Today marks the six month anniversary of CallingAllWingnuts. It's been a hell of a lot of fun, but looking back, I'm surprised how little I had to do with so much of what has transpired.
As often as not, I've enjoyed standing on the sidelines and watching as Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, like inmates in an asylum, beat themselves into the dirt. Call it the right-wing Fight Club.
Other times, I remained on the sidelines as y'all took the lead and backed these clownish gasbags into corners they couldn't get out of. Like animals, they flayed and kicked and scratched, and in the end, they invariably shit themselves. Fun stuff to watch.
And then their were the times when I got to throw the rhetorical haymaker. As you'll see in the "Greatest Hits" links in the body, I've been able to take the legs out from under Tom Tancredo... Poor Newt Gingrich simply got his ass kicked when I asked him the question on the subject nobody from your media had the balls to bring up. And Hannity? Let's just say this might be a big week for both him and I...
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I look forward to the next six months. Flip for some old laughs, a few you mighta missed and a reminder of what happens when people confront the right and expose the liars to the scrutiny they deserve.
In reverse chronological order...
So, there's six months of outrage, fun and schadenfruede... I know it's poor form to pat oneself on the back like this, but it is quite a list for one person to put together, right?
Well, that's the real reason for this diary. You see, for the most part, it has been just me making calls and subjecting these bastards to the withering scrutiny they deserve. If one person can do this in six months, imagine what 5 or 10 or 30 of us could do. I know that this isn't for everyone - that most people have jobs that keep them from being able to devote 6-10 hours a day to this... but even if you can only give an hour once a week, when your call gets through, it could be the one that rattles their cage that week. Witness the call that "Mike" (a Kossack himself) made to O'Reilly - you know, the "Fox Security" call. Olbermann did a piece on it and it dragged O'Reilly through all sorts of mud and ridicule.
So yeah... join in. Help out. I'll be starting law school in about 3 weeks. I won't be able to keep up the pace. I'll need your help. Climb on board.