybe, something is deeply wrong with a candidacy that relies on the sworn enemies of Liberalism and Progressivism to carry its water, and thinks the propaganda of said enemies is just what the doctor ordered to advance itself.

(Cross-posted on The Daily Gotham, Hillary's "hometown" blog)