The Injured Reserve

Since I've introduced the Good the Bad and the Ugly of the new Montana wingnut-o-sphere, I've upset at least one of the old guard, who no doubts feel slighted because those others are the new hotness, and he's just the old and busted.  So, just for Steve, I'll take a quick peek (critique) at the aging players of the Montana fantasy-based community.

Before I begin, let's get a few things clear.  I will not write bad things in a generic way about either MTPolitics or the Electric City Weblog.  Both Craig and GeeGuy are thoughtful hard working folk who do not conform to the standard wingnut blueprint.  Neither of these gentlemen are "concern trolls", they offer generalizations but do not personalize them into their mythologies and they aren't dismissive of disagreement.  When I engage them, I have and will continue to do so directly and personally, with the respect that they are due and that they have offered in return.  If you expect to see a slap fight between either of them and myself, this is not the day or the post.  So move along.

Let's begin with the Granddaddy Glibertarian, Mr. Dave Budge.  Though Dave will go long periods without posting, he then gets a bug up his butt and posts a storm.  I still find him to be among the best writers on the web in Montana.  But like many of those who identify to the right, he's beginning to lose it a little.  Rather than deal with people honestly, he's showing a much greater tendency to belittle and revile based on ideas that he finds personally demeaning, and not so much on the merit of the idea.  He's always been contrarian, but he's slipping a little further towards silly in doing so.

Case in point, he's taken to referring to those who disagree as "neo-socialist hand wringing pussies".  If the "pussy" part isn't a projection, I don't know what is.   Just like 'Raaaeeeaaain on your wedding day' Dave takes a post from Matt Singer explaining the challenges faced by the young and under-privileged, a call to use the collective power and compassion of us all to aid us all,  and uses it to promote his fantasy that personal motivation will solve the problem.  In one fell swoop, he places rather unspecified blame on all who don't live to his lofty standards and feels ever so much personally better because he doesn't have to look at his own failings in regard to a very real problem.  He claims that what is desired is a "permanent mindset of victimhood', taking for himself his own forced sense of superiority.  Simply put, Dave uses a fabricated Ad Hominem for self support.  Ironic and handy, isn't it?

This is becoming an ever more prevalent tactic among the wingnut-o-sphere.  It's odd coming from Dave, considering how often he admits his own vagaries of fortune and personal struggles.  Perhaps he's just being egged on by his personal cheerleader, the master of the illusion "I did myself  and the truth is what I say it is", Mr. Mike Harris.  Regardless, Dave Budge is still an interesting and powerful read; just don't engage him in arguments that devolve into the size, shape and texture of gnat nuts.  Being right and correct in the minutia on the Internet ain't that important, except maybe to Dave.  Now if we could only get him over his fascination with DoughBob Pantload.

Along the lines of self-importance, one has to begin to respect Eric Coobs.  He was ever so very proud of having the premier wingnut website in state, and now, he's just a has been.  His claims to fame are still there ... lack of reason, racist commenters and trollish aspirations.  But he's just not any fun.  He posts very irregularly, and when he does, his comments are immediately stolen from him by the trolls that run his website.  It would, no doubts, have been better for him not to delete a years worth of his content (and others more bright than himself), but Eric apparently couldn't stand responsibility that came with speaking freely, and allowing others to do the same.  If Dave is seeking a hand-wringing pussy, he need look no further than Billings.  The laughable part is that Eric claimed his deletion was to protect his other authors, as if their efforts were his own.  And now, bereft of the intelligence they provided, Eric is alone.  Many of the other right wing websites won't even link him.  'Kinda sad, really.

I've next to nothing to say about the Montana Misanthrope, except that you should read him.  He gets it all right.  He's personal, personable, humble and thoughtful.  I seriously hope that he's gonna be around for a long time.  He is a man that I would like to one day call "friend".

Montana Headlines remains erudite, but I think he's starting to lose it.  As things become more desperate for the right wing, the right wingnuts reflect the angst.  So it is with MH.  Over the last several days, MH has been all about Jon Tester and the tainted money of Hsu.  In doing so, he's fallen (and the "he" is just an assumption because MH is one of those brave forthright bloggers) into most of the wingnut pitfalls available for folk to lose themselves in.  He boldly claims what the left was deriding Conrad Burns for (tainted money) completely forgetting the number of us who showed quite clearly what Jack bought from Conrad with that tainted money (rich casino schools, child rape in the Marianas ...)  Talk about moral equivalence!  Supposedly, Jon Tester claimed to be a saint ... only in the fantasy of MH. 

But MH is a clever little weasel.  Just as the Burns campaign tried to tie Jon Tester to Chuck Schumer, MH is trying to tie Tester to Hillary Clinton.  That's pathetically weak logic, though sinister.  Tie Tester to someone not favored by Montanans.  It's also pretty dumb.  If this were Tester's reelection year, it might make sense.  As it is, it's flailing around with a cotton pillow attempting to bruise an issue no one gives a fuck about.  And don't think that MH is above lie and spin.  Check this:

But then, since the donors in question are in New York, Tester may be concerned about offending his New York constituents -- he knows he'll need them again in 2012. (While 7 of the top 10 zip-codes on the Conrad Burns donor list were in Montana, 5 of the top 10 zip-codes for Tester were in New York City.)

Seriously, I invite you to follow the link.  Unlike MH, I trust my readers to be able to count and think.  *4* of the the top 10 zip codes for Tester were in New York City, not 5.  3 of the top ten zip codes for Conrad Burns were in Billings alone.  But Billings isn't as big as New York is it?  The millions of online contributers to the success of Jon Tester are logged as one city, and that's what MH wants you to focus on, because MH is lying to you in a spin kinda way.  And, as the website "open secrets" says so not plainly, where the donations came from may not be reflected in where they were registered, or reflective of who gave them.  MH is promoting lies, and thinks you stupid enough to believe it, dressed with candy and all.  Please notice a couple thing:  1)  how much money did Conrad Burns have on hand before the election cycle and, 2) where did that come from?  How willing to swallow crap are you, Montana?

Still, Montana Headlines is a worthy read.  It is very well written, and appears personal.  Just be willing to check up on what you're handed there, before taking a bite.  I understand bullshit doesn't taste so good.

Not Farm Boy Ryan is useless.  He hardly posts, and it's so mundane even the wingnuts won't link him.  Two Helena Handbaskets is even worse on posting.  7 posts  since New Years.  Not a recipe for success, or even a worthwhile endeavor.

Andy Hammond is the wingnuttiest of the wingnuts.  And let me just come out and say that I don't think Andy Hammond is his real name ... duh.  He posts whatever the gun-counter-gomer posted the day before.  Waste of time, and the true enemy of anyone rational.  We should flee these people as lepers were shunned in the middle ages.  They're more toxic, and vastly more barfy to be around.  Hammond makes absolutely every wingnut error possible to be made.  When Stephen Colbert takes the stage and speaks to 'his people' ... it's a vision of Andy Hammond he has so embraced for mockery.

And then there is Steve.  He's more thoughtful than Hammond, and more intelligent, but vastly more lame because he's so entrenched in his Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  He sees himself as a defender of the people, while willfully and angrily wasting the people's resources (he's entitled, don't you know!)  He engages the enemy while shrugging off all responsibility for the enemy being engaged.  (Don't start somethin', it won't be somethin' ... asshole.)   I offer you this, gentle reader:  Read better websites than Steve's.  Captain Ed, the Gun-Counter-Gomer. Michelle fucking Malkin.  Read LaShawn Pinhead Barber before reading Steve.  You will enjoy it more, learn more, and be more hysterically amused.  Steve really offers nothing, save potential amusement at the waste of material.

I guess we're done here.

Comments

[Dave Budge]

I'm not sure who DoughBob Pantload is but I'm glad to fantasize over him.

[TMM]

Hey, at least I made the injured reserve. Thanks for the kind words, though you may end up calling me something else when I'm blocking traffic with my sheep.

[Shane C. Mason]

I grit my teeth a lot. I have been thinking all day about Andy Hammond's stupidity on today's postings. I swear. I will take your advise though Wulf, and bide my time and patience.

To think, Dave Budge broke up with me over that piece of crap.

[Rocky Smith]

I gotta get back to posting more! No insults for me? I've been very busy with my new job. Expect more soon.

Oh and beware my Chargers this year Wulfgar. They started kind of slow, but they were playing a stout defense.

[Wulfgar]

Rocky, it ain't your Chargers that are going to be the problem for San Diego. They're great. Simply and truly great. The problem is the owner, and the coach he hired. Turner? Not so great. Not so great at all.

Good luck on Sunday. Though I only hate one team (the Raiders) there are a few teams I dislike. One that I dislike more than the Chargers? ... The cheating Patriots. Good luck indeed.

[Tony]

"...personalize them into their mythologies..."
Now that there is gonna leave a little mark.

[Rocky Smith]

Turner a problem as coach? We had Marty ball previously. I'm too used to crappy coaching. The players'll have to get it done. Hate to call the Raiders/Broncos game-hate them both!