Defending Big Oil and Other Delights of the Right-Wing Blogosphere
Posted by Roy Edroso
The Village Voice
May 12, 2008
[Editor's note: After braving the wilds of the darkest recesses of conservative cyberspace last month to pen the wildly popular "The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere", Roy Edroso has agreed to make it an ongoing mission. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. Look for "The Voice Explores the Right-Wing Blogosphere" every Monday.]
Early last week, rightbloggers kept hope alive for a Reverend Wright "debacle" effect on the Presidential chances of Barack Obama. "We watch the Obama Hope-and-Change fraud collapse in on itself," announced Red State on Monday; also, "Obama is NO Tiger Woods."
Alas for them, Tuesday's Indiana and North Carolina primaries gave Obama an even stronger claim to the Democratic nomination. This seemed to pull the gates on the Wright carnival, but rightbloggers remained stuck on the ferris wheel. "Obama's Church Printed Pro-Hezbollah Articles" reported Sweetness & Light on May 11. One of two quoted items from the Trinity Church newsletter Trumpet referred to "Hezbollah’s opportunistic raid," and the other didn't mention Hezbollah at all, but to S&L that only proved the perfidy of the Wright/Obama axis: "Note how the term 'Hezbollah' never passes the holy man’s lips. Obviously Israel is totally to blame for all the troubles in Lebanon... Mr. Obama, despite being a regular attendee for more than twenty years never noticed any of this." Across America, anxious church-going politicians riffled their parish bulletins to see what political timebombs had been planted among the bake sale notices.
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The Village Voice
May 12, 2008
[Editor's note: After braving the wilds of the darkest recesses of conservative cyberspace last month to pen the wildly popular "The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere", Roy Edroso has agreed to make it an ongoing mission. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. Look for "The Voice Explores the Right-Wing Blogosphere" every Monday.]
Early last week, rightbloggers kept hope alive for a Reverend Wright "debacle" effect on the Presidential chances of Barack Obama. "We watch the Obama Hope-and-Change fraud collapse in on itself," announced Red State on Monday; also, "Obama is NO Tiger Woods."
Alas for them, Tuesday's Indiana and North Carolina primaries gave Obama an even stronger claim to the Democratic nomination. This seemed to pull the gates on the Wright carnival, but rightbloggers remained stuck on the ferris wheel. "Obama's Church Printed Pro-Hezbollah Articles" reported Sweetness & Light on May 11. One of two quoted items from the Trinity Church newsletter Trumpet referred to "Hezbollah’s opportunistic raid," and the other didn't mention Hezbollah at all, but to S&L that only proved the perfidy of the Wright/Obama axis: "Note how the term 'Hezbollah' never passes the holy man’s lips. Obviously Israel is totally to blame for all the troubles in Lebanon... Mr. Obama, despite being a regular attendee for more than twenty years never noticed any of this." Across America, anxious church-going politicians riffled their parish bulletins to see what political timebombs had been planted among the bake sale notices.
(Continued here.)
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