>>"the far-right has pushed the crazy to eleven and snapped the knob clean off"

What a great line. So visual.

>>>>she referred to the president-elect as the "overload-elect."

This is just a quibble, but shouldn't that be overLORD?

I love the idea of planting the seeds in the blogs. Let's spend some time coming up with the most whackadoodle farcical inanities we can think of, and then set them out like cheese for the hoopleheads to gobble up. We can spend some time voting on the ones we like and refining the good ones into pure whackery. We can give awards for the fastest pick-up to an MSM outlet, most far reaching, most widely spread, etc. We'll log them ahead of time at HuffPo or here and certify them as complete hoople, so that they can be easily debunked and the purveyors suitably mocked!

>>shouldn't that be overLORD?

Weird. I just checked and it reads "overlord." Hmm.

I like "overload" too.

And Here! Here! to LFOD.

I swear it was there. Maybe they're not really crazy; maybe WE'RE crazy! Mwah hah hah!

This is off-topic, but I'd like to reiterate the sentiment of so many previous posts, which is how much I love this site and how sane it kept me during the campaign season. It was a place to go for "the witty, articulate repartée" (a prize to whoever can name the source of that quote!) and some great stats to throw in somebody's face! I look forward to coming here every day...

Great job everyone!

Honestly, I love those far-right assholes and the zany shit they come up with.

I mean, I have to give them credit... some of the shit they say is so utterly ridiculous it's just hilarious.

All you need is a few drinks and let them do the rest...

Man, this article hit the nail on the head for me. Also, I got the "HuffPost's Pick" for my comment, too bad it was so vanilla, but oh well... I'M GONNA BE RIIIICH! ...right?

Wow, thanks for covering that Hinderaker comment--I just about coughed up a lung when I first read it.

"Why the hell am I trying to debunk this?! Ow! My head. Aw hell, I need a drink."

LOL. I've had several of those moments already where I thought "I can't let that stand! I need to...errrr...what, exactly?" Then the drinking.

You can't fight crazy. Or to paraphrase a favorite author:

"You cannot by logic, remove an idea from someone's head that wasn't put there by logic in the first place."

Excellent piece, Bob.

And grcratty, looooved that quote. who wrote it?

Hope you don't mind my jumping in here, grcatty, but that's one of my fav quotes as well.

Just used it myself the other day.

You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into. - Johnathan Swift

I have stopped talking to CRAZY. That would be the FOLLOWERS. Did anyone try to swing over an uniformed voter of FAITH during the election? I did and got a huge bowl of crazy. There is no debate with people who believe the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs bones are a trick from the devil.

Yeah, this was a "Classic Bob" posting (wasn't "Classic Bob" a cover band in the '80s?).

Arguing with crazy? I tried it many many times over the past year. Mom/Dad, in laws...it's like we're speaking different languages, and the language based on fact was reacted to by Nipper the RCA dog tilting his head at the gramaphone. Nipper doesn't really deserve that analogy, of course...

That is called cherry picking a few far righties and putting them into your ideological box to make you feel better.