Calling All Wingnuts

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really completely understand the appeal of this site… most of my calls are just two partisans arguing about the issues of the day. You can see that on any cable tv channel.
Sure, every now and then I’ll catch hold of something truly noxious and […]

Wilkow couldn’t believe that Americans want Democrats to take the Congress back.
I did something I need to do more of in this call… Locally, Congressman John Sweeney is facing his toughest re-election bid since he won his seat. His district is a disgusting example of gerrymandering and is one of the reddest in […]

Medved was making the incredible claim that George Bush is fiscally conservative…
I couldn’t let it go… But in this call, he makes masterful use of limiting my time and using his mute button… he never addressed the pork issue and pretended that giving huge tax breaks to oil companies wasn’t a form of […]

Not too long ago, there was some pretty earnest discussion regarding the Bush administration’s “Inflection Point”… When did their public image change - from brimming with confidence and riding high into their second term… to the lost and floundering bunch of incompetents they appear to be today?
I think they fell off their horse […]

Today was “Disagree day” on Medved… I took it as an opportunity to point out the rampant hypocrisy involved in defending the morality of republican politicians while attacking democrats on a daily basis…
And I got some good Moonie shots in…

This morning Albany, NY and the Capital Region woke up to find my mug staring back at them from the cover of the region’s alternative weekly, Metroland. The article gave a run down of my past local activism (mostly calling Albany’s mayor on his Friday morning radio show) and then, much more in depth, […]

Hannity got something right!
Hannity: Ya know what? This guy made the case for weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, nuclear - this is…
Me: He believed the President, you mean?
Hannity: Well, I mean, it’s a cute little line, but it’s - it would show how utterly and completely idiotic and incompetent […]

I called Laura this morning to refute a winger’s letter she had read claiming that morale was being undermined by the Democrats… Everything about this call was a broken record, but I especially enjoyed Laura’s assertion that as we get closer and closer to victory, the terrorists become more an more desperate…
Ugh… I’d […]

I’ve been called to do a lot of interviews over the last week or two. Something that flummoxed me on several occasions was how to answer the question of precisely what a wingnut is.
I just had an eureka moment.
A wingnut is anyone that professes belief in the make-believe world of the ideological right while […]

As some of you may know, one of the latest darling causes on the right is the case of the man that was assured by the girl that she couldn’t get pregnant. Of course, she did get pregnant. And she kept the baby. And the man is mad because he now has […]