Category: Moore Award Nominee

"[Tea baggers and conservative bloggers] want Obama to be ruthless and authoritarian because they want to think of themselves as a heroic resistance. They evoke Hitler not because they fear another Hitler, their very obsession with Nazi imagery betrays their attraction; no, they're longing for a Leader, a Hitler of their own. Even a Hitler in high heels, if you can picture such a lady, and I think we all can," – James Wolcott, Vanity Fair.

"Because Neoconservatives, whether Christian or Jewish, whether Bolton or Rubin or Clawson, are sociopaths who lack the basic ability to empathize with people not exactly like themselves, and who exalt instrumental goals over basic human welfare," – Juan Cole.

by Patrick Appel

"Do you count yourself among the thousands of New Yorkers who worry about climate change? Are you bothered by the lack of access to fresh, healthy, affordable food in so many NYC neighborhoods? Would you like to see more gardens take root all over our city, in front yards and back, vacant lots and empty rooftops. If you answered "no" to any of these questions, I'm going to hazard a guess that you're some kind of Limbaugh-loving, Beck-boozled, beyond-the-Palin lemming who will hopefully follow your near-sighted leaders off a cliff before you've had a chance to mate and perpetuate your unfortunate species, which, alas, is not yet on the endangered list and threatens to destroy our habitat," – Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post.

Award glossary here.

“As a group, they are the pop culture equivalent of necrotic carrion beetles, crawling with insectile determination from one infected open wound in the American psyche to another. The wounds include fear of race, fear of foreigners, fear of sexuality, fear of difference, hysterical religious fundamentalism, violent nationalism, and paranoia. They lay their eggs in the infected abrasion, then scuttle away. When the eggs hatch, disgorging rage and discontent, they start counting money,” – Michael Rowe on talk-radio Coulterites.

I do find his analysis cogent, but reducing people to insects gives him the nomination.

"Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate-fuck. We may despise everything these [conservative] women represent, but goddammit they’re hot. Let the healing begin," -Guy Cimbalo, Playboy.

"In the worst case, this decision could become the catalyst for a new round of large-scale domestic terrorism from the right. As I've noted, everything I'm seeing points to a subculture that is gearing up for this kind of heroic last stand in defense of a lost cause. And this time, it's not going to be just a few white supremacist/militia/patriot/anti-choice wackos. The new crop of right wing militants is better connected, better trained, better armed, and absolutely determined to go down fighting. And, as the SPLC keeps telling us, there may considerably more people motivated to support them than there have been in the past. It’s not unthinkable that between 15 and 20% of the country could be inclined to start — or at least support — a civil war over this," – Sara Robinson.