Who are the lefty batshitinsane people?

[Omphaloskepsis]

We must have them. I think Rush, Coulter, O'Reilly are nuts. Who do they think are insane on this side of the spectrum? </curiosity>

edit: anyone who thinks differently isn't a good answer.. Lets say the top five progressives that are known publicly.

[Mythsaje]

1. All of us...

Of course, they think that the corporate media leans left, so their judgment is, at best, questionable.

I'm fairly moderate, I think, except for my distaste for corporate whores, in that I'm not a big fan of the nanny state either and think people should be left alone to live their lives as much as possible, but my hatred of this regime and my belief that labor should be given a hell of a lot more credit than it IS, as well as my support for real science and disdain for revealed religion, would paint me as a "radical lefty" in their eyes.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. Think of this as an arming myself with knowledge..

before going into battle post. I'm looking to research their talking points.

[Mythsaje]

14. Well, they're likely to point at Michael Moore

and Al Gore, but Hilary Clinton might make the list too. And Conyers. And Boxer. And any number of politically active celebs. "Hanoi Jane" occasionally makes an appearance, even now. They like to bash Susan Sarandon, and DEFINITELY Natalie Maines.

[marions ghost]

45. wherever there is Hillary Clinton

you will find Teddy Kennedy. They are together the male/female twin spawn of Satan, always lumped together in kool-aid drinking circles.

[southlandshari]

2. Why must we have them?

Seriously. Why should the left claim any "batshitinsane" public figures just because they claim they are liberal/progressive?

[Omphaloskepsis]

16. I'm looking for who the right considers "batshitinsane."

[Syrinx]

17. oh, I get it now

Mythsaje pretty much nails it.

EDIT: Don't forget Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton.

[southlandshari]

18. Why?

Seriously.

Anyone who is seriously batshitinsane isn't worth our time.

On the other hand, lots of decent liberal folks have been smeared as batshitinsane (I like your term, btw) by the far right and the corporate media pundits - what's the point in making a list unless it is to include facts that will counter this inaccurate classification of credible people by political enemies?

[Omphaloskepsis]

21. Exactly..

I'm going on a radio show against a college republican.. I'm looking to hunt down facts to shoot-down his bullshit. I just want a heads-up on his targets. I don't watch Fox News. Research and all that jazz.

[southlandshari]

22. Why didn't you just say that in your OP?

I'm genuinely interested in your answer, since you posed this as a simple question of "curiosity" in your original post in this thread.

Seems you could have gotten a lot more detailed information for any upcoming debate you might have if you had been more open about what you were asking and why.

Regardless of my nitpicking, good luck to you and I hope you find what you are looking for in this thread!

:)

[sandnsea]

25. Ooooh

Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, McKinney, Kucinich, McDermott, Kennedy, Howard Zinn.

What they really like to do though, is take moderate respectable Dems, like Hillary and Dean, and then quote them out of context. Or come up with something out of thin air that you've never heard before and then when you deny it, challenge you on where you got your facts when they never proved their statement to begin with.

Good luck. I could never do that because I'd just have to tell them they were fucking idiots and that I had to start every day with a bottle of pepto bismol to keep from puking over the fact that I have to share the planet with them.

[ClintonTyree]

33. Don't forget Chomsky!

He's the big, bad bogeyman......ready to socialize everything from health-care to national energy. Hey..........what the hell is wrong with THAT? I think national health and government controlled energy is a great idea! You can add me to the list too then, I guess! ;)

[depakid]

31. That would be pretty much anyone who tells the truth

or thinks critically and uses sound logic.

Especially anyone who does so effectively.

[ClintonTyree]

32. Anyone to the left of G. Gordon Liddy..........

they consider to be a communist. There's no reasoning with these people. You toe the party line or you're "the enemy". You're with us or agin' us! There's no middle ground to them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

43. Ask them

[Crunchy Frog]

52. The far right considers anyone to the left of Atilla the Hun

to be a wild-eyed, batshitinsane leftist. It's not a legitimate point of view, IMO, but that's what they think.

[Syrinx]

3. Alan Colmes? Susan Estrich?

I can't think of any counterparts to Limbaugh (I refuse to call him by his first name, because Rush is one of my favorite bands), Coulter, and O'Reilly.

But Colmes and Estrich are batshitnuts if they think they carry any crediblity with the left.

[bluestateguy]

4. Ever heard of this guy?

LEONARD JEFFRIES

A clown who claimed that the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster in 1986 was a good thing beucase it stopped "white America from spreading their filth throughout the universe."

http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/powers-superprof?embedded=yes&cumulative_category_title=Education&cumulative_category_id=Education

[Mythsaje]

6. Yup...that's a clown.

Our filth wasn't going much farther than orbit at that point, and we can do that without a shuttle.

[Mythsaje]

7. Self delete...dupe

[Syrinx]

8. But I've never heard of him

So he doesn't qualify as a counterpart of Limbaugh, Coulter, etc.

[SammyBlue]

11. That fucking anti-Semetic reverse racist fruitcake is still alive?

Is he still as CUNY?

[MelliMel]

26. Yes, I think so, unfortunately.

And taxpayers still get to pay for him to spout off his "Jews control everything and oppress African-Americans" crap.

[itzamirakul]

37. Hahahaha...thanks for reminding us...Dr. Leonard Jeffries, a well-known

and gifted African American is a professor who still resides in NYC. Yes, to some he may appear as a clown, but one who dares to think deeply.

[MelliMel]

47. Thinks deeply?

He hates deeply too.

[itzamirakul]

56. Maybe that is because he does think so deeply...

Some people do think back to times of cruelty that most young Americans cannot even fathom, but those over 60 remember vividly - times that included Jim Crow and segregation. It is easy for those who have never suffered these cruelties to advise victims to "get over it!" They don't even know what they are advising someone to "get over."

Dr. Jeffries does remember a lot of cruelty.

As far as him being anti-semetic, I imagine there are plenty of semites who are anti-African American also.

The Dr. tells Black History that is left out of textbooks and that tends to make many people quite uncomfortable.

[MelliMel]

58. Of course.

Jews are bad people who help "the man" keep black people down. That's a good way to sow the seeds of peace.

[itzamirakul]

59. Some ARE! No one said ALL are. And let the other side worry about

sowing the seeds of peace once in awhile.

Why is it always on the black person to "sow the seeds of peace" in a world of racism that they did not create?

Let EVERYONE have a hand in "sowing the seeds of peace!"

[MelliMel]

62. Have you ever read any of the garbage that Jeffries spouts?

The deep thinking, wonderful professor has all but slavery at the feet of the Jews.

And I am not expecting all African Americans to be responsible for sowing the seeds of peace. It was sarcasm, because Jeffries is doing the opposite. He's stirring the pot of discontent for his own gain.

[itzamirakul]

68. I have heard him speak...

nt

[SammyBlue]

67. The Good "Doctor" says ALL Jews are. . .what the jackass doesn't

seem to realize, apologist, is that Jewish money supported the Civil Rights movement because of the Holocaust. We felt it was wrong to disenfranchise people because look what happened when we were disenfranchised!

Maybe you should read something other than the good "Doctor's" bullshit

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[Rosemary2205]

5. Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan.

they bitch about Nancy Pelosi and Barbra Boxer alot too. -- maybe they just hate women in general.

[Robbie Michaels]

15. 1 out of 2 is okay

I can handle them bitching about Pelosi because she needs an attitude adjustment once in awhile. Boxer is one of the few Democrats who serves her constituents and we're lucky to have her.

[Octafish]

39. McKinney and Sheehan are good people.

Brave, too. They both stood up when Bush and his war were super-popular.

Why would you say otherwise?

[dogday]

49. What do they say? nt

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Some of the Counterpunchers

The ones who claim Bill Clinton is a murderer and that Al Gore oppresses Native Americans.

But even they often have some reliable stuff to say. Unlike the batshit-crazy conservatives, the batshit-crazy leftists tend to NOT make facts up.

--p!

[Syrinx]

12. yeah, that Cockburn guy really pisses me off

But I must admit he's ideologically pure. ;)

[sandnsea]

13. Them and Wayne Madsen

One of them over at counterpunch is certifiable, the rest just annoy me. Otherwise, most people on the left aren't really certifiable like Ann Coulter. They just cherry pick to a conclusion they want to reach, sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong.

[eridani]

19. Is Wayne Madsen a household name?

Can't think of any who really fit this description that are linked with Dems. But, if you want to go into the realm of people who wouldn't be caught dead posting here, there's always Chairman Bob Avakian. Of course he isn't a household name either.

[sandnsea]

23. I agree with you

There really aren't any batshit crazy lefty loons that are household names. I was just pointing out that we do have some lefties who tiptoe through the tulips a bit, that's all.

[Rosemary2205]

20. Fred Phelps!!!!!

they think he's one of ours. We don't want his sorry butt either so we say he's one of theirs. He's the asshat with no home. I do believe Phelps is the most batshit person in America.

[southlandshari]

24. If Fred Phelps is a lefty

I'm a blue state librul elitist who hates the South and thinks Moon Pies ought to be banned as obsolete.

:yoiks:

[Rosemary2205]

27. Hey, watch it lady!!

Don't be doggin moonpies! :)

[southlandshari]

28. You like Moon Pies?

I will mail you a doubledecker Moon Pie in your favorite flavor if you can give one rational justification for calling Fred Phelps one of ours.

:)

[Rosemary2205]

29. The R's call him one of ours

because THEY claim he was once a registered Democrat. **I** don't think he's one of ours. Phelps isn't R or D. He's too damn batshit for either side.

[proud2BlibKansan]

57. Well guess what?

Rev Fred is a registered Democrat.

:hide:

[southlandshari]

60. As my daddy used to say...

Being in a garage doesn't make you a car any more than being in a church makes you a Christian.

Extrapolate from there.

:P

[proud2BlibKansan]

64. I like that one

Your daddy sounds like a smart man.

[southlandshari]

65. He is.

:)

[Peter Frank]

30. Gore, Kerry, Bill, Hillary, and Bubba... n/t

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[XemaSab]

74. Welcome to DU!

[blindpig]

35. Apparently anyone who would have the Democratic Party

return to New Deal ideals. Anyone who beieves that corporations have no place in the "peoples party".

Man, those people are nuts.:shrug:

:sarcasm:

[bunkerbuster1]

36. Mostly Howard Dean.

They think he's insane because, you know, "he screams all the time."

I think you can easily add Al Gore ("he claimed he invented the Internet! and he's an environmental wacko!"), Michael Moore (a "hard leftist," they claim, so obviously insane), and maybe that adjunct professor they're always talking about whose name escapes me.

[itzamirakul]

38. The Republicans love to beat up on...

Barbara Streisand.

[shadowknows69]

40. I've been accused of it on more than one occasion

it's a cross I bear proudly.

[LeftHander]

41. Flamebait...nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. I second that

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

54. This thread is surprisingly un-flamey at the moment. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. Why do you need to know this?

[marions ghost]

46. everyone calling themselves

liberal or progressive is batshit insane.

[Libby2]

48. That would be me. (nt)

[Crunchy Frog]

50. People as far to the left as those guys are to the right

do not have any public forums in our society. They're found on some fringe websites that DU won't even let you link to, and that's about it. They do not have radio talk shows or television appearances and they don't have books published by mainstream publishers or sold in mainstream bookstores.

People like Micheal Moore, Cindy Sheehan or Amy Goodman are not remotely comparable to those fascists.

[dogday]

51. Batshitinsane person checking in

Hi, my name is Dogday and I am a batshitinsane lefty......:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

53. Melinda Barton. nt.

[rpgamerd00d]

55. Answer: Anyone talked about at Freeperville/other RW Sites.

[ificandream]

61. The GOPigs will complain about any Dem.

That's the SOP of jerks like Rush, Savage, Coulter, etc. Go over to the hannity.com board and see the brainwashed crap they post.

[newspeak]

63. well, when your using Ann Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity

then, the opposite would be Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy and Sam Seder. However, I believe, even though they become emotional (pissed) like their opposites--it's because they know the truth and know our country is going down the shitter, along with the Constitution. I believe it was after the Bush "manly" mission accomplished PR blitz, that G. Gordon Liddy oohed and aahed over * uniform and how all the ladies were going to go goo-goo over the cod-piece look. There's no substantive information to the "batshit" neo-cons, it's all PR dressing without facts. Remember when the news media (papers, TV talking heads) were comparing Bush to Churchill, FDR, Truman? It's all PR creation with no substance.

[noonwitch]

66. Ann Coulter IS batshitinsane, the other two are just hucksters making $$$

Rush and Hannity aren't crazy, they are just talking heads making money by speaking to the people who agree with them. I don't like either one, but they are not out there talking about killing liberals, or encouraging terrorists to crash planes into the NYT building.

Ann is crazy because she says this kind of shit and appears to believe it. She can sell her books to people who are either as crazy as herself, or who think she's hot (adam's apple and all). But really, she's just a crazy little white girl who is opposed to affirmative action although she benefitted from it herself at the U of M law school. I'm sure there was some white or aisan male who had better grades than her who was denied admittance because she got extra points for being a woman.

White females benefit from affirmative action more than any other group in the country. Being a white female, I totally support affirmative action!

[slackmaster]

71. Try http://www.batshitinsane.com

Seriously, try it.

http://www.batshitinsane.com

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

73. WM?