My Six Months On Right Wing Blogs.

[mr blur]

My Six Months On Right Wing Blogs.
by Maccabee
Sun Jan 28, 2007 at 08:13:44 AM PST

I spent 6 months lurking on right wing blogs (RWB). From May 2006 to November 2006, I read every post I could on ten blogs I visited. I registered with each under one alternet identity, and in the six months, only posted 73 comments. My goal was simply to observe. I monitored opinions on major topics and reactions to them.

These were the sites.

Little Green Footballs
Pajamas media
Michelle Malkin
Instapundit
RedState
Hugh Hewitt
Captains Quarters
The Corner
Wizbang
Roger L. Simon

These were some of things I learned.
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Interesting reading.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/28/11942/4635

[quiet.american]

1. Thanks for posting. Enjoyed reading Maccabee's results. n/t

[CatWoman]

2. K&R

Excellent read, and a most excellent find.

:thumbsup:

I did the same "experiment" with RW talk radio.

The more I listened, the angrier I became and had no idea why, until someone here on DU pointed out the obvious to me.

[1620rock]

3. Well, that confirms what I have suspected about the Freepers..

..in general.

[twilight_sailing]

4. Thanks for posting this -

I always like hearing tales about my Texas relatives. ;)

[roamer65]

5. Must have been a lot like going to Nazi Germany in 1938.

:puke:

[tom_paine]

6. Bingo! Freepers are Nazis without the courage of their convictions

However, give them a "permissive" environment in which the government authorizes them to keep tabs on Liberals or worse, then you will see how fast these cowards morph into full-blown Nazis.

[file83]

10. LOL - if any one category of American is susceptable the "Milgram Factor"...

it's the freepers. The Milgram Experiment conducted in the 60's is the study of people who bow to authority. Freepers written all over it.

[Cleita]

13. Too bad we can't get them to bow to our leaders' authority.

It's as if they can't look at the truth.

[truedelphi]

14. except that they bow to authority in precisely the amount of tax breaks

received - rather than electric shock being administered?

[blm]

11. I wanted to LOL, but it is so scary true.

.

[Cabcere]

7. Very interesting indeed

Thanks for posting this - K&R. :kick:

[LTR]

8. Worthy of a bookmark

:kick:

[Joanne98]

9. I liked this one...

The only science is the science they agree with. The world is 10000 years old, and Global Warming is bullshit and Gay behavior isn’t natural. The actual evidence to the contrary be damned. One guys was writing about how young the Universe really is...no more than 10,000 years. Yet in a paragraph that followed, he argued that we were the only life in the universe even if we looked millions of light-years out. I posted a reply saying that if the world is only 10000 years old, then an object millions of light-years away would have to be millions of years old. My comment was erased, and therefore, I suppose, he won the argument.

RWB reach wild conclusions, and claims. – FDR caused 9/11, Clinton caused 9/11, the press caused 9/11, liberals caused 9/11, Gays eat feces, the world is only 10000 years old. As one state representative said "it’s either America...or it’s Al-Quaeda." Also they hold dear other false memes that once repeated are believed to be true. Reagan defeated the Soviet Union is one of those overly simplistic, mostly untrue notions that they and their corporate press like to fan
:)

[KoKo]

12. "How I Survived Amonst the Living Dead in Values?"

I'll check out your Kos post later. Thanks.

[Blue Belle]

15. I think it's funny that RWB thinks all lefties should be tortured by Kiefer Sutherland...

Do they not know that Kiefer Sutherland is a lefty in real life?

Friggin' idiots.

http://newsbusters.org/node/10438

[Octafish]

16. That sure spells out who's calling the shots in the Reich Wing.

And those are just their blogs.

Imagine what happens to the average head when the media environment adds in ABCNNBCBSFoulNoiseNutwork.

(Reasons Maccabee gave for being banned as a right wing blogger:)

For insisting that it is indecent to call 9/11 widows whores and whiners

For disagreeing that despite our best intentions, we liberated no one- corollary for daring to say that we actually made Iraq worse than it was before we overthrew saddam

For protesting calling John Murtha a coward.

For insisting that your republicans shouldn’t call for a war that they will not serve in

For arguing that there were no WMDs found.

For making the point that Iraq and 9/11 were not conflated events

For pointing out that global is an absolute, provable fact, and that the only supporters of the opposition have been paid for their non scientific opinions

For saying that US healthcare sucks or that US healthcare is worse than French healthcare

For pointing out that dinosaurs were mostly gone by the time man showed up and that to teach creationism to our children is superstition.

For insisting that helping Katrina victims should come before painting school houses in Iraq

For arguing that the use of force is not "the only thing they understand"- or that torture " is OK with Arabs and its OK with us frankly" ( meaning the site administrator).

For pointing out that Arabs, Hamas, Persians, Hezbollah, Al-Quaeda and muslims are not the same people. Also that insurgents are not terrorists

For quoting passages out of the Bible and insisting that if you are to take it literally, then an adulterer like Henry Hyde should be stoned to death.

For making the point that comparing Bush to Truman and Clinton to Stalin is probably the other way around.

Continued from the original link: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/28/11942/4635

That's a lot of noise to be filling the average head with garbajh-ee-o. There's no room for truth.