Roy Edroso

Trying to keep it quiet

I’m not surprised Texas passed this insane new law deputizing citizens to hunt down doctors (or even concerned loved ones) for bounties if they even try to help a woman get an abortion once they’re more than the ludicrously-brief six weeks pregnant.…

Fuck the Founders

By now it’s pretty obvious that when conservatives swoon over the Founders, it’s not because they respect the rights their Constitution was supposed to preserve, but because, like themselves, the Founders considered women and blacks to be sub-human.…

Look Back in Nausea, Part III

© 2020 Elvert Barnes, used under a Creative Commons license [Here’s the third in a series of 2020 lookback pieces — see Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already.] A year ago today, when nobody (that we knew of) had coronavirus, no fewer than 13…

PERSECUTION ENVY.

The Federalist: Sri Lanka Attacks Highlight Growing Worldwide Persecution Of Christians Author Kenny Xu leans hard on a Pew Research Center report -- but does not link directly to it, preferring for some reason the British Church Times, which screams…

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN.

Jazz ain't dead, it don't even smell funny. • A snippet from a recent Roy Edroso Breaks It Down newsletter (TO WHICH YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE, he hollered with one hand to the side of his mouth like a newsboy in a '30s Warner Brothers picture, IT'S…

The Week Alex Jones Became a First Amendment Hero

Last week, conservatives, who had previously made free speech heroes out of such shady subjects as would-be lady-killer Kevin Williamson and outrage peddler Milo Yiannopoulos, outdid themselves by nominating a new wingnut John Peter Zenger: Alex…

NRA Stans Ask: Who Will Protect Us From Outraged Florida Shooting Survivors?

The normal pattern for American gun slaughters — a few days of thoughts and prayers, then we all forget it ever happened — was broken last week when surviving students of the February 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting decided to…

Rightbloggers Say Franken Shows Dems Are Immoral, What’s ‘Hypocrisy’?

The Roy Moore circus continues, with Republicans and men of God going to the wall for the would-be Alabama senator accused of sexual improprieties and crimes. As I recorded last week, some conservatives were compelled by self-interest to declare…

ELECTION NIGHT WRAPUP.

As I watch wingnut bête noire Bill De Blasio cruising and Democrats romping in Jersey and Virginia, it is clear that for conservatives hoping to distract from the disastrous reign of Trump, the strategy of hailing the Sutherland Springs massacre as a…

Mueller’s Indictments Get Rightbloggers Salivating for Arrest of Hillary Clinton

Mueller Monday has arrived, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s first indictments in the Russian election interference investigation, against former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, have been made official. Before giving…

Rightbloggers Cheer as Trump Explodes Obamacare

Rightblogger reactions to Trump’s Obamacare sabotage last week remind us that despite the distance some of them try to keep between themselves and the president, when it counts he and they are basically on the same side. You may have been hearing…

Conservatives Defend Google Bro James Damore Against ‘Neurotic’ Ladies

It takes a lot to get conservatives to defend an employee’s freedom of speech. You never see them crying over people who lose their jobs for supporting Democrats, socialism, or “homophones,” or for saying things like, “Anyone know how to pass a drug…

RACIST WITH AN EXPLANATION: STEVE KING EDITION.

Iowa's Steve King has gotten so obnoxiously and overtly racist -- defending his "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies" tweet by raving about "our stock," predicting race war, and recommending The Camp of the Saints -- that…

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN.

Bob Luman was a little much, but I've always loved this. Check that piano! • Holy shit, in the event Trump gets the needed delegates, conservatives are really up for stealing the nomination from him. I mean, I've thought so all along, but now they're…

"DIVIDE" AND BONKERS.

The other day Obama went to a mosque and made a nice speech, to which Marco Rubio reacted with non-sequiturs: “Look at today – he gave a speech at a mosque,” Rubio continued. “Oh, you know, basically implying that America is discriminating against…

OTHER THAN THAT, PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING!

The current New Yorker cover, showing some prominent American presidents of years past agog at a Donald Trump speech, is gentle anachronistic satire, like the radio playing "Shoo Shoo Baby" in A Matter of Life and Death. Yet some media folks think…

WHEN THEY SAY IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY...

You may have noticed the statistical review on white working class mortality covered by the Washington Post: The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 with less than a college education increased markedly between 1999 and 2013, most…

ALL IT LACKS IS A REFERENCE TO LIBERAL ELITISM.

This is the sort of thing you can just see David Harsanyi writing on a bet. "David," says his friend over the brandy and cigars at the Club, "you know how everyone wishes it were still possible to make a good living in this country with your hands…

Rightbloggers Try Anti-Cop Angle on Ferguson, But Revert to Old Ooga-Booga

[Roy Edroso dissects the right-wing blogosphere in this weekly feature] By now you’ve heard what’s been going on in Ferguson, Missouri: How an unarmed black man — the latest in a long series, historically speaking — was gunned down by a cop; how…

Rightbloggers Revel in “Libertarian Moment,” Which Suspiciously Resembles Conservative Whenever [Updated]

[Roy Edroso dissects the right-wing blogosphere in this weekly feature] Last week the New York Times Magazine ran a story asking “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” The editors of libertarian flagship Reason magazine and many fellow…