Red State of Delusion:
As some of you know by now, this Wednesday the RedState Directors promoted me to join the team as a front-page contributor. It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: I am deeply honored, thankful, humbled, and a bit stunned. I will not deny, I sure had ambitions and hopes toward this, in the same way I once wanted to be a major league pitcher. I mean, who would not wish to be a RedState contributor? But who knew? Lil’ ole me, the OCD guy who won’t let the Fred thing go.
RedState is not the corner malt-shop, some nickel and dime agitprop echo chamber. RedState is the biggest mover and shaker in the right-blog universe, and the Directors and Contributors here are one high-profile, professional bunch of political thinkers and operators. It is no exaggeration to say that things said and done on RedState affect votes and debates in Congress.
That’s his bolding, not mine. And those last three sentences are comedy gold.




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FDL’s own EvilParallelUnivers, aka, EPU, should sue for acronym infringement.
“It is no exaggeration to say that things said and done on RedState affect votes and debates in Congress” — like, the last time we played a game of Biscuit, I totally swear Nancy Pelosi showed the WRONG slide during a debate on the house floor the very next day.
It was, like, totally awesome, dude. We rock the world! Oh, and Erick lost — as always.
Too bad, they would serve a useful purpose then.
“I am great RedState,” saith the stone,
“The Blog of Blogs; this mighty Hitcount shows…
Seriously, Fred Thompson? Freadheads?
Waiting at the bus stop for their ship to come in.
“Purpose”, perhaps. “Useful”? When’s the last time you saw a corner malt-shop?
“Thtand back, Muthketeerth! They shall thample MY blade!”–Red State warrior Daffy Duck, in “Duck Amuck,” a classic documentary on the coherence of conservative ideology.
Two weeks ago. Watching a movie set in the 1950’s.
Oh, you mean in real life. Um, never.
So, since the thinking of the “great minds” at Red State is stuck in the 1950’s, maybe they are the corner malt shop.
Isn’t taking this dude to the front page kinda like picking a pinch-hitter from the season ticket holders? Bush League…pun intended.
That’s some impressive universe.
Democrats will read us and fear. So will Republicans, of the wuss, compromising, and RINO variants.
And yea verily shall these varied and sundry disparate neocon splinter factions scatter and flee as foretold under the prophetic monicker… ”e pluribus unum”.
Does Ben Domenech still work there?
The size of the universe to a Red Stater is relative and is very similar to the size of the universe in the mind of a dog peter gnat. It’s a proven fact, I swear.
The sad fact is that this may well be true, but that particular bar is set pretty low…
Damn! Didn’t anybody warn him about mainlining Mountain Dew and huffing Cheetos dust? That shit will mess you up!
What is it with these guys always talking about their swords? However, the malt shop comment is on target; conservative ideas are about as popular as an egg cream these days.
Why do they laugh at my mighty sword?
“Democrats will read us and fear.” The only thing I fear is that someone will explain to those morons just how stupid and ineffectual they really are, and that they’ll then go furtively away, leaving us without what is undoubtedly the most hilariously foolish site in the blogosphere.
Ben D: What is best in life?
Moe Lane: Wine! And tax cuts! And more tax cuts!
Ben D: Wrong! What is best in life?
Pejman Y: To talk and talk and talk and talk and talk…
Ben D: No! Erick, what is best in life?
Erick the Red State: To incite enemy blogs to laughter, see the annoyance of their commenters, and hear the cries and lamentation of the Party.
(fade to dark)
What? No mention of the tremendous triumph of getting the Red State coffee mugs onto the Palin plane? That seems to be their biggest triumph to date, getting a swindler from Alaska to accept free mugs to go with her free RNC clothes before hightailing it back to the bush with booty in hand.
But seriously, I read the Wingnut sites for shits and giggles sometime, and I can’t recall Red State being mentioned or linked to from other big right wing blogs in quite some time. I thought even the wingnuts were embarrassed by Red State these days.
“RedState is the biggest mover and shaker in the right-blog universe.”
World’s tallest midget.
The only thing I fear when I read that site is, “how many IQ points is this going to cost me?”. If the commenters there reflect the cutting edge of conservative intellectual thought, they are in worse shape than I thought. There’s precious little critical thinking going on at RS – sort of a smaller, club version of FreeRepublic.
And, I want to add, how many iterations of code writing will it take before you can make sense of their commenting structure? What a mess.
Yup, we shore is “one high-pro-fi-yul, per-fesh-nul bunch uh thinkers & operators.” Hyuk-hyuk!
An’ we’s movers & uh shakers too!
As evidenced by the overwhelming response to their demand that the RNC chair candidates respond to some E-Z e-mail questions.
No sheet!
I’d (almost) bother to register there just to comment a few times & be banned, but why bother? TBogg (FDL) is as close as I’m getting to registering & odd comment forms.
If any of these losers ever had an original thought it would most certainly die of loneliness.
Having read that whole post, I can assure you that we will never hit Peak Wingnut, not as long as RedState is around. How did we overlook them for so long? You’ve got EPU’s surreal self-aggrandizement and Fred-obsession, and then there’s the comments:
Fred doomed his campaign by not getting in when he was peaking in the polls. He may very well be the greatest president we never had. Sadly, I think he’ll be “over the hill” by 2010 and won’t be considered as a contender. In which case, I’m praying for a Jindal-Palin ticket.
I think he scared the people in his own party who prefer the “business as usual” way of doing things. Fred wanted to start moving the country–and his own party– back to where they should be. That threatened a huge number of politicians and their private little fiefdoms.
OK, this is the first thing to make me smile all day.Right out of the gate, you go for it — in the immortal words of the great Howard Dean: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhhhhh!!!! FRED FRED FRED FRED FRED!!!
That title should be on RedState every single day. It defines us as a people. We should build a monument to it and remember the day…just like Jacob did when he established Bethel. It’s not often enough that we truly get a vision of what should be. Granted, we live in a fallen world; one where Obama could be the President of the United States, but we should always be striving for something better.
This is going to be a fun 4 to 8 years, I reckon.
(By the way: How big does your ego have to be to blog under the ‘nym “Augustine”? For that matter, how stupid do you have to be to write about destroying other Americans you don’t like under the handle “E Pluribus Unum”?)
When he invariably gets busted for kiddie porn he will say it is the best kiddie porn in the world!
By the way: How big does your ego have to be to blog under the ‘nym “Augustine”? It’s an aspirational thing — their founder was T a c i t u s, and they were threatening once to become as big as The Great Orange Satan. I read them a few times, mostly because some screenwriter from SoCal, “Harley” was fun to watch as he sparred with them.
“Under the new guard, before we lay our swords down, we shall be required morning reading by every staff in Washington and in state houses, of either party, in every bureaucracy. Democrats will read us and fear. So will Republicans, of the wuss, compromising, and RINO variants. Ditto career kleptocrats bureaucrats. What the RedState community lays its hands on will be moved.”
I realize that others have commented on this before me, but you just can’t make this stuff up. Delusion is too mild a word for this level of detachment from reality.
They need to get Alberto Gonzalez on board, now.
What the hell. I’m praying for a Palin ticket in 2012 as well. Am I Redstate material?
Enjoy.
Is that the ‘no profanity’ way of saying ‘we are a community of jerk-offs?
more of a “who took my stapler?” moment
Longer, thicker and firmer erections, guaranteed!
Smart folk fear–says RedState–the massive logo-bearing coffee mugs that they bestow upon unsuccessful Republican candidates! Look upon my mugs, ye mighty, and despair!
So, I take some time off for the holidaze and come back to see that the babblers have increased the weight of their mighty impact?
Hilarious parody from E Plur. The way he/she skewers the faux gravitas, the delusions of grandeur. And all from whatever inpatient facility he/she currently calls home. WORD
Gracious, one learns something new every day at Tbogg’s! I’d never heard of the game of Biscuit before, and certainly I should have. {Koff}